The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-03


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Fling days s8f campo ta e tariff
II gu esti fI1sed tod ~
9Telisgi affn SIS 81 the preced1
ne MeeE sure the great and
lind erlyin prii Of protection
lave not been gone over; but simply
! a e:teratIon Of Statement hat
if2rctect!on sopbery. ii nd Wi one.
or two ed argtln 1enta, such as
higher pTioe nome and lower
prices TO foreigners than To; the do
z1esticsmarket for certain manufac-
sured goods As regards higher cost!
of living during the past seven years,
each and every b Householder and lea en-
and every person knows without being
told, whether he is better or worse OF
than during tie last Democratic adj
ministFatfon No amonntSo of argument
can tell the man who has lived better
in every way, who has been able to-
provide ibetterEfor his table, who has.
been able to cIothe himself and his
family better and has been able to;
enjoy 5the conveniencesSa and comforts.
and luxlries of life tosa degree never
before Known, and who besides all
this Las been able to lay aside a large
surplus in his savings bank account
or in his insurance policy or in pay
men Is upon his HON e-@no amount of
arguments can tell this man that he
and Roosevelt and protection than he
was under Cleveland and free trade,
and if on the other hand there is here
and there occasionally man who
through misfortune or through per
g..apS bad habits has found himself
som ewhat lower in the scale, then5no-s
body can convince that man that he
is better off than heswas in the days
Bof pawn shops and free soup houses.
The great progress which we have
made as Nation, the great wealth
the great measure of prosperity which
&-las swept over the country and is stil:
apparent today on all sides are al
guments against the coEtcntion cftha
Democratic candidate and of the Dem
ccratic platform and of the Democrat
ic press that protection has been a
robbery, It will be met at the polls
on the Still Of November by the YER
dict of the people based upon their
own individual resources, their own
individual prosperity and by the
51snoE,1edge OF what each man and his
sneigEbor has been able to do for him
seven years. 1t will not do for Mr..
Parker 10 say that he would q bring
about no sudden demolition Of Amer
lean industries because that has been
said before in Presidential campaigns.
twas said by the double-facedS Polk |
in 4s1S44, and it. was said by Grover
Cleveland in 1892, and following the
successful those men at the polls /
there swept over this country years
of disaster and ruin and - poverty /
which came to every man, woman and
child in the country. The Democratic
party cannot be trusted to frame a
tariff law. It is absolutely incapable
of putting on our statute books a tar
if which would be equitable and hon
est and Just to every section and to
every industry and to every portion
of labortin this country.
On the other hand, our protective
tariff has been equitable in the ex-
IRENE. It has been. made for all the
people and all the States and for all
our industries and for5 labor without
any restriction whatever, and a vote
next Tuesday cast for Theodore
Roosevelt and Charles w. Fairbanks
will mean continuation of this pro-
tective policy that has brought such
pros perity and progress to our Nation
and to our people.
& Mo A CcnDED