The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-10-31
PROSPERITY DEPENDS
ON VOTES OF PEOPLE
They Can Take Il or Leave Il
Alone Nov, 5.

What the prosperity the nation now
views should mean to every individual
we can all see. What it will mean
depends upon one thing-the way in
which it is distributed. The distri-
button depends upon the policy the
nation adopts in the contest now be-
fore it.
The strength of the Progressive
rlan' is that it controls it and passes
1t to all of the hundred million. And
Colonel Roosevelt has never been
more forceful in his addresses to the
PEOPLE in this campaign than in max.
ing clear the difference between the
Progressive policy, the choke-prosper-
ity platform of the Democrats and
the prosperityfor-a-few plan of the
Republicans.
The Progressive platform alone
takes up the matter in detail. 1t de-
mands that the protective principle
be preserved, but that protection
should not be permitted to become ex-
= tortion. The proposal is for a piece
meal revision, schedule by schedule,
under the guidance of scientific, nom
partisan tariff commission modelled
upon that which has done such ad-
mirable work in Germany. This will
do away with the unsettling of busi-
ress which sweeping revision causes.
It will secure justice for wage-work-
er, consumer, manufacturer and farm
er.
The contention of the Progressive is
that the protective principle is sound
aud the opposition of the Democratic
party to this principle radically un-
sound and vicious But the Progress
sives also hold that the methods of
realizing that principle under the
Fayne-Aldrich tariff bill were entirely
unsornd and improper. They believe
that this country is definitely com.
mitted to the policy of protection; also
that the country is definitely COM
b.itted against the abuse and misuse
OF protection. They propose to give
the American producers a tariff high
enough to secure them our home mar
ket so long as they make honest goods
and sell them at honest prices-a tar
iff which shall not be so high as to
protect manufacturers who make
shoddy goods and sell them for, dis
honest prices Protection for Ameri,
can industries can come only through
the Progressive party. The Republic
IAN party is hopelessly beaten. The
protective principle will win only with
the Progressive ticket.
The Republican principle of proter-
ton is right, but the methods Of ac.
eomplishing the desired resG.t are
srong. Governor Wilson has repudi
eted the principle which is riqht and
indorsed the methods with are
wrong. In an interview in MunseyF
Magazine for C,tcNer, 1911, Mr., Ut
sen comes out ASA ct such a srientt
fc commission aid re csCs to cor
tinue the taphazard ways OF the past
ways which led to exactly the cor
ruption he describes in the past and
which, if continued, will lead to ex
actly similar corruption in the future
z Mr.. Wilson also proposes free trade
in farm products. In the interview
quoted he says:
II welcome reciprocity with Canada
ss breach in the tariff wall"
! The Republican proposal is a tariff
for privilege, a tariff which shall pre-
vent destruction, but shall do 1t by
permitting the existence of extortion
The Democratic proposal-and the
proposal to which Mr.. Wilson in the
midst of his Kaleidoscope changes
and generalities most frequently com.
mits himself-is tariff for destruc
ton, a tariff which would do away
with the evils in the Republican sys
tenn by plunging the whole country
into economic chaos and Industrial
ruin.
The Progressive proposal is tarifi
for protection which shall see thai. the
American wage-worker gets his full
benefit from protection; which shall
see that the farmer and the business
man both get their full benefit from
protection, and which explicitly de-
clares against the recent Canadian
reciprocity act and all similar proLo.
sails to put the entire burden of tariff
reduction o. the farmers or any other
pne class. The people of the United
States who wish to see prosperity
PASSED around will work togethr for
Progressiysasss and prosperity.