The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-16
WILSON TALKS
TO THOUSANDS
ON THE TARIFF
Democratic Candidate for the
Presidency Tells Farmers of
Three States Where He
Stands on Matters.
SAYS STEEL VETO
INJURED CHANGERS
Declares in Favor of Parcels
Post and Merchant Marine
and University Extension
for Tillers of Soil.

r OF farmers massed about Governor
| ~ woodrow Wilson today and heard
| him make his first campaign speech
since he was officially notified Of his nom
ination for. the presidency
| Ihe governor spoke cxtempornneously
at Washington park where the farmers
| or New Jersey. Delaware and Pcnnsylva-
MIA were participating in farmers day
| celebration. The candidate dwelt mostly
| upon the protective tarlT which he
called "the restrictive tariff" attacked
Senator Aldrich and his tariff making as
| sociates, pointed out the benefits OF
| merchant marine in connection with the
Panama canal and olames the influence
OF express companies in preventing tho
adoption OF n parcels post
The governor was frequently interrupt
| cd by applause and cheers. When he
| finished many farmers crowded forward
to shake hands.
Governors Address.
Governor Wilson said in part:
II am Interested in politics not as n
search for office. but as great contest
devoted to something very definite and
practical Politics ought not TO be con-
Politics ought TO be considered rs branch
OF the national business. and a man who
talks politics ought to tell his fellow
citizens very distinctly what he thinks
about their affairs and what his own
attitude toward them is.
Here we arc at a farmers picnic and
on this day I suppose we might say that
the farmers occupy the center OF the
stage, When did the farmers ever oc-
cupy the center OF the stage in our poll
| ticsY don't remembsr any time.
have seen the interests Of a great many
classes specially regarded in legislation,
but I must frankly say that I have sell
dom seen tho interests of the farmers
regarded in legislation. And one Of the
greatest impositions upon the farmer OF
this country that has ever been devised
IS the present tariff legislation of the
| United States.
No Hearing for Farmers.
"T have not heard OF farmers waiting
| for hearing before the committee on
waya and means of the house and the
finance committee Of the senate In order
to tnke part in determining what the
tariff should be, While you were feed-
Ing tho world. congress was feeding the
trusts.
my Indictment against the tariff is
that It represents special partnerships and
docs not represent the general interest
II Is long time since tariffs were made
by men who even supposed they were
seeking TO serve the general interest. be-
cause tariffs ara not made by the general
body Of members Of either house of con-
gress. They have been made by very
small groups OF Individuals In certain
committees Of those houses. who even
refused Information to their fellow mem
bers as to the basis upon which they
had acted in framing the schedules.
"The tariff intimately concerns the
farmer. II makes a great deal Of diff
ference 20 you that Mr.. Taft the other
day vetoed the steel bill It makes a
difference to you in the cost of prac-
ticalTy every tool that you u5e upon the
farm. and II is very significant or ought
to be very significant to you that a
Democratic house has Just passed the
steel tariff reduction bill over the presi-
dents veto. a thing I am informed is
unprecedented in the history OF the coun-
try that a house should have passed two
tariff measures, the wool measure and
tho steel measure. over the veto OF the
president.
Farmer Is the Consumer.
"TarifY measures are not measures for
the merchant, merely. and the manufac-
lturer The farmer pays just as big a
lproportion Of the tariff anybody else.
Indeed, sometimes when are chal
llenged TO say who the consumer is rs
lcontrasted with the producer. so far as
the tariff Is concerned. 7 am tempted to
lanswer the farmer, because he does not
produce any of tho things that got any
material benefit from tho tariff and he
consumes all the things that are taxed
under tho tariff system
The governor explained the benefits
that might accrue to the farmer from
the Panama canal II the merchant
marine were restored. He continued.
"One OF tho great objects In cutting
ltbat great ditch across the Isthmus OF
Panama Is to allow tho farmers who are
rear the Atlantic 10 ship TO the Pacific by
vav OF the Atlantic ports. Now az pres
ant there are no ships 10 do that And