The Pleasantville press., 1912-10-30
WOULD LOSE
WITH WILSON
Lose Our Prosperity, Lose Our
Jobs, Warns Taft, Who Says
the Very Name is Reminis-
cent Of Free-Trade Disaster.

Beverly, Mass.-President Taft has
written a letter to John Wanamaker
at Philadelphia, thanking him for his
efforts in behalf of the Republican
party Mr.. Taft says:
There are certain facts that stand
out SO prominently in this campaign
that / cannot conceive how majority
of our voters can fail to apprehend
them They are that vote cast for
the third party is vote cast for the
Democratic ticket, and that vote
cast for the Democratic ticket is a
vote cast for economic experimental
ton, which, under the most favorable
circumstances, would mean lack OF
business confidence, the calling OF
loans, a stringency of the money mar
ket, the suspension Of manufacturing,
the destruction of the market for
farm products because the people had
no money to buy, and untold suffering
for the wage-earner and his family.
81 want to thank you for the splendid
work you are doing for the success OF
the Republican party in the approach
ing election. / thank you not for my
self alone but for the people at large,
who have so much to lose, so little to
gain, from change of administration,
who will indeed suffer if Democratic
President and Democratic Congress
secure the opportunity to make good
their platform pledges, and an extra
session of Congress is called next
March to change the tariff from a
protective to a revenue basis.
1--WE have experimental in the past
with the tariff theories of our Demo-
cratic friends. You will recall as
clearly as l do the distress which fol-
lowed the passage of the Wilson bill.
Is there not certain significance IN
the fact that it is another Wilson who
would again subject-us to such an ex-
pertinent? Wilson and prosperity are
words that refuse to go together In
our American history.
s.You recall the report of Mayor Gil
roy on conditions in New York when
he and his Democratic administration
conducted an investigation into the
hardship and suffering which pre-
vailed in 1894. and found that $4,000
persons were dependent on charity
because $4,000 men and nearly $4,000
women who under normal conditions
experienced no difficulty in securing
employment were out of work. You
can recall the days when, as the re-
suit Of just such tariff 'readjustment'
as our Democratic friends now pro-
pose, there were soup kitchens in
every large city, when able-bodied
men were compelled to beg from door
to door, while women and their little
children died of starvation or were
stunted il their development from the
privation they we're compelled to un-
dergo.
"The election of Democratic Pres
ident would mean the election of
Democratic Senate and House, and
the present Congress has proved how
sayagely and with what recklessness
the Democrats would deal with the
tariff if they were in full control of
the executive and legislative branches
of government cannot understand
how. any American voter can fail to
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 assured
ly counting disaster as is the small
child playing with matches. And SO.
Mr.. Wanamaker, far above any per-
sonal consideration, l am grateful to
you and to all who like you are help
ing the Republican cause this year.