Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-09-17
Especial Correspondence
Harrisburg, Sept. l5


a stream" This trite and homely ad-
monition 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 doing 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 enviabe position as the most
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 Organism
upon the tariff has aroused a 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 we'll 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 halt
in the march of progress.
But every one who stops to consider
the revival of confidence. the resump-
ton of commercial and industrial ac-
tivities and the universal predictions
of a 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-
canism 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 coucern which every Penn
sylvanian must have in the present
campaign was emphasized by United
States Senator Boies Penrose in his
recent speech before the Republicans
of Lehish 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
ilization.
I'VE 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
ly that prosperity has always attended
upon a protective tariff
The American people cannot fail
to recall wildly the immediate past
There has always been a relation of
protective tariffs to prosperity and Of
great financial depressions to low tar
IFS. The long period of depression
which followed the return to low tariff
Immediately succeeding Mr.. Blaine's
IAN aggregation of experimental
malcontents and theorists" Mr.. Sher-