The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-24
staIwart Citizenship Of keystone state
viii at the Polls lndorse the Action
of Penrose and His Colleagues In
Congress In Defeating La Toilette
and His Free Trade Allies.
Especial Correspondence
Harrisburg, Sept. 81.


In the recent tariff debates in Wash
ington men of the type of La Toilette,
Dolliver, Cummings and others who
voted with the Democrats against the
Payne bill, warned Senator Penrose
and his stalwart Republican colleagues
from the Keystone state that they
would hear from the people at the
next election" If they did not desist in
their efforts to pass the measure as
agreed upon by the protectionists.
That the people of Pennsylvania,
who are benefited more than those of
any other state, intend to indorse the
action of their Republican representa-
tives in congress upon this subject at
the November election is manifest
upon every hand
For Great Popular Vote.
It is proposed that there shall be
such an emphatic vote of approval of
the policy of protection that the whole
world shall have reason to know how
Pennsylvania stands upon this issue.
On every side there are evidences
of revival of business due to the pas
sage of the tariff bill.
Mills that we're closed for years are
being reopened, fires are being relSin-
died in many an idle furnace, many
thousands of coke ovens which were
long black and silent are now ablaze
and roaring joyous notes Of prosperity
| for labor and capital alike. Steel mills
and similar plants are working on full
time. Labor is generally employed.
The great textile establishments To-
| Gated in various counties of the state
are again busy with a splendid outlook
for the future, the shipyards along the
Delaware are taking on new men
daily not only to help build the great
Dreadnoughts, which the federal gov
ernment has just contracted for, but
to also help construct new craft for the
merchant marine, which is already
feeling the gratifying effects of the re-
vival of trade and industrial activity.
AS a practical evidence of apprecia
ton Of the work of Senator Penrose in
the framing of the tariff bill, and es
pecially his magnificent services in
guarding the interest of his constit
uents of the Keystone state, a series OF
testimonials will be given him next
month.
First, the workingmen of Kensing
ton, the great textile district of the
Quaker City, propose to give expires
efforts in their behalf. During the en-
tire discussion of the tariff schedules
Senator Penrose kept in touch with c
committee of the wage earners of this
section, and they were advised as tt
every move of those advocating {
reduction of duties which would have
meant disaster to the manufacturing
interest of the country.
A delegation of women employed il
the mills of Kensington, it will be re
called, made a pilgrimage to the ma
|, tional capital to combat the campaign
/ of the society women, who were seek
, ing reduced duties in order that the,
might purchase foreign-made goods.
Tributes to Penrose.
. At meeting called by the Working
t mems Protective Tariff League O
3 Philadelphia for Oct. z, not only vii
$ the men of Kensington attend in grea
numbers, but thousands of women en-
ployed in the textile mills have II
solved to turn out to cheer Senate
Penrose.
There will be speeches from me
from the various mills, and possibl
one or more of the women will b
8 given an opportunity to address tn
e gathering and to tell what they kno
It of the work of the senator and his R
q publican colleagues in the senate an
'f house at Washington.
n A call has just been sent out to tt
r, manufacturers of Pennsylvania, sig
n ed by some of the most representatiN
" mill owners in the state, who are a
d ranging a testimonial banquet to Sc
d ator Penrose to be given in the Bell
Ig vue-Stratford hotel in Philadelphia {
Oct. 16 in recognition of his service
n. his state and the country in champio
oi ing the cause of protection to Anne
a can industries.
IL This promises to be memorable {
- casion.
oi While these gatherings will be in !
~ sense political, they are indicative
~ the feeling of the people Of Penns
vania upon the issue that has be-
squarely drawn by the socalled "doW
ward revisionists" of the La Follet
lis school of western free trade theoris
as The Importance of a heavy Reput
~ can vote throughout Pennsylvar
I" next November is being dwelt up
- by business men and others who We
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