The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-10-18
WpAT WOULD FAVE HAPPENED
az DEMO, RATIO TARIFF BILLS
HAD NOT CEEN VETOED.
FACTORIES WOULD 6E CLOSED
The Disaster Which Threatened One
County In Connecticut Would
have Been ~::p,vlonced In
Almost Every County In
the United States.


lished n startling document in which
No SHOWS the effect the Democratic
-tritf bivs passed during the recent
Hession OF congress and vetoed by
resident Taft. WOULD have had upon
these industries If enacted into a law.
lie lists the factories in alphabetical
order ard shows liz connection with
each ore Just the percentage OF To
GuctioH In the duty upon the article
Shich 1t manufactures. The showing
: Is for nages or n newspaper and T.
rs NCt only awakened Connecticut to
e rs7Iddering reaIization OF the dan
5cr - has escaped but it has aroused
az View England 70 the menace Of
Democratic victory
NJ Hin shows beyond question that
~ these Democratic bills had passed
practically every industry in his dis
T+ct and in the entire state OF Con-
Nc cticut would have been put upon
a free trade basis and a very large
proportion OF tthem would have been
G bliged 10 close their doors. Manu-
cturers from all over the country
ing to Mr. Hin TO thank INN for ma
Ing II and TO tell him that they had
. no idea how near to extinction they
had been They had not realized the
|. deadly menace to their Industries
which was hidden in the Democratic
\ tariff bills amt they had not realized
The unreasonable debt TREY owe To
! correspondent from Delaware writes
hat Congressman HTlrs disclosures
| Nad ~set the state on fire." and that
1 is hardly too strong a term TO use 10
\ describe the intense interest aroused.
! Another article which has recently
| appeared and which has produced al
| most rs startling an effect upon those
| q vNCm it was Immediately address
! - rs that or Congressman Hill is an
! di'Cria1 in the American Sheep
/ IRE eder" This editorial calls atten-
/ ton TO the fact that neither Colonel
Roosevelt nor Professor Wilson made
nv reply whatever when asked what
4 heir attitude would be on the ques-
ion OF protection to the wool indus
Il
vive. calling attention to his veto OF
he wool bin and the expression OF
opinion which he gave in that veto.
The editorial very properly draws
The Inference from the silence of the
Pull Moose and Democratic candidates
that the wool industry need not hope
for any consideration at their hands.
and IT quotes the message Of President
Taft TO show that he realizes the alb
folute necessity OF protection In order
that the industry may prosper. and
hat so long as he is In the White
House no free wool bin can become a
law
The American Sheep Breeder"
goes to many thousand men engaged
in the sheep industry and ii Is not in
any sense a political newspaper II
Is devoted TO the interests of the
sheep industry, however, and its eX-
preston of editorial opinion that
President Taft and the Republican
Darty alone can be trusted to safe
guard that industry can hardly fail
% concentrate upon the Republican
ticket the vote OF all those vitality in
terested in that industry.
The Democratic managers realize
the deep-seated distrust toward their
party which exists on account of its
attitude on the tariff question and are
trying desperately to make 1t appear
that the tariff plank in their platform |
does not really mean 80 very much. |
They plead that the Democratic pro- |
gram would be to reduce the tariff |
gradually so as not to disturb bust |
ness, with the idea that ultimately |
the country could reach a free trade |
basis by easy stages-which is like
the old story about gradually reduc-
ing the feed which is given to your !
horse until by dint Of habit he learns |
TO do without any feed at all.
But the country "ill not be deceiv-
ed. The country knows perfectly we'll |
that Democratic victory would mean
a long period of tariff agitation with
nothing certain except that in the end
bills would be passed under which
there would inevitably be enormous
importations Of foreign products with
corresponding contraction and stagna-
ton of domestic trade and manufac-
ture. The country did not fail to take
note of the tariff revision bills passed
by the present Democratic congress
under the boast that they did not con-
tain line Of protection. The coun-
try knows that but for the courage
Gus vetoes Of President Taft these
ruinous Democratic measures would
now be on the statute books and In
all probability the industries affected
by them would be languishing and
thousands of men out of work.
II Is the knowledge Of these facts
that Is responsible for the strong and
steady drift toward Taft that Is re-
ported from all sections of the coun-
try and that is the forecast Of q
sweeping Republican victory. !