Evening journal., 1916-11-06

selves and urge your friends TO do like
wise and charge you to see that the
Republican Senator from this state is
reelected as wen as the Congressman
We have with us this afternoon a man
who was member of the Cabinet Of
Ex-President Harrison and at one time
Postmaster General. II gives me pleas
IRE TO introduce the Hon. John Wanna
maker"
Mr.. Wanamaker was greeted with
prolonged cheers as he stepped for
ward and bowed his greetings to the
audience.
In opening his address Mr.. Wanna
maker declared the gathering to be
the finest display Of Blue Hen 8
Chickens he had ever seen IN feathers.
Mr.. Wanamaker then explained that
he came to this city not at the request
Of any committee but because Of his
friendship for a Delawarean and that
while he was not a politician he would
be proud TO be one. "You know" he
continued, Il was your letter carrier for
four years"
Mr. Wanamaker next urged all Re
publicans TO rally under the one stan
dard, saying that while differences were
bound TO crop up, even in churches and
corporations and that while no one il
infallible and made mistakes, vet the
one thing for all TO do was 20 help save
the flag that Lincoln had held up in
Cooper Union and saying he preferred
death TO disunion.
"The eyes Of the country are on
Delaware, on your river, foundries and
other industries, but IL is necessary
that you re-elect your Senator and Con-
gresham at this time if you would pro-
tect them"
Attempt to Heckle Fails.
During the early part of the address,
a white-h haired man sitting in the front
Of the theatre, started to heclSle Mr.
Wanamaker, asking;
where does the rich man get his
wealth and /, man fifty years in this
country has TO continue on at work."
Tho questioner devoted some time 10
propounding his question and before IL
could be answered, an officer removed
him from the theatre. Mr.. Wanamaker
said he believed in open meetings and
would like TO have answered the ques.
ton. Speaking on the open meeting
plan, he said IL was a glory to be an
employer who took care of his employees
when they grew old, although some en-
ployers did not think that way.
Mr. Wanamaker continued;
let us see what "Peace and Pros.
perity" really means in this day of
world evolution. IL means that the
American working man very shortly
will be at war with the millions of un-
derpaid workmen of the world.
"What kind of fools does the Demo
cratic party take the worlSingmen TO
beG Interpreted pictorially, il means
and says 10 the rest of mankind that
Uncle Sam has grown TO be a fat, pud-
gy, happy gentleman, with big paunch,
small head and a smaller conscience
He Is sitting in his big easy chair, big
dinner In his stomach, a cigar in his
mouth, about TO fall asleep. Outside his
home, with the din and lamentations Of
struggle easily heard through the open
window, his neighbors are in sore CON
flict and distress. He turns his head. He
looks. He sees. He closes his eyes. He is
too proud 20 fight. He is too fat TO
care. He Is too contented TO realize the
truth. He has peace and prosperity
what else mattersP
And After the War What7
after the great war what will come
TO Americaf
81. Great crowds of immigrants will
come They will come TO escape the
burden of excessive taxation, necessary
TO pay the war debts and reconstructive
work in their own countries. They will
come 10 retrieve their lost fortunes
They will come TO escape military ser
vice--once out of the ranks they will
desire 20 stay out. They will come be-
cause their families are disrupted, their
home ties broken, their allegiance to
autocracy and monarchy strained 10 the
breaking point. And they will come
ready TO labor for a wage much less
than that which we believe fair com
pensation in this country for work well
done.
against this avalanche Of immigra-
ton, this importing of cheap labor the
Republican party win set up protective
immigration legislation.
go. Secondly there will come great
shiploads OF merchandise manufactured
by cheap labor. to sell at prices that
win undersell American merchandise of
equal quality constructed by justly paid
labor
Before the war, even with a high
Republican protective tariff, this cheap
labor competition Of foreign merchan-
disc was seriously threatening the wei
fare and the standards of living of the
American workman. With a low Demo.
cratic tariff and the increased efficiency
Of foreign manufacture deficiency is one
of the constructive by-products of the
war; the menace will be still more ser.
ious.
"Ihe Republican party is pledged TO
a protective tariff. Congress is the only
authority 10 enact such a tariff law.
! Tariff commissions of theorists without
authority TO act are futile. Elect a Re
publican Congress and we shall have a
protectivce tariiT-a tariff that will pro-
tect both labor and capital
Necessity For Preparedness.
Preparedness is the second instinct
Of the individual and the second funda-
mental law of free nation.
Individually we have preparedness for
living, for working; preparedness for
our families, our children, for future
generations.
Nationally we must have the same
/ kind of preparedness preparedness for
tomorrow as well as for today.
with war contracts closed and TEN.
porary prosperity gone there win come
in our own country-a slockening OF
business, followed by a curtailment OF
incomes and readjustment Of wages
and prices.
america is at peace, but we have wal
wages and war prices.
with the world at peace America
must meet world competitive prices and
wages. The only thing that can uphold