The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-10-24
SAYS
VICTORY CERTAIN
Executive Of Nation Issues Statement
that Party VIII be Kept in Power.
NO CHANCE FOR THIRD PARTY
Record OF Unprecedented Prosperity
For Workmen and Manufacturers
Alike Is BuIwark Against
All Criticism.


Beverly Mass, Oct. % President
Taft has issued a. statement predict
ng republican victory next month
and declaring il obvious that either
the republican or democratic nomi-
ees win be elected He asserts it
TO be an open secret that the third
arty does not expect success"
The president reviews business con.
ditions OF The country, which, he says.
are unPrecedentedly prosperous and
asserts the belief that sober Judgment
OF the voters viii continue present
conditions, The statement reads in
part
"Fifty-two years ago seceders from
the Union thought they were facing
"a divided North aud would win an
easy victory.
There had been division AMONG
the loyal people, but all united in face
of the common danger, and in add
ton a great number OF democrats
joined the republicans in the success,
full struggles for the nations life.
Into Placid Waters.
Then it was said by hostile crit.
cs that the ship OF state was drifting.
1t drifted--yes, with, Lincoln at the
helm-from the reefs of secession
and slavery into the placid waters OF
union and liberty.
Under Lincoln's SUCCESSORS il has
sailed on, propelled by the winds of
prosperity, save when its voyage has
been halted by just such visitation
of storm and stress, of torn protec-
ion sails and broken business bulk
heads, as we are. now threatened with,
should Baltimore supplant Chicago,
which it did not in 1860, and will not
in 1912.
Our friends the. enemy say that
the democracy has learned its mis-
takes, and does not mean to repeat
them. In some measure true as TO
the past, and the republican party has
had a difficult, ii successful, task in
teaching the democracy its mistakes,
so far as it has been taught, but
somehow the obstinate pupil comes
forward every four years 10 be taught
again
Learned Lesson Well.
Il am glad TO say however, that
many democrats have learned their
lessons we'll and are refusing to leave
the firm ground of prosperity for the
quagmire of business disruption, trade
depression and commercial and indus
trial depletion, e.
From all parts of the country as.
surances are coming that democrats
intend to vote for the republican can
didates and n continuance Of prosper
GUS business conditions and against
the programs of economic confusion
and socialistic subversion of our in
situations supported by the democrat
ic candidates and their allies.
Democratic workingmen refuse to
he led from the factory and good
wages of 1912 back TO the democratic
hard times of lS93-97. They prefer
independence and money in the saw
ings bank to loss Of employment and
dependence on charity
Democratic business men feel The
same way. They know that when in
dustries languish their business Ian
cuisines, too The pay envelopes are
the feeders Of trade in every form.
When they are empty or scrimpy the
biggest department store feels the
effect, as well as the corner grocery
Advantage In Drift.
Drifting, well let me glance at
some OF the drift Our home market
has drifted from $1,000, 600, 900 in 1870
to $33 ,OO9, 900 ,O00--not bad drift,
that. And 1t is this magnificent home
market, without equal in the past or
present, that the democrats propose
10 dismember and disorganiZe and
invite every nation in the world to
prey upon, while those same nations
.eep the barriers TO their own mar.
kets just as high as they please.
Then look at Our foreign trade. A
flvOrite democratic argument is that
epublcans build up and cultivate the
home market at the expense OF our
foreign commerce, when the fact is
that the growth Of foreign trade has
almost kept proportionate pace with
the domestic-from Sl.000,0dO 900 in
$40 10 $iOO000O,0]O in 1912.
"Our exports for the last year
amounted TO $2.1TO, 319, 1913, of which
$C74,302,93O were manufactures ready
for consumption, the largest export
trade and the largest proportion OF
manufactures ready for consumption
tie country has ever known.
Would Kill Spirit.
THE American manufacturer and
the American worker would not have
nuch spirit left for invading the for
eign market if deprived by a demo
cratic tariff for revenue only OF the
best market OF all, more than equal
purchasing power 10 all Europe
the home market which they now con-
troll, thanks to the republican pro-
tectiVe tariii
And this unprecedented growth OF
CIR foreign trade Is accompanied by
expansion as unprecedented in our
ONE trade from one end of the coun.
try to the other
1T is not sudden imitation, but q
gradual advance under favorable con
ditiong from the prostraEion Of 1897