The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-10-09
DANGER SIGNALS UP
Manufacturers Send Warning to
Pennsylvania Republicans.
FEAR OF TARIFF TINKERING
Capital and Labor Seriously Concerned
Over Agitation of ''lowa Idea" Of
Revision In the Stronghold Of Pro-
lection.
Especial Correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence
Philadelphia, Oct. s.
A committee of manufacturers OF this
city has started a movement to impress
upon the citizens of Pennsylvania their
direct and vital interest in the main
tenance of the protective tariff policy
of the national government
Following up the formal action taken
at a recent meeting OF the Manufac-
turers' club, when vigorous resolu-
tions were adopted in opposition to
any "tinkering with the tariff" intlu-
ential men. prominently identified
with the industrial interests of this
state, have inaugurated an educational
agitation to awaken the voters of
Pennsylvania TO the danger confront
ing them from the development of
sentiment, in the west and elsewhere,
in favor of revision of the tariff.
The assistance of Chairman Wesley
r. Andrews and his colleagues of the
Republican State committee, has been
sought TO further the campaign for a
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
hai
fealty to the principles of protective
tariff.
The tariff revisionists have been
sending tons of literature into Penn
sylvania 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-
lican party of the nation.
The enemies of protection are maxi
ing a 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 revision of the tariff
The manufacturers 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 industries are en-
dangered by the agitation for revi-
sion of the tariff, and none can appre-
ciate what l 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 tinkering 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, 1t will in
augurate a period of doubt and uncer-
tainty which would be reflected in the
utter Generalization Of Pennsylvania 8
manufacturing interests, and there
could be but one result, a condition
that would bear heavily upon the
farmers and wage workers of our COM
monweath, and seriously embarrass
the capital employed in vast fields of
commercial activity.
Pennsylvania will not lose an OPP
portunity at the coming election to
proclaim to the other states in the
Union that she has no sympathy with
the Iowa idea for scaling down OF
the tariff
"In no more effective and solemn
manner can the Republicans of Penn
sylvania meet this issue than by regis
tering at the November election theiI
theirs shall the bars be let down which
now exclude foreign competition with
American labor.
"The contest this fall is but the skir.
mlsh of the great presidential battle oi
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 influ
ence in the national councils of thu
party.
"If as the result of Indifference anC
OF paying heed to the shallow and sen
sational charges of the opposition, th'
Democratic candidate for state treas
urer should be elected, of which, in m!
judgment, there is not the remotes
chance if Republicans perform thei
full measure of duty the shout woul,
go up all over the land that the Repub
leans of Pennsylvania were indiffer
ent as to the continuance of the tariff
and, thereby greatly weaken the influ
ence of the Republicans of Pennsyl
vania in the next Republican nationa
convention.
Necessity For Action.
"The consequence of such a state G
affairs would be illustrated by a cessa
ton of all industrial enterprises with
in our borders, with the inevitable re
suit that the workingman and tn
farmer would in the end bear tn
brunt of the disaster.
Face to face with these condition