The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-10

France has kept her mills open, her
shops active. her trade vigorous in
spite Of causes that worked against
her commercial progress. That man
or nation has begun to die who refuses
to learn; and just as the French and
Germans and other commercial peo-
pies learned the wisdom of a single
protective tariff from us. so we must
learn the advantages of a double pro-
tective tariff from them
Such a tariff will sell abroad many
head of live stock. barrels of flour,
manufactured articles. where one now
is sold. This increase in trade means
new employment for the laborers, new
markets for the farmer.
A Tariff Commission.
Nor will we stop there Republican,
ism means advance. Tens of thou
sand of American citizens are demand
ing tariff commission. The great or
gained producing -manufac-
turers, farmers, Ock-raisers-have pc
titfoned congress for this common
sense method of handling this intricate
question, as Germany, France, Japan
and other aggressive twentieth-cen-
fury nations are handling their tariff
question. Yet the only hope for
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party. When the tariff commission
idea was advanced. Mr. Bryan opposed
1t in formal printed debate. When a
tariff commission bill was introduced
in congress. every Democrat was hos
tile to ii. A tariff commission has not
a single friend among Democratic pub
lie men. Certain Republican public
men are against il, too: but its Only
friends are Republicans. A Democrat
is vote is a certain vote against tariff
commission A Republican vote is a
possible vote for this business-like re.
form.
The Real Labor Question.
Every labor law we have passed and
Will pass 10 a Ddtl VI lildl WtD VI III
dustrial questions which we call the
labor problem. But. after all, the
fundamental labor problem is the prob
lem of employment and pay. Work
and wages are the foundations of la
boris well-being. without which all la
Dor legislation is the giving of stone
instead of bread. More American
workingmen own their own homes
land those homes have more com
forts) than the workingmen OF Eng
land, Germany, Japan, France COM
bined. Had any political economist
been told twenty five years ago that
carpenters miners and steel workers
ever would be paid the American
wages of the present day, he would
have scoffed
All this has come during Republican
administrations. We plan 20 continue
and increase it. The maximum and
minimum tariff which we will enact
will enlarge the markets for American
products. as Germany in the same way
has enlarged the markets for her pro-
ducts. Markets mean industries tc
supply them: industries mean demand
for labor: demand for labor means
high wages.
Recovery From the Panic.
We are quickly recovering from the
briefest panic in our history. Let
workingmen contrast that panic with
the one that occurred under the last
Democratic administration and then
answer this question for themselves:
Will the election Of MIR. Bryan or Mr..
Taft best help the rapidly improving
business of the country? And remem-
Der that active business means wall
paid employment
That Mr.. Bryan and the opposition
would make business practically inn
possible is proved by their national
franchise plf They propose that
every enterprise big enough to do bus
mess in more than one state shall Sc
cure national license, which can be
granted or withdrawn by any admin
istration. But no business can sue
coed without certainty; no. business
man could afford to invest & dollar
when he knew that his very right to
do business at all might be taken away
by the caprice of a president or the ac-
cident of an election. The franchise
plan makes every president a four
year-Czar with absolute power over
the life and death of every business
concern large enough to trade through
out the nation.
The Navy.
A nation without power is nation
without influence. maritime nations
power is in her navy With longer
coast lines than any three Of the
greatest commercial nations combin-
ed with far-hng possessions and a
foreign commerce with in a quarter
of century will pass that of England
and Germany together with the canal
giving MS undre AIMED of advantages in
foreign commerce which in a quarter
a navy as great az these tremendous
facts require. We are midway In that
work today. and we mean to so on
VITA that program Of economy, safety
and peace.
Had our rayy Leen as large in 1898
as II is today. Spain would not have
gone to war and Cuba would have been
freed by diplomacy; yet the actual
cash spent in that little war would
have built two navies as great as the
nn> we have today and maintained
them fer score of years.
This is campaign of candidates
even more than of platforms. The
question is not which candidate is
most upright, patriotic. brave. for both
are equally so. Both mean equally
well toward their country. The real
question is, which Candidate will make
the best president, Which Is the wis
est and steadiest? Which man would
you choose as administrator of your
estate? Which would you select to
manage your business Which has the
best training and the most experience
Mr.. Bryan never has handled a sin.
gle foreign problem. He has gov.
erned no Philippines, regenerated no
Cuba, built no canal, avoided no alien