The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-13
WOOL AND HILL.

The wool business of Congressman Hill has ghost that will not down This unhealthy wrath stands behind his chair haunts him in his waking and sleeping hours At the unexpected moments his voice rises in the shr note of terror he perceves the phantom peerng his shoulder.
 Upon the floor of the House, Wednesday, the sage of Norwak shuddering the meanwhile undertook to prove ab for himself and the absence of corpse for his wool business.
 It was remarkable argument or rather series of as- sertions that the Congressman nduged in. He accused Representative Thomas L. Reilly of having spoken false ly about the aforesaid wool business.
 And this accusation of falsity simmered in few min utes upon MT. Hill $ showing the claim that Mr. Reilly had said that Mr. Hill vice president of the Norwalk Woolen company, when he not vice pres dent and that MT Reilly had referred to Mr. Hills officer of the company at time when the dead he having been officer
 But the cold hard facts that Mr. Hill was di- rector and stockhoder of the company though he had ceased to be it's vice president and he financially interested it, and had the keenest interest in it's
 But why shouldn't Mr. Hill be officer in Wool company? Why should he deny his interest and par ticpation in legitimate manufacturing enterprise?
 Because Mr. Hill as member of Congress has par ticpated in making tariffs. Particularly because, as member of the ways and committee he particpat ed I the Payne-Adrch bill, the immediate cause of a political revolution in this country and still more parc ulary because the bill protected the wool
  were known.
 Mr. Hill helped make the notorious Schedule K which was declared by the tariff commission of his party, appointed by Mr. Taft to be wrong in detail and principle and virtual robbery of Jthe people.
 When MT. Hill gave hssupport to Schedule K, to the advantage of the American Wool Barons and much to the disadvantage of the American people, he stockhod rafld director of wooden company hoping against hope that it might be made financially profitable to him, for the company, MT. Hill says unproftable and it natural for investor to desire to his investment
 Now MT. Hill might have thought that this double participation in wool manufa cturer seeking profit from wool and as legislator making tariffs on wool quite innocent affair If he did he entirely too inno- cent and sophsticated to represent the people of his district in the parliament of the nation.
 But if Mr. Hill believed his dual action innocent, he believes it so no longer.
 His attack upon Congressman Reilly, Wednesday,
 proves that he has the keenest knowledge of what others think about his conduct Otherwise he would not fran caly endeavor rid himself of the burden that Mr. Rei ly has laid upon him.
 Mr. Hill was not alone in his peculiar situation. His is not the only shoulder which peers the face of the wool ghost appartion which has frightened Repub cans that they forming another party, the Bull Moose party branch of which formed, last night i'll MT. Hills own district.
 Mr. Hill fails to prove his albi Theecerpus deicti has been stretched where all may view it's sened limbs The very records of the courts in Mr. Hill district show that there woolen business in Norwa that he interested in itheayily nterested-and that while he interested in it he participated in the creation Schedule K-tariff abomination-a Sodom and Gomor- rah of special legislation upon which indignant prov dence sent the fires of the Lawrence strike the light which the highest protected industry in the world discovered paying to the fathers of families, to and children to adolescen youth wages that would dis grace the pauper countries of Europe. I Oh, hypocrisy, where is thy victory! Oh, what a sting at the last when the ways of deceit of the hllnblest voter!