Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-10
THE DANGER
SIGNALS ARE UP
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tenanee OF the protective tariff policy
Of the national government
Following up the formal action taken
at recent meeting of the Manufac-
turers' club. when vigorous resolu-
tions were adopted in opposition to
any "tinkering with the tariff" infiu-
ential men, prominently identified
with the industrial interests of this
state, have inaugurated an educational
agitation to awaken ..,he voters of
Pennsylvania to the danger confront
ing them from the development OF
sentiment. in the west and elsewhere,
in favor of a revision of the tariff.
The assistance of Chairman Wesley
X. Andrews and his colleagues of the
Republican State committee, has been
sought to further the campaign for n
stand pat" policy on the tariff issue.
Manufacturers Are Alarmed.
The manufacturers admit that they
are concerned over the persistence OF
the tariff revisionists, and they look
TO Pennsylvania Republicans to come
to the front, as they have done in the
past, and emphasize their continued
fealty to the principles OF a protective
tariff.
The tariff revisionists have been
sending tons of literature into Penn
Bylvania for the purpose of breaking
the lines of the protective tariff Re-
publicans, and they have been bank
ing upon cutting down the vote of the
Republican state ticket at the coming
election and thus weaken the voice of
the state in the councils of the Repub-
liesn party of the nation.
The enemies Of protection are max
ing great play to have delegates
elected to the coming Republican Ma
tional convention who will favor the
insertion of a plank in the platform
calling for a revision of the tariff.
The manufacturer who have started
in to combat this proposition realize
the gravity of the situation and look
to Pennsylvania to block the game of
the revisionists.
Chairman Andrews Call to Action.
After a conference with some of the
leading manufacturers interested in
the movement, which means so much
to the industrial and business inter-
ests of this state Colonel Andrews to-
day said
"Pennsylvania's industries are en-
dangered by the agitation for a revi-
sion Of the tariff, and none can appre-
ciate what | say better than those who
have their capital invested and who
depend upon the protective tariff to
shield them from ruinous competition
from the products of the poorly paid
labor of foreign countries.
There must be no tinkeriug with
the tariff, either before or after the
presidential election, and Republicans
of Pennsylvania must be alive to the
situation. If any move shall be made
to change existing tariff schedules,
even in the slightest degree, it will in
augurate a period of doubt and uncer-
tainty which would be reflected in the
utter Generalization of Pennsylvania
manufacturing interests, and there
could be but one result, condition
that would bear heavily upon the
farmers and wage workers Of our COM
monwealth. and seriously embarrass
the capital employed in vast fields Of
commercial activity.
Pennsylvania will not lose an op-
portunity at the coming election to
proclaim to the other states in the
Union that she has no sympathy with
the Iowa idea for a scaling down of
the tariff
"In no more effective and solemn
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sylvania meet this issue than by regis
tering at the November election their
emphatic decree that by no act of
theirs shall the bars be let down which
now exclude foreign competition with
American labor.
"The contest this fall is but the skir-
mish Of the great presidential battle of
next year.
IF Pennsylvania shall roll up a pro-
nounced majority for the cause of Re
publicanism in November the state
will continue to WELD a potent inf1u-
ence in the national councils of the
party.
'If, as the result of indifference and
Of paying heed to the shallow and SEN
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Democratic candidate for state treas
urer should be elected, of which, in my
judgment, there is not the remotest
chance if Republicans perform their
full measure Of duty, the shout would
20 up all over the land that the Repub-
licans CT Pennsylvania were indiffer-
ent as to the continuance of the tariff,
and. thereby greatly weaken the infu-
ence of the Republicans OF Pennsyl-
vania In the next Republican national
convention.
Necessity For Action.
THE consequence of such a state of
affairs would be illustrated by cessa-
ton of all industrial enterprises with
in our borders. with the inevitable re-
suit that the workingman and the
farmer would in the end bear the
brunt Of the disaster.
Pace to face with these conditions
and with the full knowledge e 20 the
smsarrassments that would follow. ali
Republicans are appealed TO as mem
bers of the great party of protection
and prosperity to recognize the nsces-
Bity for earnest, active, and patriotic
work in order not only to bury the op-
position beyond the hope Of resurrec-
ton, but to strengthen the position of
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