The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-28

at all. Was there notice up not to you blow it out then?' Because they had put the turned thing in a bottle, and I couldn't
 can party are not anxious to ha=t any light thrown on its tariff history. They want to keep it crooked They wan to blow out the gas and pass tn some not lef so Of this crooked creature. The pubic know it will nos straighten 1tseif out, and that they will get no help from the republican party iIr doing any strengthening themselves That Is why they are voting the dem ocratic ticket. this year. Us they -an trust to revise the tariff and to revise it dOwnwards-
 The Contrast.
 But our republican friends say that this Payne-Aldrich tariff bill brings in more money than any tariff ever did before Just go, and that ix precisely the trouble It is taking out of the taken out in any years before
 Here are the radical differences policies on the tariff
 ''The first republican aim is to put on such high duties will give great profits to those whom the tariff la vorSe e,,.
 .-The first democratic aim is get enough money to answer the reeds of the government.
 We democrats want tariff to sup port the treasury-a tariff for revenue, but arranged with reference 70 Apro- lection as an incident. We want it high enough to meet the ctference between the cost of productior here and abroad. We want rhe Am ierfcar producer to make a fair interest on his investment To that extent we dol not differ from the republicans. But there we stop. We do not want to give any American producer an eIior- nous interest on his investment. We do not want to tax the people for any such purpose. Nor do we want to raise more money than the nation needs to spend.
 of the protective system in the United States, but not of the protective, sys- tenn we have got now.
 He held what has always been the democratic doctrine, that the great purpose of every tariff act was to raise the necessary revenue. and that%pro- lection should be purely incidental. First find whafmoney we need. Then average your duties so to get it, and in averaging them have an eye to reasona ble protection. And reason able protection, he thought, was such as would meet the extra cost of pro- duction here caused by our higher standard of wages.
 s'Harnilton's tariff, which made pro- lection an incident. laid duties of five and 0 per cent.
 -",rhe democratic tariff before tn e war-the tariff of 1857, averaged 1 about 20 per cent
 Now some of our rates are over 1 100 per cent and the average IS well over 40 per cent.
 ''I am not talking simply dem ocratfc l doctrine; or the doctrine Of all the pc Htica1 economists, of whatever party l or whatever country.
 ''It was-and not so long ago--the 1 republican doctrine.
 Tt was asserted in the republican national platform of 1876 that the | duties levied for the purpose of reVe- nue. should discriminate as to favor American labor In 1880, their ,~Jo ,,-ao fS1.11ao hi In same words.
 Comes From Wage Farmer.
 Don't forget that the wage-ea rher in the end pays the bulk of all these taxes. He. pays part to the grocer, ln the added price of groceries. on ac- count of the duties that the i'm porter paid on them, and charged over in his price to the: grocer He pays part to store, and part to the landlord. far the landIerd calls for more rent b&- cause the tariff makes houses cost ore, and we must all live under q roof, somewhere. If we hire it. we pay the landlord more for these du ties, If we own it, we paid more for more to the man that built it. l
 II have heard of country store keeper who was of a noralizing turn, and one day he put up a blackboard in his store, and asked the custom neFS who were there if each wouldn't kind ly write down on the blackboard what ne was QO1uS TOT the common SOOQ .Ol humanity A lawyer stepped up and wrote, I plead for all A doctor wrote next, prescribe for a1I.' A clergyman followed with, T pray for aI1' A wage-earing workingman came next and wrote. I pay for a1l:'
 ''1n the old days of demecratic ad- of the civil war, the government of the United States was run from the receipts of the tariff alone. and it was a low tariff. It can be done I1 he n-d nf f0r that the government is spending $3OO,0OO.OOO year more ically administered. He is the father of the present tariff bill He knows.
 Look back moment. When the last half of the last century began the United States were spending for all purposes 100000 Wear. Last year we spent for all purposes $684,- 900, The population in 1850 was ? 23,0OO,OO0. It is now four times that. At the rate of public expenditure then, we should need now revenue of only $164 100000. In fact we were $500, 100000, and running in debt at that. M
 How comes this? It is because the United States have been reaching out farther and farther into lines which were formerly considered by all the people to belong to the sphere |
 Tt is because the United States are Il trying to hold the Philippines under our power by force, and therefore en- tering a race of rivalry with foreign powers, to outdo them with a stronger navy in the Pacific.
 fIt is because Congress sits at | to 1egis1ate in matters of high concern remote from those whom that legislation may affect un- but in close contact with those whom, if they get what they want, it will affect favorably.
 F'The new tariff is said to be bet-i ter revenue raiser than the Dingley law. It must needs be to enable the government to keep up with the heavy expenses into " which the Republican party is hurrying it. This party is now in carrying out policies for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many.
 And they are apt to get what