Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-11
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The Mad Mith the sIngIe Traek Mind.

MT. Editor. So MT. Woodrow Will son, the man who three months ago said these words, T am a man of single track mind" is agoing to make his campaign on the ground that the Payne Aldrich bill Is the cause of the high cost of living I wonder if MT. Woodrow Wilson is agoing to say in his campaign on the high cost of liv- ing that wage earners all over America have also had their pay increased, once, twice and in many cases three times. since the passage of the same Payne -Aldrich bill.
 l am not an advocate of protection for protections sake, but when we have got protection it will take man with more than "a single track mind" to do away with it without hurting business.
 l wonder if the man with the single track mind will tell us how beef has gone up six cents in two weeks With out any change in the tariff laws? 1 wonder if the man with single track mind will attempt to prove that the tariff law is to blame for potatoes sell ing at S1.60 per bushel in May and $l20 per bushel in July?
 I wonder if the man with a single track mind wiul come out flatfooted for tariff for revenue only. when his fol- lowers are in a large majority south erners who during recent tariff de- bates introduced bills to cut the tariff on all fine textured cotton goods, and raise it on the coarse goods made down south?
 1 wonder if the man with the single track mind will explain why his south ern allies introduced a farmers free | list bill admitting everything of the bread and biscuit line free. unless sweetened? Sugar is of course a southern product and mustn't be touched.)
 I wonder if the man with the single track mind will attempt to show the old soldiers he was their friend when he went down into Dixie and spread | the story that Champ Clark was a ] friend to pensions?
 | No, single track mind fellow, you | have got to have several turn outs" on that track of yours before you can make the American people believe that absolute. unconditional tearing down of the protective tariff will result any | different now than a threat to do so l did in 1893.
 1 The democratic party has plenty of ] good live issues without that of free | trade and tariff for revenue only means nothing else. The republican party could point with pride to their | great past and/have left out the dis 1 turbing, tariff board clause. What Americans are agolng to have is some party, some time, that will give busi- Tness a chance to go along smoothly without fear of lot of hair-brained 1 blatherskites starting up the disturb 1 ing tariff arguments that always have and always will prove disastrous.
 It is not the socialist party, as a member of that organization cannot ever become such without some ones permission It is not the prohibition party, for prohibition does not and never did prohibit. It is not the re- publican party. for that great party has caught the democratic habit of Ire vising downward" etc
 Is it the progressive party? Wait un- l til after August and, mark my word if that party cuts out the devilish med ding with the tariff. the republican candidate, Mr Taft. will be among tht "also ran" class. and the democratic candidate will be silent like the whis- key sign, Wilson, that's all
 J. B. MONTGOMERY. Packer. Conn.