The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-13
Scott Looks
To Tariff
FORMER GLASS MANUFACTURER
THINKS RETURN TO PROSPER
IIY DEPENDS ON HIGHER d.
TIES,

| the upper house of congress, was In
Wheeling the other day anu told
some OF his old friends Just how he
viewed the business situation. Sena-
tor Scott is no longer citizen Of
West Virginia, having become an
important. member OF the financial
life Of Washington, where he is ut
the head of an important bunk.
However. MIR. Scott still retains
some of his Wheeling interests, par
ticularly those in the Central Glass
Co.. and his friends listened with in
tcerst to his views of the business
situation.
II believe that tue principle of
protection is absolutely essential for
the prosperity Of American indus
tries, for the welfare of the Ameri-
can workingman, and for decent Iiv-
Ing conditions. believe, moreover.
that the Republican party more
than any other party in the United
States. commands the confidence OF
experienced business men. and that
a Republican administration IS the
surcst incentive to the creation OF
sound business conditions and bust
ness activity. therefore regard 1t
my duty US citizen. and as un
American. and particularly as n
West virginian, who has been hon
cred above his desserts by his fell
low citizens, to do all that can hon
orably, to. help restore to our coun-
try and our state. the conditions
that make for notural prosperity
and insure safe and stable govern
ment.
Concerning the political outlook,
| have only 10 say that In my opin-
ion there has never been in the his
tory OF the country more rapid
reversal Of sentiment than hus been
experienced and Is now being en-
pcricnced. If the election were to
he held today and three candidates
should before the people, as they
were In 1912. Woodrow Wilson
would. in my Judgment. be the third
candidate instead Of first. and the
Democratic party would be In hope
less minority. Former Republicans
are now coming back into the Re-
publican party, and with them
there are thousands Of Democrats
coming, who realize that the policy
and program OF their party is de-
struc,ive TO business and destructive
to Industry.
81 can name among personal ac-
uuaintanccs, among the business
men OF Washington and New York
City, Il hundred men who have been
lifelong cmocrats. and who now de-
clare without any hesitation that
they have voted the cmocratic tickle;
for the last time. The reason for all
this Is simple, so staple in fact, that
one can hardly help but be surprirs-
cd that acute business men could
nst forCsce It. We can't encourage
the importation Of products without
taking from American mills and
factories and workinsmcn. We can't
throw open our doors and invite the
low-paid labor OF Germany and Bel
GUM and Great Britain 10 flood our
markets with their products without
weakening American industry, II not
entirely destroying it. and every
step we take toward lower tariffs
and more importation Of foreign
goods means just that much Amer
lean money sent abroad and that
much less spent at home.
while | regard the tariff as the
essential principle dividing the
Democratic party from the Repub-
lican party, and the position OF tn"
Democratic party on the tariff as its
vital weakness, there are other
things that are. contributing to the
present business depression. The
leadership of the Democratic party
today is radical and demagogis. 1t
seems to realize that IL has lost the
confidence of the business men of
the country. and is, Therefore. deter
riInHd 10 make good, If possible. by
cultivating the widest dcmagogu-
cry.
Tho measures which are being
proposed by some of the hair-hraln-
ed cranks in congress are enough 10
disturb business, to check new en-
terpriscs, and dcpress Industrial ac-
tivity of ecvry kind, even, II the tar
iff had not already had that effect.
The controlling influences OF the
Democratic party come from the sec
tion Of the country that have no
large business interests. and have no
large manufactures. They are, in
i fact, purely agricultural. 1t is not
strange, therefore. that they are, to
very large degree, out OF synpa-
thy with, and fail to understand the
big industrial problems of the eoun-
try. West Virginia on. the other