The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-07
THE HIGH COST
 OF LIVING AND THETRUE REMEDY

The Democratic propositions have been out two months, appealing tc the highest intelligence, the soundest reasoning the 1oftiest patriotism proposing perfect labor conditions perfect manufacturing conditions making more work to do and products at lower price to the consumer They have not been answered. More work to do means more wages and higher wages. Nothing can escape that economic law. ANYTHING that makes more work means more wages and higher wages in and of itself without any officer or any machinery to carry out that law.
 The Democratic party proposes to take off the duty from all raw ma terials used in manufacturing, to take off the duty from all foods, because such duties play the mischief both with manufacturing and with living comfortably Those duties were mis- chievous from the start, never were anything else, never can be anything else They should never have been imposed by any tariff bill. at any period in the history of the country, and to have imposed them all these years is an unanswerable indictment against the Republican party, for which Tuesday it must answer to the people.
 
 terial that goes into manufacturing, and put up every food that the la borer eats while he is manufacturing, is ground-floor disadvantage, both in manufacturing and in living that cannot be escaped. It would be ludicrous if it were not wicked.
 It is a little late to bring out the old wheeses to uphold this Payne AIdrich tariff bill It is inviting the citizen to vote first and think after ward. There is a tariff on coal. on timber, lumber, telegraph poles, laths, shingles, and fire-wood, on brick, ce- ment, lime; on iron ore, pig iron, scrap iron: on building stone; on wool, on hatters' cut fur; on wood pulp and broom corn; on manureS, seeds, trees and plants. There is tariff on about every food you can think of, on cattle, swine, sheep, poultry, on barley, oatmeal, buckwheat, corn, rice, wheat, maccaroni, vermicelli, oats, hay, flour, butter. cheese. on- ions, straw, fish, apples, lemons, oranges, pineapples, nuts, bacon, hams, every kind of meat, on canned goods, on lard, tallow, chocolate, CO., coa, starch, salt, spices.
 There is a tariff on certain things that enter into manufacturing just as unwashed wool does, the great fun damentaI chemicals, sulphuric acid, caustic soda and soda ash, on coal tar dyes. colors and extracts used for tanning and dyeing. Sulphuric acid is used by the thousand tons; soda ash by the million tons There should be no duty on any of them. nor on alcohol used in the arts. nor should there be any internal revenue tax on alcohol used in the arts.
 Let Congress draw the pen through these items in the tariff bill. and more would be done for manufactur- ing in Connecticut and the whole for the well-being of our people in the last sixty years.
 The tariff would not be so bad if it were not for the combines, but the tariff makes the combines and want by campaign contributions. There are twelve hundred combines in this country. almost every one of them with a tariff to uphold it. A combine without a tariff would have about as much show in this country as snow flakes in that place where the eli mate is so bad and the society so good. The Democratic party charges the combines to the Payne Aldrich tariff bill. and so does everybody else. It charges the high cost of liv- ing in large part to the Payne-Ald- rich tariff and to the favoritism con- cealed in the tariff. The Democratic party charges the higher prices here than abroad for the same goods from the same American factories to the Payne Aldrich tariff bill.
 Labor is cheaper in this country in the product than in any other coun- try in the world, and for that very