The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1914-05-06


states social ana Industrial stand.
ard which has made the American
wage Garner the envy and admiration
Of workers the world over Labor here
hos risen to new dignity. Honest toll
has brought comforts and even lux.
urleS that tOilerS never knew before
We have been told that the Under
wood law is tariff for revenue only
The condition of business indicates
9ery clearly that IL certainly lives up
10 the word only There Is, as Mr..
Underwood said, not one atom os pro-
lection in it.
But recent figures from the de.
partment of commerce show also that
cessary to operate the government
even in times of peace. In the month
Of March imports free of duty had in
creased to Sill ,053, 400, as compared
with $S4,216,0S3 in March of 1913. Du-
liable imports shrank from $7l ,229. ASS
n March, 1913, to $70,S76,559 in
March, 1914. Meanwhile our exports
decreased, and the excess of exports
over imports, known as the balance of
trade decreased from 31.9S1,213 in
March, 1913, to $5,3S4,131 last month
Facing War; Revenues Crippled.
THUS, we are about to enter upon
costly war with an apparent balance
Of trade in lur favor of about $50 900.
icr; whereas, under Republican ad-
mlnistrations, our balance eXcee3e1
$3.50, ,000,0 ,000.
Nor is there any good reason to
suppose that this small balance OF $5,-
100000 a month will be retained, for
! rs the Sapping influence of free trade
goes on the influx of foreign goods
will be constantly greater and the ex-
;'hrts Of domestic goods constantly
smaller. My prediction is that within
six months the balance of trade will
| he against us instead of in our favor.
80 ! say that there are many i'm.
bIrtart phases to the senatorial cam
| Iaign which will begin with the pri-
maries on May 10. We must protect
| not oGiy our private businesses, our
amp!n'es and our farming communi-
| lies, but we must protect Uncle Sam
also.
''lIow shall we do it? Not by the
| ele( tion of a free trader to the Unite,
| States senate. That goes without
| Saj in" Not by the election of a thGo
retical fores Ter, who may know a great
| dcA. aGout trees, but who has certainly
| ncNLT given any indication that he
knew much about practical business
reCgtrements. We must elect a Repub-
Ian senator.
''TpGt being the case, the first thing
| to - is to nominate one. There were
| II thu beginning three candidates. One
| Of .5em has withdrawn, leaving two
| vi. Dimmick, of Scranton, and our
g.e.;H',. senior senator. Mr.. Penrnse. I
do not know Mr.. Dimmick and know
very little about him except what ha!
been said in the newspapers since HI
| became a candidate. OF course, If thu
majority Of Republicans want hin
| they viii nominate him at the primaT
les, and in that event we will all sup
| port 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 y
| Washington in behalf of the eight mil
| lion people who inhabit Pennsylvania
! We know him to be honest. We know
him to be energetic-prodigiously so
cient We know his facility for achiev
ing things for Pennsylvania and hi'
answering yalty to the state he rep
resents--its big interests and its lit
| tie interests-its Republican interests
| and its Democratic interests-all in
tcrests and all classes.
Know Penrose; Want Others To.
Surely, we would be very foolsl
|
we do, we were to fail to use our bes
| efforts to convey the Information W.
possess to other voters in the count!
who may not know him so well ant
| who may have gotten a false impres
sion of him through the tireles
TRADES of his personal enemies. lie
us tell our Republican friends that l
they want a senator in Washington
who can lead for them they must re
tain the senator who Is now leading
| fc: them and has been leading TO
many years. Newcomers in the Unitet
States senate are required by prece
dent to take a back seat and 1t woult
be long time before Mr.. Dimmick o.
any one else could possibly have thu
prestige and influence which Senato
| Penrose possesses and which Pennsyl
vania must have.
Let us stop playing with dynamite
and get together behind the Republi
can party with an earnestness and al
enthusiasm which will prove us wor
thy of the reputation we earned as thu
greatest business nation on earth anC
the most dependable, least mercurial
most sensible people history has an!
record Of"
The Lebanon county statement wai
signed by siXty-seven manufacturers.
Reading Hit by Tariff.
The Berks county statement bor'
the signatures of eighty manufactur
ers and was given out at meeting Il
Reading. which was addressed b.