New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-19
ONE OF THE GREATEST
Mr. Baeon's Views on National Problems
Make That Description Deserved.

To the Editor OF Inc lrlouhe'
Sir: Is the State of New York alive TO Us
onportunity of sending to the United states
Senate one Of the country's greatest men
That definition of Robert Bacon is deserved
and precise. Unusually equipped TO tearh' nc
has had the schooling OF wonderful eApeI
ence in international law and international
commerce He believes, as we all do, IN the
fullest military preparedness; but ne exceIS
ms all in a deep and learned conception OF tie
necessity Of industrial preparedness ne
foresees that the close Of the war will bring
our commercial prosperity into Seehei '0'''
petition with European industry
o,,, roiohbors east of the Atlantic have
boen forced 10 send US most Of their COLO ana
NO., n their securities How are they 70
cot them back after the war? How are they
n nav for our foodstuffs which they must
have Clearly by sending us their manu-
featured products How will they get US 10
buv them? By selling them cheaper thah OUT
labor can manufacture them. lhey nave
always been able to do that-hence the me-
cessity Of our protective tsriffs-but consiaer
how vastly their ability in this direction mas
Leon rlagnifed by the training and dlsclpi'He
If their military organization. lhinh Vi
their self-sacrifcing and light sleeping ser
vice in the trenches turned into commercia'
channels and then brought into compe'i''o"
with our eight hour a day labor!
viii the foreigners prevail in that bitter
international struggle for the markets OF 'he
world? They will unless the lawmakers a'
Washington devise something TO put our
labor on more of a parity with theirs thah eN-
is+s at present. | do not care whether the
remedy be by protective tariff or reciprocity
mr. some other device for commercial pre-
naredness; or rather, | should say do not
know. Few know; few Of us are giving
enough advance consideration to this grea,
problem; but upon its solution Will depehu
post -bellum prosperity for our pelo'ed ma
ton. II is easy enough for US to be prosper
Gus when our competitors arc shooting gum
all day and most Of the evening" Dut "hen
they are told TO cease firing and go 10 "oFA
our laborers will have to sit up nights!
In this great emergency, which will surely
como when the forces of hell in Europe are
leashed. we should have as our Senator TINS
countrv's profoundest thinker of these
thoughts the man who had more to do than
anv individual now living with our past re-
cinrocal trade engagements with other coun-
tries. the man who has been neither ultra
rrotectionist nor free trader, but who has
advocated a patriotic mean between these
extremes. That man is Robert Bacon.
viii you pardon personal word? have
been lifelong organization Republican, and
as such my sympathies would normally be
with the candidacy of Mr.. Calder, who has
been an exceedingly efficient Republican
Congressman for dozen years. | have been
far closer to him than to Mr. Bacon, and no
individual interest of mine has dictated my
conclusion. The contrary is the fact But
this subject is of too consuming and 700
nation wide an Importance to be determined
by factional or personal considerations. And
| therefore appeal to Republicans to 60 10
the primaries between and p. m TO vote
for Mr.. Bacon as the Republican candidate
for the United States Senatorshlp.
W NJ X. OLCOTT
Nnur York Sent 18. 1916.