Omaha daily bee., 1912-10-25
Chief Executive Points to What
Republicans Have Accomplished.
BROUGHT ABOUT PROSPERITY
Shows What Happened When Demo
Gratis Passed the Wilson Bill.
TILLERs OF SOIL THE SUFFERERS
Change in the Tariff system Would
Bring Halt to Manufacturing and
Destroy the Home Markets
of the Present.

BEVERLY, Mass, Oct. A-President
Taft tonight made public a. special ap-
peal to farmers Of Minnesota and the
northwest to remain true to their repub-
Ncan beiiefs of past campaigns. The
political arguments submitted for con-
sideratdon Of rural voters were advanced
In a letter which the president sent to
Governor Eberhart of Minnesota. stating
that while the republican party had not
made the sun to shine, or the crops to
grow, 1t had been responsible for the
prevailing good markets. He declared
that the contest was between the re-
publican and democratic parties. The
letter says:
'T am very glad to have encouraging
news of the political outlook in Minne-
sofa and wish to thank you for the eff
forts you are making for republican sue
cess. The people Of your state are vitality
interested in the maintenance OF our pres
ent economic system Their welfare Is
dependent upon the continuace OF a pro-
tective tariff, and although at times, by
appeal to their prejudice, they may be
divea ted from a clear perception Of their
interest, I am confident that in the end
their common sense will enable them to
see the fallacy Of newly dressed nostrums
which in the past they have rejected.
ST am sure they must realize that this
contest is between the republican and
democratto parties.
sa Sharing I'm Prosperity.
"The men and women OF the northwest
country have special interest in repub-
loan success this year. They are shar-
ing in the general prosperity Of the ma
ton, and the continuance Of growth OF
this prosperity is In large degree depend-
ent upon republican success next month
'AThe republican party Is mot reapon-
sfble for good crops. It dces not make
the sun to shine, nor the grass to grow.
but il n responsible Dor the enactment
OF laws which make 1t possible. Il the
crops ara good. that there shaal be an
American market for them. and that they
shall be sold at good prices to those
who have the means 10 buy them
'There has never been a time in our
history when the farm products of the
northwest would purchase as much as
they do today. Prosperity Is just at our
door. The republican party bids 1t well
come, with the promise that the economic
basis which has brought about our won
derful Industrial development giving
steady employment at high wages to our
mechanics and artisans, shall be main
tained.
THE democratic platform promises a
change In our tariff system, whose et-
feet would be to halt manufacturing en-
terpr;se, throw out Of employment thou
sands of wage earnery and destroy the
home market now enjoyed by the Amer
ican farmer. No reforming legislation
could neutranzs or mitigate the paralysis
which would follow.
"It Is not necessary to jog the mem
ory of the older farmers Of your state
as to what happened when the. demo-
cratic party passed the Wilson tariff
bill Wheat went down to 40 cents
bushei, corn to q cents, oats to Is cents,
potatoes to q cents. In forty years
farm prices had never been so low. Our
farmers were struggling under debt,
mortgages were even being foreclosed
and the deplorable condition that ex-
isted among those who titled the soil
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