Show A REPUBLICAN WANTS S TO KNOW 4 1 I A takes us to task i for maintaining that this country 1 4 is s not in need of protection lie He II e claims the United States is not exporting any ony considerable amount of manufactured pro products products ducts duets By B consulting the thc month monthly monthly ly summary of 1 c and Finance issued by the govern government ment he will find on page 1601 of the tle th issue for March which is the last available number that for forthe forthe forthe the nine months o of the thc fiscal year ending March rai 31 3 the exports of i I the tiie United States to all nIl parts of I the world aggregated the great grent sum stun of 09 of which I was crude 1110 materials I for use HSC in manufacturing mann manu nanu manufactures for further use iu iti manu mann manufacturing and manufactures ready roady for consumption on and this list includes everything from a n aI I needle to a locomotive There here are industries in the i United States which have been I built up and anti maintained by a tariff wall Avail but hut at considerable costa cost to the American Amerlean people I There are arc industries being los fos fostered contrary to the fundamental Iun I ILa tal La principles of economy at the bottom of which is labor We Ye stand in fear that some na no nation Hon finn will do our drudgery or orI that flint there will ill come au an exchange c cof I of our natural products for the thc I products of tropical regions on I other parts of the earths surface p I where those articles of foodstuffs which arc peculiarly the products of those regions are reaped from roni the earths soil at little or no ef effort effort l fort We are endeavoring to force forc trade along unnatural lines hues aul anI all uti for the express purpose of proving that tho t this future fu future I ture turc rests upon the Republican of protection Jl and und high lugh tax bon stion r This false hypothesis of the Re Republican Republican Republican publican party part written wr into the federal laws Jaws is chargeable for the I instability of the industrial life of the most blessed o ok r all nil nations in natural resources and genius geI ius The Tho violent fluctuations in trade con conditions conditions conditions and business hus activities is due to the falsi fals foundation on which all nIl business in ill this country rests It is not necessary for wise vise sen senators senators to inquire minutely into the cost of manufactured articles in inthis inthis this thi country to demonstrate the truth or falsity of the Republican doctrine of protection The sum summary summary summary mary of our foreign trade proves conclusively that the United States is more than titan able to compete with all till countries not alone ahone in our home markets but in the home markets of the thc foreigners them themselves themselves selves A R n BOWMAN |