The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-25
TAFT PROMISES
MORE REVISION
OF THE TARIFF
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direction have been greater than at
any previous period in Dun. HISTORY
ana s1gnally successful"
Taking up the high cost of living,
President Taft said:
keir Hardie, the English labor
cent of European worl<ingraen were
facing starvation. As the popl1 alton
OF Europe is $50 millions Mr. Hardie's
statement suggests an appealing CON
dfuon. THAT condition must indicate
a much higher living cost in compar-
lson with earnings than prevails in
tfe United States. Increased prices
in some European cities have led to
rlotIng- Savings deposits in the Unit
ed States show deposits of over four
billion dollars Thi& would Indicate
unat American workers are not only
not racing starvation but are able to
pay the cost OF living and also put
something aside for a Erainyday'-such
as the election of a. Democratic Pres
ident and Congress, which would mean
four years of rainy days
The Payne law has had no more to
DO with the advancing cost of living
than the latest Atlantic ca BILE tariff
On the contrary, it has enabled the
American worker to meet the cost of
living and maintain his family in
comfort Taft continued.
Farmers were never better off.
EVERY legitimate Industry is looking
forward to still greater prosperity
that the nations progress shall not be
halted by the benurnbing glacier of
free trade. Most certainly I hold out
not only hope but the certainty of
tariff revision, provided that revision
shall not be haphazar1 but based up
on the rate of duty necessary to pre-
European countries, and I must add,
also. propositions, the Democrats pre-
scented to me which would have made
such a radical cut in the rates on
many wooden and cotton manufactures
as serious to it as to those industries
In this country, would have forced a
transfer of the manufacture to Eng
land and Germany and other foreign
countries
Il did not get time to visit the Dem
oerFat1e chamber of horrors as they
a funny story about 1t. A working
man was looking at the products there
with their tags showing the prices.
He noticed coat on which the if
price was remarkably low. Why he
said, that would be less than I get
for making such a coat. Where would
come in?
with the election of the Republican
candidates for President and Con-
gress, revision will proceed at once
along the lines indicated by the work
of the tariff board
Asked if that meant an extra session |
of Congress, the President repIied:
nlicit''
AS to banking and the Aldrieh cur
rency plan, the President said:
4 have not changed in the slightest !
my view as to the necessity of mone- |
tary reform or of the great value and |
monetary commission of which former
Senator Aldrich was chairman
Continuing, he said: I
There has been some criticism of /
alleged intervention in Nicaragua.
There was no intervention there. TN
der conditions of anarchy and law |
local government, American marines
were landed in Nicaragua to assist in I
the protection of lives and property |
of Americans
On equal suffrage he said:
Suffrage for women is AN issue to |
be decided by the States and there t
can be no doubt whatever. that when |
ever and wherever a majority of wo- t
men impress upon their fathers, hus- |
bands, sons, brothers and beaux that /
they want to vote, they will get the |
right to vote.
4 regard the maintenance Of an in
dependent judiciary as a supreme Isl
sue, and I agree with the American
Bar Association that the recall ap-
piled to judges would tend to deprive |
the public of Judges Of ability, charac-
ter and high sense of duty
The President expressed himself as
favorable to immigration, declaring
chat the country was big enough for
al He said that the negroes were
to vote for the Republican
party. He then called attention to |
the laws in behalf of labor passed |
during his adninistrafion-
me HfeS!uene -eHoed ms Statement
with the following:
II appreciate Governor Wilson's
courteous and respectful personal at
titude toward my office and toward
me. AS to his statement about me be-
ing mdsled by bad advisers I wish
him and everyone to underS tand that
1 have been and will continue to the
end of my term President of the Unit
ed States in all that that title implies.
that I am responsible for every act
Of my adIninistra tion and have no bur-
den to shift to others
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