New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
One Cast for Democratic Ticket
Is for Economic Experimental
ton and Hard Times.
THANKS JOHN WANAMAKER
Letter Discusses Tariff and
Prosperity, Which President
Says Is Largely Due
to Protection.

no has inst written 20 John Wanna
maker. thanking him for good Work ne
is doing in Pennsylvania and en-
phasizing the fact. that vote for the
third party is a vote for Woouro"
Wilson and hard times. i
The Presidents letter dealt almost
exclusively with the tariff and pros
perity, which he declared was largely
due to protection.
There are certain facts which stand
out so prominently in this campaign
that | cannot conceive how majority
of our voters can fail to apprehend
them" said the President They are
that a vote cast for tho third party IS
vote cast for the Democratic tIeKet
and that a vote cast for the Democratic
ticket is a vote cast for economic e"-
Instrumentation, which, under the moS'
favorable circumstances, would mean
lack of business confidence, the calling
of loans, a stringency OF the money
market, the suspension Of manutaetur-
ina, the destruction Of the market tor
farm products because the people ndo
M money to buy and untold suffering
for tho wage Garner and his family"
The Presidents Letter.
The letter reads as follows:
NV Dear Mr.. Wanamaker: want to.
thank YOU for the splendid work yoIl, are
doing for the success of the RepuplicalI
party I'm the approaching eIectioL
thank you not for mySell aIOle, put ,,i al,
The people at large, who have so ,mucn
10 lose, so little to gain from chanEe
of administration. who VIII lhdeeu SUI
fer if a Democratic President ana d
democratic Congress secure the oppoT-
- tunity TO make good their platform
pledges and an extra session of Congress
is called next March TO change me IaIl'l
from a protective to revenue OASIS
Wholly apart from the respective meT-
its of the protective and the tarln Tor
revenue policies, IT must be obvious 10
thinking men that so radical chahse
cannot be effected without a Perloa o.
readiustment the wiping out OF numer-
Gus industries which prosper because |
they are protected. and which pay goou
wages TO thousands Of employees. Even
were il admitted-and | do not admit
that ultimately this readjustment would
be successful, and that our present pro-
tected and prosperous industries Could
be replaced by others which Would thrive |
without protection, what OF the trahsl-
ton period? How would fare the wage |
Gamer who was thrown out Of employ
meut for a year or more ana VINO IN
many INSTANCES would be compelled 10
- IL is true tirat most Of our wage earn
crs have for some time been making
good wages, but many Of them suffered
I'm the panic Of 1907, and l doubt If more
than a comparatively few could undergo |
a period Of years enforced idlenesS |
without great hardship, even actual dis |
tress. And a year would prove hardly |
ST. fg.V al 11.+F emf
which would inevitably result from such |
a change. |
AS a protectionist / can see no benefit !
TO be gained from such a change, even !
when the readiustment Is completed. For |
sixty years, under the protective policy |
our industries have grown at pace |
which has astOunded the world. Our |
wage earners have established and main !
tained standard of living which IS UNI |
known in the Odd world. Even during the |
period of high cost of living, which has |
prevailed throughout the civilized world |
Tor few years, our people have suffered |
no such hardships as those of the old |
world. notably free-trade England, where |
not only has the cost OF foodstuffs been
extraordinarily high but where the wages |
OF the working people have by no means |
kept pace with the increased cost OF Nv |
The abundant crops Of this year are
already operating to decrease the cost Of |
living TO, the American workngman. while |
be maintained On the other hand. our
factories are running full time. there are
abundant orders ahead, wages high and it !
IS labor. not employment, of which there
is scarcity. With plenty OF employ |
rnent at good wages and the prices OF |
foodstuffs falling in some instances in |
others about to fall, the wage Garner is
just on the eve of garnering his harvest |
and II the existing conditions are not |
changed by political upheavaI we VIII |
see the balances in the savings banks |
grow In the next four years as never be- |
fore.
... Significance in Name. ~
I'VE have experimental in the past |
with the tariff theories of our Demo.
cratic friends the President adds. !
you will recall as clearly as do the |
passage Of the Wilson bill. Is there
not a certain significance in the fact |
that it is another Wilson who would |
again subject US to such an expert. |
nent? Wilson and prosperity are
words that refuse to go together in our |
American history"
The letter continues:
You recall the report Of Mayor Gilroy |
on conditions In New York when he and |
his Democratic administration conducted !
an Investigation into the hardships and |
suffering which prevailed in 1894, land |
found that 1900 persons were dependent |
on charity, because 5000 men and nearly,
1000 women, who under normal condi- |
lions experienced no difficulty in securing |
employment, were out of work You can |
recall the days when. as the result OF |
Just such tariff 'readjustment" as our |
Democratic friends now propose. there |
were soup kitchens in every large city, |
when ablebodled men were compelled to /
beg from door TO door, while women and 1
their little children died OF starvation, or |
the privation they were compelled 10 I
1.-THE election Of Democratic Pres
ident would mean the election Of a
Democratic Senate and House." the
President concludes, "and tho present
Congress has proved how savaseIy and
with what reokIessness the Democrats
would deal with the tariff IL they were
in full control Of the executive and
legislative branches of the government.
| cannot understand how any American
voter can fail to see that by throwing
away his vote on the third party, or by
voting TO put the Democrats in power
in the White House and in Congress,
he is as surely counting disaster as is
the small child playing with matches.
And go, Mr.. Wanamaker, far above any
n