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A HOME MARKET ASSURED
Fallacies of Professor Wilson's Argu
ment and of Democratic Free
Trade Exposed by Facts
American Farmers Have
Alway Benefited by a
Protectee Tariff.
The Democratic Tariff bill, o
J courageously vetoed by President J
Taft, PLACED CEREALS ON
J THE FRCE LIST. J
A vote for President Taft and
the Republican ticket Is the safe- J
guard of the farmer against the
entry Into the United States, duty J
J free, of the products of the great
fields of Canada and other grain-
J growing countries.
Professor Wilson Is telling the far
mers oer and oer ngaln, that they
hao never been protected that they
do not need protection. Then In this
connection the professor ndds: "But
everything you use on the farm, ev
erything that you wear, and a great
deal of w hat you eat, but do not i ro
duce yourself, Including meats, bears
a heay duty, which brings about the
Interesting retult that you are paying
for the wealth of the United States
and getting nothing, or equivalent to
nothing, so far as the tariff Is con
cerned. Now that hasn't Just begun
to be true. It has always been true."
It Is not true. The protective tariff
does benefit the farmers. American
farmers Know this fact, and by their
votes' have helped to maintain the
policy of protection. Without their
totes the party of protection could
not have won a single presidential
election in the last forty years. Have
the fanners been mistaken through
all these years? They have not. Has
protection been of no valuo to them?
It certainly lias.
All history and all fact dispute the
academic free trade contention that
the farmer has no share In the bene
fits of protection. In every period of
industrial depression, resulting from
the destruction of the tariff duties be
low the protective point, the farmers
of this country have been heavy
losers, because of diminished demand
and lower prices for their products.
In the most recent period of Demo
cratic free trade legislation 1894-97
the farmers of the United States lost
fully Ave billion dollars In reduced
prices of farm products, and dimin
ished value of farm property In
every period of restored protection
the farmers have reaped the benefits
of a greater demand and increased
prices. There has been no exception
to the rule of prosperity for American
farmers, when American labor Is fully
employed.
Here are some proofs of that fact.
In a recent statement by Senator
Smoot printed In the Congressional
Record of August 2C, 1912, It Is shown
that In December, 1S9C, after two
years of free trade tariff revision un
der the Wilson law of 1894, the price
of corn was twenty-three cents a
bushel, while In December, 1911, after
fourteen years of restored protection,
the price of corn was sixty-nine cents
a bushel; or an advance over 1S9G of
200 per cent.
Using 189G as the basis of com
parison with December, 1911, It Is
found that tinder a protective tariff:
Corn advanced 200 per cent.
Wheat advanced 67 per cent.
Cotton advanced 28 per cent.
.Oats advanced 166 per cent.
Rye advanced 137 per cent.
Barley advanced 308 per cent.
Hay advanced 138 per cent.
Hops advanced 286 per cent.
Potatoes advanced 282 per cent.
Flaxseed advanced 149 per cent.
Fat cattle advanced 62 per cent.
I Fat hogs advanced 96 per cent.
Dairy Butter advanced 86 per cent.
Eggs advanced 90 per cent.
Whllo the price of farm products
has Increased, tfio price of articles
which the farmer purchases has not
Increased In proportion. Ho can buy
more today with the products of hlB
farm than he could In 189C. For ex
ample: Ten bushels of corn In 1911 paid for
125 pounds of sugar, and only 56
pounds In 1896.
Ten bushels of corn paid for 31 i
yards of bleached sheeting In 1911,
and only 13 yards In 1896.
Ten bushels of corn In 1911 paid for
two pairs of shoes, and only one pair
In 1896.
Professor Wilson and other Demo
cratic speakers and writers assert
what Is abolutely untrue when they
say, that the protective tariff robs,
and In no way benefits the American
farmer. As a matter 6f fact, there
Is probably no class of American pro
ducers whoso share In the benefits of
protection In the past fifteen years,
has been so great as the share of the
American farmer.
If the farmers rightly understand
their Interests, they will vote against
the party of free trade. They will cast
six million rotes for President Taft
and Vice President Sherman and a
continuation of the Republican policy
of protection.
ROOSELELT AND
RECIPROCITY
INSINCERITY .AND DEMAGOGISM
OF THIRD TERM CANDI-
DATC SHOWN.
WHY HE SHIFTED POSITION
He Not Only Favored Reciprocity but
Wrote President Taft That He
Firmly Believed In Free Trade
With Canada.
Although reciprocity is now a dead
Issue, It Is worth while, for the en
lightenment of those who oppose
President Taft for his endorsement
of reciprocity, to recall the position
taken by Colonel Roosevelt upon that
question. Mr. Roosevelt favors free
trade with Canada and was an ardent
adtocate and supporter of reciprocity
until he found that Its endorsement
would not help him In his third term
race.
President Taft, while he was con
sidering the question of reciprocity,
naturally consulted with ex-President
Roosevelt. He knew that Mr. Roose
velt had been president, that he was
familiar with the subject and that he
was, at that time, a good and loyal
Republican When, In the course o'
a lengthy letter, he asked Mr. Roose
velt's advice, he reviewed both sidet
of the matter In Impartial fashion
Mr. Roosevelt's reply wbb not only a
full endorsement but he went so far
as to adtocate absolute free trade
with Canada. Mr. Roosevelt wrote
as follows
Roosevelt for Free Trade with Canada.
"New York, Jan. 12. 1911.
