The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
Pennsylvania Grangers vitality
Concerned In the Tariff.
PENROSE'S STRATEGIC POST

tor In Protecting the Varied Inter.
ests Of the Keystone State.
Especial Correspondence
Harrisburg, Oct. 20.
Attention has been directed in the
discussion of the issues of the presi-
dental campaign to the vital interest
the farmers of Pennsylvania, and in
fact Of every state in the Union, have
in the continuance of the present sys.
tom of a protective tariff.
The wonderful strides made by Can
ada in the development of her agri-
cultural interests and the rapidly in
creasing growth of her population,
have been the subject of comment by
orators who have sought to impress
the farmers of the United States with
the fact that they, probably more than
any other class, are concerned In the
success of the Republican party. which
means that whatever changes shall be
made in the tariff, they shall be made
along the lines of protection to Ameri-
can interests.
Thirty millions of people, many of
them agriculturalists, will shortly con-
stitute the population of Canada, and
the great output from the Canadian
farms will come in direct competition
with the products of Pennsylvania
farms, of New York farms Ind of the
farms of the other states.
Unless there shall be q protective
tariff, the American farmer, who is
used to the comforts and many of the
luxuries of life, will be in direct COM
petition with the Canadian who, while
thrifty, does not have anything like
the enjoyments of home life that are
possessed by the farmers in the United
States.
Penrose's important Position.
Not only the presidency, but con.
gress, must be won to insure to tho
American farmer, as well as the Amer
lean manufacturer and workingman, O
continuance of the protective tariff.
In Pennsylvania there is legisla-
ture TO elect, which in January next
will name a successor to United States
Senator Boies Penrose.
Senator Penrose occupies an i'm
portant position in the United States
senate.
He is the first Pennsylvania in
many years who has been appointed
on the powerful committee on finance.
Neither Quay nor Cameron was on
this committee.
Penrose was given a position on 1t
Immediately after his last reelection,
and he is now one of the senior men,
bers of the body. 1t is not improb-
able that before long he will be filling
the craftsmanship of this committee.
Aldrich, the present chairman, is talk
ing about retiring from the senate.
The second ranking member, Burrows,
of Michigan, may encounter difficulties
In being reelected on account of the
peculiar political conditions in the
state The third member, Platt, of New
York, will not be a candidate for re-
election, 80 that Penrose, who comes
the committee in accordance with
precedent in the senate where senior
ity is always considered in the ranking
or members or committees.
With Penrose in such a splendid
strategic role, he will be in a position
to guard Pennsylvania interests, her
granger, her industrial, her mining and
her other inerests, which have enjoyed
protection.
All tariff legislation must come be-
fore the finance committee, and the
oF
ules is referred to committee on
conference, three members of the SEN
ate and three of the house, and 1t Is
fair to assume Senator fenrose will be
one Of these conferees, II not the chair
man of the senate subcommittee.
The importance Of elscting Republi
can members of the legislature will
appeal to every one, as we'll as the
urgency Of sending Republicans to the
lower house of congress, where the
Democrats hope to make gains, princi
pally In the west.
Pennsylvania farmers will be inter
eSted in an address recently made by
John H. Lands, Of Lancaster county
in which he emphasized the menace
which Canada's industrial develop
ment must hold over American farm
ing and dairy interests, as long as
there shall be any danger OF a revision
Of the tariff under which the farmers
Of the United States have become 30
prosperous.
Timely Talk to Farmers.
In this speech, Mr.. Lands, among
other things, said:
'Tn the Democratic national plat
form adopted ut Denver we find no in
timation even for incidental protec-
tion, but a sweeping declaration for
such reductions In the various sched-
ulss az TO restore the tariff to a reve-
nuO basis This, Of course. means the
revenue basis Of the last Democratic
tariff law; the Wilson law of 1894,
which was not only destroyer CT IN.
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