Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-28 | Page 4 | Republican Policy Would be a Great Help

uo- REPUBLICAN POLICY WOULD BE A GREAT HELP. An American manufacturer declares de-clares that there is no great need of us seeking wider foreign markets while our home markets are in part neglected. He says: "The finest stroke American business busi-ness could perpetrate would bo to seize his home market, and seize it so firmly that we could keep it In all the future. For Instance, take dyes, cotton and cotton cloths. It always seemed ridiculous to me that we raise most of tha world's cotton and then ship to other countries a big bulk of what we raise, to be manufactured. manu-factured. Even tho part we ourselves manufacture has to be finished with foreign materials; the Germans pro-vide pro-vide us with nearly all the dyestuffs we use. So it appears that we raise the raw cotton, send most of it away to be manufactured, and keep the remainder re-mainder to make up at home, and when it's woven into cloth we finish it with German dyes! There will be no German dyes for us after a month or ao; supplies on hand will be exhausted. What are we to do then Why not make our own1 ' No reason at all. There s no mys-t mys-t ry about them. We could make them, only, like so many other things that we ought to do, we've oever bothered to do it. Now we've got to. and we will I learn that interests are already organizing to take up tho manufacture on a big scale That means capturing a big home market. It means that in future wo will make our own dyes, or cloth industries will be more independent because we make them, and we will have this big business in our own hands instead in-stead of having it make as tributary' to Germany " It is to be regretted that the Republicans Re-publicans are not In power In the nation, na-tion, believing as they do in a protective pro-tective tariff. Many of the foreign importations, temporarily shut off by the war. could be permanently ex eluded, if our American Investor8 and manufacturers were encouraged to the extent of being assured that, anj new industries which they might now start In an effort to Bupplaht foreign products, would be safeguarded safeguard-ed after the great conflict by a turltr large enough to prevent unfair com petition from abroad.