River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-29
FOUR GOOD REASONS
Why Democrats Should Vote for Rooss-
welt and Fairbanks.

First.-If you are a Democrat and do
not believe in the Republican policy
of protection, but favor a tariff for
revenue only" it is well for you to con-
template the fact that no Democratic
tariff ever did produce enough revenue,
but that the same tinkering which elimi-
mated protection also created increasing
deficit in the treasury, endangered the
gold reserve and with it the parity of our
silver and paper money with gold money,
and necessitated large bond issues, out
Of which Wall-Street syndicates could get
a rake-Of, but on which the American
people must pay the interest and ulti-
mately the principal
The expenses Of the government are
now running close to the revenue, and
these expenses are for such purposes as
prusioniug the old soldiers. paying for
the Panama Canal, rrigating the arid
lands and rendering useful service to
agriculture to commerce and labor
through departments specially instituted
for such services There is no patriotic
Democrat who can desire expenditures
for such objects cut down 50 as to Grip
pie the prestige and efficiency Of the
government, and hence no patriotic Dem
ocrat, however ardcntly he may believe
in free trade, should vote for a policy
which would cut down the revenues and
pile up a disastrous deficit as during
the last Democratic administra ton. Since
the war taxes were taken off, several
years ago, there has been no safe room
for further reduction in the government
revenues. Anything that might be taken
off from the protective, indirect taxes.
would have to be put Oh somewhere else
where it would be direct burden to
taxpayers, or else money would have
to be borrowed to make up for the def
ciencies in revenue
Second.-If you are not only Demo
CTat, but Democrat of the Jefferson
ian type, you should vote the Republi-
can ticket if only because Jefferson
himself stood for expansion as the Re
publican party now stands. The crcum-
stance for which Jefferson was most
severely criticised in his lifetime. but
which furnished the leading reason why
pOsterity llOnOrs his memory, was his
purchase of the Louisiana Territory,
which purchase is now being appropriate
~ cpmmemorated by the great expos
ton at st. Louis. Had Jefferson not
made the deal with France for the
Louisiana Territory, he would have
escaped much bitter criticism from the
narrow minded element of his own party
while he lived, but he would also have
lost for the United States the greatest
opportunity of history.
Third.-If you are a Democrat, but
nevertheless want to know where you
are at" you will vote for Roosevelt
and Fairbanks, because they stand for
definite principles, have the moral cOur-
age to carry them out and have behind
them the strong support Of Il unified
party. And what the Republican party
says it will do, it always does. The
present leaders of the Democratic party
seldom express themselves strongly on
any particular line Of policy, but, if they
do, they usually also take the precautOn
to state that the Senate will continue
Republican during the next four years,
so that it would be impossible to change
existing politics, anyhow.
FOurth-If you are a Democrat, you
owe Il duty to yourself, your neighbors,
your families, and especially to 'the
little ones at home" and to your fellow
cOuntrymen NOT to vote for candidates of
your own party, when it is obvious as it
is now that their election would certainly
cause apprehension i'll business circles
tend to make the rich poor and the poor
poorer, and increase the difficulties Of
making good living. When business
depression visits the country, it is no re-
SrectOr of persons The poor will suffer
quite Us much il not more than the rich
ana Democrats will suffer quite as much
a. Republicans.