The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-10-21
TAFT ELIMINATES
BULL MOOSE
CANDIDATE
Saws He or Wilson Will Be
Next President
TIMES ARE PR0PlTIOpS
Business Conditions Favorable to
Continuance in Power of Present
Administration.

Beverly. Mass, Oct. 21.-President
Taft last night issued statement
predicting republican victory next
month and declaring it obvious that
either the republican or democratic
nominees will be elected" He as
serts it to be an open secret that the
third party does not expect success
The president reviews business con-
ditions of the country which he says
are unprecedentedly prosperous and
asserts the belief that the sober judg-
ment of the voters will continue pres
ent conditions
The statement read: Fifty TWO
years ago seceders from the Union
thought they were facing divided
North. and would win an easy VIC
tory There had been division among
the loyal people, but all united in
face of the common danger and in adj
dition a great number OF democrats
Joined the republicans in the success
full struggle for the nations lite
Then it was said by hostile critics
that the ship of state was drifting.
1t drifted-yes-with Lincoln at the
helm from the reefs of secession and
slavery into the placid waters of an
ion and liberty. Under Lincoln's sue
cessors it has sailed or propelled by
the winds of prosperity save when
its voyage has been halted by just
such a visitation of storm and stress,
of TORN protection sails and broken
business bulkheads as we are now
threatened with, should Baltimore
supplant Chicago, which it did not in
1860 and will not in 1912.
Our friends the enemy, say that
the democracy has learned its mis-
takes and doessrnot mean to repeat
them. In some measure true as to
the past; and the republican party
has had difficult, if successful task
in teaching the democracy its mis-
takes so far as it has been taught;
but somehow the obstinate pupil
comes forward every four years to be
taught again.
Il am glad to say, however, that
many democrats have learned their
lessons well and are refusing to
leave the firm ground OF national
prosperity for the quagmire OF husi-
ness disruption, trade depression
and commercial and industrial depict
ion. From all parts of the country
assurances are coming that demo-
Gratis intend to vote for the republi-
can candidates and continuance of
prosperous business conditions, and
against the programs of economic con
fusion and socialistic subversion of
our institutions supported by The
democratic candidates and their al
lies. Democratic workingmen refus-
ed to. be led from the factory and
good wages of 1912 back to the demo
cratic hard time of 1S93-97. They
prefer independence and money in
the saving banks to loss of employ
ment and dependence on charity.
Democratic business men feel the
same way. They know that when in
dustries languish their business Ian
guishes, too. The pay envelopes are
the feeders of trade in every form.
When they are empty or scrimpy the
biggest department store feels the
effect as well as the corner grocery.
Drifting? Well, let me glance at
some of the drift. Our home market
has drifted from $1,000, 100000 in
1870 to $4,000, O00, 00O-not a bad
drift, that And it is this magnif-
cent home market, without equal in
the past or present, that the demo
Gratis propose to dismember and dis
organize, and invite every nation in
the world to prey upon, while those
same nations keep the barriers to
their own markets just as high as
they please.
Then look at our foreign trade. A
favorite democratic argument is that
republicans build and cultivate the
home market at the expense OF our
foreign commerce, when the fact is
that the growth of foreign trade has
almost kept proportionate pace with
the domestic-from $1,000, 100000 in
1870 TO $4,000, 10000 in 1912. Oui
exports for the past year amounted tC
2,l1O,3lS,32S, of which S674 1902, 90s
were manufactures ready for con
sumption, the largest export trade
and the largest proportion of manu-
features ready for consumption N,
country has ever known.
The American manufacturer anC
the American worker would not hay,
much spirit left for invading tn,
foreign market II deprived by a de
mocratic tariff for revenue only o
the best market OF all, more thar
equal in purchasing power to al
Europe the home market which the
now control, thanks to the repuoli
can protective tariff. German foreie1
commerce is also making great ad
vances, particularly among our neigh
oors Of South America, but a sugges
ton that Germany should for tina