Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1912-09-27

work tor Taft alSecan-e it Is tie
duty Of all earnest thoughtful women
to support the man AID the party
who will protect the home, the wo
men and The children"
"The welfare, the prosperity Of the
home affects the hume and the
happiness Of women particular "
1t not only affects their own comfort
and peace of mind as individuals but
il also affects them keenly through
their emotions. II the members Of
their families suffer II any way they
suffer in union. The mother in the
home not only has to toll more when
times are bard, not only las to go
hungry and cold herself, but she also
has to have the anguish of seeing
hopeless disbursement settle down
upon the husband and father who is
out Of work, aud she has to witness
as well the burger aud cold of her
children. This is true of every home
making woman.
"Same is true Of the wage-earning
woman, and there are more than =
100000 of them in this country
Many of them support and educate
younger brothers and sisters. Many
Of them provide comforts for their
parents. When their wages are re-
duced or they are laid off thousands
and thousands Of homes are affected
Families who lived in comfort are re-
duced to poverty, and. although il
is bard for the woman wage-earner
to bear this it is harder YET to ser
lack Of food, lack OF fire, pine
and shrivel the faces Ol those de
pending upon her.
g., omen, therefore, even more
than me should study the cand-
dates who are seeking the presiden-
tial chair. And they should do this
calmly and inteiiigently. being in
iiuenced by facts, not led astray by
mental fireworks.
"Women have strong sense OF
the fitness Of things. They Leliev,
in a square deal. They admire 10y
atty and honor. For that one reasoi
alone many women are using thei
Influence for Taft. They ihink b
lbs had the Longest, hardest row &C.
hoe that any man could have. Com
ins right after president who wa,
|uaiver-ally popular and who let ne
opportunity pass to have the worh
know that he was the idol of I'll,
people, IT was peculiarly irving 20
sition for President Taft, big BAl
Taft, as he was called four veais aeo. |
Any mistakes that he made wer,
magnified by coiaparison, any good
deeds overshadowed with his prede-
eessor. As some one so aptly ha-
said Roosevelt was like the Fourth |
of July, all fireworks and show, and |
Taft the day after, carrying on in
dignified way the usual business Of
life
President Taft's record in formu-
lating system of government for
the PHILIPPINES, bis management Of
the compl, ton of the Panama Canal
are great and yet SO quietly done
that we almost forget about them
Any one may be slap dash actor
when the audience is applauding, but
it takes real hero to go on calmly
doing your duty without any clap
ping and cheering and that is what
Taft has done as our literature will
show you. We ask you to send for
it and read it.
GAS for the candidate on the
Democratic platform he seems in
danger of getting the same myopia
that effects Roosevelt The II dis
ease is increasing in virulence and |
he is in danger of being so near
sighted that he cannot sea any fur
th.r than himself aud his own inter
Iests, and after all be Is something
like an understudy of Bryan. Any
one who attended the convention in
Baltimore knows the history of
Wilson's nomination. If Bryan had
chosen to take the centre Of the stage i
as candidate Wilson never would
have had a ehauoe to play the parts" !
In addition to the candidates; you +
must study the platforms on which
these candidates stand. The Demo-
cratic platform, to which Wilson is
pledged, appealing for women's in
fluence mainly on the question of
the tariff. We ale told that if the
Democratic policy prevails with
Wilson's election we will have an era
of low prices and that the present
high cost of living will go down. 1t
may be so but it will be so only be-
cause there is no prosperity, no work,
NO wages, consequently little money
to buy anything. Some of US can
remember the hard times that came
under the last Democratic admins
tration, We tined free trade. There
was time when our raartyred Me-
kinley stood almost alone in this
country, unpopular even, and yet
practice and experience proved him
right We do need protectio. all
though it must be revised to meet
the changing industrial conditions.
As for the third party, that means
Roosevelt and hi~ sociaiistic policies,
which he speels phonetically as
@Nationalism," spelling which seri-
GUS people are not apt TO accept as
proper. Take away Roosevelt and
there would be no third party. That
alone is enough to condemn it,
Roosevelt stands for rule or ruin
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