Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-01

WIN @of, zlo,U33 IN Marcn, 1913. Du-
table imports shrank from $71,229,-
465 in March, 1913, to $T0,S76,559 in
March, 1914. Meanwhile, our exports
decreased and the excess of exports
over imports known as the balance of
trade decreased from s31.9S7,213 In
March, 1918, to $5,3S4,131 last month.
Thus, we are about eo enter upon
costly war with an apparent balance
of trade in our favor of about $780,
100000; whereas, under Republican
administrations, our balance exceeded
$3.50, 100000.
Nor is there any good reason to
suppose that this small balance of $5,-
100000 month will be retained, for
as the sapping influence of free trade
goes on, the influx of foreign goods
will be constantly greater and the ex-
ports OF domestic goods constantly
smaller. My prediction is that within
six months the balance of trade will be
against us instead of in our favor.
Ordinarily, government revenues do
not mean much 20 the average citizen,
but now that we are talking about
raising a million dollars a day to fight
MIR. Huerta, revenues take on a new
significance. The stamp tax and vari-
Gus other methods of raising war
funds bring the question home to
everybody, rich and poor, high and
low.
so Il say that there are many i'm
portant phases to the senatorial cam
paign which will begin with the pri-
maries on May 10. We must protect
not only our private businesses, our
employees and our farming commune
ties, but we must protect Uncle Sam
also.
How shall we do it? Not by the
election of free-trader to the United
Staes Senate. Shat goes without say
ing. Not by the election of a theo-
retical forester who may know a great
deal about trees, but who has certainly
never given any indication that he
knew much about practical business
requirements. De must elect a Re-
publican Senator.
Dimmick and Penrose
That being the case, the first thing
to do is to nominate one. There were
in the beginning three candidates One
of them has withdrawn, leaving two
Mr.. Dimmick, of Scranton, and our
present senior Senator, Mr.. Penrose.
do not know Mr.. Dimmick and I
know very little about him except
what has bene said in the newspapers
since he became candidate. OF course,
If the majority of Republicans want
him, they will nominate him at the
primaries, and in that event we will
all support him.
But Senator Penrose we do know.
Most of us have met him personally
and those of us who have not are thor
oughly acquainted with his work in
Washington in behalf of the eight
million people who inhabit Pennsyl-
vania. We know him to be honest.
We know hi INTO be energetic-pro-
digiously so. We know him to be ca
pable and efficient. We know his ia
cility for achieving things for Penn
sylvania and his unswerving loyalty
to the State he represents-its big in
terests and its little interests-its Re-
publican interests and it's Democratic
1nterests-all interests and all classes
Surely, we would be very foolish
men if, knowing Senator Penrose as
we do, we were to fail to use our best
efforts to convey the information we
possess to other voters in the county
who may not know him so we'll and
who may have gotten a false impress
sion of him though the tireless TRADES
of his personal enemies. Let us tell
our Republican friends that if they
want a Sentor in Washington who can
lead for them, they must retain the
Senator who is now leading for them
and has been leading for many years.
Newcomers in the United States SEN
ate are required by precedent to take
back seat, and it would be a long
time before DIR. Dimmick or anyone
else could possibly have the prestige
and influence which Senator Penrose
! possesses and which Pennsylvania
must have.
Let us stop playing with dynamite
and get together behind the Repub.
lican party with an earnestness an6
an enthusiasm which will prove us
worthy of the reputation we earned