The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-20

earners, salaried officials ana clefKs 1h- creased twenty thousand. The increase in salaries and wages was $2l, 2l,OoO'Voo-- sum one-half as great as the total paid by all our factories in the year 1880. The increase in the capital n- vested in Connecticut manufactures was $74,00O, ,OOO-more than one-hai1 the total capital of our factories in the year 1880. And note this: While the capital invested increast tWenty-nve per cent. in this period, there was an increase in tho wages paid of twenty per cent.
 During the year ending July ], 1906, there was expended for new factory construction in Connecticut the sum of $1,700,000. and the financial news of several Connecticut newspapers recent ly stated that there has been within the past year, chiefly in our brass hardware and insurance concerns, an increase of capital of the astonishing total of $7 7,S72, ,O0OOf the outlook for the | future the state labor commissioner says, in his last annual report: "The extraordinary activity in all lines of manufacturing promises to continue in l nearly all the industrial centers, and in \ the larger cnties plans for extensive operations in buildings for manufac- | turing purposes have been filled with the several municipal building depart | ments
 l TARIFF REFORM.
 The protective tariff is so firmly es- abolished in our public economy 1t has been so often ratified by the votes of the American people, that l assume 1t Is fixed for long time as an American lprinciple Assaults upon 1t as such have practically ceast Free traders we shall always have with us but the experience of the farmer, the working man, and the manufacturer is so much better than the book wisdom of the free trade dreamer, that he has at least recognized the futility of trying to change the overwhelming sentiment of
 the country to his views
 And so he has adopted a new tack.
 He has set up cry for tariff reform by. which he hopes to accomplish CO., vertly what he cannot do openly. He has persuaded a-few friends of the pro- tective system that the present tariff needs revision and they, seemingly un- aware of the dangers attending such revision are lending sincere but mis- guided assistance to the enemies of protection, by taking part in the cry for a change In our schedules.
 THE DINGLEY LAW
 Protectionists do not claim that the Dingley schedules are sacred and un- ehangeable like the laws of the Medes and Persians. They do believe, howev- CT, that the so-called American system of protection as exemplified by the op- eration of the Dingley law for nine years, is sound and must be main tained. A tariff law to be successful
 must be coherent. It must, on the other hand, necessarily embody some injustice for no tariff law Is possible of construction that will be perfectly satisfactory to all of the varied inter-
 ests of a country So vast as ours. No tariff law of any kind is possible with eut concessions.
 The republican party welcomes the
 tariff as one of the chief issues of this campaign for such it Is, The demo- cracy still stands committed to free trade, and every encouragement 1Ayen to it is prop knockt from under the protectiye system which has made Connecticut comparatively the richest manufacturing community on earth.
 TARIFF AND PRICES.
 Let me point out in passing that an- thracite coal, copper, petroleum and rubber, which are not protected by our tariff, have increased in price since 1896, whereas such commodities aa cement, wire nails, steel rails and tin plate, which are heavily protected, have as steadily decreast in price. The protec- tive tariff has almost invariably low
 cred the cost to the consumer and in those cases where the cost has risen in the last ten years, 1t has been due mainly to increasing prosperity and de-
 mand, resulting in inoreast wages, and partly to an artificial control of the
 market, which control President Roosevelt and his party are determined to break up. It is unfortunate for the theories of our democratic free trade friends that the unprotected articles, - such as oil and anthracite coal have
 gone up in price without the help oi
 any duty, and that bituminous coal un-
 der the last democratic tariff, the Will
 son bill, which removed the duty, went up to $3,75 per ton in 1903, the highest price in twelve years.
 t lREPUBLICAN PARTY AND LABOR. l Judged by his deeds, President 3 Roosevelt is the most sincere friend of @ the workingman and of union laboi 5 that has occupied the executive chaii t in generations. The republican party t judged by It's deeds-and the way tc
 judge a party is by its acts and not by A the words of it's campaign stumpers-is a hundred per cent. of the men who toll 1, land when it shapes legislation in their a behalf it does so on broad lines. l It abolished slavery, peonage and the a involuntary servitude of foreigners ir
 this country. It excluded Chinese la
 bor. It has framed all of our immigra, \ \ ton laws, with the view to maintain. ing the high standard of American Nv.
 ing. It has abolished convict labor fl 2 federal prisons. It compelled the rail 2 roads to adopt safety aplianees for the A protection of their employees It has
 past three eight hour laws in 1868, 1SS, U and 1892. It created the Department al Labor in 1908 with a cabinet officer a , the head. It established boards of ar.
 bitration in 1898. It provided for the Incorporation of national trades un. = ions in 1886. As against this record no