The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-01-10
AN INDICATION
FOR YEAR 1912
Big Affair Attended by
Many Leaders.
.HIGH-PRICE WORLDWIDE WAVE
Shown TO be Erroneous How
Protection Swaps Our
Citizenship.
WE SEEM TO GET WORST OF IT
(By C. H. Tavenner.l


Washington, Jan. Coming in
with the new year 1912, a year in
which the Democratic hosts conf
IDENTIFY expect to elect q President
and march into the promised land,
the Jackson Day banquet in Wash
ington January 8 marks a triumph
in the ascendency Of the Democracy
that has not been signitied in any
similar gathering in many years.
With an array of leaders at the
banquet board such as the party has
not boasted for perhaps a half
century; with 700 prominent party
men present from far and wide to
add Importance and brilliance-this
coupled with the knowledge Of all,
that the enemy is hopelessly divided
and dumbfounded, makes the Jack
son Day gathering an suspicious &C
casion to every Democrat.
On the list of speakers are to be
found the names of Norman E.
Mack, of New York. chairman of
the National Democratic committee;
Champ Clark, of Missouri, Speaker
of the Democratic House; Joseph
r. Folk, Ex-Governor of Missouri;
James T. Lloyd, chairman of the
National Democratic Congressional
Committee; William ]. Bryan, of
Nebraska, three times Democratic
candidate for President; Woodrow
Wilson, Governor Of New Jersey;
John w. Kern, United States Sena-
tor from Indiana; William r.
Hearst, of New York; Alton B. Par
ker, of New York, and United States
Senators Chas. F. Johnson, of
Maine. and Atlee Pomerene. of
Ohio, with Senator James A. O'Gor-
man. of New York City, as toast
master.
Already during this session of
Congress many of the orators
among the standpat Republicans
have tried to explain the prevailing
high prices with the argument that
the high price wave is worldwide.
This is another of the half-truths
which the Republicans seek to have
the people accept as a whole excuse.
Mr.. r. H. Hooker, OF London,
read a paper before the Royal Sta
tistical Society Of England recently,
in which he showed that the increas-
ed cost of "all commodities" was
twice as much in high-protection
Germany and high-protection Unit
ed States as in free-trade England.
Comparing food prices for this
year with 1899" said Mr. Hooker,
I'VE find there has been an increase
of 1 per cent in France; per cent.
in England; % per cent. in Ger
many; 28 per cent. in Canada, and
"a per cent. in the United States"
Why is il that worldwide
causes" result in an increase of L
and per cent. in France and Eng
land, and "a per cent in this coun-
try?
High protectionists always ad-
dress their appeals to farmers and
workingmen. High tariff" they
argue, means high prices for farm
products and high wages for the
workers"
Last year 145,000 American farm
ers. all of whom were supposed to
be enjoying the fruits of a tariff,
left this country and went to Can
ada. In the same period approx
mately a million laborers came to
this country from abroad, 81 per
cent. Of them coming from the south
of Europe, where wages are low,
education almost nothing. and stand
ards of living primitive and filthy.
These laborers are taken in by the
trusts at wages but little better than
thew got at home, and under condi-
tions of employment unthinkable to
American workingmen.
Thus the high tariff drives ont
good American farmers, and bring
in-what?