The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-11-29
URGES REVISION
IN MODERATION
Home Market Club Points to
Danger of Disturbance.
FEARS MATERIAL CHANGES
Says Heavy Cut in Cotton and Woolen
Goods, Etc, Would Hurt New
Eneland.-Pres. Dowse Re-
fers to Recent Strikes.

Boston, Mass.-The Home Market
Club, at its annual meeting, declared
for protection as the wisest policy oil
the nation and urged that in the
coming revision of the tariff by the
Democratic party the revenue be so
raised as to keep the mills of the
country in operation and the opera
tors who work therein from starva-
ton"
President Dowse in ms annual ad-
dress, urged the need of protection.
I'VE are face to face he said, with
another experiment in tariff reduc-
ton.
All the officers were reelected eX.
cept +. q. Morrison of Lowell, whose
place as vice president was taken by
Fred w. Estabrook of Nashua, n. IL.
"At the present time, factory EN-
ployes, as a rule in the United States,
receive in wages from three to five
times more than are paid abroad This
showing certainly should justify our
past and encourage us to victorious
work in the future. All that we need
In the end will support the policy of
protection. Adequate protection is
necessary. A tariff based on the diff
ference in the cost of production
abroad and at home is not sufficient.
There is handicap of nearly ten per
cent. on homemade goods simply be-
cause the American people prefer for
eign goods at the same prices. Home
made goods still have To be placed on
the home market at a cheaper price
than foreign goods TO move them in
competition"
Secretary Thomas o. Marvin also
reviewed the political and industrial
situation. He referred to the recent
strikes in New England industrial
centres, saying: They were not
merely a protest against a wage scale
and conditions of living. They were
a blow at organized industries and or
ganized labor and an attempt to over
throw the industrial structure af the
nation.
Men who stood for no God and no
master who spoke a strange language
and were afame with incendiary doc
trines, threw the furious force OF a
passionate propaganda against the es-
tablished order of a hard-won New
England civilization. A greater stake
than an increased daily wage was the
object for which they fought. 1t was
nothing short Of the destruction OF
American institutions, upon the wreck
of which they would raise a new so
cial order in which there would be,
as their banners proclaimed, no God
and no master no private ownership,
no rights, no laws, no government and
no tag, such as we have won by over
a century of heroism and of sacrifice.
This assault upon our institutions was
resisted and repelled by a group OF
men TO whose genius we owe New
England's manufacturing supremacy
Effectually supporting them were the
power of the commonwealth and the
law and order loving citizenship OF the
threatened communities"
All-ding TO the recent election, Mr..
Marvin claimed that "by large ma
jority the country has voted for the
maintenance Of constitutional govern
ment." and that mo mandate can be
claimed by any party for the abolition
OF the protective tariff system" He
added: 1T is our duty 10 stand by
that policy which has built up so mar
yelously the industries OF the country
and to SO present the facts to Con-
gress that the representatives of the
people will safeguard every industry
and the welfare of every wage Garner" "