The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-04
PorI<er'S Great Address at Hartford.
fBv the Associated Press.)

Hartford Conn. Nov. 3.-Judge
Parker i'm his speech referred TO the
shipping question as follows:
The time has again come Wheh we
need ships of our own, but they Shoulu
be built. not at the cost of the govern
ment, not from taxes drawn from all
the people, but as a result of the en-
tarprise of our people. They should
be designed and constructed by the
ingenuity of our engineers, operated
by our seamen and owned by our peo-
pie. Every landing place along these
linitleSS coasts of ours, ought TO pe
n nursery, however rude, for the seller.
Our products sent TO other countries
should be carried in American DOT
toms and that almost infinite demand
bv our people for the products OF
other countries, should enable us 10
bring them everything that their ma
terial comfort, education and progress
makes il necessary or desirable for
them to use.
Judge Parker commended interna-
tional arbitration, but thought our
best assurance for peace would be TO
maintain such an army as is actually
needed. He then took uD the tarlH
question, reviewing the development
of a high protective tariff, Whlch ne
said compelled us to pay more for
would. He continued:
Our People Foot the Bill
eff a collector from the steel trust
should ask YOU to contribute a dollar
year for each member of your
family, would you do it? You cannot
think of anv argument that could
persuade YOU to. Yet the celebrated
statistician Edward Atkinson, asserts
that the steel interests collect an aver
age of one dollar year for each per-
son with the aid of the tariff statute.
Precisely that result is accomplish
ed as to many articles by our present
tariff laws. Sewing machines, NOW
ing machines, farm implements of
various kinds as we'll as a great num-
Der Of articles every cay purchased
are made in this country and Sold
abroad cheaper than they are sold
here Some are sold one-fifth cheap
er, Others one-quarter, and still others
one-third, after paying the expenses
Of TRANSPORTATION across the ocean
That fifth or quarter or third repre-
sents the amount the purchaser IS
obliged to place in the manufacturers
box over and above the fair value of
the thing purchased, as evidenced by
the price at which he sells it abroad.
He cOmrels ycu to pay this amount
by means of statute which places
the duty so high that foreign competi-
ton is cut off.
Real Foes of Trusts.
After pointing out the necessity for
the development of our foreign trade,
Judge Parker addressed himself to
the trust question, saying:
Our opponents have the affrontery
to claim that they alone have shown
h II Al.
claim is as false as it is fragrant
$50 far from this being the fact, the
record shows that time and again the
representatives of the Democratic
party have begun prosecutions under
The so-called Sherman act. Attorney
General Harmon asked for appropria-
tons to enforce that act. He reported
to Congress that witnesses summoned
to testify against the trusts be exempt
ed from liability SO that they could not
interpoSa the plea of privilege but l.
was not needed by a Republican Con-
s!ess. He asked for an appropriation
to carry on the work in both special
and general respect, but n Republi-
can Congress would not.
Drew Evil Out of Good.
can indignant clamor that was not
to be denied at last forced the hands
Of the Republican party, both in the
matter of explanation and OF apTro-
priatiOn. The statute creating the de-
rartment of labor and commerce was
passed and an appropriation of half a
million was made. The greater part
of the moneys appropriated lie idle in
the public treasury but the legislation
served its purpose.
Born, as it was, of a union between
the trusts and the Republican party,
the parallel of this legislation in scan
d&lous features, does not exist upon
Cur statute books today.
1T puts into the hands of the PreSi-
Gent, and OF the Republican party the
rIeanS of continuing it's hold upon the
reinS of government without limit as
to time, through the possession of Sc
crets of trusts, which under the terms
OF the legislation itself, he may or NAV
not make public or private as he di-
reefs.
I'VE know full we'll how the op-
portunity for the use of that legisla-
ton has been availed of in this cam
paign No statute could have been
better devised for the successful
financing of the present election of
the candidate of the Republican par