The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-25
PLEA FOR A REVISION
 OF TARIFF DOWNWARD ) Speech of Representative Peck in House, from
 Standpoint of the s. Farmer ESPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS

Yn <fso House of Representatives on 1husday . resolution presented by lRepresentatye L.. O. Peck of Bedding. Isupsalinx p President Taft to con- vene Congress in special session to lreviss the tariff downward. was fn- definitely postponed by a vote of 1OS Ito s2- In sdvocating the passage or hix resolution, Representative Peck said:
 .The reconsideration of this petition | | trust will not be taken as a party neasure because it happens to eman- sral States have already petittoned the tPreddent since this resolution was | first offered. and unfortunately tabled. iI say unfortunately in consequence dom wiser than the people as to it's urgent needs. Every great mental faction has been impelled by the Irhousht of others rather than the d. rect originality of the individual who xentieman from Fairfield stated that Ifhe President of the United States needed no one to direct his course of faction. that we had enough to attend to in this State without reaching be- vond our province. It is with no pur- pose of dispute that state with a belief of earnestness that there are tthousands of people who are suffer II ing for tho need of life's necessities, that those who are oomforta are unconscious of 1t. In this state1last votes cast because there was no faith in either party that was contesting for supremacy.
 .tGentlemen.; represent a farming district in tfts Legfslature. I am a of tho intoxicating stimulation it Is to ba called at pCe-election times the salt of the earth. but 1t Is only just few days before election that that lcomplinent Is handed out. The other 5eo day1 we are called rubes. and am taking no issue against that. The reciprocity bill has passed the House by a large vote reducing the tariff on ifarm products. including the dairy. | fion. the rreer exchange between na- ftous would be as the exchange be- lfween the States Of this nation. each one producing that which has the greatest resources for its particular products A great divine once said that we need not fear the propaganda of Emma Goldman and Herr Most for lunaking anarchists. or great danger Twas in the communion of wealth for fhe oppression and restriction Of fndi- t~fdual freedom. This last election was learned on the promise of reducing the tariff. sn that the people might get lfhefr necessities at reasonable values without paying a fictitious tribute to a preferred class that has been bol- lEtered up on the unique solicitation of protection to the American work man
 [ 'aThe farmer stands today selling his product in the cheaper markets of she world and buying in the dearest Well might he be called the salt of the earth. Hundreds of thousa nds of dol- iars' worth of all kinds of machinery are exported and sold on the other eide of the ocean at far less price than what the American man can buy the same article for at home. and. mind you. the freight and insurance added. Tn calling this extra session of Con- gross eleven months of the precious time of life may be saved in the fram- ing of the bill. Why put it off till disturbing than fact. Only a few days ago a large manufacturer told me that he wished this work could be commenced so that they might know where they stand. that purchasing was from hand to mouth in consequence of the uncertainty of the future tariff 1egislatjon-
 "GentIemen. ann one of those farm CTS that recognize these political con- ditions as artificial and are made so through hoodwinking the people. Eng sand pays the highest wages in the world. excepting the United States. China. the highest protected nation in
 the world. pays the lowest. Italy. France. Germany and all of Europe
 with higher tariffs pay less wages than England. Tn the fact of pauper labor of the old world our only exports
 are where the principal cost is in the
 labor. We don't export anvils. nor
 heavy sledges. but the tack hammer and window locks. cash registers type writers and everything conceivable where the labor is the principal cost of production. and these exports amount to millions of dollars per year.
 Why. gentlemen, there is a tariff on
 coal England mined last year 210, 00o.0o0 tons of coal. while this coun- try mined 4e9. 900. 900 tons. The Sta te
 of Alabama has more coal deposits zflAn the entire United Kingdom of
 Great Britain. Now every one knows that where there are great quantities of material the price should be less than where scarcity is.
 "Just a few words more and that 1s on our natural resources. These blessings are rarely referred to- but ran you not easily have imagined that fhe discoverer of this western feni- sphere would have called it Eldorado had he known that the new world con-