The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-09-27
DECLARES DEMOCRATIC VIC
TORY MEANS "ENFORCED
IDLENESS."
SAYS COLONEL WILL Be
THIRD I'm Big RACE
Declares Votes Cast for Him viii
Make More Certain Election of
Other Party and Restoration. of
PanIcky Conditions.
BY CHARLES D. HiLLES,
Chairman Republican National Com.
poittea sc

BY CHARLES D. HILLES,
Chairman Republican National Com
mittee. ~
"If put into effect the Democratic
tariff plank would plunge this country
into period of financial disaster such
as we have not seen in our lifetime.
This statement was made by Theo
dore Roosevelt on the 5th of this month
when he was addressing an audience
in st. Paul.
And Colonel Roosevelt is absolutely
right. The tariff policy of the Demo
crat party and of Governor Wilson, it's
presidential candidate, could mean
nothing but financial disaster aid a
protracted period of depression which
as Mr.. Roosevelt has often pointed out
regarding such cataclyisms in the in
dustrial world, would fall far heaviest
on the man least able to bear 1.-THE
poor man, the man with little or no
savings, the man with h large family
to support, to whom even a short per-
iod of enforced idleness would mean
untold suffering and distress.
The Democratic platform declares it
to be "a fundamental principle of the
Democratic party that the Federal
Government under the constitution has
no right or power to impose or collect
tariff duties, except for the purpose Of
revenue, and we demand that the col
lection of such taxes shall be limited to
the necessities of government honesty
and economically administered.
"wILsoN NO soUNDER THAN Plat.
- FORM" RisEs
Governor Wilson has given repeated
evidence in his speeches that he is no
sounder on the subject of the tariff
than his party platform. And his party
has shown over and over again during
the last two sessions of congress, when
1t has been in control of the house, that
1t is no more to be trusted with the all
Important and delicate task of tariff re-
adjustment than it was when in 1894,
it passed the Wilson law and plunged
the nation into period of financial de-
preston. Had the Democrats in con.
gress had power to write on the statutes
their wool and steel and cotton bills
they would have destroyed three great
industries, and even then would not
have procured in many respects the
relief ask ed for by ths consumer, and
to which he is justly entitled.
And when the tariff board made
unanimous reports on these industries,
pointing out how the duties could be
lowered without destroying the indus
tries, the Democrats, actuated by re.
venge because their ill-conceived and
badly worked out measures were there.
by made ridiculous, destroyed the tariff
board
And yet, realizing that Democratic
success inevitably will result in "a
period of financial disaster such as we
have Aot seen in our lifetime" Mr..
Roosevelt is doing everything in his
power to contribute to that end. Mr..
Roosevelt will run third, as all of his
more intelligent supporters well recog-
nize.
"voTE FOR ROOSEVELT; FOR DIS
AsTERD
A vote for Mr.. Roo sevelt, therefore,
means nothing more or less than vote
for "a period of financial disaster, such
as we have not seen in our lifetime"
You have Mr.. Roosevelt's own word for
it If you but stop to think it out 1t is
Taft or Wilson. Those who realize the
great merits Of President Taft's admin.
istrstion would not have it otherwise.
Those who would prefer to see Mr..
Roosevelt serving third term in the
White House cannot make 1t otherwise.
And IL they are frank with themselves
they cannot for a. moment believe that
1t is otherwise.
What, then, can induce Mr.. Roose-
velt to contribute to that endf I be-
lieve, as haye said, that he is actuated
by spleen, by hatred of the President,
and that his force is driving him on to
q course so unpstriotic De to beggar
description. But reject this idea II you
like. Believe, IL you will, that Mr..
Roosevelt is sctuated solely by pa