The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-10-21


reason take protection out of its
tar if would probably be received
with arching of eyebrows by German
statesmen and economists.
"And this unprecedented growth of
our foreign trade is accompanied by
expansion as unprecedented in our
home trade from one end of the coun-
try to the other, the Atlantic to the
Pacific, the st. Lawrence to the Rio
Grande. 1t is not a sudden imitation
but a gradual advance under favor
able conditions from the prostration
of 1907 TO prosperity as substantial
as it is general. All industries are
humming and there is work at good
wages-princely compared with
wages abroad-for all who are Will
ing to work, while in Pittsburg dis
trict alone | understand there is de-
mand for at least 10000 workers in
excess of the number available.
Business, wholesale and retail, is ac-
tive and profitable for the people
have money with which to buy. The
question for the American voter is
whether this condition shall continue
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even greater prosperity.
THE farmers are enjoying the
greatest prosperity in the experience
of American agriculture. Every day
the northern Pacific is carrying ST.
100000 bushels of grain to Duluth.
The yield in that zone alone is 49,
100000 bushels, so that the convey
ance by the railway of the farmers
grain from the region tributary to the
Northern Pacific to that point of dis
tribution will require 157 days. This
vast crop is worth in excess of $780,
100000 to the farmers producing it,
AT present the steel industry,
commonly regarded as the barometer
of business, is driven to its utmost
capacity with others far ahead for
steel rails. Other industries are
equally active and altogether national
conditions and prospects were never
so prosperous and promising provid-
ed the American people decide to APP
ply to their political choice the same
good judgment and prudent foresight
which they apply, as rule, to their
personal affairs.
las we come nearer the day of
election it is TO be expected that the
intelligent voter will appreciate
more keenly the responsibility which
attaches to his ballot. In national
elections, at least the great majority
like to feel that they are voting for
a candidate who has a chance of sue
cess. Ii is obvious that either the
republican or the democratic nomi-
nees will be elected and not to vote
for the republican candidates is in
effect to support their democratic OPP
ponents and the democratic platform
OF tariff for revenue only freight
ed with dire consequences for the
country now busy and prosperous
under republican rule
1T is well known to every one, an
open secret on every street corner,
that the third-term party does not
expect success. A special corresp1n-
dent of the New York Evening Post,
writing from Chicago, says. 1t may
be said that neither Col Roosevelt
nor any of the experienced politicians
who surround him expects to carry
Illinois or any other important stole,
with the possible exception of Cali
fornia and Kansas. From sources
close to the candidate it is learned
that Col. Roosevelt will be satisfied
If he can complete the decentralization
of the republican party
1T remains to be seen how many
republicans are willing TO assist in
completing the decentralization of the
republican party. and handing the
reins of government over to the
democrats, to crafty mere desire Tor
revenge. | believe that the republi-
can party will be found. as a whole.
too patriotic, too loyal to its princi-
pies and its traditions, too just in its
attitude toward public servants whom
1t has intrusted with duties faithfully
performed TO commit hari-kari in
the form and for the objects indicat-
ed. Every mail brings assurances
that those who have strayed are re-
turning to the fold and that in every
state in which the republican party
is not DISTINGUISHED old-time MAORI
ties will be rolled up for the republi-
can candidates"