The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-28
FALLEN HELD HIS HEARERS
 SPELLBOUND
Democratic Probate Candidate EnthuSeS Immense Audience by Masterly Presentation of Issues
WHY THE PEOPLE SUFFER
Plain Unvarnished Facts That Should be Read and Weighed by All Honest Electors in This Campaign
address follows:

As there are a number of speakers l and as the time a my disposal is
 cuss many topics that press for atten-
 tion- I shall, therefore, confine my l self to the topic of the abnormal1y | of the reasons for this condition. 1 I appeal to the common sense of 1 this audience and community and 1 urge the voters not to be hoodwinked as to the vital issues in this cam 1 paign Facts are stubborn things.
 and today in nearly every home in ] the land there is serious difficulty in making income meet expenses. Dur | ing recent years the cost of living has 1 increased at a terrific rate. and the
 future, especially where there are a number of mouths to feed, is viewed lfwith well grounded alarm. Prices | are advancing steadily, and the high
 cost of living is very largely attri- | if which weighs so heavily upon the
 masses of the people. It is a start | ling fact that instead of reducing the 1 taxes on the necessities of life, they
 were left as scheduled in the excessive l Dingley tariff, or else increased. Our Republican leaders are in an awkward situation here and they do
 not like to face the music. They have. stated that it is world wide tendency, and that this question has place in this campaign; desiring in this way to shut out discussion of the policy that has brought millions of our people down to the hunger line
 
 len fortunes of comparatively few beneficiaries of favor and privilege.
 Some of these leaders even state that there has been no increase in the cost of living; but this claim is too ridiculous to have even a.. mo- ments attention Leave it to your wife or mother and find out if the is of this campaign is not corned beef and cabbage and how you are going to get them.
 The men who toll all day, who live oI11- 1IOf ly have the remedy in their own hands and it is these men. and not the trust IeecEes, who are the bone and sinew of the American people and constitute the real greatness of the nation.
 The Republican leaders take the po- sition. when forced to make any ex- to do with prices. We'll this may be- disproved out of their own mouths
 In our neighboring State of Mas sachusetts-a nanufa curing State like, our own-Governor Draper, a Repub- Hcan Governor, appointed a commits sion to investigate the cost of living. The report of that commission was printed as a public document, at the expense of the State of Massa chusetts, after many months of careful exam1- nation, and at a cost to the State of $15,0OO.
 On page sS7 of the report of that commission I find this statement:
 ''It is manifest that if the tariff did not raise the price of protected ar ticles it would fail of it's purpose"
 I find on page 384 of that report:
 But the tariff was never meant to apply seriously to the food of the peo- ple save for the development of such industries as the growing of fruit in Florida or beets for sugar in the
 And again, on page 387. find the
 we submit, therefore. that it is a ole free access to those articles of food that call for the bulk of the expenditure of the masses, For pur- noses of revenue it may be wise to tax somewhat the comforts and the heaviest duties should be levied on the luxuries, but the food necessities of life should be free.'' Iican leaders wish to divert attention from this robbery of the masses of
 One of the things Connecticut and New England vitally need is recipro- city with Canada Here we have a limited states and Alaska combined, | astonishing the world by it's con1mer- ciaI strides and agricultural develop | ment separated from us by only an l imaginary line It has much that we 1 want and need, especially in the way | of food and no artificial barriers | should be set up to keep It away rom
 Owing to the policy maintained by | Republican Congress, our manufac- | turers are compelled to erect plants over the Canadian line to take care of the Canadian trade Already under this unwise policy the United States manufacturers have crossed thls cana dian line and erected mills and fac tories involving an outlay of $500, ,00O,- 900, and are thus depriV1ng our people of the opportunity to produce these goods.
 Too many times have the voters been misled on account Of blind ad- herence to mere party ,lapei- Ine time is now here when a legislator IS to be measured, not only by the fact f that he is Democrat or Republican, but also by the cause to when ne mas attached himself. During the recent debates in the Senate, preceding the passage of the iniquItous Aldrlch- Payne tariff law, in which the Peop1e,s interests were ruthlessly trampIed un- der foot, Republican Senators like Deliver, Cumnins, BeVer1dge ana others pointed out day by day the the shoulders of the Amerlcan people. What was the invariabfe reply made by Aldrieh and his forty associate plunderers, among whom l regret to say were the two Senators from our own State? It was to +fead them out of the Republican party ana 70 tell them in effect that if they could not rally, at the expense of the people, to the call of. the beef trust, the oil trust, the sugar trust and hundred other trusts, they were not entitled to be called Republicans. Think or this, and think of Republican ad- ministration coming directly to the aid of these freeboOters and W1thhoId- ing federal patronage from that m surgent band to whip them in line for the interestsI I am glad to state that these contemptible methods could not swerve these insurgents, ana day after day, in House and Senate, they fought side by side with the Demo crats the fight of the people. These Republican Statesmen of the middle and far West trepudiated the claim of this band of Republican brigands that they represented the conscience and was entitled to the name of the Re publican party And when, despite their desperate. protest, the indefen- sible Aldrich-Payne law was passed, these insurgents went back to their people, and be it said to the credit of inc Republicans of the great West,