The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-07-23
SINGING ANSWER
TO Sec. M'ADOO
Fling At the Republican Party
Is Completely Re-
futec.

Writing to a Democratic club in
New York State, Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo takes occasion to
make this fling at the Republican
party:
1t is only through national disaster
that the Republican party and the
selfish interests that dominate it's
hope for success. Every utterance
and every action of Republican lead
ers convicts them of wanting to pre-
vent prosperity in order to gain con-
troll of the Government. This once
great party, the alleged champion of
business. is trying to destroy business
to gain its ends. 1t is a sorry spec
tacle and failure is its inevitable re-
ward.
The Republican party came into
existence as the champion of eman-
cipated labor as against shackled la
Dor; as the pronounced advocate of
enlarged commercial activity in OPP
position to those who believed in
buying abroad to supply the needs of
vast landed estates titled by those
who held in bondage. 1t has always
believed in a constructive financial
policy, which would insure stable
business conditions. 1t has always
advocated a Protective Tariff which
would insure a high scale of wages
for American labor and enable the
American workingman to live in COM
fort. 1t has always insisted on a
sound currency. and ii saved the
country from a deluge of greenbacks
and flood OF diluted silver, 1t
created u banking system which re-
tired vast amount of wildcat pa
per money, and the best features of
the present reserve system were TAX
en- from legislative measures which
had their origin in the brains and
labors of Republican legislators.
There is abundant evidence that
the people of the country understand
these things. They realize that the
whole trend of the Democratic party
is away from prosperity, and toward
the foreign producer; that its entire
fiscal policy rests upon the assump-
ton that America should cultivate
the markets of the world without re-
gard to it's own; that in a visionary
chase after larger liberty it loses
sight of the skill and ingenuity of
American labor as ii is thrown in
competition with those who live in
an entirely different atmosphere and
on a plane which no American wish
es to substitute for his own.
The Republican party has never
been and is not now. calamity howl
er. But it believes the Free-Trade
policy of the Democratic party is
mistake and that. sooner or later,
an unwise fiscal policy will hurt
American prosperity. This was am
ply uciuouStidtcu Wy tho oii6ht "hiCh
the Underwood Tariff measure
brought upon the country. Every
where it caused the cessation of la
Dor. Those in the shops and in the
fields felt it's depressing influence.
1t threw its baneful harm over the
great manufacturing plants and in
to the smallest shops. When the
fall elections came on last year the
people went to the polls and register
ed their emphatic disapproval of the
blow which had been struck at labor
and capital. And they feel precise
ly the same way to-day.
II is true the European war has
provided us with orders for materials
consumed in the greatest tragedy in
the history of the world; 1t is true
importations are checked because of
the interference with shipping. and
our markets are thus saved from col
lapse. But it Is just as true that the
day is coming when we will need the
influence of a Protective Tariff. and
when the country will understand
that 1t must return to the construc-
tive, wise and resourceful statesman /
ship OF the Republican party. For /
precisely { at those times when the !
United States has made its greatest
advances. and its people have been
most contented and happy. the Re-
publican party has been in power.
And every election since the Demo-
Gratis came into, once because OF Re-
publican divisions. emphasizes anew |
the fact. that the people are only /
waiting to elect Republican Con- |,
greea and = Republican President