The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-24

81. Our merchants were never 50
busy ana our banks are bpFBtins
with surplus funds we are buying
more abroad tnan ever before ana
we are selling largely more than We
buy. insuriug a favorable balance Of
trade to meet our foreign obiiGa-
lions. Every year under the pres
ent tariR Law we have had sub
stantial treasury surplus. We are
contented, prosperous and happy as
an ambitious people can be who ere
ever seeking to improve present
conditions and to increase a con-
stantly growing income. The issue
then is whether we shall go forward
or whether as in 1915, 1916, 1887
and in 1894. under low tariffs. We
shall go backward?
Eagerly indeed are the mannfac-
turers and producers Of Europe and
elsewhere looking for an entrance
into and then possession of our!
markets. Greedily indeed are they
envying fifteen billions OF bank de-
posts. over four billion dollars OF
which are the savings OF the work
ing classes. A tariff sufficiently low
for suEicient revenue without pro-
lection to our labor and industries
means an importation Of billions Of
dollars worth of foreign goods to
take the place Of our home products,
with resultant idleness or redue-
ton of American wages to the, for
eign level.
This may not be a new idea but
It is truth. It is history. 1t IS ex-I
perience. Every industrial nation
hut one is Strengthening its protec-
tive tariffs and Great Britain will
return to protection in the not dis
taut future. Shall we then abandon
our policy? Shall we open our ports
aad give up our markets to the
eager. greedy artisans abroad who
would instantly food US with their
wares?
IAN idle. impoverished. weak peo-
pie can not make progress. either
social or Industrial. The United
States has become the foremost ma
ton because our people have done
their own work, have built up and
maintained their own market and
have become to large degree indie
pendent of the rest of the world.
We have made progress because We
have worked for it. We have taken
advantage of our natural resources
and built up nation that out-ranks
all others in wealth and mode OF
living and in every human endeavor-
we have been the most progressive
people of all history and this has
come under Republican legislation
and administration. 40 indivduaI
or band of individuals, can appro-
pirate the word progressive. Pre-
tense is not progress; promise is not
progress; only performance brings
real progress and the attachments OF
the Republican party have brought
us a national progress which today
is the envy and admiration of the
civilized world. From its very in
ception the Republican party has
been a progressive party Every
decade. every administration, every
! Congress, every year has brought
Substantial progress since the in
ausuration of Lincoln to the pres
Tent time with the exception of the
1.-TWO years when the Democratic
party had full possession of the
\ government-then our progress was
checked, our influences we're smit-
ten. our industries we're crippled
our agriculture was prodtless and
our people were idle and distressed.
Then came the restoration of the
5RepubIican party to power and with
If the restoration OF confidence fol
lowed by a commercial and indus
trial activity eliminating in the I'M
paraIleIed prosperity which We are
now enjoying. Under Mckinley we
| nut to sleep the faIIacy of free sill
yer. we established the gold stand
ard and with it nailed the banner OF
protection to the masthead. Under
1.-THE DingIey and Payne tariffs, We
have had no Dallas night-caps on
smokeIess factory chimneys: we
have had no free soup houses.
There have been no Coxeys and KEEL
leys with their idle armies, demand
ing a chance to work. we have had
no strikes against wage reductions
Every labor movement has been for
increased pay, and the payrolls to-
day are greater by billions than