Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-10-02

Akron, Sept. 26.-At the Republican
campaign opening here today, War
rem G.. Harding, candidate for United
States senator, spoke, in part, as fol
lows:
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens:
Peace has its problems no less than
war. 1 have heard it said that the
cataclysm of European war, with its
attending anXieties and embarass-
ments, together with the wisdom with
which they have been met, have tend
ed to magnify the popular approval of
he Democratic national administra-
ton. AS Republicans, We will offer no
dispute. When the safety and sanity
of our foreign relations in time of
peril are under consideration, we
cease to be partisans. When old
glory goes to the border, or is III
furled beyond, we yield to none as pa
triotic Americans. Even though we
sometimes doubt the wisdom of a pro-
claimed policy, but not always doubt
Ing, we are Americans first end all
the time, ready to support and sustain
the hOnored head of this American
republic. But with respect to our in
ternal affairs, with respect to the poll
cies which go to coast lines and from
tiers, we Republicans, and those who
believe a. we do, are patriotic protec-
tionists, and W. believe that so far as
the congressional elections are con-
cerned, the restoration of a prosper
ing protective tariff is of paramount
impOr, nee. AS yOur Republican NOM
inee for the federal senate, | choose
tc make my slogan-Prosper America
First.
Must Forget Discussions.
The Democratic party, voted into
power through a division of Republi-
can forces, which we are due to forget
for the common good of party and
country; the Democratic party, moved
to a tariff revision through diSsatis-
faction over the high cost of living,
falsely charged to the protective pol
icy, has said the American producer
no longer needs the protected home
market, but must sharpen his wits in
a contest with the competition of the
world. The theory is plausible, but
the outcome d%eplorable. Not alone
has our favorable balance of trade
which was enriching us as no other
nation ever experienced, vastly dimin.
ished; not alone has a mounting treas
ury surr'-s been turned into deficit, in
spite of added income tax, but worse
IIldn IudI, II IdO opl SCJu ulSGOuI dSS
ment and paralysis among American
producers, it has thrown hundreds Of
thousands out Of employment and put
others on short time, and halted the
distribution Of American dividends
all of which have turned the joyous
foodtide of American good fortune
into a most d~isccuraSiug ebb.
| do not meal to shout calamity.
believe in American possibilities ant
go +l4 r-as+S.1p nT-npy,o- 70 -rINiaI ~,-
, vision is turned by European war.
can catch the glory of mental verses
but | know the lesson of experimental
reverses. The plain, uuadOrned, ever
present truth. which the foreign wa.
is momentarily shielding, is that tn
tariff revision of 1913 is only a littl,
less monumental as an economic blum
der than the revision of 1898. To tn.
scholar the i'll effect may seem psyche
logical, to the toiler out of work it i
! very real; to the free trade theoris
it may seem ideal; to the producer
only half engaged or wholly idle, it i
a blight. If it accomplished The low
cred cost of living, which was prom
ised, it might be half excused to thos
who escaped it's bliehting touch, bu
no loudly proclaimed remedy eve
made a failure s. g%rievous. Instea
Of lowering the cost of living, it ha
l6S66lSu Llt IdptCLty w i've IlIoICd
of c~heapening the price of the varie
necessities Of life, it has diminishe
the capacity to buy them. Instead {
blessing with a new freedom. it ha
blanketed with IN old problem.
/ was designed for the American COZ
j.. sumer, but halted the American pr
Queer. From their first contest &c
supremacy the Democratic party Ia
: nrociaineC the ,merican consume
uubi1o +ha Dnr11h1inOn n0p+u &c chief
concerned with the. American PR
} Queer. We Republicans believe in
? nation Of prosperous producers, b
cause a mar must fortunately prOduc
: before he can independently COZ
l sumo.
. American ToiIer Practical.
: The American toiler may not be
student of government in the fulle
" sense, but he is a very practical an
=; str0ngly-convinced economist. He
I a prOtectionist today. He knows tn;
! the fUll-pay envelope, at the hight
| American scale Of wage. is his pas
; port to the fuller advantages of Anne
I lean citizenship. He listened to ii
!. lure of lowered cost of living in 191
!. anG came to penitent r~ealiZatiC
; early in 1914. He found c~heapene
7 cost ~unavailing to the unemploye
l even If it we're true. and in seekiT
= to cheaper we had transferred Oh
: good fortune t. those to whom V
!! gave our markets. We "sharpene
n our wits" and shortened our incom
G 1t is an old lesson, which We he
!, to learn anew. Through some pc
+ versity III human nature we have
a learn this distressing tariff lessc
once in every twenty years. Ne
r seem to forget that our marvelol
+ American Industrial eminence was CO
A Ceived in protection. was daveloned
4. protection, was made triumphant
3 ~f.rotection. They Se3m to forget
+ was destroyed again and again
l. Democratic revision and restored aga
l. and again in Republican ~protectlo
just as we mean to restore once mo