Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-03

BIG AUDIENCES IN CONNECTICUT
workinsmen in the Factories Of
Bridgeport Told That They Are Be-
ing Robbed by the Tariff System and
That Beneficiaries Are Partners
With Government.

Bridgeport, Conn, Nov. 3.-When
Judge Parker's special train reached
here from New York today the judge
was received with an outburst of APP
plause by the people who thronged the
| platform. Parker was Immediately
! welcomed in formal way by General
Bishop, candidate for lieutenant gov
/, ernor on the democratic ticket, whose
guest he was during his stay in the
city. Afterwards Parker was driven to
the Third regiment armory, where he
delivered an address to u large aud
ience.
| At towns thru which the special
passed, large crowds gathered at the
, stations and greeted the candidate
with cheers.
Parker said in part:
Il shall only detain you for few
minutes during my hurried trip thru
your state with few words of greet
ing to my many friends whose de-
votion partially have brought them
here. There are, however. one or two
topics which may fitting be dealt with
in few words in q great manufactur-
ing center like this. In our latter days
the claim is often made, not only by
practical men, but by students OF econ
omic history, that our rapid industrial
progress is the result of the develop
ment of machinery. This theory as
sumes that whatever our ancestors did
in the way of building up institutions
and industry, everything Is now SO
changed we have now become depen-
dent upon a machine and must be con-
tent to remain so hereafter. The fact,
however, is overlooked that whatever
machinery may have done, it has been
deyised. created and adapted by mars
Ingenuity, has been perfected by hu-
man patience and industry, that 1t
must be operated by men of mind,
bone and muscle. Nobody will pre-
sumo to deny that 1t has become an
important factor in industry, but 1t Is
merely an incident, an auxiliary. In
truth. in nothing of what we call mod
ern progress has there been SO much
of exaggeration as that which relates
to the machine. This is due entirely
to the assumption that it is something
III ana OIL llSSll, SVlltCtiiiS soSP PesA eaNS
from the human mind and human body.
We have thrown over it the aegfs of
the law and for the reason that we
have recognized it as form of prop
erty and thus an expression of hui
man thrift every kind of protection
which society could devise has been
given to it. During the past few years
an entirely new doctrine has been
preached. It's logic is that whatever
else we have done in the world, what
ever human inperfections may still
exist. SO far as the levy Of taxes is
concerned we have reached absolute
perfection. The phrase standing pat,
used to denote this idea, may not be an
elegant, but it is at le st expressive.
It would be interesting if time permit
ted, to inquire what this country and
the world would have been, II, at diff
ferent periods, during the past few
hundred years, our ancestors had
thought of this doctrine and had ac-
cepted it, 1t might, for instance, have
been used two hundred and fifty years
ago to perpetuate all the abuses Of
feudalism. There was much in that
idea. and the resulting system Of gov
ernment which was interesting. In
fact the whole of modern progress has
come largely from refusal of the world
to stand pat Each successive gem
GRAFTON has recognized the virtues and
accepted the labors Of it's predecessors,
but In doing so, none has ever de-
clined or refused to recognize new de-
mands or to correct old abuses. There
is no more reason why we should re-
solve not to revise our national rev.
enue laws. than there would have been
at other periods of history to stop all
progress. This is especially true of the
abuses which become rooted in our hu-
man life.
cit is easy enough for favorite,
who, in this case is predominant part
ner with the government. to resist any
suggestion of change. But the farmer,
laborer, man or woman of fixed income.
student struggling for education, poor
girl supporting her mothers family
these are entitled to inquire whether
this policy of using the law to give
favorS to the few, while the many are
left to nurse a sense of injuries, shouio
become permanently fixed. merely pc
cause power Of corruption or snort
sighted economic rolicy has brought IL
to us as an heritage"