The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-28

J
 Here in the East, where the voice
 of the honest Republican masses can-
 not be raised from within on account
 of corrupt and debauched party ma
 clinics, the protest has been and will
 be made effective in this off year,
 by supporting the Democratic nom-
 1nees. In Maine, heretofore staunch
 rock-rlbbed Republican State, the peo-
 Die have spoken with no uncertain
 voice, and Senator Hale, one of the
 leaders of that same crew, has been
 he richly deserves. In Rhode Island,
 A1drich, the master of them all, has
 seen the handwriting on the wall and
 so effaced himself In Massachusetts
 Lodge trembles as he never did before,
 ana Tn Connecticut, the honest Repub-
 ucan masses will see to it that an
 effect1Ve- protest is made against the
 conduct of Senators and Representa-
 tlVes who ally themselves in every
 instance with this despicab1e crew and
 m1srepresent the people of the State
 We come then to the question, what
 IS the matter with the tariff? I can
 only briefly allude to it, and it is a
 queer thing that you will find a negro
 in the woodpile of every tariff sched- ule-some joker in almost every
 clause that is lining the pocket of
 some rich beneficiary. It is queer
 that you never find one of these jok-
 CTS redounding to the benefit of the
 People-but that is not the way the Republican tariff makers play the game.
 pAAAAStPa1 lTOuDl0 IS that the tariff is an ambush, under cover of
 which the great corporations have
 Tbin TgGn aole to get what they wanted hnls h,1ifdi5 has been exemplified in the
 pulIdlng up of the sugar trust, the steel trust and the many other trusts which have been foisted on us since the Dingley tariff went into effect some thirteen years ago.
 The Dingley bill, in a single year, made nearly four hundred trusts, The infamous sugar trust grew and pros- pered under it at the expense of the people. In the A1drich-Payne law the sugar trust got what it wanted, and they have the consumers bound hand and foot This trust is one of the knowledging to it's actual theft of millions of dollars by fraudulent un- derWe1ghing, refunding other millions for other reasons when their rascal ity was shown.
 Just note what Reverend Father Farrell, a Pastor in Brooklyn where the sugar refinerfes are located, said when Secretary Heike and other eIn- ployees of the sugar trust were con- victed and when they asked for the clemency of the Court:
 Robb1ng the Government of mil lions by false weighing and recording Of imported sugar, these very officials refused a wage increase of two cents an hour to their men. The workmen get only eighteen cents an hour and they must work twelvGs hours a day. hardly enough to feed and clothe their families.
 'tThe most .depIorable sight of all is to see these high salaried employees convicted of robbfng the Government before a court for sentence and begging clemency. Faithful ser vice and old age were the reasons Why these men working for a corporation worth millions, but one that refused an advance of two have clenency is something beyond me. The most pitiful sight in the world occurs each morning outside the sugar plant, where these men seek flies from starvation gather. The of fcia1s in charge of the plant look them over, then summon their special policeman and order them driven xvi :sWhy shc1id mercy shown these officials? Why should they requires, instead of being given elem ency by the Court? ?"
 The Ding1ey tariff was engineered by Mark Hanna and was an open and politics. It cannot be denied that the exorbitant Dins1ey schedules were written in the main by the special interests themselves and for their own benefit For a period of about ten years, this obnoxious and unjust Dingley law-framed by Aldrich, Han na, Hale, Cannon, Dalze11 and other of their stripe-aided and abetted by our own Senators and Congressmen, was allowed by our Republican leg Islators to remain the law of the combines of a, number and kind never before seen in the history of the world. These trusts thrust out their s1imy hands until the coal, the cloth l ng and even the food of the people | are within their corrupt grasp. For | every dollar that went to the Gov | ernment in the shape of revenue there 1 were five dollars squeezed from suf- 1 'ering people to increase the swollen | purse of this predatory horde.
 The offense became so rank that, in | sos. to allay, the discontent among | Republicans themselves, the platform | # the Republican party promised a | special session of Congress to revise | he schedules in the interests of the | pecfal session and gave us an ex- libition of the most fragrant repudi- l Ltion of party promises. Even Presi- 1 lent Taft pleaded with the Senate to l his great humiliation before the peo- ,le. But this corrupt Republican Ma ional machine, with AIdrich and Ia1e leading in the Senate, and Can lon and Da1zell in the House, could lot be swerved from it's allegiance to he trusts and other special interests, | s the same Cannon and the same Da1- ell who came within a few years to his City to plead for the Congress- nen for this district. They have not anne now that they were then. This 5 the same Dalze1I who for twenty our years has represented the inter l sts of pennsylvania. He represents that Cannonism and Aid ichism represent. He is a living al- ance between politics and business. Ee is I believe, the controlling spirit f the Ways and Means Committee the House
 We can see the spirit of the times rhen this man, even in Pennsylvania, oIding his seat practically uncontest- d for twenty-four years, is saved rom extinction at the primaries by a arrow margin of four hundred votes; nd this despite a primary fund of LO,0 900 contributed by his friends and rith bribery freely alleged.
 You know SibIey, of Standard Oil aint, acknowledges that he spent lO 900 to secure the nomination at ne primaries this is an average of