The Washington times., 1911-10-04
POLICIES WHICH APPLY TO
THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

we IepTOuuce herewith an edlJ0rlal
from the Boston Journal of this morn
ing's issue. While this editorial per-
tains strictly to the Boston field, yet
because of the clean-cut policies sug-
gested by it, it applies in these policies
with equal force to Washington and
the whole country.
The Boston Journal is one of Mr..
Munsey's chain of newspapers, and
this is a signed editorial from his own
pen. 1t makes perfectly. clear his
views of the situation and his attitude
in respect to reciprocity, fair play, and
the tariff.
Mr.. Munsey is one of the most
stanch supporters in this country of a
tariff that will protect our wage-earn-
ers against the'cheap labor of Europe.
He has spent considerable proportion
of his summers in Europe for a good
many years, where he goes for recrea-
tion that he may the better equip him
self to carry on his work with energy
during the remaining months of the
year. While in Europe, and seeing
Europe as only one can see it in a
motor car, and with eyes that see, he
comes back each year with greater con-
fdence in and hope for America, and a
stronger advocate against sacrificing
our markets to the hungry merchants
and manufacturers of Europe, against
pitting our labor against the more
poorly paid labor of Europe.
The following is the editorial from
the Boston Journal:
The Journal For rockingham.
The Boston journal indorses Louis
rockingham as the Republican candi-
date for governor, and will support
him heartily and earnestly, because
we believe that he is better man for
the job than Governor Foss. We be-
lieve, too, that the party back of him
better suits the business and industrial
conditions of this country than the
party back of Foss.
We should have preferred to see
Walker get the nomination, because he
more nearly represents the progressive
ideas of the day, the ideas that should
obtain and are bound to obtain. To
fight them is to fight the inevitable,
and in such a situation it is far better
for the best citizenship to get in and
become a part of progress, and shape
it up right, than to stand apart oppos-
ing it and damming it and leaving its
outworking to less capable and less
representative men.
But the issue now is not between
rockingham and Walker, but between
rockingham and Foss, and of the two
men rockingham, by reason of indi-
vidual qualities, education, training,
and associations, should make a wiser
and more efficient and more represen-
tative governor of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts than Foss. Moreover,
it is an issue between the Republican
and the Democratic parties.
Foss' hobby has been that of Cana
dian reciprocity. 1t has served him
well, has served to make him governor
of this Commonwealth. Without this
hobby-shall we call it mania There
is no apparent reason to suggest that
he would ever have made any consider
able impression in politics. He was a
Republican. Failing in the Republican
camp, he turned to the Democrats
who, always ready to support any man
or any measure looking toward free
trade or a break in the tariff walls
saw in him a possible candidate worth
gambling on. 90.
But reciprocity is a pretty well.
battered proposition in this country
just now, and it ought to be. Our
markets, the purchasing power of oul
people, should be guarded sacredly and
protected against the products of q
lower wage and lower priced invest,
ment, either in manufactures or the
soil. Because of this reciprocity bug
not materially unlike the greenbacE
craze and ether isms in its wave Of