Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-22
TAFT SAYS he SEES VICTORY
BASES OPINION ON INCREASING
ASSURANCES.
aDves Out Statement and Figures
Showing Prosperity Of
Nation.

Beverly, Mass, Oct. 2l-Presldent
Taft issued a statement predicting Re-
publican victory next month and de-
claring it obvious that either the Re-
publican or Democratic nominees will
be elected" He asserts it to be an
open secret that "the third party does
not expect success"
The president reviews the conditions
Of the country which he says are un.
precedentedly prosperous and asserts
the belief that sober judgment Of the
voters will continue present condi.
tons. The statement reads: Fifty.
two years ago seceders from the Union
thought they were facing a divided
North and would win an easy victory.
There had been division among the
loyal people, but all united in face OF
the common danger and in addition
great number Of Democrats Joined
the Republicans in the successful
struggle for the nations life. Then
II was said by hostile critics that the
ship Of state was drifting
Our friends, the enemy, say that
the Democracy has learned its mis-
takes and does not mean to repeat
them. In some measure true as to the
past; and the Republican party has
had . difficult, II successful task in
teaching the Democracy its mistakes,
10 far a. it has been taught; but
somehow the obstinate pupil comes
forward every four years to be taught
again.
same way. They know that when in.
dustries anguish their business Ian.
cuisines too. The pay envelopes are
the feeders Of trade in every form.
When they are empty or scrimpy the
biggest department store feels the ef
feet, as we'll as the corner grocery.
"Our home market has drifted from
81. 00O. 100000 in 1870 to s3,000,O00,.
000-not bad drift, that And it is
this magnificent home market, with.
out equal in the past or present, that
the Democrats propose to dismember
and disoreanize and invite every ma.
ton In the world to prey upon, while
those same nations keep the barriers
to their own markets juts az high az
they please.
Foreign Trade FIourishlng.
Then look at our foreign trade. A
favorite Democratic argument is that
Republicans build up and cultivate the
home market at the expense of our
foreign commerce when the fact lie
that the growth of foreign trade has
almost kept proportionate pace with
the domestic-from $1,O00.00O,0OO in
1870 to $4,000, 100000 in 1912.
"Our exports for the past year
amounted to $2.170,319,32S. of which
$674, 1902. 9O3 were manufacturers ready
for consumption. the largest export
trade and the largest proportion Of
manufactures ready for consumption
the country has ever known.
1.-THE American manufacturer and
the American worker would not have
much spirit left for invading the for
eign market II deprived by Demo
cratic tariff for revenue only of the
best market OF all, more than equal
in purchasing power to all Europe.
the home market which they now con.
troll, thanks to the Republican protec
tive tariff.
Farmers Prosperous.
"The farmers are enjoying the
greatest prosperity in the experience
Of American agriculture. Every day
the Northern Pacific is CARVING a
million bushels of grain to Duluth. The
yield in that zone alone is $1,000, 600
bushels, so that the conveyance by
the railway of the farmers grain
through the regions tributary to that
point of distribution will require one
hundred and fifty-seven days. This
vast crop is worth in excess of $780,.