The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-28
BALDWIN ON HIGH COST
 OF LIVING
Shows How Dishonest Tariffs En- able Industrial BarOns to Rob the People
CROOKED DEAL DENOUNCED
Democratic Candidate For Gov ernor WringS Repeated Alp plause From Large Audience
Judge Baldwin spoke as follows:-


 over the political situation.
 Tt is a peculiar one. On the one side 1s great party, long in power, assailing the other. On the other side is party with 8 long history, but long out of power, asking the people those two parties is a large portion of the people fthe United States, some of whom mean to cast their votes, t anybody who will buy them at trifling price, while the rest mean to cast their votes without much re- gard for party ties for anybody who, they believe, will best serve the cause of good government.
 ''I am one of those who believe that every man always should exercise his rights elector from a sense Of public duty. We may go even farth- CT and say that to vote is part of a compatible with his being an active mem Der of political party and going with it, in general although some or the m treasures it advocates may be such as he does not wholly like. The ques- ton must be whether he is in general accord with it's political doctrines and political practices. A man. I believe, l under our system of government, does his best for his country by working within some party, rather than out side any party. But the man I have small patience with is he who votes with his party. when he believes they are fundam entaIly wrong in their vince them that they are wrongS from the inside, he should get out and at tack those doctrines from the outside, 1 either as mtmber of the opposite party, or as an independent.
 "A very vital question to a great many of us in these days is how to keep our expenses within the limit of our income. The prices of what we i wear, and eat, and use in the house- l hold have risen faster than wages i Where are several causes for this. One is the large additions. of late years, to | he worlds stock of gold GolJ l
 Q gold in the world, everything else I
 puld tend to double in price But
 great cause of the high cost of
 ing is the tariff
 A Bad Tariff.
 President Taft says it is a better
 han that which it replaced. But
 was q very bad one, and if this is
 any hetter,- it is very little bet f
 e trouble is that the republican
 have been steadily constructing
 itariffs on a political foundation
 Is have been made high, so as to
 great profits to certain manu-
 fers;-profits made out of the 1
 e of the United States. In their
 brms they say that their aim has
 to meet the difference in the cost
 production here. in consequence of
 r American standard of high wages Shd comfort in living, and to ensure a Eeasonable profit to the manufacturer. lin fact. it has been to ensure an un- reasonable profit to some manufac- turers.
 Among those thus profited are some Connecticut manufacturers and you will find them well represented in republican conventions.
 But what is the effect on you and me-? Every suit of clothes that we wear costs us something like quar- ter or a half more than it would if there were no such tariff If every man realized this when he bought his clothes. the republican party, would not have been allowed so long to re- main in power. But we do not be- think ourselves that what the inn porter pays to the custom house, the f wholesaler pays to the importer and the retailer to the wholesaler, and est on what he advances. All is finally collected from us in the price of the suit. To give Pennsylvania steel makers enormous fortunes, the rest of the country pays for steel some~ thing like a quarter more than it would if steel were free The tariff so much out of it, that these men have been able to sell their steel abroad, where there are no duties it, lower than they do here. It is so with many things Cheap American watches are protected by duty of 75 cents apiece on the movements and more on the profit for a lower price than they are here, where they are made
 the allowance for the higher wages paid, and the allowance for the profits to be made, is not the most satisfac- tory way of doing business.
 tFI have heard of a court town in the south where the lawyers were all forced to put up at one very ill-kept and dirty & tavern, A When 71,, c9;ar. ts;T, Tas vas dinner, they sent for the landIstdy, and the chairman of the bar compliment ed her on the excellence of her accom- modations in wl1:cn they would ven ture however, 60 suggest, against th& next court, one slight change. Highly -I,- thing might be That, next court. you would only be good enough to send in to each of us the food on one plate and the dirt on another, and let us mix it for ourselves
 Dirt in the Tariff.
 There Is a great deal of dirt in the tariff rates Dirt of corruption; dirt of log rolling; dirt of political re- 50 mixed mp that the peopta can't well separate it; Nor is it intended that
 Let the tariff makers place the higher wages on one plate and the profits on another and we will mix [ them to suit ourselves. The tariff is ike charity It covers a multitude of s.ns. "Woodrow v-:Ison said the otlez ] thing was to hJ"d it up to the light Then it would stra Ighten itself out (
 The f tai1 fFoGse1est ffi1e thing I,ff fnoT or people behind t must obe held up 70 the light. They don't see1a to like l that They prefer to keep it in the shade. q reco1Iect hearing Of two country r men i11 Illinois, who were comparing ] notes of tfeir first and only [isit to s The first man had been there 20 years before, aud said he1 ( only stayed one night. for he couldn't I sleep a wink. Why not? Because 3 the gas was burning in my bedroom. I tight in my eyes. all night long Why t didn't you blow it out?' There was V notice hung up. right by the burner a Don't blow out the gas. so I cou1dn t. ( =. We'll, said the other, I was there ( ast year, for the first time, and had t