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Show " American Protective League Suggests the Following Protective Tariff Platform For the Considers-j tlon of All Political Conventions of 1916 Industrial preparedness Is the basis bas-is of national strength and defensive power. This nation will bo In all respects re-spects the strongest nnd best prepared pre-pared when Its labor and capital aro to tho fullest extent employed In the . development of Its resources of the' 'farm, factory, forest, fishery and mine. Results In tho past three years havo again demonstrated tho weakness weak-ness and folly of tho doctrine of tariff tar-iff for revenue only, which Is merely mere-ly nnother name for free trado. In tho first ten months of tho present tariff law, tho ovil consequences of tho radical departure from tho American Am-erican policy of protection lrad assumed as-sumed startling proportions; millions, of men were wholly unemployed or working at reduced wages; there was a marked Increase In tho Imports ot foreign products which displaced thq products of domestic labor and of ag-IHA ag-IHA ricultural products; hundreds of thou sands of railroad cars lay Idle; many thousands of railroad workers were without employment and mora than 40,000 of railroad mileage Is In the hands of receivers. Tho consequent decrease In tho country's purchasing powsr forced many thousands of American merchants merch-ants into bankruptcy, tho record of buslnoss failures being tho greatest In tho history of tho United States of America. Imports of competitive products havo greatly Increased under un-der the low tariff and no tariff of tho present tariff law, and still continue con-tinue to lncreaso. Tho country was on tho .high road to general bankruptcy bank-ruptcy and ruin. Then came tho European war as a partial antidote. It operated In some measure to limit thn vnli.mn nf rnmtlfittllVG lmPOrtS, and at the same tlmo created a do-mand do-mand for war munitions and supplies that furnished employment for great numbers of American artisans who otherwise would have continued in Idleness. Thus tho greatest human slaughter In history operated to partially par-tially offset the ruinous effects ot freo trade. In order to provide opportunities for tho employment of our constantly constant-ly Increasing population, tho American Ameri-can protective tariff system should bo one which will lnsuro over expanding Industries, unfailing employment for labor and high standards of wages nnd llvlni In view of tho conditions ccrtuln to follow the closo of tho greatest war In history, when foreign countries coun-tries shall have resumed Industrial productions which must be exported at whatever price they will bring in tho marltetp of tho world, tho necessity neces-sity of an adequately protective tar-Iff tar-Iff to shield American labor and Industry In-dustry becomes Imperative. In view of tho facts and conditions herein recited, all political parties can best servo their country by permanent per-manent adherenco to the policy of 'adequate protection for American labor la-bor ana industry, for American agriculture agri-culture and for every form of American Amer-ican productive cntorprlBO. We favor protection to all American Amer-ican Industries alike, that nil may proper alike. Wo favor such tariff duties on Imports Im-ports that will protect tho Amer. can labor and Industries from unfair foreign competition to tho end that this republic Bhall do its own work. Wo therefore glvo pledge that at , tho earliest moment following tho inauguration in-auguration of a protectionist, prestd- . em and tho Induction of a protection- i 1st congress an adequately protective tarrlff shall bo enacted. |