The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-19
TOSS WOULD
 LOWER TARIFF
Industry Badly Crippled by Payne Law and He Wants Graft Features Taken Out
STRONG FOR RECIPROCITY
Has no Faith in Taft C0mmis- sion and Thinks Democrats Should Start Work at Once


 a few days ago that Representative Eugene N. Foss, the Democratic Gov ernor-Elect of Massachusetts, cele- brated his first anniversary as a Dem ocrat. Yet the words that come most readily to his lips are the Democratic battle cries, such as tariff revision
 T am a manufacturer. and I was virtually driven into public life by my business experiences" explained MT. Foss to the correspondent of The New York TimeSr ''I fought for nine long years within the Tanks of the Republican Party, to which I pledged my faith for the reforms in our fis- cal policy, for winch I am now doing battle from beyond the breastworks. It is going to be a fight to the fn- ish, too"
 MT. Foss. said this with a snap of his jaws to emphasize that he was in dead earnest. It was not in the se- date surroundings of a law office, rom which so many men of political prominence have emerged into pubic life, but in the busy counting house of the large manufacturing concern of which he is Treasurer and manager that the correspondent found him.
 The Governor Elect is big man of strong build and ruddy complexion. He has some very definite ideas re- garding what sort of an admin n-stra- ton Massachusetts requires at this 1uncture. Past Legislatures have passed much of their time legislating along strongly humanitarian but in many instances wholly ineffective lines. MT. Foss intends to g:re his State a business administration, once he exchanges his seat in the House of Representatives for the Governors chair. He will bend his best endea- vors toward the industrial and com- mercial uplift' of the State.
 State to Pay For Campaigns.
 He is going to recommend in his does not come within that field and which will prove a distinct novelty. This has to do with the election sys- tenn.
 ''I want to drive money out of poli- tics.' he said. ''I believe the State should assume all the expenses of election, including those now legiti- mately incurred by candidates, and the latter should not be permitted to spend a cent. That is the only way in which the poor man can meet the rich man on equal grounds. as a candidate for public office.''
 Discussing the campaign which re- suited in his election and the defeat of all the other cand dates on the Democratic State ticket, he said it was probably more strenuous even than the campaign in New York.
 Our campaign here was fought on National issues for the city, said MT. Foss. though the Republicans att tempted to inject some trumped-up State issues in order to divert the at tention of the voters from the vital question involved. The issues in the State campaign were identical with those on which I fought for election $o %h1 trict last Spring-the high cost of liv- ing in its relation to the tariff and to reciprocity. That is what the people in this State were interested in hear ing discussed, and that is what made them vote as they did when they went to the polls.
 Need of Reciprocity.
 '@The people of New England are very much interested in reciprocity demand that the duty be taken off completely from all raw materials and " tn raw materials I include coal, iron. lumber, wood pulp, and every product that is a factor in industry. We are going to take the advanced ground here that all such duties should be taken off even if Canada fails to reduce it's duties. This as an earnest of our good faith. Canada has a triple tariff arrangement, un- der which she automatically must meet our reductions. I am in favor of reducing the tariff on manufactur- ed articles to the same level as Can ada. Our schedules are twice as high as hers, and under this system the manufacturers of Massachusetts are suffering from the lack of cheap raw materials which Canada could supply in abundance.''
 sHow would New York State and the ioT ;ofa fc nT Nnyr Vnrtx txF CI " come out under the reciprocity sys- tem?" he was asked.
 .sNew York would benefit with the rest of the country: your State would get :ts share of what would be com mon boon," was the reply.
 tfRut if the United States took the initiative and Canada should fail to respond at once, would not the home markets suffer without any compenSa- ton in the way of markets for Amer ican goods in Canada?"
 "You do not believe for a minute,'' exclaimed MT. Foss. that the produc- ing capacity of 100000 people, the popula tion of Canada. people of our own race, with the same blood cours- ing through their veins and with much the same standard of living at that, could be a menace if pitted against the producing capacity of Nation of %. 900 900? Why. one State in our Un- lOn-PennSyINdn1d. TOT InSCance-prO- duces as much in a year as all of Canada"
 MT. Foss said that after the election Of Premier Laurer on the reciprocity issue and the cold reception he got from the "standpat crowd' in Wash ington when he came to the National capital in the interest of reciprocity, Canada. through a concerted effort, had found markets and succeeded in fostering by artificial means industries which were foreign to her climate and condition. but which worked tremen- dous damage to the United States in the markets abroad.
 Protection Game Overplayed.
 'I am protectionist," he went on, but I am a reasonable protectionist and do not believe in a policy which will drive $500, ,000G coo across the Canad- ian border to foster industries which now compete with us in the foreign markets and will end by competing with us in our own markets at home"
 But won't the protective tariff be a guarantee for American supremacy in American markets?" asked the corre- spondent.
 ''If we are going to protect our mar kets," Mir. Foss replied "we must aI- ways bear in mind that there are two kinds of markets to protect-one the domestic, the other the foreign. One is q in,D0rtant the ofbar ard