The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-30

SiXty-fve of the poStma sters of the State of Connecticut, coming from all parts of the commonwealth attended the annual summer outing of the State Post Masters association at the Col onnade at Savin Rock yesterday af- ternoon. They had a fine dinner, a good time, and incidentally they lis tened to two hour address from Con- gressman E. J. Hill upon what he termed the failures which the Demo- cratic majority in Congress has made thus far. MT. Hill's visit was some thing of surprise. There was then a short talk regarding the postal sav- ings bank system by Basil Miles, of the foreign mails department at Wash- ington. Congressman John o. Tilson, who was expected to be present, was unable to attend.
 Congressman Hill made what might be considered his opening speech for the coming fight that is likely to ma terialize in this State when the next Congressional clash comes. Congress- man, Hill intimated that the Demo- cratic majority in Congress in the spe- cial session had been sending the and he argued from this and from President Tafts vetoes that the coun try might yet be saved to the manu- facturers in the north if they would abandon their attitude and send men to Congress who would represent the northern industrial interests. He ar gued and quoted facts and figures to show that the Democratic party now in power was working largely for the interests of the south, and that this was what must be expected as long as the northern people would permit men to be sent to Washington who would favor this sort of legislation.
 Incidentally he paid his respects to Congressman Thomas L.. Reilly, who, he said, was one of the group of an- ti-protectionists, representing thrifty Republican section, and he said he had told Reilly he would report his work in Washington when he got back to Connecticut.
 He first took up the free list bill which he said favored the south and then he proceeded to dissect all of the work of the special session of Congress. As to the free list bill he said that it came as a natural result. It was finally arranged that we should accept the reciprocity idea as between our country and Canada He would go further and say that he was in favor of absolute free trade between this country and Canada, ours being the powerful country. but he would go no further as applied to other countries. Canadians are our kind of people.
 When the Democrats started in to revise the tariff, just the wrong thing in the right place for us. Our Con- necticut manufacturers who have not sent us support are responsible for this.
 The speaker then tackled the pres- ent tariff revision in which he claim. ed that the Democrats had cut out things favoring the wool bill because wool is something that cannot be pro- duced in the south, and favored the expense as applied to the cotton bill, because that was a measure that the southerners wished to protect. 4gz The speaker justified President Taft for vetoing the wool bill. which he said would close factories here faster than the old Wilson bill did Is years ago. He asked that now the Demo- crats had cut the duty on cotton ma chinery from 25 to 40 per cent, why they did not do it on wool and silk and his answer was. because the south doesn't produce wool and silk.
 Taft, he said. is preparing for set of intelligent rates in the future. The tariff cannot be made by log rolling I favor, he said, equalization of the taxation of manufacturers. Do you want to be put on basis of equality of competition with the for eigners? Any man who says so might