Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-26

ed with a brief survey of some Of the legislation under President Taft, and a reference to the old soldiers to whom the republican party had ever been z friend, and the speaker asserted that no one had any authority to say that President Taft would have vetoed the pension bill, but that Taft would have seen that the old soldiers got the best of it. for lie believed n the heroism of the old soldiers.
 Mir. Collins made a final appeal for a vote for President Taft and not for Roosevelt. which would be vote for Wilson.
 Candidate for Congressman.
 There was a great burst of applause as Attorney General Collins concluded, and 1t went on into a greeting to Wil- liam A. King of Willimantic, candidate for congressman from this dlstflet, who the next speaker.
 Stands for New England. Gen. King made a home speech on home conditions on the tariff and the trusts, which took well with his audience.
 Whatever else tho people do, the speaker said hr hoped they would held fast to ,de fact that i've are Amer l ican citizens. He told his hearers that he anted to tell them face to face where he stood on some of the ques- tions of the day. Where on the tariff :. ] Where can any New Englander stand except for a policy of protection, pro- l teetion for the American laborer, not 1 for schedule that is only a cloak for extortion. 1 stand for a tariff that Is | measured by tne difference in the cost of production between here and abroad. (Applause.J
 Mir. King gave tariff figures which he said would have applied to certain Norwich industries if we had had Will l son for president instead of Taft These figures showed the tariff reduc- l tions which would have become op- erative affecting the industries he named as follows: Bard Union com pany, from 45 per cent. to 25 per cent. 1 Blissville mills, cotton, 20 per cent | to per cent. Overalls company, 5( per cent to 30 per cent; Chelsea Fiji, works. 50 per cent. to 25 per cent. | Crescent Fire Arms company, 45 pel | cent. to 35 per cent; Falls company 40 per cent. to 20 per cent; Glen Wool | en company, s9 per cent. to 40 pe | cent. and the same for Hall Bros. Hopkins & Allen Arms Co.,, 45 per cent to S5 per cent; International Silve l OO., tO pti tClll. ~ 70 POA NCiAe+f -'AS Crum- Howell Co.,, 45 per cent. to ? per cent.
 Do you want these reductions? h asked.
 If the tariff is reduced to the exten of those figures, you enter into foreigi competition and you are beaten in tn fight.
 AS attorney general of your stat II had the profound satisfaction o striking an ice trust. From that da, to this I have been called 8 radical am not radical Whats the us of telling me 1 am free when fev men in Chicago fix the price of ever pound of meat 1 buy, when q half dozen men around a table in Penn sylvania fix the price on every ton o coal?
 Taft and Sherman both struck tn trusts with all the power they lfac the Sherman antitrust law. Tfiss big combinations are here to stay bO the American people are not going t sit down and say we cannot regulat them. These are to be regulated.
 In closing General King thanked tn Norwich men for the grand reception they had given him and he was loudl cheered as he concluded.
 Three cheers for the speakers an the success of the party closed tn rally after Chairman Hall had an nounced the coming of Senator Bran degee for a rally here next Wednesda!