Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 30, 1912, Page 6

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Thus we give *ou desirable neighbors in addition '¢ ROSEDALE'S other attratcions Wide strects, shade troes, fertile sx!! dullding restrictions. Inside the *y, owe blork east from lake Mor LO% SMITH & STEITZ ad G. C. ROGAN Deeu-Bryaunt Building Whatever you want {n roa lestate w, have It. A SQUARE DEAL wish to rent a if you house or have a houss you wish to SOOI OPT if you have a house to sell or wish to purchas: one; If, in fact, you desire 19 buy or sell anything in the line of ~eal estate, this is my specialty. See me beforp you close a deal Full information given cheerfully ang freely. N. K. LEWIS Phone 309. Room 1, Raymondo Bldg. g 2L 5L DSDIAHOIT * PO N GEN GRANTS SON IIRVING FISHER IS FOR WIlSflN | In Open Letter He Says Issues Noted Yale Econ omist Appeals | This Year Are Similar to to Fellow Progressives Tiose of 1850. With Clzor Logic. g 7 IS THE ISSUE PRINCIPLES FATHER UPHELD SPYS TA FOR WILSON | Same Problem Today, Writes Jesse R. Grant, In Choosing Between People and the Interests. Jesse R. Grant, son of Genera! Ulys- ses S. Grant, commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil war and Republican president of the United States from 1869 to 1877, links the generation of war veterans and the young voters of today in the follow- ing appeal, made public by him at his home in New York: To the Voter, KEspecially the Voter: We are facing the 5th of November issues of momentous importance to the future of the United States. Shall the old order of things continue? Shall our economic life be determined—shall our government continue to be domi. nated by the thoughts, the desires and | the interests of those who have been the principal beneficiaries of that gov- ernment’s patronage or shall the pow- er of government be handed back to the whole people to be administered for their common good? It was a similar issue fifty-two years ago, when there arose from out of Illi- nois a new leader, who held human rights to be greater than property rights, whose thoughts were not the old thoughts, whose vision of justice had not been clouded by association with the ruling interests. We are at the threshold of a new period of transition. Shall the door be | blocked by men who cannot see xthund’.’! New Shall we clect to follow men who,| while clothed with official power, nur-! and who now propose nothing better than to legalize and regulate monopo- | ly and make us live under it the rest | of our lives? | The New Leader. Or shall we call to leadership a new man from the outside, from the ranks of the people, in sympathy with their | lives and their ideals, holding their viewpoint, consecrated to their serv- ice? Such a man is Woodrow Wilson. As a son of the soldier who fought to uphold the principles for which Abraham Lincoln stood and as a son of a Republican president, I can see only one duty for myself—to give heartily my influence 2nd my vote for principle and not fo- the name of a party long since divorced from its sympathy for the common man. Verily, | believe that the principles for which Woodrow Wilson is fighting are the principles for which my father fought, and that he ilone among the presidential candidates measures up to the standards of courage, conscience and capacity of the leader whose hand my father helped to uphold. Old voters, as well as new, I beg ot ' you not to be deceived by names and projndlces Open your minds to the truth and vote in its light. JESSE R. GRANT Oct. 19 New York, ; AMERICANS TAXED FOR ENGLIEH PROFIT Enormous Dividends of Thread Trust Go Abroad. Cotton thread pays an import duty equivalent to 47 per cent. This tarift was levied originally to build up an “infant industry™ in America and pro- tect American capital. It happens, however, that practically all the capi- tal in the thread industry in the Uni- ted States is foreign :apital, and that the dividends of the thread trust are nearly all sent abroad. The American Thread company, in- corporated in New Jersey in 1898, has $16,290,475 of capital, and its net prof- its in 1910 were $2,441,844. Lyman R. Hopkins, president, testifying ln‘ 1901 before the United States indus- trial commission, said that the money to buy up the fourteen concerns in- cluded in the New Jersey consolida-| tion was furnished by the English, Sewing Cotton company. The thread trust’s principal competitor in this country is the J. & P. Coates concern, ' which maintains its Fnglish organiza- tion and English factories to manufac- ture thread for the world, and its American factories to manufacture thread for Americans in order to reap the extra profits from manufacturing within the American tariff wall As far back as 1901 the thread trust, according to its sident, was em- ploying “one-quarter to one-third” of foreign labor. Recent industrial in- vestigations have disclosed that the proportion in New England textile industries is now nearer four foreign- ers to one American. Here we have “protection” for for- eign capital and for foreign labor at the w of every sewing woman, Contrasts Three Declares Democratic Attitude the Cnly Progressive One. By PROF. IRVING FISHER. [Note.