The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-16

] HeportS ~ rom west ana mluole West
Indicate Sweeping Gains For Presl.
dent and Congressional Candidates.
Two Strong Indorsers In Pennsyva-
nia-unprotected Business Men Pro-
test Against Free Trade Menace.
Philadelphia, Oct. 9, 1912.
Reports received from county chair.
men at the headquarters of the Ma
!ional Republican Congressional Com
mittee of Pennsylvania indicate that
the change in sentiment in favor of
Taft and Sherman and the full Repub-
lican ticket is going on in this state,
as we'll as in the west and middle
west. Secretary Reynolds, of the Ma
uonal Republican Committee, New
York, who was in this city to confer
with Congressman J. Hampton Moore,
chairman of tho Pennsylvania Con-
gressional Committee, and other Re-
publican leaders, declared that recent
reports from all the western and mid
die western states we're more encour-
aging than anything that has come in
to the New York headquarters since
the campaign opened. Congressman
Moore assured him that he was en-
tirely satisfied with the progress be-
ing made in Pennsylvania, and that he
was confident from all the recent in
formation which he has received from
various parts of the state that the
prosperity argument and the actual
tangible prosperity demonstration is
having a tremendous effect upon the
voters of all classes.
Commenting on the statement sent
out from the New York headquarters,
in which it was shown that the actual
per capita cost of all the tariffs re-
ceived under the Payne bill is only
SO. 46 a year-less than the price of
two theater tickets-for the protection
of American industries against the
cheap labor markets of the world,
Congressman Moore said that the let
ters of Alba B. Johnson, president Of
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and
John Wanamaller, Philadelphia's mer-
chant prince, produced very pro
found impression throughout Pennsyl-
vania, for the reason that these men
buy goods that are protected and sell
without protection.
Mr.. Johnson said that wages in his
establishment had increased 20 per
cent in the last ten years, that the
present average wage to all employees,
skilled and unskilled, is $1497, as
against 1884 in 1870 and 1882 in
1908. Although there is no tariff on
locomotives, and there is tariff on
nearly all of the material the Baldwin
company has to buy to make them
Mr.. Johnson declared himself in favor
of a protective tariff covering the diff
ferences in the cost of production at
home and abroad, and stated that he
is opposed to a Democratic tariff for
revenue only, because at would injure
our business by destroying the general
prosperity of the country"
Mr.. Wanamaker, who perhaps pays
more tariff on imported goods and "suf-
fers" from the increased price on do
mestic goods due to the tariff, to a
greater extent than any other man in
the country, said that "the tearing
down OF the constitution and the tariff
is like allowing a horde of enemies,
under the spell Of a reckless leader, to
rip of the armor plate on our naval
vessels"
1.-The statement Of these two men,"
said Congressman Moore, "proves that
there is no such thing as unprotected
industry under the Republican system
of protective tariff. The man with the
dinner bucket is in precisely the same
position with the Baldwin Locomotive
Works and John Wanamaker. He
profits because Of prosperity and he
loses when prosperity is interfered
with"
Large crowds gather around the
lican Committee headquarters, at 1927
Chestnut street, at all hours OF the day
and night to read the bulletins and
look at the tariff demonstrations that
are being given there. In the demon
stration window is a dinner bucket
which has the placard, The issue. Can
you beat 1t? DO you want to?" 1t is
accompanied by an offer to exchange
new bucket for one that has seen
actual service, but as yet there have
been no takers. "If the workingman
is unwilling to exchange his old dinner
bucket for new one" laughed Con
gresham Moore, Il would like TO know
how the Democrats can expect him to
exchange it for none at all" A sew
ing machine which has been used by
the Democrats as an argument to show
how the tariff "gouges" the consumer
Is another exhibit. Attached to it is a
placard explaining how a difference of
81 in the price of the machine be-
tween the American factory and the
English factory, means a difference Of