The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-02

be entitled to have as many votes as it now has in the electoral college? Here would be real progress towards popular government.
 To another step in the same dire<- tion the Democratic national plat form commits the party: making the President incapable of serving a sec ond term. This I believe to be right The Office has become an imperial one. No one should be under the temptation to use it's power to secure for himself reelection.
 But let no man forget that the main, direct, immediate issue before the people is the putting an end,S as to them and to everything else, to all forms of governmental favoritism,- to the power of special interests to mould laws and direct their execu- ton or non-executfon-
 Here is Progressive candidate for Governor who when at the head of the United States Bureau of Corpora tiOns advised President Roosevelt not to prosecute the Harvester Trust, be- cause, he wrote, the Morgan interests were behind it, and would not like it, and the Morgan interests had been friendly to the Roosevelt policies. No wonder the head men of the so-call- don't want to discuss such matters, and haven't much to say about the influences that make our tariffs, and raise the cost of our daily bread
 Americans have been a meat eat ing people. Why do we now have, under the Republican tariff, a duty or SOm6LnlnS ike z0 per cent. on both live stock and dressed meats2
 As compared with Great Britain. this makes beef cost us, at retail {and that is the real test of living to each of us), about a third more. Statistics taken here and in London, Sept. 26. 1912, prove this.
 They import meats from Argentine free. If we could, meats would be cheap again. It is the beef trust that keeps this tariff up, to impoverfah our dinner tables It is even the beef k.. T%1-<- ports from Argentine to London
 Every extensive line Of production has private bureau at Washington, steadily seeking to procure or pre- interests. And they get them, and 50 long as q Republican administration rules at Washington, they will get them.
 Tn reporting on the cotton goods schedule some figures were collected by the Tariff Board, which are rather striking. They showed that on some classes of goods the duty was twelve times the total labor cost. Was that meant to increase the contents of the pay envelope?
 One of the Ways and Means com n1iftee in Congress told the House, not long since, that a man appeared on wire used in egg beaters. He was asked if he was a large manufacturer Of egg beaters and said he was. Do you make any money out of it?'
 A .sY es-sss5 Then why do you want a higher duty?'' s4Se can make more m money."
 That is the way they talk, when | they open their hearts in. a Washing ton committee room.
 Gentlemen, the people of the Unit | ed States are tired of all this. They | are going to elect a Democratic Pres Ident Shall Connecticut have her | share in it :? Shall she be one Of the | procession to re-instan popular and | social Justice at Washington2
 Let us answer by sending five Dem 1cratfc Congressmen instead of one. to the next House of Representatives. Let us answer by e1ecting our whole | State ticket. Let us answer by choos- ing State senators who will confirm | nominations of competent men to of ice, even if it be that of Highway Commissioner. Let us cast on Tues lay, each one of us, a vote we shall | never be ashamed of--aS vote for the -eal party of the people, led by | 2VnndroVZ- wilson. ----- I