Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
"Chi|d Playing
 with MatChes''
TAFT so CHARACTEEIZES THE
 BULL MOOSE VOTER.
COURTING DISASTER
Republicans Who Throw Away Vote
 on Third Party Are Doing It, He
 Declares, in a Letter to Wanamaker.

iaTeS, III Letter to Wananaker. Beverly, Mass, Oct. 21.-sWhite House oinelals tonight made public a letter from President Taft to John Wana- maker of Philadelphia, dealing witfl some of the issues of the campaign and thanking Mir. Wanamal1er in his own behalf and on behalf of the people Of the nation for the splendid work ne has done. The presidents letter deaft almost exclusively with the tartff and prosperity which he declared was largely due to protection.
 Vote for Bull Moose is Vote for Dem
 ocrats.
 There 'are certain facts which stand out so prominently in this campaign tIlat cannot conceive how a majority or our voters can fail to apprehend them said the president. "Thev are that vote cast for the third party ia vote cast for the democratic ticker and that voS cast for the democratic ticket is vote cast for economic ex- perimentation, which under the most favorable circumstances would mean lack Of business confidence calling og loans, a stringency of the money ma-- ket. the suspension of manufacturing. the destruction of the market for farm products because the people had ms money to buy them, and untold suffer- ing for the wage earner and his farn., ily."
 Text of the Letter.
 The letter reads in part as follows.
 My Dear Mir WanamalSer: I want to thank you for the splendid work you are doing for the success of tte republican party in the approaching election. I thank you not for myself alone, but for the people at large who have so much to lose, so little to gaar, from change of administration, who will indeed suffer if democratic pres ident and democratic congress secure the opportunity to make good the'- platform pledges. and an extra sessicn of congress is called next Niar.h te change the tariff from a protective to a revenue basis.
 Wiping Out of Industries
 Wholly apart from the respective merits of the protective and the tar4ff for revenue policies, 1t must be obvious to thinking men that so radical q change cannot be effected without a period of readjustment, the wiping out of numerous industries which prosper because they are protected, and which pay good wages to thousands of ern- ployes. Even were it admitted--ard I do not admit-that ultimately this re- adjustment\ would be successful and that our present protected and prosper ous industries could be replaced hy others which would thrive without pr l. lection. what of the transition period? How would fare the wage earner wh was thrown out of employment for d year or more and who in many in- stances would be compelled to learn \ new trade?
 Industries Grow Under Protection.
 Tt is true that most of our wags earners have for some time been mak- ing good wages, but many of them suf- fered in the panic of 1907, and I doubt if more than a comparatively few could undergo a period of a years en- forced likeness without great hardship, even actual distress. And year would prove hardly sufficient for so radicsl readjustment as would ineveatably result from such a change
 | "As a protectionist, can see no ben . l eft to be gained from such a changs, even when the readjustment is com l pleted. For sixty years, under the pro- tective policy, our industries have grown at a pace which has astounded the world. Our wage earners have es | tablished and maintained standard of living which is unknown in the old world.
 Wilson and Prosperity Don't Hitch.
 we have experimented in the pasl with the tariff theories of our demo cratic friends You will recall as clear | ly as I do the distress which followed the passage of the Wilson bill ts there not a significance i'll the fact that l it is another Wilson who would again subject us to such an experiment.. WiEon and prosperity are words thai refuse to gu together in our American history.
 '"rhe election of democratic pres'- 1 dent would mean the election of 4 democratic senate and house and the present congress has proved how Sav- agely and with what recklessness the democrats would deal with the -ar1h If they were in full control of the ex- ecutive and the legislative branch As of | the government. I cannot understand how any American voter can fail L. 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 courting disaster as is the small child playing with matches. And so, MT ] 4Wanamaker. far above any personal consideration, I am grateful 60 yaI and all who, like you, are helping the republican cause this year"