The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-28
What The RIO a

an awful reckoning What the $1o a 1 week man wants and must have to 1 feed his family is more money He
 must get it, either in money Or in purchase Is it asking too much to insist that the cost of living be nov ed down a few notches so that the common people could renew acquaint- ance with a piece of meat?
 Realizing that the people are tre-
 mendously aroused, Republican lead
 CTS now urge that they have found a mission that has been employed This is just buncombe, and do not be de- ce1ved in the slightest degree. For
 their plundering, and this is just de- vice to further pull the wool over the eyes Of the people
 Two years ago they obtained many
 and now they balk in the performance
 by stating that it is not practica bIe to revise the tariff except to the de-
 gree of one schedule at a time. This
 is obtaining goods under false pre-
 lenses, and if it were an ordinary
 criminal he would be arrested and
 jailed.
 As it stands today, it is simply a
 device to prevent any action on the
 tariff To show the attitude of the
 Republican leaders as to a tariff com
 mission, just consider for a moment
 the action of Congress in the matter
 Senator Beveridge of Indiana, him
 self Republican, submitted the fol lowing so that the tariff commission
 should have some. comprehensive au-
 thority and power:
 gro secure inforna tion to assist the President in the discharge of the du-
 ties imposed upon him by this sec
 tion and information to aid Congress in tariff legislation and the officers of the Government in the adn1inistra-
 tion of the customs laws, the Presi- dent is hereby authorized to appoint such persons may be required to make thorough investigations and ex- an1fna tions into the production, com merce and trade of the United States and foreign countries and of condi- tions affecting the same Said per testimony and administer oaths and compel the production of books and papers,"
 This provision had some teeth and might have been of service. Senator A1drich would not consent that the President should appoint these experts the word employ" Neither would he allow them to examine witnesses Or compel the production of books and papers, that when it left the con ference committee and as it is now enacted. into law, it is reduced to this simple form:
 gro secure informat ton to assist the President in the duties imposed upon him by this section and the officers of the Government in the administra tion of the customs laws, the President is hereby authorized to employ Such per sons as may be required-''
 This commission about which the Republican leaders are now harping so much is just a bogus commission tants to the President. I think it would be wiped out in short notice if Congress would refuse to make an appropria ton for it's continuance.
 The President has signed appropria- tions this year which means the ex- penditure of more than three and one half millions of dollars for every rich has said that million dollars a day could be saved in the cost of run ming the Government by businesslike administration A large part of this must be raised by duties on imports, and any argument that the Democrat ic party is seeking absolutely free trade is the height of absurdity.
 Do not longer be deIuded by the hollow pretenses of the Republican leaders that they merely wish to COW CT the cost between labor here and the so-called pauper labor of Europe Do not let them use this cloak to hide the fact that their benef1ciaries are pocketing millions in profit and at of your mouth and that of hungry children Under their methods, Give us this day our daily bread" means much to the struggling millions. Take . concrete instance, in Fall River, Mass, where the great cotton mills have put out in dividends in the last nine or ten years between one hundred and two hundred per cent on their swollen capitalization. 1 Tn this period the wages paid to thou 1 sands of male employees have been advanced from $7.5O per week to the i wonderful wage of $S per week. Just think of it, these cotton rnanufactur- ing interests were still further favor | ed in the new Aldrich law, and were 1 also aided by the Senators and Rep 1 from this State, and will | take still more blood money in the | years to come, unless the voters here and elsewhere rise up and protest.
 Let us get a new board of directors In plain phrase, let us have a few po- ftica1 funerals. It can hardly be expected that a body of men can be n authority so long without getting selfish and caIlous to the peoples in ,erests When the directors of some If the great insurance companies were ;ound wanting, and the policyholders' savings were depleted by waste, ex- and fraud, an upheaval vas justly demanded, and now, when hese Republican stewards have grown alse to their duty and are allowing favored few to sap the vitality of the Nation, a change is imperatively de handed and this change will be made NV the voters in no uncertain way on 1