The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-11
JOHN WANAMAKER'S STRONG
LETTER URGING PEOPLE TO
REFLECT PRES. TAFT

the Merchants and Business Men of
the United States. He says:
The favor with which you re-
ceived by Pilot Boat letter embodied
me to write another at this critical
time.
On my return from Europe / in
tended to give myself until Mr.. Taft's
election to active work on behalf of
the Republican ticket, but have not
been able to do so on account of my
health.
1t was said of Garibaldi that he
only had to stamp his foot and arm
ed men sprang out of the ground to
fight for Italy. If the merchants
and business men Of every city,
town and hamlet of this land will
but get on their feet and make their
influence felt in their community it
will be impossible to turn out Taft,
the skilled pilot, and turn the coun-
try over to free trade or mob will
ing to wreck the Constitution and
shatter the courts or to aid a motley
crew to capture the offices.
People Masters of Situation.
If the men Of business who have
much to lose, and their employees,
who have steady employment will
stand up to the duty of the hour, Mr..
Taft's election will be accomplished,
as the honest freeholders, who do
not want political office are the mas
ters of this situation If they only
knew it.
What fallacy it is to give up
the prosperity already attained under
Taft for the by-product offered by
the Democrats and the ProgreSsives.
:" The tearing down of the Con-
stitution and the tariff is like allow
ing a horde of enemies under the
spell of a reckless leader to rip off
the armor plate on our naval YES
sells.
" Nothing under heaven can stop
the havoc of desperate fighters but
continent-wide rally of the Repub
lican party, able and willing to
build in the proper way and proper
time on it's old staunch timbers as
much progressivism as is safe for the
country.
% The situation narrows down to
this:
1. Taft and the old top wave of
prosperity.
-. Destruction to industry.
g. The whiligig administration
of an unbalanced President in star
| spangled robe with archangelic
wings.
why exchange, humanity speak
| ing, present prosperity, politically
assured, for a riddled shot through
tariff and the fantastic un-American
projects of a new party?
" Let us rouse ourselves to keep
our Republican friends together and
| by determined effort scatter our enc
mics to the four winds.
" No new government ought to be
permitted to check existing prosper
ity or to begin new policies that
jeopardize the nations future.
Larger, far larger than either of
the men before the country for
Presidency is the one condition on
which the good times of the new
| four years must rest.
"If we are ready to sacrifice the
next four years of prosperity we can
shut our eyes and jump in any direc-
tion we choose, but in my opinion
were the phenomenal crops twice as
large, it would make no difference
except this particular year when the
crops have partially failed on the
other side of the sea.
Declares For Revision.
- ask a careful reading of the
following tariff act that gives the ex-
act situation in my mind. may
| add, though not manufacturer, l
am a believer in a revision of the
tariff in spots, which l have always
urged for twenty years, that l would
rather see for the country's prosper
ity, the tariff raised than lowered, as
in the past Democratic administra-
| Whnn
thereby.
"The question of protection to in
dustry and labor is the foremost
the all-absorbing question in this
campaign, and as the Democratic
party-through its platform and it's
candidates-has decreed that Ameri-
can labor and industry must be sacri-
feed for the benefit of European la
Dor and industry, it becomes my duty
to put forth this note of warning.
Wilson For Labor's Pillage.
The Baltimore convention, which
nominated Governor Wilson for Pres
ident, thus declared as to the tariff
We favor the immediate down
ward revision of the existing high,
and, in many cases, prohibitive tar
iff duty, insisting that material re-
uuCIlOH NC Spteully LuduS upOu luc
necessities of life
In accepting the nomination for
President Mr.. Wilson solemnly said
There should be an immediate re
vision of the tariff and it should be
downward, unhesitatingly and stead
lily downward
For many years Mr.. Wilson has
been a teacher in Princeton Univer-
| SitY and no man in all this broad
land of ours more fully comprehends
the import of written or spoken
words, or is more careful in their
phraseology, than this Princeton pro-
fessor. There can therefore be no
mistaking the momentous import
ance of his solemn declaration as to
an immediate unhesitatingly stead
lily downward revision of the tariff.
A newly-elected President takes
his seat on March 4. The Congress
elected at the same time as the