The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-16
DONOVAN'S
 CHALLENGE # vife TO F. J. HILL
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0Contfnued from Page D protection for the American working lieves in allowing one hundred and fifty million cigars to come in free of duty. T have made some research on this
 matter to see how badly MT. Hill has crimped the cigar business in this country with his free trade proposi- ton. st. I find that. it. would require 5000 cigar makers to make 150, ,.iOO.Vuo cigars in a year2ss The fastest Amer ican cigar makers will average SIS a week. and the average can make $15 a week. On the basis that each five, MT. Hill was not reluctant to talk ing the bread and butter out of the mouths of 30,000 souls in the United States of America in order that the Philippine islanders might have chance to make cigars for the United States.
 sRut that is not all thas MT. Hill did in the free trade line, and the American cigarmaker is not the only one that he jolted when he worked for the passage of the Philippine pre- ferential tariff He allowed the ad-
 nittance of one million pounds of filler tobacco free and 100000 pounds amount mixed with filler tobacco each fiscal year.
 How did that affect the Connecti- cut farmer who grows tobacco? Real acre and the thinnest 300 pounds to the acre MT. Hill in his free trad Ing Qepr1Ved Am0r1can TODaccO ra1S- CTS. of a market for the product of 21, ,666 acres of tobacco on the 600 pound basis and of the earnings of 43,000 acres on the 300 pound basis. borers that would be employed Eo work this land.
 While he was posing as the great I am of the Ways and Means com mittee, he was depriving over 3O,oOo souls of their bread and butter in this country, or as many as three-quarters Fairfield county. Not once in his talks has he said anything about his freeing tobacco. When you are lis- 4 tening to man, stop and think that what he fails to say.
 Nov as for HflPs talk about free meat you will have to take a great deal of salt with it. He has been in congress for eighteen years. You have paid him $7,5OO a year, paid his postage, hired a $1,5oo clerk for him. paid his railroad fares, and what has he given you in return?
 He has given you the highest price you have ever paid for meat.
 you ever paid for food commod odities
 When the Prosperity League be- came interested in your welfare they the court where you are the judges with clean hands. These men of in- fluence in your community in order f9 aod fha 6s abi tfnly to P6 iyou-'we have secured low carfare for you. We have secured cheaper coal clothes for you. We have secured cheaper gas for you. We have secured cheaper sugar for you things h they e9 might bs worthy a o of !Heaf youf
 t,rfle ssThere was a real Prosperity League at Hartford at the last session of the this league belonged to it. It was the crowd that secured the passage of the net weight bill requiring the exact weight of the contents of a package of foodstuffs to be stamped on the outside of the package. This real Pros perity league proved that you and Il were paying as high as 70 cents a pound for package goods that retail in the bulk for IS and 20 cents.
 T have it from Republican au- ton of ton per mile is 25 cents over a gravel road, seven and eight tent of a cent over steam roads. three cents end three mills over shallow canals; through rivers and deep canals 1 mill per mile and on the lakes and oceans five -tenths of mill per mile. You pay a nickel to ride on the street cars and it's costs less than a cent: to car ry enough to weigh a ton Has your Prosperity league ever tried to get your street railroad company to give carry you for that and make a good profit and a saving Of two cents per rare WOuIO put S5U note 1n the common purse of almost every family in town.
 Have a Prosperity League of your own and get what is coming to you You will never get 1t supporting tfre greatest agent of special legislation for the priviliged few who ever sat in Congress I thank you gentlemen" (Applause.)
 The chairman of the meeting was Former Senator John M. Donne1ly who said that he had known Mir Donovan at Hartford and that he had a. record that was as clean as the driven snow. 1
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