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Show THRIVING BUSINESS RUINED Tho Wilson administration mid the Democratic tariff nro ruining the American bcot and shoo business. This Is apparent from tho nUlolni reports re-ports of the govommrnt. Under ho Democratic tariff law forehri nvtoe shoes uro now sold In Hif. cnplti.1 itself. Since tho Undo.Mvo&l tatlfT law placed nil hoots mid nhoes an tho frco list foreign nndo foct wear has been (lowing Into tlvj United Sthtes nt a steadily Iii'jrraalui lute. Tho Underwood law lia-i 11 it been' on tho statuto books n full your yet tho importations of boots nud shoes for tho first bcvcii months I, was lr effect almost equaled ho total impo' tatlons ,for tho entire year ot 1013. Tho first year of tlio Oomocr.v.lc tariff tar-iff law will bring twice thf amount ot foreign made boots and shoe3 ln:o this country that wero Imported (lib wbol'o of last year undn'- t'10 Ilopub-Hcan Ilopub-Hcan tariff law. Thcso stRteroonts nro based on I'g ures which RepresentaMv-) John J. Kscli of Wisconsin his ncrurod ifiora tho bureau of lorclp jindj'domes. It-commerce. It-commerce. Mr. Esch !iasjust given these figures out for "10 llrst llmo. Ho says: "Tho United States-is tin leading manufacturer of footweir In (ho world, and Its total oiitput'ls valued nt over $300,000,000 aniuaUy, giving employment to 230,000 nirboti-i. While It Is truo that tho Importations compared com-pared with our total domestic output Is relatively small, tho Increase In the Importations slnco tho now law went Into effect Is t datively iarj.o and Is significant In -hat It shows that, with each month's opor.it Ion of the new law, thero will bo nn increased in-creased displacement of American made goods, with a Qonuequunt lessened les-sened demand for Amerl:.in labor. "No one will deny that cur American Ameri-can workmen ought to hnvo lumi.'h-ed lumi.'h-ed tho $500,000,000 worth of boots and shoes which will be lmyorted dieting diet-ing the first year of tho new lav", operation, especially when there jh been no reduction in tho cost to tho American consumer. "With like purposes ,ind :tiHZt ns to other Industries, tho American 1 home market will bo nrokeu down, 1 unemployment will bo Increased, purchasing pur-chasing power diminished! stagnation, In business continue and even grow worse. Truly Democracy, so f'ir hs tho tariff Is concerned ,has Iarned nothing, but the people nu.it learn anew the lesson of 1893." Farmers are also hard hti oy tho Democratic tariff. The following dispatch dis-patch tells what freo trade Is doing to American farmers: "Boston, July 17. The first tl.lp-load tl.lp-load ot corn over Imported hero arrived ar-rived on the steamship Ascension do Larranga from Argentina at the 1 loo-sac loo-sac docks, Charlestown. A. Irving Merlgold of the Boston chamber of commerco Is tho. consignee. Tho stock will bo sold on tho chamber grnln exchange. Tho shipment contains con-tains 100.000 bushels aud the price at which It Is offered Is .5 cents per bushel,-C cents a bushel under tho market prlco of western corn. The western product Is tho only corn over traded In hero horetoforo." This means a loss of $42,000,000 on tho 700,000,000 bushels ot corn which go to market this year. Who gets thnt $12,000,000? Not tho genera' family consumer whoso cornmeal will coBt him not a cent less because of that C cent reduction. Thoso who profit by frco trade will bo tho wills-koy wills-koy distillers and tho Standard Oil concerns which manufacture glucose and sthrclu It Is for tholr gain alono that corn was placed on tho freo list, of tho Underwood tariff for tholr gain alono that $42,000,000 Is talton frotr j tho pockets of Araorlcan farmers. How nbout tho ruin of tho Louisiana Louisi-ana ctni. sugar growers and tho western wes-tern sugar beet producers? When the administration reduced tho tariff on sugar March 1 last the refiners ot forolgn sugar In Now York did not remit what thoy did not have to pay the government to tho consumer; con-sumer; they put that dlffercnco In tholr pockots. Tho promlso nlHdo was to reduco tho tariff, was to fulfill a promlso made to tho country that tho necessities would bo reduced, but sugar refining trust Isn't concerned with Democratic promlsos or tho consumers con-sumers of sugar, so it kept tho ill' ferenco. The same story applies tc practically overythlng. Tho South American cattlo raisers who ship . beef lo tho United States did tho samo thing. Wlnfiold Jones, In Tho Herald-Ilepubllcan. |