The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-29
PRESIDENT TAFT
WARNS AGAINST
LEAP IN DARK
REruTrs DrNocRArIC PLEA THAT
Ox8A6TEE OF i6a3 WAS MOI
pun TO WILSON rAEIrr.
Asks WY people En;oyinz Property
Should kisk the Return
20 ospreFaior.

WASHINGTON. n. &C.. oct ss-p rcsl-
cent tart today mtie public -tatc-.eH no
years OF depression rHI.. fuIfuuef Cd
second election uf Precedent cleveland.
We que - - rrUh. .r % tHrim refHrm
ani the lrrlu.raIIr .HtrL.- LODI f.- tlriT
THAT foliow~i she President ~a.I 20
the issue before f.e VOTERS i- tfc-r Ion
the one hard. prosper f, ana real prog
fess On the other i-tr iu tie dark
The Amer ara people. PEE continued.
nave more f"uu once surprised those
Who thought o., people WEI. b-ing -4--
c'Ssf-lly fooled and 4 believe that n
similar surpI-- awaits our cpi-uu-nta
on the coming ngth Df November
The statement Boz fuli follows.
IN view OF erroneous statements re-
ehfding the causes - she four years OF
depression which followed tle second
elet ton Or President Hlevela-t a. may
De well 90 recall tHc facts Iu .iS formal
letter o. acceptance. september 60 1893.
Ar cleveland emphasize tle need =
tariW reform IrI made g tho lon ing
issue between tac parties THrG Dee
FORM II sim our purpose Dc saIt.
T. uugh We oppose tho theory that farir
laWs may be passed having for tlcir oh-
!ect the granting - dlsCr. 'nriirafins and
.uI'-. ". wage DID rNi~. r.,1Ating war
against American interests This las a
familiar sound TODAY. srN- that. instead
~ turln reform f.r Democratic slogan
now j. "a tariff f.t f-..urr only A.
rurd.ug e. ID" H1Itim1r- platform. the
tarln j. NOT merely tn H- f-tti-.t. llt
s
duStry Is % l'r exc. sci. root ami branch.
On that platform Gov Wilson stands.
Business was Disorganizsd.
ITO 60 back 90 Mr. Clevclaud.s second
term. the proof from his own writings
ana utterances rs fh.t h. was elected ON
the issue Of 'tariM reform IL o. also a
TACT o. history that Immediately upon
RS election capital and industry took
business disorgauized The some W nat
fuerle argument has been advanced
that these deplorable conditions could
n9t have been due a. impending 'tartn
reform because they arose early two
years before tho enactment OF the Wiz
ron tariff bill u should be- uunarer-
sary 90 say that when there are signs
"t a cyclone the rational man does not
Wait Tor the storm Co. hft h!s house be-
,ote getting into o." cvclone cellar. The
wilson bill was 600 sight above The hort
zou on the morning after rr. Na.em-
h't election 90 1NH9. ard rarItaI and in
oustrv began their start for the cellar.
just AZ. I f'Hr. they VIII take tp shelf
81 ar-in. should t.r Baltimore platform
. q iariI Tor r'ttuu. "uIt' hr appra, %
IS the American people uu November O..
Prosperity Came with Mckinley.
Mr. Cleveland was undoubtedly elm
core 100 his ba'fcr that 'tta aI4r..Inr nrI
tNtfHprolrar~ business situation AZ no
called 10 boo his special we--lg. nf Nur-
u-i purchase trt. hIt the fact remains
that after tho Hct bad been repealed.
NoN"mhoT ?. lN"1. fn" business -itu-
alto hccam' move ana more alarming.
w~r. Ifo-trate throughout Mr. CIevo-
D. mo- term being revived again with
the election ~ Mckinney ami the cone
S'Gu'uf assurance thar th" tariff re-
FORM experiment would soon give way
C. protection
THE s0..t of rho 't.rir reearun' OF
actually lorf from 1>H. q. Is4-. I4 ara
parent Ir fh. statistics uf wages TIIt
cad" - l>?'-i'"" as compared with the
J ediuE and subsequent periods Tn