The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-08
SEYMOUR DENOUNCES RATE INCREASES ON NEW HAVEN
 RAILROAD; TALKS TARIFF
Speech of Temporary Chairman of Democratic Co
 Ceived With Much Applause

and glory of the State and of the handicap of the duty on copper twenty years ago.. and the Wilson bill put copper on the free list and our Con nect1cut industry has copper as cheap as any other country in the world; by single line in the Wilson tariff bill, which Senator Platt was inf1uent- ial enough to retain in the Ding1ey bill, the copper industry feels no pressure to migrate west toward the great sources of home supply.
 We have them with us in a state Of the blessing has bben ours without harm to the pig copper industry, for while we import of copper $40, ,000, 600 worth 8 year and ore $8, ,000, GOO, we ex- port $96, GOO, 900 worth a, year, more than double since 1901; but, with this bene- fit, we have copper at the same price as our foreign competitors and make and ship to foreign markets in increas- ing amount the manufactures of brass and copper by reason of these natural
 What can be clearer, than that the Cannon-Aldrich tariff bill vi6timizes Connecticut, when by it and it's pre- decessorS, one great industry, the \Inak- ing of agricultural implements. never got foothold in this favored State, the carriage industry and the bridge attaining immense development, and the copper industry remains to enjoy its prosperity in the state of it's origin because. exceptionally, they enjoy the
 
 silk industry thrives here They have the raw material free. The rubber in dustry thrives here; they have their raw material free.
 The tariff for Connecticut and for the country proposed by Democracy is, all raw materials free, chemicals free, demonstration under oursvery eyes, on the Hgic of the thing.
 The sea is the natural resource of Connecticut as really as the wheat fields t0 Montana IF natural is fO Indiana. There Is no moral right in men, or parties, or congresses, to de- the sea, separated only by ocean freights, the coal mines of Nova Scotia, the iron ores of Sweden and Spain, the ranches of Australia, the beef and hides from ArgentinaI are annexed to her territory and adjoin her coast.
 The principal of free raw materials is so sound that it has been forced in part upon the Republican party in two ways, thus affirming the Demo- cratic doctrine in all its extent. Cop per, hides and petroleum, crude and the free list by insistent public opinion, and this is a magnificent achievement due altogether to the initiative of the Democratic party. This is not because there has been any change in. con ditions that made copper, hides and petroleum wisely taxable formerly or made the tax more harmful now. It was never a wise tax, and the same argument now applies with the same force to wool, coal, iren-ore, pig iron, scrap iron, lumber. chemicals and taxed; the conditions have not changed. Not in the whole world is there a. land where they should be taxed. Not in the whole world is there enough wool for the demand of the world, not enough raw rubber, raw silk, not enough lumber, or hides, meat, and no obstacle however slight should be placed against their coming into this country, for the sake of our manufact- uring supremacy, for the employment of labor, for the conservation of our own resources. Every thousand feet of lumber coming in from abroad leaves a growing tree standing in America to slow down the devastation them all free when we see the force of the argument The railroads have had influence enough to get ties on railroad than to re-raiI it. and 1t must be done oftener; but if the railroads are entitled to free ties. why is not the farmer entitled to free barn lurnb- CT?
 LABOR
 Closely allied with the tariff prob lem is the labor problem, and only by solving the tariff question can the labor question be reached in due or der, for high raw materials, high Dor and crowd it down the scale, keep 1t down, more certainly than millions or 1nm12Tat1On.-
 The fundamental doctrine and wide ly useful theorem of the Democratic party concerns labor and the relations of capital and labor, and here again it is guided by broad legal proposi- tions elicited from the precedents by comparison and induction.
 Labor must appeal to first princi- pies. By searching inquiry from the wisest, we may determine the most efficient labor day in the great indus tries. The standard days. work must good, not merely to the state, but to the laborer Is the 1aborerFs worth fairly remunerated by the agreed hireg If there is a substitute willing only passes the problem on unso1ved- The question recurs, Is the subst1- cover from the fatigue of one day in time for the next? Year in and year out can he do as much in eight hours as in nine? Time shall be allowed for thought, and study, and the saw ing of his own soul. Considering ma chinery tireless and loss if standing idle beyond the time needed for inspection and repair, considering whether one shift or two shall be the rule of fully employed mill, we may come on broad lines, from experience and inquiry, to determine the length of the philosophical day.
 Then there must be universal en- p1oyment and equal opportunity; there must be just distribution of present product.
 There must be an equitable appor- tionment of the advantages from new discoveries and inventions, between employers, employees and the con- sumner.
 It is to the interest of the state that the wages of a good man should be increased more and more until further increase would not inspire him to greater effort, even were the day shorter: and this is also the dictate | of intelligent self interest in the en- ployer 3 high wages in this country is more | expensive to the employer than the | cheap labor of the continent of Flu rope or of China has been dfscredfted, l and the tariff error founded on it |