The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-20
SENATOR GAYLORD
GAVE SOCIALIST
ADDRESS
Candidate to Congress Spoke
On High Cost of Living
HE SAYS, OWN THE TRUSTS
Increase In Food Prices Due X
Ownership of Means of Livelihood
BY Great Monopolies.

State Senator w. r. Gaylord OF
Milwaukee, Wis, Socialist orator and
candidate for the national House OF
Representatives, delivered an ad-
dress on the High Cost of Living
last evening in the Putnam House
Square. About 600 interested men
and women listened to the address
and while there were no great bursts
of enthusiasm, Senator Gaylord held
his audience by his wit, his originality
of delivery and his clear logic and
force.
The first speaker of the evening
was James Garfield, who introduced
Norman +. Greenslet, Socialist can
didate for town representative. Mr..
Greenslet called the attention OF the
voters to the unusual solicitation
shown for labor during this campaign
and stated that the parties which are
now appealing for the workingman' S
support OH labor platform had not
done anything for the laboring man
when in power. He pointed out that
this movement in favor of labor is a
recent thing and claimed that it has
come through the activity of the So
cialist party, minority party
Senator Gaylord began his address
with definition of a political party,
saying that it has for its object the
enacting, executing and administer
ing the laws OF property in manner
to favor those in control of that par
~. He endeavored to show who are
in control of the Republican, Demo
cratic and National Progressive par
ties, alleging that all are in the power
of forces hostile to labor.
Senator Gaylord devoted consider
able of his speech to Theodore Roose-
welt and his record as governor OF
New York and president. In taking
up the causes of high prices, he first
refuted the theories brought forward
in the National House. He showed
by United Safes census figures that
the increased cost OF farm land is due
to the increased cost of food and not
vice versa; he showed that the price
of commodities has gone up where
the per capita production has in
creased; that therefore the crowding
of the cities did not cause the in
crease in the cost of living; that tar
III reduction does not bring price re
duction; that the claim of increased
extravaganza is a farce for according
to figures, wage-earners are obtaining
lover percentage of the goods they
produced than ten years ago; that in
creased gold supply cannot be the
cause of the high cost of living be
cause il would effect all markets
equally which, said Mr.. Gaylord is
not the case.
The increase Of the cost of living
is due, said Senator Gaylord, to the
control Of the industries by the great
monopolistic combinations. and the
only solution is to own the trusts.
How" asked Senator Gaylord, Buy
them.
Senator Gaylord completed his ad
dress by an analysis of labors rela-
ton to the tariff. He said that Al
eXander Hamilton gave the real rea-
son for the tariff. American labor is
paid too high wages. " There was no
labor vote then and Hamilton was
not afraid to tell the truth. The rea-
son that American wages are higher
is because in years gone by an Amer
lean workman could go West and get
a farm free. When this ceased TO be
the American workman banded to-
gether in unions and maintained the
labor standard.