Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-18
TOWNSEND WOULD
SEEK WOnENS' AID.
TO DOWN c. 0. ?.
Congressional Candidate Urges
Direct Appeal to Wives
and Mothers.

Three enthusiastic DemoCratlc Satn-
erings were held in Essex county last
night. Three hundred cheered DR..
Woodrow Wilson. the Democratic gu
bernatorial candidate. and the whole
ticket at the West Orange meeting;
more than 1000 voters attended the
Ninth Ward open-eir meeting at the
corner of FreIinghuysen avenue and
Stanton streets. while still larger num-
bers attended the Fifteenth Ward
meeting in Miele's Hall, Eighth ave-
nue. and Sheffield street. Mayor
Haussling's appearance at the latter
meeting caused considerable cheering
The Ninth Ward meeting was the larg-
est Democratic gathering held in that
section In years.
"Riison, That's All"
There was a parade before the meet
Ing. The strength of the Ninth Ward
Democratic Club astonished the resi-
dents of that section. In former years
to assemble 100 Democrats in the Ninth,
or the old Fourteenth Ward, was an
unusual happening. Jacob L. Newman
presided. A brilliantly illuminated
stage was erected. A sign Wilson,
That's ALL" was displayed. Mayor
HaussIing spoke. So did Walter l. Nc
Coy, candidate for Congress-; Patrick
II. Ryan, candidate for the Board OF
Works; Edward Schickhaus, candidate
for county supervisor, and all the as
sembly n var candidates. The
same set of speakers excepting the
ward candidates. spoke at the Fiji
teenth Ward meeting. At the West
Orange meeting speeches were made by
Edward w. Townsend, candidate for
Congress; j. Harry Hull, candidate for
county register and the assembly and
ward candidates.
Deals with Tarin Issues.
Speaking of the tariff, Mr.. Townsend
said:
"If women were shown what are the
effects of the Payne-Aldrich tariff there
would be a speedy revision downward
"Tf I had the funds to do SO I would,
by the circulation of literature and by
public meetings for wives of voters,
make a determined effort to ngage
the interest of women OF behalf of the
Democratic campaign in the State.
'1f it were within my means to do
so 1 would hire halls for women's
meetings and, so far as I could, address
those meetings; better yet, I would
have my wife and other women who
have studied the question talk at such
meetings on the suffering and injustice
inflicted by the excessive tariff tax,
especially on children"
Relies on women's Judgment. ]
I'VE are told that women have sharp
er intuitions than men. I believe they
are quicker and keener in understand
ing what effects known causes produce.
l believe that the sacred 'mumbo-
jumbo patter of the high protectionists
that we can tax ourselves prosperous,
which has so long b~efogged the brains
of many men, would be quickly resolved
into its actual nonsense by women
when once the plain facts were put be-
fore them.
ITO me 1t is an astonishing thing
that many men, pinched by the high
cost Of living, yet believe that the way
Of relief lies in continuing high prices
or making them higher. You couldn't
fool many women by such stuff. Many
men believe that an excessive tariff
causes high wages, and some men go
on so believing after you have shown
that -wage-earners in unprotected call
ings ear much more than wage-earn-
ers in the most highly protected indus
tries. That stuff wouldn't fool many
women long.
Some men still believe that the
foreigners or the fairies a the tax
levied on food and clothing, in spite of
| o,i~ danaAn ctra t;o,n 4lot A. frt,utg odd
the tax bonds to the goods they sell
and which the consumers pay for. We
show that the Payne-Aldrich tariff
gives to American cotton makers from
40 to rs per cent. more protection than
did the Dingley bill; that this higher
cost of cotton makes the clothing bills
for children much Wore. or else the
children dress much worse. 1t is the
same with woolens. with shoes. with
food, and It means insuf1ciently
clothed and underfed children in many
poor homes in order hat more divi-
dends may be paid ON excessive capital
igation OF the wooden, the cotton, the
leather n the beef trusts. They rob
childhood not only OF comfort but of
Joy, and coin the stolen joys and COM
fort into unearned dividends. That IL
what the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill
does, and I blush when 1 think that
your representative in Congress, X.
Wayne Parker, voted for such cruel,
such immoral legislation"
Walter I. Mccoy, who spoke in the
Ninth and Fifteenth wards, said:
. Up to the Consumer.
THE consum> r at this election must
decide whether he will allow himself
to be heavily taxed for the encourage
ment of efficiency. Senator Aldr1cn
was in favorsof such taxation, for he
stated in the Senate during the de-
bate of the Payne-Aldrich bill that he
would as readily vote for 300 per oens
duties as for 50 per cent: If he thousn'
it necessary to do so in order 70
equalize the alleged difference between
the cost of production here and II
other countries.
mfr. Dolliver was a Progressive
Republican with the courage o.
his convictions. He fought Aldricf
tooth and nail on the Payne
Aldrich bill and voted against it. NJ
one in Congress was more familiar
with its iniuuities than he and in tn