The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-01

NAL DISCOVERER of the Ten Com mandments has developed a new idea. the so called New NatfonAlisnn. 8ur c1nctly stated 1t Is the idea of fhaS strenuous gentleman that we orxf1t
 Lo nave stronger government at nope of being ultimately the absoiuts Dictator at the head of ft1 that Con
 gress shall enact laws not only in, matters concerning the National Gov
 ernment. but also legisIate in matters. which are exclusively within the prov
 ince and Jurisdiction of the indtvfduar
 states. Of course the Standard Bear CT Of the Democratic party fin fhfz
 state strongly objects to such e dec
 laration of policy by one, who claims
 to be the sole and only fnfaIlfbIs lead. CT or the entire Nation because suchs
 a policy would infringe upon the old
 and long ago universally accepeed
 principle of State rights and hons
 rule, just as we here in the city ob-
 Ject to being interfered with tn focah
 matters n1a, from Hartford on the print
 c1ple or home rule, but the verH
 strenuous gentleman, can not bear.
 contradiction of criticism and becauss
 of this frank criticism by our candi-.
 date for Governor he incurred the dis.
 pleasure of the 'strenuous one. andf
 with his readiness for invectfves hei
 called Judge Baldwin a Yetrogressfv9
 Judge on the only ground forsooth
 that our. Standard Bearer, as chief
 Justice of the Connecticut Suprems
 Court decided that Congress can not
 enact an Employers Liability Act". to be effective in Connecticut, but
 that the local State 1egis1akure must.
 enact it to be effective. And this de-
 cision has been used by some of ths
 lady scolds'' of the Republican par-
 ty, for want of better argument to
 prejudice the minds of the working
 men arguing to them that Judge Bald
 win is opposed to an Employer sLia>-
 bility Act and Workingmens Com
 pensation Act. How absurd and un- just. The manly letter of that hon. local papers, which he sent ts fhs strenuous one' in which he says. among other things: I will add that I have long been in favor of the prin- ciples of a Workmen's Compensation Act, and was nominated to the offics to which you referred the Governor ship by a party which called for such Legislation in it's platform, is a complete refutation of these absurd and unjust calumnies against an hon.
 orable judge.
 ..Yes, my friends, the Republican party stands convicted on all chargest On charge of pilfering from the Dem ocratic platform of several important blanks and advocating them as their own without ever intending to keep their platform promises, as they have done heretofore, wiggling out from their party promises of reform under one pretext or another, and they ara guilty of falsely accusing an honor able Judge for doing his sworn duty, and above all in importance is their guilt of nominating men to office by the grossest corruption, who are only .the puppets of the interests, who pay the freight'-and whose bidding fnose puppets will do if elected to office | have no fear, my friends, that Dem ocrats and Independents will not zvots the ticket headed by sucn an nSnO able man as Judge Baldwin, but ~ great and most important question is there before the self-respectfng Re- publicans to decide. and that IS. ss it was very aptly put by Talcott Rus sell. the Democratic nominee for At Are the self-respecting Republicans going to permit their Representatives to sell their votes in conventions and then ratify their traitorous action on election day by their votes ana tn1 republican party will stay boughfT or will they do as honorable men do under such circumstances, kick out the entire corrupt crew on elecfIon day bag and baggage? Which will 1t he my Republican friends"
 Edward F. Hallen spoke briefly up- on national and state issues. He told of the manner that the Republican nartv for years had used the railroad commission as a haven for pohtIcaI ha cIxs and that it was not until a. lew wears ago that it even gave the Dem ocratic party recognition upoh eho commission.
 The speaker paid 8, high tribute t1 Jynn w. Wilson saying that he had never met a man who had such fund of correct material relative t0 the economic and political conditions of the country. He said that the Re- nublican tariff laws were enacted up- on the ground that they would help American workingmen, but instead they were made to make 1t posslDis rates for American made goods when sold to American consumers
 He demonstrated how American beef was sold in England for 20 and 25 per cent. cheaper than 1t IS solo in this country. The harvesting ms- chinefy of the Harvester trust, hs said, was sold on the Steppes of Rus sia for 25 per cent. less the cost than if was sold for in the American market. He told of an instance that American steel rails were selling 1g Canada for $21 and in the United States at the same time for s2S.
 He said that the Republican party was beginning to talk about a tariff commission to regulate things, admit ting the present system was wroDs, although it had mad 4O years 10 change it in.
 To the workingmen present he pre- sented strong argument relative to the s5, 600 limitation in damage cases caused by death. He told of an in- stance of a Bridgeport attorney who went to the offices of bonding conn pany for the widow of a man killed i'm local manufacturing concern. The officers of the concern told the lawyer that they would give ths widow s15O as that was about what it could cost them to fight the case, but if the man was killed in Massa- chusetts or New Jersey under ths same conditions they would be willing to settle for $5,000. He brought ft home quite vividly to the workers present that they were living in ts1s state where the cost of a human sIfs is held to be cheaper than any other