Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-16
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promised as result of 1t has material
lied. 1t has disorganized the markets
of the manufacturer and has exposed
the farmer to virtually unrestricted
lworld competition, lowering the prices
| he receives for his products without
removing penny from the prices paid
1 by the consumer; aiiiicting agriculture
and all other forms of industry with
I, the uncertainty and doubt and the
unwillingnesU to attempt any line of
development which are the first synp-
toms of general business paralysis.
| Believing that law which does no
good must inevitably do harm, we sub
NIT to the voters of Pennsylvania--a
vast majority of whom have been for
more than halfa century firm in their
adherence to the principles of prOtec-
tion-that it is high time they were
rallying to the support of a cause too
much and too long obscured by minor
llsSueS.
Therefore, the undersigned repre-
SentatiyeS Of manufacturers and buSi-
Inessmen in this Commonwealth, asSo-
ciated together under the name of
the Pennsylvania Protective Union,
have determined to use our best enorts
Tor the correction of q serious eco
nomic mistake before 1t is too late, and
to adjure the voters to weigh well the
services and worth of our senior Sena-
tor, the Honorable Boies Penrose
with view OF making q united and
vigorous effort to secure his re-elec-
tion.
Mr.. Penrose, although still COM
! paratively young man, has been Il rep
resentative of the people for thirty
years. He is the scion of distin-
guished family which has been promi-
nent in the affairs of Philadelphia and
| Pennsylvania since the days of Will
liam. Penn. By birth, education, tenn
permanent, environment and practical
training, he is pre-eminently the best
fitted man in the Commonwealth for
the post he now occupies.
AN honor graduate of Harvard, he
rose instantly in the practice of law
and later in the counsels of the State
Legislature at Harrisburg. His cleo
ton to thes United States Senate at the
age of SO years was a recognition OF
political ability and natural leadership
which seldom comes to men of that
age.
During his novitiate as the junior
member from this State in the upper
branch of Congress, his intelligence.
his indomitable energy and his re-
markable grasp of big national prob
lens, coupled with his still more re-
markable understanding of the multi
tudinous details which enter into those
problems, made him the most useful
and influential junior member in the
Senate.
Entering the halls of Congress on
the same day that William Mckinley
took possession of the White House,
Mr.. Penrose was impressed at the very
outset of his senatorial career by the
necessity of making our industrial
protection real and effective.
I'm the drafting of the Dingley tariff
bill which transformed the United
States from commercial slough OF
despond into the busiest and most
prosperous nation on the globe, it was
Senator Penrose who looked after the
industries of the Keystone State. To
his patient Investigations and indefati-
gable energcy were largely due those
favorable conditions which doubled
the industries of Pennsylvania in a
single decade, increasing wages and
the number of wage-earners i'll like
proportion and greatly augmenting our
population.
'His record Is stirring story of
achievement for the people of his State
and nation. He has been of inestim-
able service to his vast constituency
through his mastery direction of the
committee on post offices and post
roads and of the still more important
committee on finance, of which he was
chairman and is now the ranking Re-
publican member.
TOO much cannot be said of the
Importance of this committee men,
bership. Tariff laws are approved or
disapproved in the finance committee.
All matters touching the revenues OF
the country are finally disposed of
there.
"As chairman of that committee
and in the event Of the Republican
party's return to power no other
chairman could be elected under the
would WELD for Pennsylvania the de-
cisive influence in every economic
question to be submitted to Congress.
Such influence is now exercised by
iSenators from comparatively unimpor-
tant Southern States which early rec
ognized the advantage of retaining in
the upper branch able men who might
augment ability with the tremendous
power of seniority.
IF, as has been announced as q
settled fact Senator Oliver should re-
tire at the expiration of his present
term and if that retirement were to
be accompanied by the withdrawal of
our senior Senator, Pennsylvania $
voice in the Senate would be hushed
for years to come. No new Republi-
can, however able, could fight our
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less of intellectual qualifications, could
break through the barriers of proceed
ure behind which the veteran Demo-
Gratis of the South are entrenched,
even though he were sufficiently in
sympathy with Pennsylvania's long
established and oft-reiterated policies
to wish to do so.
There is a special fitness in the
announcement of Senator PenroSe that
he will become a candidate before the
voters of his party under the provis-
ions of the new popular primary act.
This law, revolutionizing our method
of choosing United States Senators as
well as State candidates, was cheer
| fully acquiesced in by him and Is one
| of many proofs of his undiminished
aggressiveness in behalf of good gov
| ernment and of his desire to safe
guard the supremacy of the electorate.
| His is a record not of words but of
deeds; an honest record; u brilliant
record; faithful record; a record for
industry; a record for courteous at
/ tention to all those who have needed
| assistance in Washington, whether
high or low, rich or poor; record for
constant and easy accessibility to his
! constituents; record for sanity; a
record for patriotism; a record for
the broadest and best statesmanship
which has been exemplified by any
representative of the Commonwealth
in half u century.
| On behalf of stifled enterprise, throt-
tied industry hating business and an
apprehensive public, we ppledge our
selves to the support of Senator Pen
rose, believing his recollection to be
the best possible method of under
writing the continued industrial pre-
/ eminence of Pennsylvania and the flu