The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-29

is so essential to their continuance, Il
say nothing of their prosperity.
YOU of course, realize how disastrous
the steel bill which | was compelled tc
veto would have proved to our state
Ohio has $4,000 persons engaged in
manufacturing and capital of 81 800.
100000 invested in manufacturing plants
How large a proportion of all this is in
volved in the manufacture of machine
tools You know better than /, but it is
a fact that the Democrats, without
rhyme or reason, put all machine tools
on the free list. Then, too, they cut
the duty on steam engines from 80 to
Is per cent, and throughout that bill
they reduced duties until the average
was 32.D3 per cent, while even the Will
son bill imposed an average duty on the
same products of 37.97 per cent.-and
you know the disaster which followed
its enactment.
"In their wool BILL the Democrats
struck a vital blow at the wool indus
try. The report of the tariff board. the
accuracy of which has never been chal-
lenged, shows that average duty of So
per cent. is necessary to make the rails
ing of wool profitable. but, absolutely
Needless of that, the Democrats reduced
/ the duty on raw wool to 20 per cent,
and as for the manufacturers of woolens.
the Democratic bill would have put them
entirely out of business, leaving our
| farmers with no home market for their
wool and throwing hundreds of thou
sands OF employees out of work.
Does it not strike you as supremely
ridiculous for Governor Wilson vaguely
to intimate that if he is elected he will
make such gentle reduction of the du-
ties that business will not be injured.
when his party has so recently put itself
on record as attempting such reckless
changes of the tariff that had not
vetoed in their measures we would even
now be confronted with a panic?
What, think you. could Mr. Wilson
do in the White House were there Dem
ocratic majorites in both houses of Con-
gress, majorities made mp in large part
of the same men who passed the steel
and wool and the cotton and free list
bills which | was compelled TO veto, and
the vetoes of which he has himself criti-
cised And especially, what could he
do, however good his intentions, when
he had been elected on platform which
declares all tariff imposed for purposes
of protection unconstitutional?
During the present session of Con-
gress. the Democrats lack control of the
Senate, and while they have been able
to persuade a sufficient number of Re-
publican senators to vote for their tariff
measures those same Republicans have
in every case effected some increase OF
the duties over the point fixed by the
Democrats in the House. But If Gov
ernor Wilson should be elected, il would |
mean also the election of a Democratic |
majority in the Senate, and then even |
the compromises effected by the insur /
gent Republicans would seem mild re-
ductions as compared TO what Demo
cratic majorities in both houses would |
send to Mr.. Wilson for his signature, !
and which he could not refuse to sign.
what would happen TO the pottery |
industry if the Democrats were allowed |
control of both houses and Of the White |
House? You and know how important |
that industry is to the welfare of thou
sands of families in Ohio. The men en-
gagged in that industry in the United
States receive an average wage of 24.8
cents an hour. In England they receive /
only II cents an hour and in Japan, one
Of the greatest competitors. only 325 1
cents an hour Even with the present 1
tariff, Japan is sending hundreds OF
of dollars worth of pottery
into this market every year, so that il
IS not hard to foresee what would be
come of the industry if the Democrats
were to win. When they were in pow
sr before. they reduced the duty. in the
Wilson bill, from 90 to 30 and IS per
,ent. and what was the result? The
men in that industry, after being on
strike for several months, were com
1elled to accept l2h per cent. reduc-
ion of wages. L
"Of course these facts are clearly real
zed by the third party, so much so
hat some of their most prominent
peakers have not hesitated to declare q
hat the election OF Governor Wilson
would mean financial disaster. And yet {
hey are working for nothing other than I
he election of Mr.. Wilson and a Demo- q
ratio Congress. From absolutely de- q
,endable sources. information comes to h
ne that none of the leaders of the third a
,arty believes il has the slightest chance
4 success and that they realize that a 2
-ote for il means vote for the Demo {
rats But they are. most Of them, SO
He'd with hatred for the Republican J
arty because il refused TO accept their !
ictation that they are willing to bring !
isasteT upon the whole country simply
b crafty their revenge.
Under such circumstances. 7 am sure
on can appreciate. my dear Mr.. Geier. ]
ow pleased am to learn Of the splen-
ID work YOU are doing. You probably
aw the Republican estimate Of the vote
! New York. You may accept il a. :,
The great reserve force =
{ plain. practical common sense Of the 4
.meriean people i asserting itself and !.
hat means victory for the Republican =
tket on November 5.
Sincerely yours.
jSignsdl "Wm. II. Taft"