The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-08

| at the opening of the Democratic l State convention in New Haven, last
 night, by Temporary Chairman John 1 s. Seymour of South Norwalk. The remarks of Mr Seymour were fre- | quently marked by applause, especial | ly during the portion of his remarks
 in which he f1ayed the New Haven
 and serve public needs. MT. Sey-
 mour said:
 Democracy in Connecticut is a thing
 of potency, promise and hope. From l the political chaos of the >past there is gradually emerging the broad out
 it's fundamentals, grounded in the will l of the people, benefictent and enlight-
 ened, patriotic and just.
 Trace the political principles, which
 are far beyond the control of the few l or the many, upon which all stable l governments rest and apply these
 principles to present industrial hnan- 1 cials and political conditions. l In these days when the huge political deficit of the Republican party is laid
 bare, men are turning in legions to the
 Democratic party, believing that 1t will not be content to rest in the shadows, 1 but will have the daring. the high
 eourage. to fl! out the whole truth: l The ancient spirit of the people is not
 dead, nor is it prepared to give way
 on question where principle, honor
 and interest are alike involved. Dem I manity at its best. It rests upon the
 primary dignity of man, and puts it's
 trust in state founded not on force,
 not wealth, but on the principles of right, and forever assumes that such l 0 state is possible because it ought to | exist. Progress will consist in devel-s conceived.
 What is the present political situ- ation? For half a generation the Re publican party has been in undisputed control of every department of the federal government and of most of the states, has an effective machine and the press, it's adherents have appropri-' ated out natural resources. control nine-tenths of the money of the country has had the confidence of the 1 collapse of its policies with no Repub- 1ican substitute in sight An aStound- ing fact, and there is a cause, and that ! cause is great; it is also general and adequate.
 It's unheroic policy is favoritism. and therefore fundarnental injustice. tend ing to greed, greed to combines, and combines to widespread oppression. The weakness of favoritism is that, tized. No matter how great the party of favoritisIn may be, how large it's nnajor1ties, how prevalent it's power. faxors to the few cannot an tin in the 1ez, very @ equivalent to the many, nor can it be made righteous
 THE TARIFF.
 All Republican, tariffs attempt to do this possible thing and fail Demo cracy must frankly reverse the policy of favoritism and return to public tranquility, the quite order and security guaranteed by laws founded upon absolute justice.
 Taxation is a factor in hig9< prices, but the. aggregate of all taxes that reach the public treasury is far less than the false tariff taxes upon all men that never reach the treasury, but are diverted by unjust law, be it remembered, to the private coffers of the few.
 The high prices of meat, fish, eggs butter and coal, no matter how caused,
 may cut down the demand for hats. shoes, clothes, and watches By and by when a man goes without a new hat, buys two pairs of shoes in a year where he used to buy three, and the drops, earnings drop, everything drops, production ceases. There is nothing to buy with.
 This Cannon-Payne-AId tariff bill, for which every one of the Con necticut delegations in Congress voted. stands in the way of our development.
 In the same, way it victimizes every sea-coast State from Maine to Geofgia- By a comparison of the census figures of 1900 with 1890, the making of agr1- cultural implements in every Atlantic sea-board state shrank either in capi- tai employed or in the value Of the output, or in both.
 The authors and uphOlQerS or CLS Cannon-P n-Payne-Aldrich bill, explain that they have revised the tariff on agr1- cultural implements downward five per cent.,- but to what good when both rates are Drohibitive and we import practically agricultural implements
 In another meaner way we in Con necticut and the East suffer from our statesmen. The production of agrtcult- ura1 implements is largely in the hands of trust; and between the tar1ff ana the trust, Connecticut is hard hit both ont ials with which we can make -rhlngS, and then ship past us to foreign mar kets all over the world the finished product cheaper than they will sell It to us.
 Then they doanother thing. They tie up the export shipment with a con tract to bring the goods back into this country free of duty, where they might be sold at a profit at a sharp cut under trust prices, form of restraint in trade well worth the attention or the department of Justice.
 Take the carriage industry and we do not need to go into detail about were made a large proportion of the carriages made in the United states, and some exported. But the same handicap that weighs us down in the making of agricultural implements has largely banished the carriage industry from New Haven and Connecticut, ana that industry is out west, where the raw materials and the coal are had on better terms and natural gas abounds.
 The Berlin Bridge Go. in Connecticut was until recently one of it's most profitable industries, but since it was taken over by the United States Steel Corporation they have found it to the1r advantage to make bridges nearer the rolling mills, instead of shipping structural steel from Pittsburg to Con necticut, manufacturing in our State, and sending the bridges back to the principal market, and shipping some abroad. The Berlin plant is now dis mantled. Let us have the pig iron, the ore, the coal, at our coast on the sea-Ieve1 basis, and the trade capable of indefinite development can be better copd11cted at orr coast for the foreign l