The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-10-29
BR YAM ADVANCE AGENT
OF PROSPERITY
Remedies Which the Demo cratic Party Offers to the
Restoration of Confidence and Quietude and an
Even, Equitable PrOsperit y. The Roosevelt Panic
Measures Republican Failure

The effort of the Republicans to
create a Bryan scare have not only
fallen fiat. but Mr.. Bryan is taking
the wind from their sails by pointing
cut the necessity of remedies ana pol
ietes advocated only by the Democrats
for the restoration of confidence and
the return of prosperity:
1.-The Democratic party is absolutely
necessary to restore prosperity. The
Republican party has had it's chance
and ft has failed. We are now in the
midst OF depression for which nat
Hral conditions furnish no excuse.
Artificial conditions are responsible
for the present business prOstratfon
ann these artificial conditions Origf-
nai ii in Republican policies. The
bus ness failures for the nine months
enl ing on September 80 were II, 943
n lumber, and the liabilities amount
d. to $f79, 100000. Tt. meant that if
he assets are worth, in fact, the
amount at which they are placed,
here will still be loss of $56,OOO,OOO
to account for.
1.This tremendous loss comes at
time when crops are reasonably good
and when nature has not withheld her
bounty. 1t comes when the Republic
cans are i'm complete control They
have q President whom they eulOgiZe
in their platform, Senate completely
I'm the hands OF the Republican party
and q Republican House of Represen-
Speaker. We can assume, therefore,
that they have done everything they
could do consistently under their poll
cieS to prevent a panic, and yet the
panic is here. It comes, too, when we
have a tariff so high that even the
Republicans promise unequivOcally 10
revise it Immediately, and Mr.. Taft
has Yentmred the. opinion that the re-
vision viii probably be downward.
What does it promise to do for the
protection of the public? What poll
cies has ft that look to a restoration
OF prosperity2
"a member of the British cabinet
said recently in a speech that the ex-
ports of cotton goods from Lancashire
had increased eleven per cent over
last year and ne declared that the
cotton exports of the United States
had fallen off forty-five per cent in
the same period. If this is true; how
will the protectionists explain it?
seTIle Republican party cannot eS-
cape from its record. It is important
to protect the public, because its poll
C.iSs have for their object not the adj
vanceinent of the general welfare but
the enrichment of relatively small
number OF the people at the expense
OF the rest of the people. LII we are
to have prosperity, we must restore
Independence In industry. The Re
publican party does not promise this.
On the contrary, it pledges itself to
a continuation of the policies under
which trusts have grown and fattcned
at the expense of the public.
ise fo prevent the creation of private
111onopolies To have prosperity we
must have harmonious cooperation
between labor and capital The Re
publican party does not promise this.
On the contrary it promises to con-
tii1ue the policies which estranged
labor and capital, and have made la
bon troubles acute. The Democratic
party promises justice between labor
and capital and a restoration of peace
and friendship between employer and