The Pleasantville press., 1912-10-30

manufactures readv for consumption
the country has ever known.
Change Would Cost Home Market.
"The American n1anufacturer and
the American worker" President Taft
declared, "wouid not have much spirit
left for invading the foreign market "
deprived by Democratic tariff for
revenue only Of the best market of all,
more tnan equal In purchasing power
to all Europe, the home market, which
they now control, thanks to the Re
publican protective tariff"
The statement goes on to say:
German foreign commerce is also
making great advances, particularly
among our neighbors of South Ameri-
ca, but a suggestion that Germany
should, for that reason, take protec-
ton out of it's tariff would probably be
received with arching of eyebrows by
German statesmen and economists.
"And this unprecedented growth of
our foreign trade is accompanied by
expansion as unprecedented in our
home trade from one end of the coun-
try to the other-the Atlantic to the
Pacific, the st. Lawrence to the Rio
Grande. 1t is not a sudden imitation,
but a gradual advance under favorable
conditions from the prostration OF 1907
to prosperity as substantial as it is
general.
"All industries are humming and
there is work at good wages-princely.
compared with wages abroad-for all
who are willing to work, while in the
Pittsburgh district, alone, / under
stand, there is demand for at least
thirty thousand workers in excess of
the number available. Business, whole
sale and retail, is active and profitable,
for the people have money with which
to buy The question for the Ameri-
can voter is whether this condition
shall continue, and the nation shall go
forward to even greater prosperity.
'sThe farmers are enjoying the
greatest prosperity in the experience
of American agriculture. Every day
the Northern Pacific is carrying mil
lion bushels of grain to Duluth. The
yield in that zone alone is 157,000,000
bushels, SO that the conveyance by the
railway of the farmers grain from the
region tributary to the Northern Paci-
fic to that point of distribution will re-
quire 157 days. This vast crop is worth
in excess of $100,000,000 to the farm
ers producing it.
cat the present the steel industry,
commonly regarded as the barometer
of business, is driven far ahead for
steel rails. Other industries are equal
ly active, and altogether national con-
tions and prospects were never so
prosperous and promising, provided
the American people decide to apply
to their political choice the same good
judgment and prudent forest -ht which
they apply, as rule, to their per
sonal affairs.
"As we come nearer the day of eiec-
tion," says Mr.. Taft, at is to be ex-
pected that the intelligent voter will
appreciate more keenIy the RESPONSE
biIity which attaches to his ballot. In
national elections, at least, the great
majority like to feel that they are vot-
ing for candidate who has chance
of success. 1t is obvious that either
the Republican or the Democratic
nominees will be elected, and not to
vote for the Republican candidates is,
in effect, to support their Democratic
opponents and the Democratic plat
form of tariff for revenue onIy,'
freighted with dire consequences for
the country, now busy and prosperous
under Republican rule. It is we'll
known to every one, an open secret on
every street corner, that the Third
Term party does not expect success"
The President continues: =
"a special correspondent Of The
New York Evening Post, writing from
Chicago, says: 1t may be said that
neither Colonel Roosevelt nor any of
the experienced politicians who sur
round him expects to carry Illinois or
any other important state, with the
possible exception of California and
Kansas. From sources close to the
candidate it is learned that Colonel
Roosevelt will be satisfied if he can
complete the decentralization of the
Republican party
1T remains to be seen how many
Republicans are willing to assist in
completing the Generalization of the
Republican party and handing the
reins of government over to the Demo
Gratis to crafty mere desire for re-
venge.
q believe that the Republican party
will be found, as whole" President
Taft concluded, "too patriotic, too 10y
al to its principles and its traditions,
too just in its attitude toward public
servants whom it has intrusted with
duties faithfully performed to commit
hari-kari in the form and for the OBJ
jects indicated. Every mail brings as
surances that those who have strayed
are returning to the fold, and that in
every state in which the Republican
party is not disfranchised oId-time ma.
joritIes will be rolled up for the Re.
publican candidates"
Governor Johnson's progressive ad-