Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-12
kate Convention Opened in Hartford Last Eyening---The Mayor Sounded the Key- note For the Campaign Trusts and Monopoies Denounced The Make
 Up of the State Central
 Committee.

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 burg and keeps Pennsylvania repub-
 llcan, as out of simple gratitude she
 ought to be. but the people of other
 states must pay the piper.
 Nor can the average citizen of Connecticut feel that the coal com bine, composed for the most part of two or three railroads, violating the constitution of Pennsylvania every day that they operate, the combine which,
 to quote one of its leading spirits, | charges what the traffic will beari for one of the necessities of life, the
 average citizen cannot feel that this
 great combination of capital is in dire
 need of any special legislation to
 keep it from bankruptcy.
 Beauties of The Tariff.
 The man who desires to build a
 home, or the other fellow, greatly in the majority, who has to rent one
 and who is obliged to pay from one
 third to one-half more than he did
 five years ago, and is told that lumber
 has gone into the clouds and there
 fore it costs to build and maintain a
 house, cannot fully appreciate the
 beauties of the tariff on lumber
 which makes him buy of the lumber
 combine at its price instead of in the cheapest market he can.
 We are not alone in our views of the wrongness of the dictum laid down by the controlling spirits of the republican party that the tariff is perfect and must not be disturbed. Many eminent members of that same party have denounced that policy in the strongest kind of language. Representative Mccall. one of the most prominent republican congress men in Massachusetts, during the last session of congress made this assertion, The greatest aggrega- tions of capital the world has ever seen are rapidly growing greater be- cause of duties which no longer serve any just purpose of protection, but which amount to a grant to levy tribute."
 Our own congressman Hill ex- pressed the same idea a few weeks ago in Buffalo, saying: There are some things of which we are getting tired and the fattening of giant combinations and trusts under the wing of protection is one of them"
 Governor Cummins of Iowa makes still more vigorous assertion, "All the graft of all the insurance com panies from the beginning cannot equal one-fifth of the amount of which the people are robbed every year by eyceSsfye tariff
 Surely. it cannot be said of us, in view of the statements of these eminent republicans. that we over state the truth when we repeat that the maintenance of a high tariff is rapidly becoming not only a great | economic issue but great moral | issue also.
 Orders From Oyster Bay.
 What can the people of Connecti- cut expect from the republican party toward reducing these burdens. Nothing. Nothing at all. Nor can they expect anything from the presi- dent. lse makes no sign. The plan | oi campaign was laid out at Oyster Bay. Can Connecticut expect any | relief from her republican represen- tatives in congress Their record | answers "No." Every where the ruling powers are preach ing the gospel of stand pat"
 l believe that if the issue could be squarely brought before the electors of Connecticut. disentangled from any other, a large majority are in favor of the reduction of tariff du- lies. especially on steel. lumber, coal and any other article, whose pro- iuction is practically controlled by one body of men. There is only one r way to secure it, through a democra- -ic congress. Massachusetts has tried he other way. electing republican low tariff men. But as long as Mas. 'achussetts does nothing but com )lain, the leaders in congress will map their fingers at her.
 The cry of the republican bene- iciaries of the Dingley act, that the ariff should be revised only by Its friends. that is by themselves. means 
 But the campaign on which we are is primarily a state cam 'aign, one in which. it seems to me. he election of state officers and a egislature is of the greatest i'm ,ortance.
 Change Good for Government.
 It is almost an axiom in civics that n occasional change of control is ne of the best things that can hap en in any government. democratic n form. That this state needs such
 change is an evident, well-known act. admitted by a great many re- ublicans themselves. except during he two or three months precsedins n election. Nobody charges that UT state government is dishonest or Orrupt. that 1t is unduly controlled ! its operation by the great public ervice corporations of the state fev -il! deny. Who are the leaders of he republican party in Connecticut. ie men who actually control legis- , Ition, who shape the policies of the tate officials and dictate the ap- uintments to the var1ous legislative lr1missions. They are the very len who loom largest in the corpo- itions whose field Is the exDIoita- ( on of public franchises. Long [ go 1t was most wisely said. No 5 Ian can serve tvo masters-- Sue,s i lings as these explain many acts of a IT last general assembly the rcpea. | the general railroad Iaw. pushed | { trough by the steam road interests. i le so-caIled ''six track trolley law a lgineered by the chairman If the ' IdicisrT committee and general I 'unsel for the Connecticut Railuas | !, d Lighting Company. which allow. s setrie railroad companies in any a