The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-07
ATTORNEY J. B. KLElN'S MASTERLY ANALYSIS OF
 HIGH PRICE QUESTION
Shows What Republican Broken Promises and Corpora tion servility Are Costing the People-Everyone' s Pocket Pays the Toll of the Robber Barons, Thanks to the G. O. P-Ralles Last Night.

Hall at which a number of the Dem | ocratic candidates for office accepted invitations to speak. The president of the meeting was Attorney J. B. Klein who made an able address, the only speech that he has had an op- portunity to make during the cam paign. MT. Klein said: MT. Klein said in part: Fellow cit izens. want to thank you for Of fering me the opportunity to preside here this evening. 1 am glad to De able to take part in campaign when there are such real live issues such as are in this campaign. I have de, sired to take part before but because of i'll health and pressing business was unable 70 that this evening offers me the first opportunity to talk. But the better the day the better the deed. If the ministry can discuss issues from the pulpit on Sunday then there should be nothing to stop plain or dnary citizens from getting together for the purpose of discussing the is- sues of this campaign.
 'sThe issues we have before us are chose pertaining to the Nation and to the State. The National issues re- late to the tariff Congress you know passed the Payne-Aldrich bill and the process of the necessities of life com menced to go up at once so that the people of the country felt the oppres- sion, Two years ago when we had a National election the Republican par ty admitted the unfairness Of the tar If laws. Its leaders said to the Am erican people keep us in power and we will give you a tariff that reduces the cost of living They promised to place certain articles on the free list and that the revision would be down upon many other articles What happened? You all know that the returned to power. They revised the tariff. But we know that the men who wrote schedule after schedule which became a part of that tariff law were the representatives of the vested inter ests-the trusts who for many years have been getting fat at the expense of the rest of the people-and then after the bill had been revised upward instead of downward Republican Congress passed it; and President s to the document Now you all know whether you have any more money now than you had the end of the year before. You know whether or not you are paying more for the ne- cessities of life. Is your wife wear ing any better clothes than she ever wore before?
 ssThis same high tariff is the mother of all the trusts and that is the req son that you are paying more to live
  eggs and other things that go on youl table. The high tariff on woolens makes you pay more for the clothing you wear.
 Canada would not send eggs into this country so that you could buy them for g. cents a dozen instead o1 paving SO and 60 cents a dozen fol them. But they took off the tariff on perfumery. They put 1t on cottor goods and they took it off silks. you want common ordinary par O cotton socks you pay more for it bu if you want to buy silk socks you cal get the kind that used to cost S1 : pair for s5 cents. I have here a clip ping from yesterdays New Yorl Times telling of the inducements tha a bond broking house is offering t sell the securities of the big cottol mills. The duty on cotton was in creased from 35 per cent to AT 1-2 pc cent Considering the freight 10 some 3,0OO miles, commissions on I'm porters profits and insurance to b added to those taxes it is clear tha the American manufactures can ralS his process from 50 per cent to 62 l. per cent without fear of competlt1o from imported goods. The cheape grades are taxed higher on the aver age than the most costly. That to say. the goods really necessary the class that use them, and to whol their cost is heavier drain on scar ty incomes. are taxed more neasl, than the goods bought by the ricl which are relatively a luxury. WI pays this extra traiff? Does it go int the treasury of the country throus revenues collected? No. You pay for the American manufacture marks up the price of his goods ar fhe high tariff keeps out the forels made goods.
 of the operatives got the addition money charged to the consumers
 would be all right but they oont g it. The owners of the mills get u additional money. The New Bedfo1 mills profits for the past four yea are as follows: Hathaway mill, 70 p cent: City mill, 73 per cent: Acus net mill. 114 per cent; Dartmouth
 The dividends Of the Fall Riv mills ranged anywhere from 45 p cent to 231 per cent. The avera profit of the twelve largest mi ranged in four years from II per ce to a little under 58 per cent. It not easy to see why the cotton wea CTS of the United States should
 taxed to protect such a business fire competition.
 records of the government Is that t working people employed in the e ton industry get pitifully sm amount of the money made by tn employers through the favor Of t traiff makers. US uOlulnS LiOIC LII robbery. According to the Statisti Abstract of the United States average wages paid in the cotton
 dustry in 1890 were a fraction oN $500: in 1900 the average was ol s2S6 a year and 1904 it was $3O4.
 Are not these really shame facts? We call them to the attt tion of the Republicans who are ma ing professions of special friendsl for the working people. Is it Xii is it decent by law to compel IT and women who earn S304 year
 pay from 50 per cent to 100 per c' more for every yard they wear
 the very cotton they are making, WI their "protected' employers are m; ing profits from Il per cent to 5S cent a year.
 s'So it is with all necessities of From the time the baby is born
 the time the grave is reached he p; protection to the trusts. Is it
 time that this was stopped? The p are filched so that the rich may gr richer and richer.
 "So far as national issues are c cerned vote for our cOngreSsm Lynn w Wilson. The next congr is going to be Democratic. help to give them a working maj ity. The Republicans have too l' deceived the people. Thank God
 people are awaking to the reai1zat of the real conditions in this co