Milford chronicle., 1912-11-01
WOULD LOSE Z
WITH WILSON
Lose Our Prosperity, Lose Our
Jobs, Warns Taft, Who Says
the Very Name is Reminis-
cent of Free-Trade Disaster.

Beverly, Mass.-President Taft haA
written a letter to John WanamakeS
at Philadelphia, thanking him for his
efforts in behalf of the Republican
party. Mr.. Taft says:
There are certain facts that stand
out so prominently in this campaign
that cannot conceive how majority
of our voters can fail to apprehend
them. They are that vote cast for
the third party is vote cast for the
Democratic ticket, and that vote
cast for the Democratic ticket is =
vote cast for economic experiments
ton, which, under the most favorable
circumstances, would mean lack Of
business confidence, the calling Of
loans, a stringency Of the money mar
ket, the suspension Of manufacturing,
the destruction of the market for
farm products because the people had
no money to buy, and untold suffering
for the wage-earner and his family.
Il want to thank you for the splendid
work you are doing for the success OF
the Republican party in the approach
ing election. / thank you not for my
self alone but for the people at large,
who have so much to lose, so little to
gain, from a change Of administration,
who will indeed suffer if a Democratic
President and Democratic Congress /
secure the opportunity to make good |
their platform pledges, and an extra I
session of Congress is called next /
March to change the tariff from a
protective to a revenue basis.
We have experimental in the past |
with the tariff theories of our Demo
cratic friends. You will recall as 4
clearly as l do the distress which fol /
lowed the passage of the Wilson bill. 4
Is there not a certain significance in /
the fact that it is another Wilson who 1
would again subject us to such an eX-
pertinent? Wilson and prosperity are
words that refuse to go together In
our American history.
You recall the report of Mayor GIL
roy on conditions in New York when
he and his Democratic administration
conducted an investigation into the
hardship and suffering which pre-
rallied in 1894, and found that 1851
were dependent on charity
because $1,000 men and nearly $1,000
women who under normal conditions
experienced no difficulty in securing
employment were out Of work You
AN recall the days when, as the re-
ult of just such tariff 'readjustment'
IS our Democratic friends now pro-
rose, there we're soup kitchens in {
very large city, when able-bodied /
nen were compelled to beg from door
0 door, while women and their little
died Of starvation or were
tunted il their development from the
rivation they were compelled to IN
ergo.
The election of a Democratic Pres
lent would mean the election of d
Senate and House. and
le present Congress has proved how
ayagely and with what recklessness
le Democrats would deal with the
lriff if they we're in full control Of
le executive and legislative branches
government l cannot understand
Ow any American voter can fail to
&c that by throwing away his vote
4 the third party or by voting to put
ie Democrats in power in the White
Ouse and in Congress he is assured
courting disaster as is the small %
lid playing with matches. And so,
r. Wanamaker, far above any per
NAL consideration, I am grateful to
III and to all who like you are help
g the Republican cause this year."