The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-08

But for you the workers and taxpayers this contest is
serious business and should weigh the consequences
with serious mind Don't take words. Seek
Out Of this whirlwind of language which the spell
L send beating about your what is it that stands
OUT, 1lrst and all the time
eea want far c anhas IN ~ Washington
The administration after nearly four years hard
work has finally succeeded in restoring the counrys
ness to prosperous basis
The mills running full time. Mines are operating all
their shifts Factories working to capacity. Com
merce thriving The country is free of labor troubles
The working is steadily gaining better wages The
farmer is growing steadily The market
Tor farm products has been broad and
The railroads report the heaviest freight and passenger
traffic IN their existence Shipping is everywhere active
Trade is moving smoothly in everncreasng volume The
savings banks are overfowing with money.
boom in its history Within six months under present
dons we will dwarf the great period that followed the
And prosperity will be here to stay, for we on
sounder ground than we were in SO.
The trust problem has been setted-and settled right
big Business has been put in its proper place. this
without hating industry or dsorganizing affairs The
question is understood it has been and will
be solved along sound lines the heat of partisan
political controversy dies down The tariff is gradually be-
ing placed on business basis and soon will be out Of poll
Everything shaping to give the American people long
And this time Of all Others along these political
gentlemen shouting for change
Do want to change? Do want to check prosperity
just as you about to pluck its choicest fruits?
Would YOU the workers who must pay, commit the mad
hands and turning to the sefeekers who camor
ing for it's control?
When President Taft the government cou-
try PROSTATE Industry parayzed Business
chaotic uncertain suspicious Millions out of employ
ment Investors wherever possible had withdrawn their
capital. Enterprise dead.
All this was the result Of the panic Of 1907 the talking
panic. The sRch Mans Panic, it called But do you
remember poor who not hurt?
1t took the Taft administration three years to
pair the damage of this panic 1t required infinite patience
skfu management at home and abroad unnchng enter
good judgment and vast prudence to bring the
try out Of that black pit
And that the pit is covered and the country is bas-
ing more the level sunshine of prosperity do YOU
want chance being thrown back? Do you
to take chance being talked into another and needless
panic?
The question is not to be settled by talk matter how
smart The huzzahs OF the husngs make sweet music
the background of the future hear the NUT
terings of people unemployed
Your family stands with you at the dividing line which
has happiness and prosperity side and unappneSS
and even want on the other.
If you tramp without kindred and without respon
siblity by all follow the adventures But if
stake the country, if have kith kin depend
job you hold weigh carefully the words and deeds
of those who would lead mad gaop the precpce
of experimental government.
Remember, change at Washington would mean every
thing for them. But what would it for you?
Would Mr. Taft's defeat help you?
Would the theories untried and which the
politicians seeking to ride into office benefit your wife
and family?
Brush aside all the fine language of the orators long
enough to dig out answers to these questions You will
then have reasonably safe guide election day. for like
true charity politics begins at home. The intelligent
for that which is best for himself and those de-
pendent him. and not for that which best only for the
other fellow He is not msed by the shadow of the bone
in the water.
people, for the first time in years. have the
bone prosperity firmly between their teeth Are they
prepared like the the fable drop it, to chase elusive