Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-30
Greeted BY MULTITUDES
MADE HALF A DOZEN SPEECHES
AND SHOOK HANDS WITH
THOUSANDS.
TARIFF A LEADING TOPIC
Declares the Farmer Never Has Need
cd the Protection of Pro-
tcctiye Tariff.

ON BOARD GOVERNOR WILL
SONS SPECIAL CAR. EAsTON. Pa,
Aug. Ex-Governor Woodrow Wilson
invaded Pennsylvania today. intend
ing only 10 make an address at tho
state Changers picnic at Williams
Grove, south of Harrisburg. The gov
ernor was surrounded by such big
crowds wherever his train stopped
that he found when he crossed from
Pennsylvania into New Jersey at Eas-
ton that he had made half a dozen
speeches, had shaken hands with thou
sands Of people and had talked collec-
lively TO a multitude.
II was the opening OF the campaign
outside Of New Jersey and the days
eyents were plainly surprise to the
governor. lie had looked for no dem
onstration as his train plans
were not decided upon until the last
moment Thus from early morning
until nlghtfall the crowds gathered at
the railroad stations and cheered en-
Enthusiastically.
Competed with Engines.
The governor in all rode 215 miles
through Pennsylvania and when night
cume he was tired and hoarse. Al
Lancaster, Harrisburg, Williams
Grove, Reading Allentown and Eas-
ton great crowds jammed tho railroad
yards and the governor competed
II his talks with the noise Of the
| locomotives.
With hand shaking as well as back
platform stumping the governor had
strenuous time. A brawny black
smith wrung the governors hand so
lard at williams Grove that for a
moment the nominee dropped his
right hand Imply to his side and eX-
tended his left hand. The governor
said tonight his hand still panied him
from the experience.
over two thousand people wedged
themselves In the big auditorium at
williams Grove to hear the governor 8
principal speech, but far more were
unable to gain entrance and the gov
ernor made second speech outdoors.
The governor dgressed materially
from his prepared speech but devel-
oped much the same line OF thought
criticizlng Colonel Roosevelts tariff
views and taking Issue with President
Taft's veto Of the farmers free list
bill. He referred indirectly to politi-
cal conditions In Pennsylvania as out
lined by Representative A. Mitchell
Palmer, who introduced the governor,
and smoke of the Penrose revelations.
Takes Up the Tariff.
II do not know how many republi-
cans there are probably within the
sound Of my voice, at least those who
have been republicans, but are on the
anxious seat" said the governor in
his first speech at Williams Grove,
"but | want to say that / entirely re-
spect, though ! do not at all under
stand, their reverence for the doctrine
of protection. l haven't any rever-
ence for any economic doctrine what
ever except so far as 1t works. Now
the doctrine Of protection is worth
Il oking into as 1t works. 1t has been
said, and II has been said so often
that you have believed 1t, that the
doctrine of protection was maintained
in our politics for the benefit OF the
farmers of the United States. l am
perfectly willing to admit that there
are low duties levied on the products
of the farm coming from other coun-
tries. but who ever heard Of the far
mer of the United States needing to
be protected against the farmer of
Europe.
"The American farmer never has
been protected for the very good
reason that he never needed to be
protected and his grains have sold at
prices established by the prices which
his produce commanded in foreign
markets. That is an economic fact.
Very well then, your prices are not
established by protection. They are
established by your abundance which
YOU ship to foreign countries. And
In the meantime everything that you
Use on the farm. everything that you
wear and great deal of what you
eat but do not yourselves produce,
including meats. bears a heavy duty.
Very well, you are paying for the
wealth of the United States and get
ting nothing for 1t or Its equivalent.
Discusses Pennsylvania Politics.
II have never believed, no thinking
man has ever believed that the peo-
pie Of the great state Of Pennsylvania
approved OF the things that were no
toriously done by the political lead
ers Of that great state The charac-
ter Of the people Of Pennsylvania and