Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-29
FARMER IS VICTIM
OF TARIFF WILSON
Declares Doors Must BIZ
Opened to Check High
Living Cost.

WILLIAMS GROVE, Pa, Aug. 20
Governor Woodrow Wilson, Demo-
cratic presidential candidate, address,
ing a large gathering at the grangers'
rally here today, declared that the
tearing down of the tariff was the
only hope for the farmer. Every
thing that relaxes the present stupid
system of tariff taxation multiplies
the markets for the farmer" he said,
land if the doors are not thrown open
we will be overwhelmed by the rising
tide of high prices
That the farmers form the great
helpless class of unidentified con-
sumers, out of whose pockets has
come a large part of the country's
enormous price for protective tariff,
was Governor Wilson's assertion. she
declared that methods of providing
long credits for the farmer, such as
systems of agricultural societies, in
other countries should be provided.
Governor Wilson said in part:e
Mr.. Wilson's Speech.
ut is strange that we should have
put off so long looking into our gov
eminent to see whether it is in fact
run according to the rules we origin
ally laid down for it, but it is certain
that we are now looking into 1t very
sharply indeed and without the least
danger that we shall be deceived
again as to its character. Our idea of
it has been from the first that it was
a genuine partnership and that all
were upon one footing and were to
share alike.
Bat a very interesting thing has
come to light. That is not in fact the
istered in our time. 1t has been in
the hands of self-constituted trustees
and the partners have seldom been
allowed a real governing voice in its
administration.
Prize Money"
MIR. Roosevelt has proclaimed him
self a convert to the protective policy
I say a convert because he at n
time very frankly avowed a different
opinion-and has said hat while he
admitted that no doubt some duties
were too high and ought to be
lowered, on the whole the policy pur-
sued by. Republican administrations
had been the right one, and he
thought the prize money which had
been received under that system by
the manufacturers of the country was
legitimate booty.
"The analogy Is a very interesting
one. Prize money Is generally ac-
CURED by capture and not by any
process OF earning, but Mr. Roosevelt
Is always frank and says that his
only objection TO the system is that
TOO much OF the prize money remains
IN the hands or the officers and too
lttie OF II Is distributed IN the crew.
MS own OBJECT ne aVoWs 20 De TO see
TO II that more Oh the prize money
gets into the pay envelopes or those
whom the eepooter employ. me
interesting point l wish 10 raise now
Is, VINO n piunder! FROM
whom Is the prize money taken!
Ihe present Denocratlc
had n old-1ashloned Idea or gov
efhinehl' Ihey that It's
dement's ana prolectlons were TO De
distributed anu equally shareo' IL
anu passed a Dill winch
became known as the Tree
iist pHl. Ihat Dill put many lnuls-
pensaple thlhss on the Tree nst.
Taft Ignored People,"
at was a very natural act on the
part of the Democratic Congress,
therefore, to put agricultural imple-
ments on the free, list, to put fence
wire also on the free list, and the
bagging and ties which the Southern
farmer needs and uses for his cotton.
1t added lumber and laths and
shingles and leather and shoes and
salt and meats, thinking not of the
farmer alone. but of all of us who are
struggling to live and pay our bills.
But such change did not comport
with the ideas and plans of the trusts
and the President vetoed the free list.
I dare say he was right from his
point of view, for he represented the
trustees and not the people.
1.-THE trustees represent also the big
bankers in whose hands our banking
no republican administration no
republican mas attempted