The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-29
WOODROW WILSON
SPEAKS TO FARMERS
Criticised Roosevelt for His Claim Of
Being Convert to Protective
Policy.

L United Press Leased WIRE Service.
WILLIAMS GROVE, Pa. Aug 29.-
In a speech before the farmers meet
ing here today, Governor Woodrow
Wilson said, in part.
Mr.. Roosevelt has proclaimed him
self convert to the protective policy
and has said that while he admitted
that no doubt some duties were too
high, on the whole the policy pursued
been the right one: and he thought
the prize money which had been re-
ceived under that system by the
manufacturers of the country was
legitimate booty. The analogy is a
very interesting one. Prize money Is
generally acquired by capture, and
not by any process of earning, but
Mr.. Roosevelt says that his only OBJ
jesction to the system is that too
much of the prize money remains in
| the hands of the officers, and too lit
1 tie of it is distributed to the crew.
The point which wish to raise is
from whom the prize money was tax
! en-. suspect that vast proportion
of 1t comes out of the pockets of the
farmer, for see In him that great
helpless class. the unidentified CON
sumer.'
This great inequity involves an
enormous disadvantage to the nation
for the farmer surely is one of the
fundamental, original partners of ev-
cry government 1t is a significant
thing that the petition give us this
4 day our daily bread comes first
among the petitions Of the Lords
. prayer.
THE present democratic congress
had the old fashioned idea of govern
ment. They supposed that it's bene
fits and projections were % be dis
tributed and introduced, and passed
, bill known as the farmers free lisl
! bill. But such changes did not com
, port with the ideas and plans of the
, trustees, and the president vetoed the
!, free list. dare say he was rish
, from his point of view, cor he repre-
scented the trustees and lot the PEG
pie.
1.-THE trustees represent also the biz
bankers ard no republican admins
istration has attempted to serve thu
. farmer as he ought to be served in thu
4 matter Of credits. 1t Is PRACTICAL,
! impossible for the farmer to borroN
on the kind of securities demanded a
J. the banks.
I THE merchants constitute anotne
t large class of consumers Their inte1
ests is to see trade quickened an
d varied, and they are the natural allie
s Of the farmer So are the manufactul
Il ers, If they but saw the real limits
lions within which they are pent III
d If our markets are not multiplied, an
J. our doors are not thrown open, d
o not see how the farmer, and most 9
n the rest of us, are to ovoid being o,
e erwhelmed by the rising tide of d.
nestle prices. Prices are rising
If high tariff countries, but not in lo'
tariff countries.
a "And If the farmer is indeed par
ner with the rest of us, we shall civ
# him good roads and better transpo
tation and we shall link the market
i, and the fields together in every POI
3 sible way.
I'VE are getting that sense of 81
o cial responsibility without which n
l. government is enlightened-and n
people free. We intend not only
n see that men are dealt with justl.
r, but that they are helped humanel.
n that children are not suffered
stunt their growth by untimely labo
IS that women are shielded against ca
o rying too long the cruel burdens {
" modern industrial work, that me
IS and women alike are restricted to re-
e sonable hours of labor, that the
strength Is safeguarded by prope
a sanitation, and that their lives al
e protected from injury by every devie
h which can make their occupation
safe"