The Glenwood post., 1912-11-02
THE DANGER THAT
WAS ESCAPED
WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED
iF DEMOCRATIC TARIFF BILLS
HAD NOT BEEN VETOED.
FACTORIES WOULD Be CLOSED
rhs Disaster Which ThrsatsnsA One
County In Cennsetievt Would
Nave Been Experiences in
Almost Every County In
the Ualted etatee.

WV ~"ssSS ON1kSVs
Congressman e. j. Hill is one of the
greatest. II not the greatest, tariff ex-
perts In the United States He rep
resents Fairfield county. Connecticut,
In congress. and he has recently pub
ushed . startling document in which
no shows the effect the Democratic
tariff bills passsA during the recent
session Of coasross and vetoed by
Fresadent TAFT. would have had upon
these industries II enacted into 4 Law.
He lists the factories In alphabetical
order and shows in connection With
each one Just the percentage Of re-
duction in the duty upon the article
which 1t manufactures. The showing
nils four pages Of 4 newspaper and 1t
has not only awakened Connecticut to
. shuddering realization of the dan
ger it has escaped. but it has aroused
all New England to the menace Of q
Democratic victory.
Mr.. Hill shows beyond question that
II these Democratic bills had passed
practically every industry in his dis
trict and in the entire state of Con-
necticut would have been put upon
. free trade basis and very large
proportion Of them would have been
obliged to close their doors Manu-
facturers from all over the country
who have seen this exhibit are writ
ing to Mr.. Hill. to thank him for ma
king 1t and to tell him that they had
no idea how near to extinction they
had been. They had not realized the
deadly menace to their industries
which was hidden in the Democratic
tariff bills and they had not realized
the immeasurable debt they owe to
President Taft for vetoing 1t. One
correspondent from Delaware writes
that Congressman Hills disclosures
had set the state on fire." and that
IL hardly too strong a term to use to
describe the intense interest aroused
Another article which has recently
appeared and which has produced al
most as startling an effect upon those
to whom 1t was Immediately address,
ed as that of Congressman Hill, is an
editorial in the American Sheep
Breeder" This editorial calls atten-
tion to the fact that neither Colonel
Roosevelt nor Professor Wilson made
any reply whatever when asked what
their attitude would be on the ques-
ton Of protection to the wool indus
try. while President TAFT answered BY
wire, calling attention to his veto of
the wool bill and the expression Of
opinion which he gave in that veto.
The editorial very properly draws
the inference from the silence Of the
Bull Moose and Democratic candidates
that the wool industry need not hope
for any consideration At their hands,
and it quotes the message Of President
TAFT to show that he realizes the ab-
solute necessity Of prstectioa in order
that the industry may prosper. and
that 20 long ~ he u in the White
House NO free wool bill can become Q
law.
The american Sheep Breeder"
goes to many thousand men engaged
In the sheep Industry and 1t Is not in
any sense = political Newspaper. 1t
10 devoted to the interests Of the
sheep industry, however. and its ex-
preston of editorial opinion that
President Taft and the Republican
party alone can be trusted to safe
guard that industry, can hardly fail
to concentrate upon the Republican
ticket the vote Of all those vitality in
terested in that industry.
The Democratic managers realize
the deep-seated dIstrust toward their
party which exists on account of its
attitude on the tariff question and are
trying desperately to make 1t appear
that the tariff plank in their platform
does not really mean 10 very much.
gram would be to reduce the tariff
gradually 20 as not to disturb busi-
ness. with the idea that ultimately
the country could reach free trade
basis by easy stages-which is like
the old story about gradually reduc-
ing the feed which is given to your
horse until by dint of habit he learns
to do without any feed at all
But the country will not We doceiv-
ed. The country knows perreauy we'll
that Democratic victory would mean
a long period of tariff agit ion with
nothing certain except that in the end
bills would be passed under which
there would inevitably be enormous
importations of foreign products with
corresponding contraction aud stagna-
tion Of domestic trade AMI iuanufac-
..Ss~s T. .sA*e. ~ csss s..e.. e,'.e
note Of the tariff revision bills passed
b. tie present Democratic congress
unAer the beast that they Old not co.,
tain . nAs q Drotectioa. The coan-
~ knowo ut ut for the courage
60 veepss q Prssident rs.t thess
Tu1nsas Ds0seratac measures would
nsw - - ~ statnte bcolts and n
an probability he industriea affected
~ them would ~ languishlng and
th0usands of mem oat Of work
II II the knowledge of these facts
that IN rerunua1hln for fh,s .. a,,r , md