Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
Believes That National Pros
perity will Keep Farmers
and Lab0rers in the
Republican Ranks
oUACK REMEDIES REJECTED
Higher Living Cost Blamed to Gold
Production--Wases. Must Be
Kept UP 10 Meet 1t.

sued the following statement on the
Presidential campaign:
81 have every reason to be salts
fed with political conditions. / have
been simply overwhelmed for days
past with letters and newspaper clip
pings showing the trend of the tide
toward the Republican party, its plat
form, and its candidates. have been
especially gratified by the news from
the Northwestern States. Chairman
Hilles of the Republican National
Committee, who has been visiting the
Northwest, tells me that reports from
all parts of those States bring most
gratifying evidence of Republican con-
fidence and activity, with earnest de-
termination to achieve the success OF
Republican principles and candidates.
"The population of the Northwest
is not surpassed anywhere in inteli-
gence and thrift and attachment to
American institutions. The farmers
of that part of the Union were never
so prosperous, and they do not mean
to risk the loss of their prosperity
by abandoning the Republican party,
whose policies have enabled them to
prosper. They are convinced that the
third-term candidate is no longer in
the running, and that the choice is
between the Republican platform and
candidates on the one hand and, on
the other hand, the Democratic plat
form, with its plank Of tariff for
revenue only, and its candidate, Gov
ernor Wilson, who said in an address
at Williams Grove, Pa, that the far
mer does not neeG protection. 1t is
unnecessary to explain to the farmer
West, East, North, or on the Pacific
slope-what Governor Wilson's very
frank declaration would mean, with
Mr.. Wilson in the White House and
a Democratic majority In the Capitol.
Prosperity in the Nation.
THE same news comes from all d.
rections. A Baltimore trade paper,
which has been gathering the views,
of manufacturers IN all parts of the
United States, thus sums up the stu
alton: A rapid expansion in business
interests, increasing activity every
where, factories overtaxed with Or
ders beyond their capacity,to fill, a
growing scarcity of labor, especially
of skilled mechanics; a car shortage
which, In many cases, Is greatly re-
tarding shipments-such is the condi-
ton of business throughout the coun-
fr1y
turers of every section.
"The principal reason for the exist
ing prosperity is the assurance that,
under the Republican policy of home
protection and trade expansion, Amer
lean industry while reaching for the
foreign market Is not in danger of
losing the home market. While our
foreign trade is growing more rapidly
than at any time in our history, do
mestic commerce is making advances
fully as remarkable. Our population
is increasing, the demand for the
necessaries of life is increasing pro-
portionately, and, thanks to active
business and good wages, the people
are able to pay for what they want
and to keep our industries busy sup
plying their wants. T. ,nce general
and growing prosperity, with a GER
tainty of still better times, provided
the machinery of our national activ-
tiles is not disarranged and brought
to standstill by undue reduction of
the tariff or anarchistic assaults upon
our institutions, and upon the har-
mon1ous relations now existing, as a
rule, between employer and employed.
There is no serious danger, / be-
lieve, to our institutions from indus
trial agitations. So long as such agi,
tation keeps within legal bounds 1t
Is not without wholesome Significance,
and may tend to improve conditions.
When 1t passes beyond the legal limit,
whether those self outlawed are con.
nected with capital or with labor, II
is menace to be deli with by lawful
authority. Notwithstanding occasion
al outbreaks of violence in labor dis
putes there is growing tendency to
settle differences by peaceful means,
and there 10 undoubtedly manifest q
much more friendly and humane atti
tude on the part of employers toward
employed than was apparent not many
years ago. The Golden Rule is get
ting to be more and more a guide in
business as we'll as in religion. Social
and economic conditions are growing
better. not worse, and Republican
policies fostering and stimulating ma
tional prosperity, undoubtedly tend to
ward this betterment.
"For the man or the community en-
joying robust health, quack remedies
have little attraction, no matter how
vociferously recommended as cure-alls
for the body polite. The law of sup
ply and demand, along with labor or
ganization and arbitration, and such
legislation as may properly be en-
acted governing hours Of labor and
rates of compensation In the publ,
service. tbsytby giving an example