The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1914-05-06
BUSINESS FIGHT
WINS CONVERTS
Campaign Of Manufacturers
MaklngFTlendS For PenTOsa.
HEART TO HEART TALKS
Practical Men Tell Voters How Things
stand With Industrial World ane
Why II Needs Senior Senator.

Philadelphia, May Manufacturers
In the various counties of the state.
who are atiiliating themselves with
TIE pennsylvania Protective Union,
continue to show great activity and
enthusiasm in the campaign for the
denomination and reelection of Sena
tor PeLrose. The meetings that are be.
int held In different county seats for
the ratification OF Penrose endorse
ments are attracting wide attention
Never before in the history of politics
has campaign been waged along
these lines, and the favorable effect
upon public sentiment as regards the
seuior senator has been marked.
At Lebanon the speaker was B
lawson Coleman, perhaps the most
prominent manufartDser in Lebanon
county. Mr.. Col7i:,an said that he was
pleading the cause C. Senator Penrose
BEFORE the people OF Lebanon county
because he believed that this nation
was lace to face with the most seri
ous industrial and financial crisis in
Its history"
Tive years ago." continued Mr..
Coleman, the opinions and advice of
manufacturers on political questions
was neither appreciated nor accepted,
bu: great change has taken place.
The public has learned that in hurting
the employer It was hurting the EN-.
playe, and incidentally, itself. We
Lave come to realize that industry is
one large vessel that carries us all,
aud that If the ship is scuttled every.
body aboard must go down with her.
Tie cook and the cabin boy as well as
the captain and the mate.
Even Western Farmers Complain.
We all know that business in Leb.
anon county is at low ebb, and those
OF us who read the newspapers also
know that the trouble is not confined
.c Lebanon county. | saw not long
ago resolution adopted by farmers of
Idaho complaining because farm pro-
ducts had been placed upon the free
Isl in the Democratic tariff law and
had been affected to such an extent
that in many instances prices had al.
ready been reduced below the cost OF
production.
The condition of our railroads and
Of the iron and steel industries of the
country Is well known. You will have
observed that pig iron is now coming
In from Nova Scotia, thus outdoing
the anomaly Of carrying Goals to New
Castle If there is single branch of
trade which has not yet felt at least
premonltory symptoms of the free
trade paralysis, do not know what it
Is.
why In our own county and town
the plants are running about so per
cent of their capacity The head of a
certain concern which formerly had a
large business in the gulf states told
me the other day that his product had
been entirely supplanted there by for
9ign manufacturers who, under the
Eew tariff and the cheap ocean freight
rates prevailing from Europe to Amer
lea, are able to sell at a profit at less
thdn 1t costs him to produce. One OF
IN" largest and most successful indus
trial corporations in this state has re-
Gently passed its dividend.
Wages Reduced In Lebanon.
in at least one local instance that |
Know of, wages have already been re.
duced, and fear that we are on the
verge Of a general wage reduction all
along the line. This, to my mind,
would be a calamity for which the
American people would never forgive
the Democratic administration We
have built up here in the United