The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21

! Try assurances are coming that Demo-
Gratis intend to vote for the Republican
porous business conditions and against
the programs of economic confusion and
/ s0cialistic Subversion of our institutions
supported by the Democratic candi-
workingmen refuse to be led from
! the factory and good wages OF
1912 back to the Democratic hard times
of 1S93-97. They prefer independence
allG money in the saving bank to loss of
| employment and dependence on charity.
Where We Are Drifting.
Democratic business men feel the
same way. They know that when in
dustries anguish their business Ian
cuisines too. The pay envelopes are
the feeders of trade in every form.
When they are empty or scrimpy the
biggest department store feels the eff
feet, as well as the corner grocery.
Drifting, well let me glance at
some of the drift. Our home mar
ket has drifted from $1,000. 900, 900
in 1870 to $4,000, 1000, 0Oo-a bad
drift, that And it is this magnificent
past or present. that the Democrats
propose to dism EN- Der and disorgan-
lie 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 up 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, 000,-
900 in 1870 to $4,000, 900 in 1912.
Our exports for the last year
amounted to $2,17O,319,32S, of which
1914, 302,90S were manufactures ready
for consumption, the largest export
trade and the largest proportion of
manufactures ready for consumption
the country has ever known.
THE American manufacturer and
the American worker would not have
much spirit left for invading the for
eign market If deprived by a Demo-
cratic tariff for revenue only of the
best market of ALL more than equal
in purchasing power to all Europe,
the home market which they now con-
troll, thanks to the Republican pro-
tective tariff
And this unprecedented growth of
our foreign trade is accompanied by
expansion as unprecedented in our
home trade from one end of the coun-
to the other. 1t is not a sudden
initiation, but a gradual advance under
favorable conditions from the prostra-
ton of 1907 to prosperity as substan-
tial as it is general All industries
are humming and there is work at
good wages, princely compared with
wages abroad-for all who are willing
to work, while in the Pittsburg dis
trict alone I understand there is a
demand for at least 800 workers in
excess of the number available.
Business Is Active.
Business, wholesale and retail, is
active and profitable, for the people
have money with which to buy.
THE question for the American
voter Is whether this condition shall
a Ta
ward to even greater prosperity.
1.-The farmers are enjoying the
greatest prosperity in the experience
of American agriculture. Every day
million bushels OF grain to Duluth.
The yield in that zone alone is 1877
100000 bushels, so that the convey
ance by the railway of the farmers
grain through the regions tributary to
that point of distribution will re-
quire 1877 days. This vast crop is
worth in excess of $10o,0OO,00O to the
farmers producing it.
AT present the steel industry, COM
monty regarded as the barometer of
pacity, with orders far ahead for steel
rails. Other Industries are equally ac-
tive and altogether national condi-
lions and prospects were never so
prosperous and promising, provided the
American people decide to apply to
good judgment and prudent foresight
which they apply. as a rule, to their
personal affairs
LAS we come nearer to the day of
election it is to be expected that the
intelligent voter will appreciate more
keenly the responsibility which at
taches to his ballot. In national cleo
lions at least the great majority like
to feel that they are voting for a can
didate who has chance of success.
1t is obvious that either the Repub-
lican or the Democratic nominees will
be elected, and not to vote for the
Republican candidates is in effect to
support their Democratic opponents,
and the Democratic platform of a
tariff for revenue only freighted with
dire consequences for the country, now
busy and prosperous under Republi-
can rule.
Does Not Expect to Win.
1T is well known to everyone, an
open secret on every street corner,
that the third term party does not ex-
pect success. A special correspondent
of the New York Evening Post writing
from Chicago, says:
1t may pe said that neither Col
Roosevelt nor any of the experienced
politicians who surround him expect to
carry Illinois or any other important
state, with the possible exception of
California and Kansas. From sources
ClOSG To the Cd4OlQdL0 II IS learned
that Col. Roosevelt will be satisfied if
he can complete the decentralization of
the Republican party
1T remains to be seen how many
Republicans are willing to assist in
completing the decentralization of the
Republican party and handing the
reins of government over to the Dem
ocrats, to crafty mere desire for re-
venge. I believe that the Republican
party viii be found, as a whole, too
patriotic. too loyal to it's principles
and its traditions, too just in it's atti-
tude toward public servants, whom it
has entrusted with duties faithfully