The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-05-24
To the Republican Latter
Day Prophets.
THEIR ISSUE IS "AlOR|cH|sM''
Business, As Usual, Would Take
Vacation II Republicans Be.
gan Schedule Revision.
A FAVORABLE TRADE BALANCE
by Savoyard.)

standpat delegate to the regular"
Republican national convention, has
been appointed to SQUAD the key
note" in that body, and in advance
Mr.. Harding has notined the public
that the tariff is cast for the para
mount issue of the Republican cam
paign, as he designs to pitch it.
Whether the party is willing to &C
cept the paramount issue AS pro-
nounced by the Ohio Senator is
| problematical. 1t is plain, unmis-
taxable Aldrichism and it is meet
that it should come from a Repub-
lican successor of Mark Hanna in
the United States Senate. We all
know what protective tariff is as
purveyed by the Republican party.
We know how it is constructed. We
! know that 1t is the handiwork of
special interests who write into the
different schedules what taxes
should be levied on the masses to
swell the profits Of the classes. That
is what a protective tariff is and all
it Is.
We were warned by statesmen of
the school of Mr.. Harding that the
Underwood tariff would bring uni
versal bankruptcy. We were ad-
monished that it would close all our
factories, vacate all our mines, de-
vastate all our farms, put into a
state of liquidation all our banks,
throw out of employment all our
labor.
These were false prophets. The
industries of the country-all sorts
of legitimate business never
so prosperous as now. The best
barometer of business is the bank
clearings and they were never be-
| fore so enormous as We see them
under this wicked Democratic tariff
The figures are startling in their i'm
mensity. In the national banks
alone there were, March 7, deposits
to the stupendous amount of $10,-
100000, 1000, an increase of $2,19S,-
100000, or nearly 25 per cent, in
space of three months! Just think
of that under this miserable DEM
ocratic tariff! That does not in
clude the deposits in State institu-
tions, banks and trust companies,
which share in this unprecedented
prosperity which has come upon the
country that was so unpatriotic as
to repeal the Aldrichism that -four
ished during the entire sixteen years
of Hannaism that interviewed be-
tween the first Inauguration of Me
Kinley till the first Inauguration of
Wilson.
Such statesmen as Uncle Joe"
Cannon and DR.. Gallinger were
doleful in the warnings that this I'm
derwood tariff would force us to buy
everything and not allow us to sell
anything. 1t is written Beware
of false prophets that come to you
III SHttp Vi uc-
stroying our export trade We have
sold abroad, the past twelve months.
goods and merchandise that exceed
by more than a billion dollars our
sales abroad during any year Aid
richism was in the saddle. Nor is
that all. For fifty years the G. o.
p. has been boasting that it's poll
cies alone made a favorable" bal
ance of trade. Wrong again, as
usual. At present the favorable"
balance of trade is greater by more
than twofold than it ever was un-
der a Republican regime.
Now it is notorious that when
Congress proceeds Ito tinker with
the tariff" business takes a vaca-
tion till the job is completed. There
may be some doubt about some
things. but there is no doubt about
that thing. Well, suppose Mr.. Har-
ding's idea prevails; suppose the