The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-06-16
Forest County National Bank.

content that will seriously affect the
stability of the government and the
country.
Continuing, the Keystone Gazette
says: what will It profit the farmer
or the manufacturer II the wage-earn'
ers are enforced to be idle. or to work
at wages that are practically starva-
ton for an American citizen? II
wages are not earned the power Of
consumption is reduced as well as
the, peans Of purchasing the products
Of the farm at fair prices, as we'll as
the products of the mills and manu-
factories.
This country had an experience OF
q revision of tariff downwards under
the Wilson tariff bill OF 1898. under
the second Cleveland administration.
What was the condition of things
then? The farmers had no market
for the stock or products; the mills
and manufactures we're largely out
of business and idle because there
was no home or foreign market for
their products.
THE country does not want another
four years experience such as it had
from 1893 to 1S97-with its reign of
sour houses, fifty-cent wheat and corn
used for fuel. Then let the Senators
and Congress drop the game OF poll
tics and legislate on the tariff Ques-
ton on the broad plane Of protection
to American industry-and especially
to the American wage-earners, men
and women, and seek to elevate and
improve the sovereigns Of this coun-
try so as to insure It's continued
prosperity and its stability as a free
republic, and the perpetuatlon OF our
free institutions, seeking to elevate
the standard Of citizenship and better
the condition Of all the people"
The immensely to which the tarig
question has grown at home may be
estimated by comparison with the
three greatest manufacturing coun-
tries on the globe, In 1900 the value
Of production in the United States
equaled that of the United Kingdom
Germany and France together. IL
this enormous aggregate Pennsylvania
in 1905 represented about o~ne-seventh
of the value Of the entire United
States. Setting aside New York
which stands about equal with Penn.
%sylvania, all other States are far IN
arrears, most of them practically not
in sight.
Senator Penrose, always mindful Of
the almost ~inconceivable Importance
Of the tariff to the people and inter
ests of Pennsylvania has all the time
during this eAtI.t SD.4ion beer watch
Ing with closest attention every move
in amendment and debate. He favors
what the people of Pennsylvania
want and proposes to exert every eff
fort to see that they get 1t, not by
speech-making but by results. BY way
Of comment, however, with respect
to the relation Of Pennsylvania to me
chanical industries in general and as
affected by tariff legislation, Senator
Penrose recently delivered a speech
In which he said:
THE first Importance of Pennsyl
vania in mechanical industries in the
United States, in the world, in fact, Is
due not only to natural advantages but
to the enterprise and energy Of her PEG
pie, who are making the most of them
In the canvass Of establishments un
der the factory system in 1908, which
does not include neighborhood indus
tries and hand trades, Pennsylvania
reported 52,1S5 establishments, OF
nearly one-fourth the total for the
United States. The amount OF CAPT
tai employed was but four million