—Dr. Fisher is the noted author ity on economics of Yale university. He was a member of President Roosevelt's nation:! conservation commission.—Ed.] I write not as a Democrat but as an independent Progressive and in the hope that my letter may help other Progressives who are wavering to make up their minds to vote for Wil son. So far as | can see the only hope of progressive legislation lies in the election of Wilson. My reasons, in-brief, follow: 1. DEADLCCK IN CONGRESS.— If it were possible to elect; Mr. Taft there would merely be repeated the same deadlock with congress and fail- ure to secure progressive legislation which has been experienced in his first term. It it were possible to elect Mr. Roosevelt even less could be accom- plished, for the reason that he would not have a sympathetic congress. 2. DEADLOCKED ELECTION.—To be still more practical, we should con- sider that the result of us independ- ents voting for Taft or Roosevelt in- stead of for Wilson may be to pre vent any one of the three from being elected. 3. THE TARIFF.—If, on the other hand, we independent Progressives unite for the most part in voting for Wilson he can be elected, and, if ele~t- | ed, can accomplish substantial legis’ 1 tion, because with him will be elect. d give a majority in both houses. To this my Bull Moose friends reply that not all Democrats are progressives and will not carry out a progressive platform. This argument overlooks the fact that the paramount issue of this cam- paign is the tariff and that progres- slve tariff reform means progressive tarift reduction. the Democrats have been a party of negation, so far as the tariff is con- cerned, that they, if anybody, can be trusted to reform it downward. Mr. Roosevelt would be equally unme able and far more unwilling than Mr. Taft to reduce the tariff. In his seven years in office he left the tariff un- touched, and now he speaks primarily as a protectionist and not as a tarift reformer. He ylelds grudgingly to the demand for tariff reduction, but gives no clear argument for it. Instead, he repeats the old fallacious arguments to make our poor workmen believe.! that a high tariff raises wages. Governor Wilson and his party, on the other hand, are ardent tariff re- | formers. , cratic platform is the only progressive i platform of the three. Why should we blind ourselves by the introduction of numerous other issues which could not be settled in the present campaign when we have. before us the greatest issue of all, the tariff, which CAN be settled? 4 ISSUES grasp of the problems of the hour far surpasses that of Roosevelt or Taft. Mr ted that economic problems such as the tariff, the cost of living, the cur | rency and the economic problems con- nected with trusts not only have no attraction for him, but have never i been understood by him. 5. THE PEOPLE'S INTERESTS.— Wilson is more truly democratic than Roosevelt and more untrammeled in his devotion to the interests of the | people as a whole Those who accuse Wilson of recently adopting new democratic doctrines because their popularity would help him per- sonally should learn that, on the com- trary, he adopted them (in his fight to democratize Princeton university) when their unpopularity in the circles In which his activities then lay nearly threatened to destroy his influence and career. 6. PURE FOODS.—Governor Wil son and the Democratic party have 'shown a greater interest than either [ Taft or Roosevelt in the protection ‘of the consumer against food adul 'teration and other injuries to the pubd- lic health. Dr. Wiley, although pre- | viously a Republican. now has decid- i ed not only to vote for Wilson, but te help him actively in the campaign. 7. THIRD TERM.—To elect Mr. Roosevelt would deal a fatal blow to the useful tradition against a third term. . Nor do I think it alto- gether improbable that it Mr. Roose- velt were again elected president he would, whatever his present inten- tions, gradually assume the role of benevolent despot. His natural tem- perament is that of a dictator. 1 write as one who still holds per- sonal respect both for Colonel Roose- velt and President Taft and in no spirit of personal hostility to either. 1 believe that all three candidates in- tend to do right “as God gives them to see the right,” but I think neither Party Programs and | tured privilege and fostered monopoly | 2 suTicient number of Democrats to! It is just because : In this respect the Hemo-I ECONOMIC.—Wilson's | Roosevelt has frequently admit- | CHANCE OF 2 LIFE TIME | am gciug to retire Tom aciive business and ty e e stock of Dry Goods, No'lons, cis ABSOLUTE COST | (f you want to make $1 do the work of $5, come t0 ny s10r snd lay in a supply of Spring and Summer Gooce. will be slashed to rock bottom prices, Including LAWNS, LINENS. 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