The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-09-05
HIGH PROTECTION
IS TOO PROVINCIAL
Declared Woodrow Wilson Last Night
at His Address in New York as
Presidential Candidate.

New York, Sept. 5.--After delivering
last night his first speech in this city
as the Democratic nominee for presi-
dent, Woodrow Wilson left to-day for
Sea Girt. The address was delivered
at the dollar dinner of the Woodrow
Wilson Workingmen's league.
Zone OF the reasons why am opposed
to an exaggerated protective policy"
said the governor, lis that it is choos-
ing beforehand to be provincial and to
have as little to do with the rest of
the world as possible. hear great
deal said nowadays about the danger OF
free trade. There are circumstances in
this country which render it absolutely
impossible in our time, dare say, that
we should have free trade We have
SC divided the sphere Of taxation. both
by principle and by practice between
The federal and state government. that
direct taxation is almost exclusively re-
served for the state governments and
indirect taxation is the chief resource of.
the federal government; and the indi-
rect taxes. which we would not pay II
we knew we were paying them, are chief
ly paid at the customs house. If YOU
want to be certain that we would not
pay them if we knew we were paying
them, watch the people who come back
from Europe and go through the GUS
toms.
''There would be very different Gus
toms policy in this country IL every
body consciously and visibly paid the
customs duties out of his own pocket
directly into the hands OF an officer OF
the government. We ought periodically
all of us TO go outside and then come in
again and realize what is happening. So
that when people talk to you about the
danger OF free trade and the folly of the
free trader, don't be afraid that you will
meet a free trader in the dark any
where because there is not any free
trader who can get aboard In America
at present. All that we are considering
therefore, in considering the policy OF
protection. is relative freedom In trade
Also Talked To Editors.
Before going to the dinner, the gov
'ernor met two score editors of foreign
Language newspapers at the National
Arts club and talked immigration to
them.
IF we can hit upon standard which
admits every voluntary immigrant" he
said, "a1d excludes those who have not
come of their own motion, With their
own purpose of making a home and
career for themselves, but have been in
Iduced by steamship companies or 9th
ers to come in order to pay the pas.
sage money, then we will have what we
will all agree upon as Americans, For
j am not speaking to you in foreign
country. i am speaking to you as also
Americans with myself, and if we all |
take the American point of view, name |
ly, that we want American life kept to
its standards, and that only the standards !
of American life shall be the standards |
OF restriction. then we are all upon !
common ground, not Of those who criti-
else immigration, but of those who de-
clare themselves Americans.
II am not saying that | am wise
enough out of hand to frame the legis-
lation that will meet this ideal. / am
only saying that that is the ideal and
that is what We ought to hold ourselves
to.
Got Into Wrong Society.
Now, strange as it may seem to
some gentlemen who have criticised me,
the only blunder ] have made, the only
practical blunder | have made in my in.
terest in liberal policy with regard 10
is that | got into the wrong
society to encourage it, So that it was
an indiscretion Of judgment and not an
iLdiseretion of purpose, for my interest
iE immigration is to see that the i'm
migrant is properly informed, is prop
erly safeguarded against imposition of
every kind, whether by the government
nr anybody else, and is directed to the
place where he can attain the objects
be has come for with the greatest ad-
vantage TO himself. That, to my mind.
IS the solution of the immigration ques-
tion.
"0f course, If the immigrants are t5
be allowed to come in uninstructed hosts
and 10 stop at the ports where they
enter and there to compete in an over
supplied labor market, there is going "a
BE- deterioration and everything will be
to the community as well as .