Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-10-29
issue IS CLEAR
SAYS PRESIDENT
PROSPERITY ON ONE HAND AND
A LEAP IN TuT DARK on
TINE OTHER.
Predicts HIS ELECTION
says American People WIN Surprise
Ills Opponents In the Elcc-
ton Next Week.

WASHINGTON, oct Prcsl-
dent Taft today made public stare
mcnt in which he declared that the
-four years Of depression which fol-
lowed the second election Of Presi-
dent Clcvyand,' were due to the
promise Of tariff reform and the
democratic changes in the tariff that
followed. Tho president said that tho
lsruc before the voters is clear known,
"on the one hand prosperity ana real
Progress on the other a leap in tho
dark"
"1he American people, he con.
ttrucd "hlye more than once sur
prIsod those who thought tho peo-
were being successfully fooled
and I believe that n similar surprise
awaits our opponents on the coming
firth Of November"
The statement In full follows:
In view Of erroneous statements
regarding the causes of the four
years Of depression which followed
| the second election Of President
Cleveland II may be well to recall tho
facts.
IN his formal letter Of accept.
0hce September 20, 1892, Mr.. Clove-
! land emphasized the need of tariff
| reform" and made II the leading is
sue between the parties Tariff re-
form is 5till our purpose he said.
Though We oppose the theory that
tdrff laws may be passed having for
their object the granting of discrimi-
mating and unfair governmental aid
to private ventures, We wage no eX-
| terminating war against American
interests This has familiar
sound today, save that instead OF
tariff reform the democratic slogan
now IS IA tariff for revenue only Ac-
cording to the Baltimore convention
reform, the tariff is not merely TO
be reformed but the principle OF pro-
tecting American industry is to be
eNcised, root and branch. on that
platform Governor Wilson stands,
"To go back to Mr. Clcveland's
second term. the proof from his own
writing and utterances is that he was
elected on the issue Of tariff re .
form II is also fact OF history
that Immediately upon his election
| capital and industry took alarm, en-
terprise became paraly2cd and husi-
ness discouraged. The somewhat
puerlle argument has been advanced
that these deplorable conditions
could not have been due to impend-
| ing tariff reform because they were
nearly two years before the enactment
of the Wilson tariff bin. 1t should
be unnecessary to say that when there
are signs Of cyclone the rational
man does not wait for the storm 20
hit his house before getting into the
! cyclone cellar"
The Wilson bill was in sight above
the horizon on the morning after tho
| November election Of 1892 and CRpi-
tai and industry began their start for
| the cellar Just as. | fear, they will
take to shelter again should the Bal-
timoro platform of tariff for revenue
only be approved by the American
! people on November S.
MIR cleveland was undoubtedly
sincere in his belief that the Alarm
ing and extraordinary business sltu-
atom "a he called Il I'm his special
message Of August 3, 1893, was due
10 the sherman silver purchase act
but tho fact remains that after tho
act had been repealed, the business
situation became more and more Al
arming ana American energy and en-
terprise were prostrated throughout
Nr Clcveland's terms, being vivlfied
again with the election OF Mckinley
and the consequent assurance that