The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-11-01
WOULD LOSE
WITH WILSON.
Lose Our Prosperity, Lose Our
Jobs, Warns Taft, Who Says
the Very Name Is Reminiscent
of Free Trade Disaster.

Beverly, Mass.-Presldcnt Taft has
written n letter to John Wanamaker
ut Philadelphia, thanking him for his
efforts In behalf Of the Republican
party. Mr.. Taft says:
There are certain facts that stand
out so prominently In this campaign
that cannot conceive how a majority
Of our voters can fail to apprehend
them. They are that vote cast for
the third party Is a vote cast for the
Democratic ticket, and that vote
cast for the Democratic ticket is a
vote cast for economic experimental
ton, which, under the most favorable
circumstances, would mean lack OF
business confidence, the calling or
loans, a stringency Of the money mar
ket, the suspension Of manufacturing
the destruction Of the market for farm
products because the people had no
money to buy and untold suffering for
the wage Garner and his family.
II want to thank you for the splendid
work you are doing for the success OF
the Republican party in the approach
ing election. i thank you not for my
self alone, but for the people at large,
who have so much to lose, so little to
gain, from a change Of administration,
who will indeed suffer II Democratic
q
secure the opportunity to make good
their platform pledges, and an extra
session OF congress Is called next
March to change the tariff from pro-
tective to revenue basis.
1--WE have experimental In the past
with the tariff theories Of our Demo.
cratic friends. You will recall as clear.
ly as / do the distress which followed
the passage OF the Wilson bill. Is
there not q certain significance In the
fact that it Is another Wilson who
would again subject us to such an ex-
pertinent? Wilson and prosperity are
words that refuse to go together In
our American history.
"You recall the report Of Mayor GIL
roy on conditions In New York when
he and his Democratic administration
conducted an investigation into the
hardships and sufferings which prevail
ed In 1894 and found that $4,000 per
sons were dependent on charity be-
cause $1,000 men and nearly $1,000
women who under normal conditions
experienced no difficulty In securing
employment were out Of work. You
can recall the days when, as the re
suit of just such tariff 'readjustment
as our Democratic friends now pro
pose, there were soup kitchens In every
large city, when ablebodied men were
compelled to beg from door to door
while women and their little children
died OF starvation or were stunted In
their development from the privation
they were compelled to undergo.
"The election Of a Democratic presi
dent would mean the election OF a
present congress has proved how saw
agely and with what recklessness the
Democrats would deal with the tariff
IL they were in full control Of the
executive and legislative branches OF
government. cannot understand how
any American voter can fail to see that
by throwing away his vote on the
third party or by voting to put the
Democrats In power in the White
House and In congress he is assured
ly courting disaster as is the small
child playing with matches. And so,
Mr.. wanamaker, far above any person
nj consideration, l am grateful to you
and to all who, like you, are helping
the Republican cause this year"