The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-10-26
ISN'T IT TRUE MIR. VOTER?

Isn't it true that the great panic
which gave "Black Friday" to history
occurred in September, 1869 when
the republican party was in power
and under a high tariff?
Isn't it true that the great panic Of
1873 occurred while the republican
party was in power, and that it was
the most disastrous ana severe of any
in history? 1t was officially estimated
that three millions of WOrkingmen
were idle Bankruptcy was widespread. A
tidal wave of ruin and distress swept
over the country. And this took place
under a high tariff.
Isn't it true that the panic of 1898"
really began two years or more before
the presidential election of 1892, and
took place under the Mckinley high
tariff?
Isn't it true that the Mckinley tariff
bill became a law in October, 1890
and continued in operation until Au-
gust, 1894, thus being the high tariff
| law during the whole of 1898 and most
! of 1894?
| Isn't it true that the panic of
| 1907-190S caused commercial failures
to August /. 1908, and according t.
Dun's Review. OF $219, That
according to b. F. YOakum, chairman
executive committee. Frisco Lines, the
million dollars a day? That for the
railroad employees were losing one
million dollars a day? That for the
/ in or
great in New York as to make it ne
cessary to use the public morgues to
| shelter so many people as they could
hold, every other place being crowded
That over a million men lost employ
ment, and that wages We're merciless-
ly cut all over the country? And thi:
took place under the highest tariff o
Ian.
Isn't it true that the August %. 1907
H. Miles chairman of the tariff com
mittee of the National Association o
Manufacturers, wrote to Senator For
aker a letter in which Mr.. Miles said
about forty per cent of all the mem
bers of our association. who have b,
correspondence pronounced for revi
sion, declare in their letters that thei
own schedules may properly be re
duced fifty per cent-or mOre-withou
hurt to their respective Industries. o
to the country at large"
Isn't it true that American manu-
. features are sold in foreign countrie
, from twenty-five to forty per cen
cheaper than to the American peopl
and that if American manufacturer
can meet foreign competitors right i
, their own markets and sell them good
, at profit, what becomes of the argu
ment that foreign competition in tn
American markets would hurt bust
ness?
Isn't it true that at the present mo
ment the paper trust has raised it
. prices to an eXtortionate figure. and a
E the same time its employees are strik
ing for more wages with which t
. live? How does this high tariff hell
!, the workingman?
Isn't it true that the cost of Twin;
, has increased forty nine per cent il
the last twelve years of republican
, rule, and that wages have only in
creased nineteen per cent. and this in
: crease only brought about by tn
action of labor unions? How does tn
high tariff help the workman here?
, This this over, all We voters who la
Dor, or who are eager to work if yo1
can get it, and then decide whethe
: your interests will be served by votin;
, for Taft and a high tariff.-H. r
BRUCE, In the Buffalo Evening Times
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