Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-10-09
CINCINNATI
For Regulating Platform Pied
gss and Placing Tax Bar
dens en- the People.

The Cincinnati Enquirer Demo
c~ratic), in an editorial in the issue
of Sept. "a, denounces the Demo
cratic administration and Demo
cratic congress for placing the tom
mage tolls on American goods going
through the Panama canal. 1t says
it is in direct violation of the pledge
Of the party platform and party
leaders, and that it's tonnage tax is a
burden and an impeachment upon the
commercial interests of the country.
The editorial closes with the follow
ing significant sentence: 1.-THE
voters of the United States nave the
| opportunity this November to select
| senators and representatives who VII
NOT REPUDIATE PLATFORMS
| NOR BREAK ANTE-ELECTION
PLEDGES TO THEM"
The Enquirer editorial, in full, is as
follows:
| The Democratic Platform and the
Democratic Tax.
ut is announced that the steamship
| Meckles is loading 1000 tons of an
thracite coal at Bayonne, N. j., and
after that is on board the vessel will
proceed to Baltimore and take on
5000 tons of bituminous coal, and,
passing through the Panama canal
will deliver the eutire cargo of 1000
tons at San Francisco.
THAT coal from our eastern states,
produced by our own people, the
product of our own mines, is subject
to a tonnage tax Of $1,20 per ton
passing through our Panama canal,
constructor by the American people,
paid for by their taxation, and this
tonnage tax is not only a burden and
an impediment upon the commercial
interests of the country, but has to be
paid by the consumers of the Pacific
states who aided in the payment of
the canal construction.
This tax was put uaon American
coal by a Democratic congress and a
Democratic administration in direct
violation of the promises which the
party in its platform and it's leaders
in their campaign made to the people
Of the United States.
THIS TAX UPON AMERICAN
PRODUCTS, CARRIED IN UNITED
STATES VESSELS, THROUGH A
UNITED STATES CANAL, PRO
DUCTS OF OUR OWN STATES, TO
BE UTILIZED BY OUR OWN PEG.
PILE, rs A DEMOCRATIC TAX, A
DEMOCRATIC BURDEN UPON OUR
MINERS, UPON OUR TRANSPOR-
TATION COMPANIES, UPON OUR
FARMERS, UPON OUR MANUFAC
TURERS, UPON OUR ENTIRE
PEOPLE. PLACED THERE BY A
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATORS
AND DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS TIC
CURRY FAVOR WITH GREAT
BRITAIN, AND 1T PURIFIERS THE
INTEREST OF FOREIGN SHIPPING
COMBINES AND TRANSFORM
MENTAL RAILWAYS.
LET the voters Of Virginia, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, In
diana and Pennsylvania who desire
their mining, manufacturing and agri
cultural interests to be prosperous tc
the highest degree-let not these for
get that many of those who are di
rectly responsible for this sever
blow at their interests are again seek
ing election to public position by
their votes.
without that tax the coal from
those states would be floating by mil
ions of bushels down the Mononea
hela, the Kanawha, the Ohio, bound
for New Orleans, the Panama cana
and the Pacific states.
Without that tax the potteries
the glassworks, the automobile manu-
factories, those which produce agri
cultural implements, the carriage fac
tories, the rubber tire works, the
shoe factories, all industrial estab
lishments Of the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys, would have the advantage o
our own markets in the Pacific states
and the trade of these states would
have given an amazing prosperity t
the industrial and agricultural sec
tons of this region.
Placing hat tax upon such cal
goes OeprlI0u the people OF tn
United States of such advantage il
their own markets, in their own do
nestle commerce, and placed the for
eign-produced cargoes on even term
with our own as to the tax, and CAV,
the foreign shippers all the advantage
of their cheap labor as against thu
higher paid labor of the Ohio ant
Mississippi valleys.
"This was done in direc. repudia
ton of the Democratic platform; i
was done in open violation. of tn
party pledge to the people, It wa
lone against the interests of the PEG
pie Of the United States, and it onl!
aided foreign manufacturers, foreign
merchants, foreign subsidized ship
ping combines and the transconti
mental railways.
THE VOTERS OF THE UNITFT
STATES HAVE THE OPPORTJ
NIFTY THIS NOVEMBER TO Sc
LECT SENATORS AND REPRE-
EENTATIVES WHO WILL NOT
REPUDIATE PLATFORMS MOI
RPEAK ANTE EFT ECTJ0N pJ EnNLc