The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-10-26
Vets In Vermont

There are two Democratic candid
at2s for Congress in Vermont. They
are pretending that their election
would mean the undermining of nat
ional prohibition, although they know
that the Democratic party throughout
the nation as whole is dry.
Why is It that in Vermont as in
New Jersey the wet Democratic can
d.datcs are saying nothing about the
tariff and other national issues and
appealing to single track minds
They know that the people are against
them on real national issues. There
are many temperance Democrats in
Vermont There is not a protection
st in Vermont, Democratic or Repub
Iican, who would vote to have our
markets opened to our Canadian
neighbors and to return to the blight
ng effects OF an Underwood tariff
During the World War and immediate
Y afterwards the influences of that
conflict kept foreign goods out of Am
erica and we saw what real protec
ton meant for American industries
As soon as war influences stopped
then the Democratic tariff tub stood
on its own bottom, and our farmers
rs well as our mechanics suffered an
era Of unemployment and lack of mar
kets.
With the passing Of a Republican
tariff protecting our farmers as well
IS our artisans and our factory work
rs prosperity is increasing apace
elsewhere as in Burlington Demo.
Gratis do not dare to assail that aitua.
don. Hence their smoke screens and
attempts to cover up the really big
ssues with beer froth.
Democrats were able to take adj
vantage Of the rule for free speech in
the United States Senate and talk al
most endlesslyt against the Republican
tariff in the hope that ii would not
PASS in time to make its influence
ielt in the coming November elections.
they failed however
The Washington Post IN its news
columns prints this striking and sig.
iiflcant interview with a New York
business man Henry Askin:
Il was through the New England
States and there | found that many
manufacturing concerns were running
on night shifts. The American Wooden
company for instance according to
official statements has orders for
eighteen months ahead The textile
mills are literally taxed to capacity
so great has been the increase in buy. |
ing. Strikers in the mills returned to
work at wages they demanded due
no doubt to the way orders were pill. !
ing up.
Everywhere you will hear the re-
.urning prosperity under discussion.
md the men who are in business will |
ell you that prosperity Is actually |
here. A wholesaler only the other day. |
speaking of mems clothing declared
hat purchases of, let us say. a dozen |
Dyercoats year are now fifty dozen
But prosperity is not confined to
industries of New England. Two nights
ago as | was in Newark the city seem |
ed literally illuminated with factories !
operating at night And so ii was in |
the Pittsburg district, where business |
boom Is apparent through tho near.
~ cities /
Let the workers of Burlington and |
Their Vermont centers of industry and
he farmers of the Green Mountain |
State ask, Mr. Kennedy and Mr.. vii. |
on, the Democratic candidates for |
congress from this State, whether
they will favor this continued protec. |
ton. Ask them whether they will vote
With their party for the return OF tar.
If rates like these which prevailed
lnder President Wilson. and until
republican Congress and a Republican
PRESIDENT joined in putting on our nat.
onal statutes the tariff law which is !
witnessing this general and RAPID re.
turn of nationwide and normal pros
perity.
You can easily vote away this pros.
)erity. A political correspondent of
The Washington Post, who has been
making political survey of New Eng.
and writes his paper from Providence. |
among other thirgs, he says:
New England n general, and Rhode
Island in part cular, are on the eve of
period of great industrial opportu-