The Hartford republican., 1914-04-03
MORE BUSINESS,
NOT MORE CURRENCY
Under the Banner Of Protection a
Reunited Party Can Restore
American Prosperity.

In his speech al the recent Repub-
lican convention of the Eleventh In
diana Congress district DIR. Charles
II. Godi pleaded earnestly for re-
union of the friends of Protection,
asllins that they forget che disas-
trous fight of 1912, which only helped
the Democrats, and turn their faces
to the future. DR.. Good said:
AS Mckinley said at the battle CT
Antietam, Turn the other way
and won victory, let us again hear
his great and splendid command, and.
remembering only the glorious
achievements of the Republican party
and the hallowed memories Of its
great leaders-Lincoln, Grant, blaine,
Harrison, Morton, Mckinley and
hundred others, and the great prin-
ciples of Protection, Souri Money
and Prosperity, get together and we
will march to victory.
The gathering storm of stagnated
business and men out of employment
pleads for a united party. Progress
sives and Republicans all agree On
Protection and, my friends, whateV-
er other issues that to-day need So
luticn, that is paramount. ! allow
no man to be more devoted to the
cause of the laboring man and the
farmer in securing a fair interest
on their efforts; but neither can sue
ceed when you permit their prdiuct
to be produced in a foreign country.
Protection to American industries
AMI wage earners is the cardinal
principle of the Republican party, and
under that banner we will win.
The other night | went into the D
cent show and took my Seat by one
of the best engineers of the Erie
Railroad. asked him how business
was, and his reply was: "In Decem-
Der, 1912, earnG1 $1S7; in 1913, De-
cember, $94; and in January, 1914
one run out in eight days" When
/ got home, / was called over to the
next street to see the wife OF boil
er maker, and | asked him how work
was. 81 used to work IL to 10 hours
a day, now to s." and then | turn
I'll to the mother of the wife and ask
ed her about her husband, and she
replied: MY man has not had a full
days work since September" And
remembered that was the month In
which the Simmons Underwood bill
became law which was to bring about
the New Freedom" that the Presi-
dent talks SO much about; that, my
friends, that is the story OF the
railroads of the country; but these
Democratic speakers and office hold
ers living at the pie counter for the
first time in 20 years and Chautau-
qua lectures at $500 to $500 per lee
ture, stimulated by grape juice. say
and tell us that it is not so. We I'M
agine it. l think the men who are
working on reduced time and less pay
are better judges.
Like the little boy who was hav-
ing great pain from eatins too many
green apples, was toSd by the Chris
tian Science preacher that ne was
not in pain, just imagined IT, re-
piled: "You may think you are
right; but | know better, for ! have
some inside information you haven't
got" And the factories with less
orders, railroads with empty cars
manufactures on half time, farmers
competing with Free Trade with Ca
NADIA and Argentina, instead OF reel
procity, and idle men cut Of employ
ment, know better.
1t is like the man who was we'll
consulted "a quack doctor, and on MS
tombstone wrote this epitaph-"l was
well and anted to be better, took
this medicine and now here am.
Ii needs the same treatment Mckih-
ley gave us in 1S96-"Open the mills
instead of the mints." Give us
Protective Tariff instead of New Cur
rency, and once more the busy hum
of industry will be the music of the
Nation and the joyous shouts OF
prosperity will be heard all over the
country in mine, factory and on FARM
and the needed laws to curb the
trusts and insure a fair divisioh
of the wealth will be enacted and
America will still be the land OF
greatest opportunity and highest and
noblest ideals.