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Show The Best Ever for Foreigners The secretary and treasurer of a concern In Philadelphia which manufactures man-ufactures gas engines Is quoted by tho Inquirer of Juno 9 as saying that tho business of his company and of all other companies in tho samo lines of production havo been practically ruined by tho reduction of tho tariff on gas engines from 45 to 20 per cent. Tariff for revenuo only, he said, has mado this country a closed market to Its own manufacturers and an open field to foreign competitors. In the allied metal Industries of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania tho number of men employed Is only 57 per cent of what It was previous to tho enactment of tho Underwood Un-derwood free trado tariff law. "We expect to receive our first shipment of Diesel typo of engines from tho Germnn plant In a few weeks," said Mr. Kroll. "Tho orders wero sent over some months ago and they should be completed soon. "Before tho new tnrlff law wont Into In-to effect we built some of them here. Hut now we find It cheaper to construct con-struct them In Germany and pay the low duty on Importation. Tho Ger-man Ger-man plant has tho facilities and It would not pay under present cond'-tions cond'-tions to improve bur present works here, or to erect another plant, ns had been contemplated. ' Of course tho sending of theso orders or-ders to Germany hns cmphnslzcd the depression of business in tho Philadelphia Phila-delphia plant, which of Itself was duo to tho general slump In nil activities activ-ities wh'ch followed the enactment of the Democratic tariff and President Wilson's trust bii6tlng policies. "The present tariff law was the best thing that ever happened for manufacturers manu-facturers In Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland and England. "Business Is nt n standstill hero. And why? Because tho United States has been made an open market fo" tho product of foreign plnnts which can manufacture cheaper than we can. "Why, don't you know that It's the big chance they've been looking for over there? Competition Is so keen among them and tho field Is so filled that they aro compelled to export. They continually havo to find new outlets. out-lets. They could not sell all of their production In their own or each others' oth-ers' country. They have to ship here. Now they can do It at a higher high-er profit than they could before," The exact truth of the situation In all departments of domestic production produc-tion has seldom been more pungently stated. Tho Underwood tariff Is a Godsend to foreign manufacturers. For years they have been hoping for some such chance to dump their pro- ducts on tho American market. American Am-erican freo trado statesmen, blind ns bats to tho logical and Inevitable effects ef-fects of a "competitive" tariff have fixed things for tho foreigners better, wo Imaglno than tho foreigners ex-peeled. ex-peeled. Now tho foreigners can not only get into this market with their goods, but they can undersell American Amer-ican producers and still make n bigger big-ger profit than ever before. And 43 per cent of the workers formerly employed em-ployed in tho allied metal Industries of Pennsylvania are walking tho streets In Idleness. And President Wilson calls It merely psychological, nnd Secretary Ilcdtleld calls It mental men-tal mourning." Business has rights which politicians politic-ians nro bound to respect. |