"Dear Mr President:
"It seems to me that what you pro
pose to do with Canada Ib admirable
from every standpoint. I firmly be
lieve In free trade with Canada for
both economic and political reasons.
As you say, labor cost Is substantial!)
the same in the two countries, so
that you are amply Justified by the
platform. Whether Canada will ac
cept such reciprocity I do not know
but It Is greatly to your credit to
make the effort. Ever yours,
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
Not only In his letter to President
Taft, but also in speeches Mr. Roose
velt endorsed reciprocity. At Grand
Rapids, Mich., Feb. 12, 1911, he said:
"Here, friends. In Michigan, right
on the northern frontier, I have the
peculiar right to say a word of con
gratulation to you and to all of u?
upon the llkthood that we shall soon
have closer reciprocal tariff and trade
relations with the great nation to the
north of us."
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And In a speech before the Repub
lican club of New York city, deliv
ered on February 13, 1911, Mr. Roose
velt gave emphatic endorsement of
President Taft and reciprocity in the
following words:
"I want to eay how glad I am at
the way In which the members of the
club here tonight responded to the
two appeals made to them to uphold
the hand3 of President Taft, both In
his effort to secure reciprocity with
Canada and In his effort to secure
the fortification of the Panama canal."
Explanation Does Not Explain.
In the face of this record Mr. Roose
velt now explains his antagonism to
reciprocity by saying that he did not
fully understand the proposition and
endorsed It under a misrepresentation
of Its details.
Mr. Roosevelt's explanation Is un
worthy of consideration for two rea
sons. In the first place,- a man In
bis position from whom advice and
suggestion had been sought by the
president of the United States ought
not to admit having hastily endorsed
reciprocity without knowing what he
was doing. As a matter of fact, Mr.
Roosevelt's letters and speeches
above quoted are exactly In line with
his record
More than this, Mr. Roosevelt's ex
planation is an Insult to the Intel!!
gent voter because In his letter to
President Taft he says, "I firmly be
lieve In free trade with Canada."
This is going farther than President
Taft ever went, because Mr. Taft's
Idea of reciprocity was to obtain val
uable consideration In return for con
cessions granted. Roosevelt's free
trade proposition If enacted Into law
would break down all the barriers
between Canada and the United
States and would cause tremendouF
financial loss to American farmers.
The fact Is that Mr. Roosevelt wai
heartily in favor of reciprocity and
of free trade with Canada until he
made Ihs tour of the west before the
Republican natlonat convention, when
he found that reciprocity was unpop
ular. Then he shifted. His pres
ent altitude demonstrates his utter
Insincerity and shows that he Is ready
to do an) thing to catch votes. He
is ready to Indorso anything that he
believes Is popular and to condemn
that which he thinks Is unpopular
without regard to his own conviction?
or wise governmental policies. The
manner In which he has suddenly re
versed himself In the hope that by
so doing he would gain a few totes Is
an example of demagoglsm thorough
ly typical to his character.
It Is also important to remember
that if a Democratic president should
be elected reciprocity with Canada
would soon be an accomplished fact,
inasmuch as the Democrats In the
house of representatives voted for It
and also voted against repealing the
law which had been passed. Demo
cratic reciprocity Is the kind that
the Canadian newspapers are hoplns
Canada. wilL secure hecauc.ilw'iU
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mean that Canada will get eterythTng
from the United States and give noth
ing In return.
DESERTS PnOF. WILSON
Why a Democratic Editor Declares for
President Taft.
J. Holnan Buck, the Democratic
editor of the Western Nevada Miner
at MIna, In voicing his allegiance to
the Taft administration, Is not sparing
In his criticisms of the actions and
policies of Governor Woodrow Wil
son, the Democratic nominee, or of
Roosevelt. Buck is a Democrat of the
old school and readily sees the error
of his ways In supporting the Demo
cratic nominee for the presidency. In
speaking of Wilson he says:
"A man utterly untried In the affairs
of government; whose administration
as governor of New Jersey has proven
a failure and a farce; whose views
have been contracted by a lifetime
spent In the narrow confines of the
school room; whose associations have
naturally been the classes rather than
the masses and whose radical views
and vagaries outrival those of Debs
and Emma Goldman and that no more
represents real Democracy than does
the frothlngs of Roosevelt. The is
sues then are Taft, conservatism, the
preservation of the constitution and
a free Republican form of government,
versus Wilson, socialistic radicalism
and the turning over of established
form of government to mobocracy.
Believing as we do we would be un
just to ourselves and false to princi
ples and the public did we not align
ourselves with Mr. Taft and the princi
ples he represents We hope that in
the coming fray that he will be vic
torious and shall lend every effort at
our command to bring this about.
Party lines, by the Issues promul
gated, hate been swept aside and con
servative Democrats, be they true to
themselves and principles, will sup
port William Howard Taft for presi
dent, and rebuke the arrogant domina
tion of Bryan and his piratical band
of socialistic agitators."
WHAT A DEMOCRATIC
VICTORY WOULD MEAN.
The abolition' of the protective
tariff or the substitution for it
of a tariff for revenue only, as
proposed by the Democratic
platform, would plunge this
country Into the most wide
spread Industrial depression we
have yet seen, and THIS DE
PRESSION WOULD CONTIN
UE FOR AN INDEFINITE PE
RIOD. From Theodore Roosevelt's
Confession of Faith delivered, at
Chicago, August 6, 1912, before
the Progressive national conven
tion. . it.
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