The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-02
ST|MSON WAGES AN
 ACTIVE CAMPAIGN
Seven Speeches Are Made in
 One Day in Brooklyn
HIGH COST OF LIVING
Stimson Says His Party Is Not to Blame for High Prices But the Causes for Them Are
 Worldwide

l New York, November 1.-Before an aud
 fence in Brooklyn tonight Henry L. l Stimson, republican nominee for gov ernor, replying to the charge of his op- ponents that republicans are responsible l for the high cost of living, said that l while the causes are world wide. there
 are some clements of the evil which we
 can grapple by legislation and adrninis- l trative action
 These arc the elements, he said which
 come from monopoly and special priv iTege and he pointed to his record as l United States district attorney as indi- eating his position on this issue. A tour of Brooklyn and Queens tonight during which he made seven speeches, wound up Mir. Stimson campaign In this section of the state for the present, and he left at midnight to continue his ap- peals to the voters upstate One of to- nights speeches was made in the Fleet Stfeet African M. E. church, where he spoke to a mixed audience of white and negroes and promised. if elected, that there should be no distinction of color or race" in the administration of the law.
 There is one point that they (the dem ocrats) make against us" Mir. Stimson said at Prospect Hall. They say we are responsible for the high cost of living, and wherever you go you find that under ground swell-it is undfsputed that the most of living has gone up; no man de- nies it. Furthermore. I am not here to say if I should be elected the cost of living would go down. I am no dema- gogue. It is a problem that we must face fairly and see whether our op- ponents' contention is true. The rise in the cost of living is movement which is worldwide. At the present day com- missions In Berlin, Paris and London are investigating the same evil in those coun- tries and an evil, the causes of which are worldwide, cannot be oblterated or cured by the result of a single election. But there are some elements ot the evil which we can grapple with by legislation and by administrative action, and I am very willing and glad to have my record in respect to those matters compared with that of my opponent.
 T refer to those elements of the higher cost of living which come from the ele- ments of monopoly and special privilege. Now, in this campaign I stand absolutely against all forms of special privilege, and it is upon that issue that l appeal to all good citizens.
 The history of our country shows that there has been no one cause which has more greatly contributed to the ,ri ct of Ap1arfa1n T110nCno1fac than discrimination in our railway rates, rebates and other discrimina- tions.
 When became district attorney for the federal government about five years ago I discovered that the sugar trust had entrenched Itself against com petition from the various small com petitors that 1t was meeting through out the country by gigantic and most complete system of special railroad rates. l found. for instance, that they had used special rates over the New York Central to crush out a growing competition in the state of Michigan.
 T prosecuted the New York Central railroad. the Great Northern railroad, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. the Central of Vermont and also the sugar trust itself for receiving rebates from those roads and I convicted them all. I think 1t Is proper to say and I think 1t Is true to say that mainly as 0 result of those prosecutions the en- tire fabric of special secret rates in this locality has been wiped out and the great highways of commerce are | free on even terms to the small as well as to the great shipper"
 Mir. Stimson said that the tariff Is not an issue in this campaign but that 1 he had no hesitation in saying that he was no standpatter. He commended President Taft's tariff commission as a great step in the right direction.