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Chicago. Oct. 15.-Actiyity and en-
thusiasm fiji the atmosphere at the
republican national headquarters in
this city.
The country is no longer asleep.
Apathy is disappearing. Business
men everywhere are awakening to the
fact that the election Of Woodrow viii
son means danger to American indus
tries. representative e. ]. Hill. of
Connecticut, has taken the trouble to
prepare list of the factories in his
home county of Fairfield, which would
have been closed il the tariff bills
passed by the democrats in the re-
cent session of congress had not
been courageously vetoed by Presi-
dent Taft The list fills several
newspaper pages and includes hun
dreds of industrial plants which give
employment to thousands Of working
men, This presentation of the dan
ger which menaced a solitary county
alarmed the entire state of Connecti-
cut, and its publication elsewhere has
brought manufacturers and working
men to realization Of the danger Of
free trade law.
In Chicago, for instance. Business
Mems Taft league has been formed
and is gaining in membership daily
The state of Illinois has over 1000
manufacturing institutions. employing
S00,776 men, and with an annual out
put Of the value Of over one billion
dollars, would be seriously and ad-
versely affected if the bills proposed
by the democrats in congress and ve-
toed by President Taft had become
laws. Take, for instance, the boot and
shoe trade. The duty on boots and
shoes has already been lowered by
the Payne tariff law to such an extent
that German manufacturers are now
sending shoes to this country The
democratic bills placed boots and
shoes upon the free list. Mr.. j. Harry
Sells, the vice president and general
manager of a company which operates
ten factories in the middle west EN-
ploying 5000 workingmen, says that
free trade would put all of his facto-
ries out of business. Harry Othmer,
secretary ry-commissioner of the Whole
sale Saddlery association Of the uni
ted States says that the proposition of
the democrats is body blow to the
manufacturers Of saddlery in the Uni
ted States.
Instances like these could be innum-
erably multiplied Many people knew
from the beginning that the demo-
cratic legislation which President Taft
vetoed would have played havoc with
American industries, opening the
doors for an invasion of foreign made
goods and thus throwing American
workmen out of employment. The
fact has not, however. thoroughly i'm
pressed the popular mind People
have really been too busy to think
Now there is general apprehension.
Business men and their employees are
anxious, while the farmers are none
the less concerned, because the dem
ocratic bills placed all cereals on the
free list, thus affording gateway in
to this country for the products of the
enormous fields across the Canadian
border.
Consequently the republican head
quarters in this city have been over
whelmed with appeals for speakers
and for literature. This demand is
but another demonstration of the fact
that there is decided turn Of the
tide toward President Taft throughout
the country. There is now an appre-
citation Of the allimportant fact that It
is not question Of either Taft or Will
son for presidents do not make
laws-lbut Of republican or democratic
administration. The former means a.
continuance Of good times The tar
iff will be revised, OF course, but wise