Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-16
Congressman Higgins Is Renominated
Unanimous Choice of Delegates In Convention Here
Candidates Acceptance Speech Met With Hearty
Approval-Banquet Followed Adjournment.

phone companies under the scope of the
interstate commerce act. congress
also created special committee to
investigate the extent and character of
railroad stocks and report on the pos
sibility of federal control of railroads
and report on the possibility of federal
control of all railroad securities.
1t provided as the republican party
pledged in its platform, for a system
of postal savings banks, thus afford
ing small depositors the security of
the United States treasury and guar
anteeing two per cent. interest on their
deposits.
1t granted statehood to Arizona and
New Mexico; it provided for the TAX
ing of the thirteenth census, which
was taken under the civil service. 1t
passed drastic legislation designed to
prevent. collisions at sea, a law requir-
ing the more general use of safety APP
pliances on railroads, providing for the
publicity of campaign contributions; 1t
appropriated 100000 to enable the de-
partment of justice to prosecute vio-
lators of the Sherman antitrust law:
it created the bureau of mines to
minimize the dangers to mine en-
laws enacted by the last congress. and
in one session the present congress
passed more laws than the complete
record of any preceding congress.
Revision of the Tariff.
This congress met in extra session
March Is, 1909 and adjourned Aug. 5,
1909. This session was called primari-
ly to meet the pledges Of the party re-
sponsible for the legislation made to
the people in the last national conven-
ton. 1t had been ten years since there
was a revision of the tariff. The Ding
ley law had as promised brought
prosperity The great changes during
that time in conditions in the factory,
on the farm and in the mine had made
it necessary that there should be
readjustment of tariff schedules. Pres
ident Taft declared that the object
of the revision was not to destroy pro-
tectad industries in this country, but
it was TO continue to protect them
where lower rates offered sufficient
protection to prevent injury by foreign
competition" He said that was the
object of the revision as advocated by
me, and it certainly was the object of
the revision as promised in the repub-
lican platform
Commercial Value of New England
Farms.
New England commercially has ac-
quired her position through her manu-
features. Its Importance in agricul-
ture has with the development of the
farm lands of the west been diminish
ing until l hope the necessity of more
people in this section returning to the
soil is becoming apparent. There is
hardly q section of the country that
has been SO little favored by nature as
ours in it's resources. The commercial
value of our New England farms has
been lost sight of in our attention. to
other industrial pursuits. The major
part of our people are devoted to call
ings which do not in the first instance
furnish foodstuffs. The New England
Fa,~ he IL
world at his door, and no other factor
contributes so much to the present high
cost of living than our failure to make
the soil which is our greatest source
of wealth in the country. yield a
greater bounty nearer the point of con-
sumption. I hope the soil survey of
Windham county which is now in
progress and which [ hope to get ex-
tended to New London county Will
disabuse the minds of some people as
to the fertility and possibilities yet in
herent in our Conn acticut farm lands.
1t is theirs to feed the toiling masses
centered in our cities, where there are
more to the square mile than in any
other part of the country. The present
census now being completed will dis
close large migration from the coun-
try to the town. I believe the tide has
turned and when it reaches the food
the New England farm will bear nearer
it's proportion Of the burden of feeding
our people and at the same time will
help solve the greatest economic ques-
ton which has yet confronted us.
Protect Labor from Cheap Foreign
Competition.
BY the enactment of the last tariff
bill. as with all republican tariff bills
we protect our labor from the competi-
ton of the lower paid labor of Europe
and Asia. The tariff while furnish
IN in fol hn
ment. protects our people from a de-
competition with the scan
ty paid labor from abroad and holds
the American market for American la
Dor. New England. more than any
other section Of the country, is inter
ested in the protection of American
labor and American industries. Note
the locality from which criticisms
hurled at the last tariff bill from re-
publican statesmen has come. BY
speech and pen it is charged that this
tariff favors New England unduly and
that our section receives more than it's
due proportion of benefit. 1 am far
from admitting the truth of this
charge nor would | disclaim such an
evident compliment. for it is alleged
that through its representa- tives in
both branches of congress New Eng
land secures national influence
greater than its population. wealth,
and Importance deserves. The hun
dreds of different items of the present
law affect to q greater or less degree
the welfare of all our people Con-
gress in its legislation is bound to
and does reflect the judgment and
wish of our ninety millions of people.
The necessity of the protective policy
is nation wide. Its beneficent effects
are not bound by state or locality lines.
agree with the proposition that ''in
it's inception in America the protective
tariff found its justification in the fact
that it built UP our infant industries.
In it's maturity the protective tariff
finds it's justification in the fact that
it is the mightiest single instrument
in this nation for maintaining the
prosperity of all classes and all sec
lions of our common country"
Conservation of Natural Resources.
The question of the conservation OF
our natural resources. so forcibly
brought to the attention of our people
by the last administration, has been
advanced by this congress under the
wise lea dership of President Taft. The
question of conserving our natural re-