Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1908-09-17
Especial Correspondence

| Government.
| Especial Correspondence
Harrisburg, Sept. 15.
Never swap horses while crossing
q stream" This trite and homely ad-
| monitioR OF "Old Abe Lincoln Will be
followed by the voters OF Pennsylva-
MIA at the coming election, when they
will roll up a tremendous majority for
the party of protection and prosperity.
| Reports from every county in the
commonwealth show that the great
body of Pennsylvanians. the farmers,
the merchants and the wage earners
in all the big industrial centers are
determined to vote for Taft and Sher-
man and indorse The platform Of the
Republican party.
| Bryan is making tariff reduction,
which to the Democrats means their
| old slogan of free trade. the para
mount issue of his campaign
In dHing that he is striking directly
at Pennsylvania, at Pennsylvania la
| bor, at Pennsylvania capital and at
! Pennsylvania vast natural resources,
| her coal her iron, her cement and her
Various other interests.
| No Free Trade For Pennsylvania.
! The Keystone state has acquired
her enviable position as the most
prosperous and wealthiest state in the
| Union under the Republican party's
administration OF state and national
affairs. and TO no other policy does she
owe more than to that OF the protec-
| tive tariff
The present onslaught of Bryanism
| upon the tariff has aroused feeling
of Indignation and alarm in every
| quarter of this state.
| Just as confidence is being restored,
as orders for manufactured products
are coming in and mills are starting
up. coke ovens and blast furnaces are
| being lighted and the textile and all
| manner OF industrial establishments
are resuming operations, after tenn
! porary cessation. along comes Bryan
with his Trades against the protective
| tariff. He Is serving notice upon capi-
| tai and labor alike that in the event
of his election revolutionary tactics
may be looked for to the inevitable
destruction of the interests of the
wage Garner and the manufacturer to
the granger the dairyman, the mine
worker and all classes OF citizens of
this state whose happiness and liveli-
hood depend upon the administration
OF the national government under safe
and sane and well established policies.
Taft's Nomination Brought Confidence.
No reasonable man has attempted
to charge to the Republican party re-
| sponsibility for the recent disturb.
ance in business and momentary hat
in the march of progress.
But every one who stops to consider
| the revival of confidence. the resump-
| ton of commercial and industrial ac-
| tiyitics and the universal predictions
| Of renewal of good times, cannot but
| attribute these conditions TO the popu-
| lar belief that the election Of Taft and
| Sherman and the continuance of the
Republican party in control of the
| federal government means an assur.
ance of national prosperity.
To Promote American Patriotism.
| The patriotism and sturdy Ameri-
| cansm of the administration of Theo-
dore Roosevelt. all know, will be ac-
| centuated with Judge William Howard
| Taft in the White House, and the
| prestige that has been added to "Old
| Glory" by the vigorous Rooseveltian
| policies will never be detracted from
| by any act of the distinguished son of
Ohio who is now the Republican
| standard-bearer.
The vital concern which every Penn
campaign was emphasized by United
States Senator Boies Penrose in his
recent speech before the Republicans
| of Lehigh county, when he made the
tariff the principal feature of his ad-
dress.
Penrose On the Tariff.
Senator Penrose, among other
things. said
This is pre-eminently an age the
world over of commercial, industrial
and agricultural development The
United States leads in all these forms
Of activity. We are today admittedly
| the leading nation of the world. and
our progress in the past and the pros
pect of development in the future are
| beyond precedent in the history OF CIV
! ilizatiou.
we want an assurance of prosper
ity, of a continuation Of our CONNER
cial and industrial development at
home and of our trade expansion in
the markets of the world. The his
tory of the United States shows clear
! y that prosperity has always attended
apon protective tariff
"The American people cannot fail
- recall vividly the immediate past
There has always been relation of
| protective tariffs to nrOSneritY and of