The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
FOUR SPEECHES
IN CONNECTICUT
MADE BY JUDGE PARKER.
GREAT CROWDS HEARD THE
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE.

H.
tiOn of Him and His Doctrines.
Principal Speech Made at Hart
fOFd-Meeting There One of the
Greatest of the Campaign.
Hartford, Conn. Nov. 3.-Four en-
thusiastic audiences greeted Judge
Parker to-day on his only visit to the
state in the campaign, and in several
other places through which his special
train passed he was given rousing i'm
promptu welcomes.
The principal speech Of the trip was
IN this city tonight. The other re-
ceptions were held in Bridgeport, New
Haven and Meriden, where an address
was made from the rear end of the
train. This speech dealt with the
question of trusts, and the candidate
denied the charge that the Standard
Oil Company is the financial sponsor
of the Democratic party and charged
that the companys interests are with
the Republican party.
The meeting in this city was one of
the greatest of the campaign in this
state. Judge Parker was given a
warm welcome from the moment he
reached the city. The meeting was
held in the Opera House. All en-
frances were blocked by the time the
candidate was driven to the Opera
House, and admittance was obtained
with the greatest difficulty.
Judge Parker held informal recep-
aff e L
shook hands during the day and even
ing with several thousand people. He
remained over night in Hartford and
will start on his return trip to New
York tomorrow morning
This city became wildly enthusiasts
tic over Judge Parker at a monster
rally held in the Opera House tonight.
Democrats from all parts of the state
came here and the accommodations for
the audience was entirely inadequate.
The crowd proved to be the most de-
monstrative of any he had faced dur
ing the day. The ovation lasted
eighteen minutes, most of the audi
ence being on their feet shouting wild
ly, while hundred of them waved flags.
The Shipping Question.
Judge Parker in his speech here re-
ferred to the shipping question as fol-
lows:
'"The time has again come when we
need ships of our own. but they
should be built, not at the cost of
the government, not from taxes drawn
from all the people, but as result of
the enterprise of our people. They
should be designed and constructed by
the ingenuity of our engineers. operat-s
ed by our seamen and owned by our,
people. Every landing place along
these limitless coasts of ours ought to
he nursery. however rude, for the
sailor. Our products sent to other
countries should be carried in Ameri-
can bottoms and that almost infinite
demand by our people for the prod
ucts of other countries, should enable
US to bring them everything that their
material comfort, education and pro-
gress makes it necessary or desirable
Tor them to use."
Judge Parker commended interna-
tional arbitration, but thought our
best assurance for peace would be to
maintain only such an army as is
actually needed. He then took up the
tariff question, reviewing the develop
inent of a high protective tariff, which
ne said compelled us to pay more for
things we buy than we otherwise
would. He continued:
ExtOrtiOns by the Trusts.
IF a collector from the steel trust
should ask you to contribute dollar
a year for each member of your FAM
NY would you Go it? You cannot
think Of any argument that could per-
suade you to. Yet, the celebrated sta
ustlcian, Edward Atkinson, asserts
that the steel interests collect an av-
erage of 81 a year for each person 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 va
Iious kinds, as we'll as a great num-
Der of articles every day purchased,
are made in this country, and sold
abroad cheaper than they are sold
mere Some are sold one-fifth cheaper,
others one-quarter, and still others
one-third, after paying the expense of
transportation across the ocean. That
AIth or quarter or third represents 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
al which he sells it abroad.
lie compels you to pay this amount
oy means OF a statute which places
the duty so high that foreign competi-
zion is cut off"
Democrats Opposed Trusts.
=, After pointing out the necessity for
Ihe development of our foreign trade,
Judge Parker addressed himself to the
trust question, saying:
Our opponents have the effrontery to
Slaim that they alone have shown any
uesire to oppose the trusts. Their claim
Is as false as 1t is flagrant.
4. 80 far from this being the fact,
.le record shows that time and again
we representatives of the Democratic
party have begun prosecutions under
cle so-called Sherman act. Attorney
General Olney began and Attorney
General Harmon continued to the end
ule nrst OF the successful prosecutions
GG'luer the antitrust law. Attorney
General Harmon asked for approprfa-
IONS TO enforce that act. He reported
70 Congress that witnesses against the
rust should be exempted from liability
that they could not interpose the
Yea or privilege. but lt was not Needed
oy Republican Congress- He asked
.or an appropriation to carry ON the
Work IN both a special and a general
aspect but a Republican Congress
would not.
ciamor Forced Them 90 IL.
An indignant clamor that was not
pe denied ~ last forced the hands
W the Republican party. both ln the
,la'lef ot legislation and OF appropria-
,,pn, The statute creating the De
haIlnient ~ Labor and Commerce was
do,eHsed, doe ana an appropriation of $500.
M. We inaae. The Greater part of