The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-26
Some Facts About the Tariff Drawn From Circumstances With Which Every
 body is Familiar

body is Familiar
 The most outrageous statements are being made about the tariff visitor from Mars obliged to know sole y by of various citizens, would Wond nrosbv vo arbufe or high Civilization to the eff forts of an earlier people
 Everybody admits that tariffs too high. On some things much too high.
 Every party before the people says that the tariffs
 But ALI the parties agreed that they ought not to be lowered toestroy enterprise that something future time.
 The Republican party takes this position upon the tariff nordinatey high it is managed by the sort of who want that sort of tariff it's pretenses Even Congressman Hill isn't appealing any for high tariff votes He wants to be he says be- been under microscope on legislative Nhv % vote m % for nemoerat to oct low tariff drew bill that per cent lower than the Democratic bll?
 Thus the frenzied speech of fub dub and fol de ro
 The tariff has fathered monopoly. Other mo- nopoly has arrived without the tariff.
 There monopolies caused by too high tariff
 There monopoies caused by the ownership of
 There monopo1es based upon exclusive franehis- es given by the state.
 mnation to do some special of all by itself These the only good monopoes that have been
 There are 1onopolies based upon great aggregatons of capital which vast as to estop competition natural wealth in the ground.
 The only monopoles that the tariff causes are those The Bridgeport Hydraulic company is monopoly because the legislature has given exclusive right conduct water through streets of Bridgeport.
 It not protected and does not need to be protected China 'si 'A''ii Asa'''e '''' s'sAi '''''e - M
 The telephone company, the gas company the trolley the railroad enterprises all monopolies based exclusive privileges given by the state though the tele phone monopoly existed part for long time upon the exclusive nature of the telephone patents.
 The list of monopolies that exist upon patent rights and upon patents obtained in every civilized country l the world is too long to print
 Standard Oil is the classic example of monopoly of the tariff but by of it's vast aggregation of capital and It's scrpious methods
 The coal trust example of monopoly based partly upon possession of natural wealth the so and partly upon control of railroad transportation.
 But the wool trust and the cotton trust tariff trusts and of them it may be said that the tariff is their mother.
 wages, that tariffs low wages it is such talk would insult the intelligence of infant it's mother It contradcts the facts of human experience.
 The highest paid labor Bridgeport, exclusive of unusually skilled consists of the printers the carpenters the plumbers the the achists the moulders brass and iron troeyen and railroad trainmen.
 Masons, carpenters, printers, trainmen plumbers, and troleymen have no protection of the tariff
 Yet they have the highest wages.
 Why9
 The answer is too easy.
 They are ORGANIZED strongly organized, and they won't work unless they get satisfactory wages.
 Everybody knows that. It's beyond dispute.
 About the lowest paid labor in Bridgeport is in the factories and the textile industries And in these industries most of the children under Is employed
 Yet these the industries which enjoy the highest tariff protection the lowest wages in the whole country paid to wool and cotton operatives Yet wool and cotton touches the top notch in tariff support.
 the matters have high tariff protection high wages. HWhy9 Because of the tariff9
 Nay, nay, Ebenezer! have low wages is two fold. They mostly WO MEN lack the protection of the BALLOT they