The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-19
Whenever the Republican
Party IS in Power as
Shown by History.

by sitting down at home and let the
newspapers furnish his speeches to
the people. He says he is educated.
Well it is clear where he got his POI
Iitical economy. He as most OF the
college-bred gentlemen. have studied
the scheme. said to have been de-
vised by Ricardo and the devil It is
exceedingly plausible in theory. Even
SO as to deceive the elect. In practice
what has it done for us? From 1913
to 1893, under the federation, we had
no tarin law, but did have dire pow
erty. After the adoption Of the con-
stitution, Congress gave US protec-
tive tariff, with the result that factor
les sprang into existence all over the
country, giving employment to the
workers, enabling them to buy not
only the necessaries but the COM
forts OF life as never before.
This tariff law was continued up 10
the war OF 1912, when it WIS in
creased resulting in increased fac
tories throughout the nation. In 1916
the free traders. CMr. Wilson's kind
got control in Congress and destroyed
the tariff, .ushering a period Of the
greatest distress ever known in this
country Merchants bankrupt, labor
ers beggared. judgments, executions,
general distress, farmers and garden
-ers without a market, mot because
the people did not want their produce,
but because they did not have the
wherewithaI to buy it, they were
forced to sacrifice their stock unde
the hammer to get money sufficient
TO pay their taxes. Horses being sold
as low as two dollars, cows for one
dollar. hogs for less than the price |
of raising on good feed or grain to-
day. In 1924, the protectionists got
enough members in Congress to pass
a protective tariff. mote, it was not
4 partisan question for several years
after thisO The tariff of 1924 brought
Immediate prosperity to the country.
Furnaces. mills and factories were
started up and new ones established,
the Iaborer was employed at good
wages able TO live BETTING an Ameri-
can, buying the comforts for his fam
lily thereby having joy at home and !
the merchants were happy over the
payment of the working
mans accounts. the farmer over the
ready market at good prices for his
produce, the banker over the in
creased deposits In 1928, the tariff
was increased, with a great increase
in manufacturing enterprises, with
increasing happiness among the toll
ers. CThe people who produce and
distribute Wealth. The prosperity
was so pronounced. that President
Jackson. in his message in December
Of that year, declared that it was not
paraIeIled anywhere in the world. I
This brings us to the time when Mr.
Calhoun, and his co-workers, deeming
the time ripe to make this an agri-
cultural country based on slavery,
instead of mixed agricultural and
country, adopted the
policy of free trade as the corner
stone Of their scheme Then and ever
since then it has been the policy Of
the Democratic party Cuu-American
as. it isl In 1898. the Democrats be
ing in power destroyed the protective
tariff. bringing in another period OF
disaster and distress. the poor house
looming up before the poor fellow who
had to toll for wages, with his wife
and children deprived of the com
,orts. yea even Of the necessities of life.
himself as shabbily dressed as those
dependent on him. and he willing TO
work. But the Congress of his coun-
try had taken his job from him and
passed il over 10 a fellow in England
This continued until the people in
1910 elected General Harrison. and
majority of protectionists to Congress.
Then we got the tariff of 1872 This
was promptly followed by re-es-
tablished MANUFACTURES. and great
prosperity.
In 1916 the reconstructionists as
Mr.. Wilson calls them, being in the
majority in Congress wiped out the
protective tariff which brought back
the usual and inevitable hard times.
This continued and became SO ter
ribIe that President Fillmore said in
his message in December 1881 that
the exports of produce had fallen off
more than two-thirds with every in
dication that there would be further
decrease in 1852. At this time the
sold mines Of California yielded such
an abundance that there was enough