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Show Independence of The United States Two years havo passed since our regular supply of hundreds of articles which had flowed In an unbroken stream from Kuropo was stopped. In n few particulars wo Imvo produced as good, or nearly as good, an arti clo ns we formerly Imported. Hut I wc nro short on countless things somo of which nro very essential. Many dyes nro not to ho for a king's ran I som, and linens mid fine leather and In thousand other articles to the orlg-I orlg-I lu of which wo nover gave a thought nro dally growing scarcer or tho sup ply Is entirely exhausted. We l.ave cured in on a few things, but havo wc come up to the requirements of our uiiBiippllcd needs to nny consldcrnblo extent ns so many confidently boasted boast-ed we would? Thnt we con mipply ourselves our-selves with pretty much all tho necessaries neces-saries previously Impoitcd Is doubtless doubt-less true. That wo havo not and are not, Is largely due to labor conditions which, In tho absence of suitable protective pro-tective tnrlffs, dctor our mnnufactur crs from investing the largo sums required re-quired to erect plnnts with tho constant con-stant danger that tho wnr may end suddenly, imports be resumed and nc-cumulntcd nc-cumulntcd stocks on tho other sldo ho dumped lu large quantities at reducod prices. Talc o tho caso of the dyes for ox-nmplo. ox-nmplo. A Oerman manufacturer can command tho services of a highly of- Uclcnt and experienced chemlht, ono HI who hns perhaps taught chemistry for WJ ycura In n technical school at u sal- H ary of $S00 a year. Hero tho mnnu- H facturer, for that sum, could hnrdly H secure a second year college student B with u smattering of theory and no H practical experience whatever. It B wo are to do theso things for our- jB selves wo will bo obliged to restoro HJ somo protecting tariffs whntover may H bo our position on protection and frco H , trade as u general proposition. HI Popular Meclmnlcn Magn'.lne, BL |
