Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1912-09-27
TAFT, AND PROSPERITY, OR WILSON AND HARD
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~ decide for whom they will vote for President
We desire to say few words to them, particularly
to those who engaged in Industrial pursuits. We
desire those consider those codly and
dispassonatey and thereafter to permit reason and
not prejudice to sway their minds and actions.
Let us recognize at the outset that the real Pres-
dental fight is between President Taft the Republican
candidate and Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic
didate The next President Of the United States will
be one of those two We hear much Of Colonel
Roosevelt and much less Of Chain and Debs. AS win
ming factors however OF those three candidates
figures in the situation Therefore, when it comes to
tho practical of the November election, have
President Taft on the one side and Mr.. Wilson
the other side. For the time being. let eliminate
the Others matter what their corrective destruc
tive force may be. from the aed. their presence
may not lead to confusion
President Taft and the Republican party stand for
the policies and practices which have made our nation
what It is today That includes the protective tariff,
subject to downward revision Mr.. Wilson and the
Democratic party stand for policies and practices which
opposed those Republican policies and practices
which have given TO our nation long era OF unpre-
cedened progress and prosperity An important feature
of the Democratic situation is that both Mr.. Wilson
and his party stand for low tariff which would de-
prive American industries and those engaged in such
pursuits from the protective features Of the tariff law
with such conditions confronting them il surely is
time when the voter. whose personal interests will be
pause and consider carefully what the result Of that
election would mean to him. TO his friends and neigh
bors this State and nation should it GER
tain way
There is no question where the Republican party
stands in this campaign The same cannot be said
of some of the other political engaged the
struggle On the important tariff question, there can
be misunderstanding. President Taft stands for
lower tariff, but protective tariff. Mr. Wilson stands
for low tariff that will supply protection to Amer
lean industries those engaged in them.
II was Patrick Henry who said in of his memoir
able speeches. Il know Of way of Judging the future
but by the past" Let take that rule and apply it to
our political situation. Since the Civil War we have
had Democratic President and including Lincoln,
twelve Republican Presidents History shows con-
cusvey that the progress and prosperity Of coun-
try came under the Republican Presidents and that
industrial and financial stress under the Demo-
cratic President.
There thousands of Delawareans who recall what
occurred when in 1892 the American electorate sent
TO Washington not only Democratic President but
also a Democratic Congress The Democrats
pledged to revise the tariff the tariff for revenue
only basis. Immediately after that election, manu-
facturers. who knew what they might expect from
Democratic President and a Democratic Congress. be-
gan curailing production and laying of employees The
discharged employees. failing to obtain other work,
forced to their savings out OF bank Tor the
support of themselves and their families. Fear of
Democratic tariff tnkerng paralyzed business and the
army Of the unemployed grew steadily. The with
drawas from the savings banks by and women
out Of work became so great that March TO- 1893
less than a week after MT Cleveland had been In
augurated one Of those banks failed in Michigan. AS
that news was published those who feared
the safety Of their savings made such heavy with
drawals that bank after bank collapsed beneath the
strain President Cleveland. dsregardng those signs,
called an session of Congress in the Summer Of
1898 the avowed purpose OF revising the tariff. It
tinkered for twenty-five months and worked out tariff
measure which so faulty that, far from producing
the needed by Federal Government it pro-
duced deficit
While Democratic Congress, encouraged by Demo-
cratic President struggling with the tariff thous
ands OF firms in all parts Of the country failed FL
nancal institutions regarded with suspicion by
those having money. Deposits withdrawn and
placed in deposit vaults. mpovershng the money
market and the financial circulation Of the nation In
vestors fearful making loans that there
instances in which first mortgage loans could not be
procured upon improved property In Broadway,
New York City Enterprise aud initiative suffered from
Democratic paralysis and soup houses and lodging
houses were opened the lives of and
who had been thrown out of work result OF
Democratic tnkerng with the tariff and other laws.
There was no relief until, in 1896 William Mckinley
was elected President by indignant people who had
suffered terribly under Democratic misrule
The evils which attended the election of Mr.. Cleve-
land to the Presidency would attend the elecuon or
Mr.. Wilson The Democratic candidate for President
has made the tariff the paramount issue, and he and
his Democratic associates are eager to subject our
country to another panic period due to tariff tnkerng
Their eagerness TO do that manifested by the
duct Of the last House. Had il not been for the manly
Of President Taft the countrys drift toward dis
would have begun with the legislation enacted by
that Democratic House. He prevented il becoming
effective and the industrial and labor interests we're
saved
We do not think that Delaware men and women who
have money invested or who depend upon industrial
pursuits their daily wages eager for another
Cleveland epoch Of enforced ideness and hard times
We feel sure they prefer prosperity under Taft 70
hard times under wilson However they may feel now.
they should consider the question carefully and reach
an intelligent conclusion in which the factor OF self
interest should be kept constantly in she s-eye