New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
WILSON TAKES MORE
SOBER TARIFF VIEW
He Tells Big Philadelphia Audi
ences He Does Not Favor
Any Radical Changes.
BuT HAMMERS PROTECTION
Governor Declines to Discuss
Roosevelt, and Confines His
Themes Chiefly to Rev
enue and Trusts.

enue and trusts.
FROM a stan Correspondent OF The IIIoune'
phuodalpbIa, oct. Ex-Governor Wood
row Wilson received big reception III
,bis city tonight, when he spoke TO more
,ho, twenty-five thousand persons more
han twenty thousand Of whom were
crovded into the big convention hall
The Governors first speech of the even
,rc vas IN the Academy Of Music, at
meeting held by the Wilson Nauon@l
Progressive Republican League and IL
Uas apparent from his speech TO the -FOUR
thousand men and women in his auoi-
,nce that a week Of rest and reflection In
the opIet town Of Princeton had sooered
bis Views on the tarin-to certain eX-
tent al least-for he stoutly asserted that
he was not in favor Of any radical
changes IN the tariff At the same thne'
he fayed the protective tariff unmercl-
fplly. saving It was a system OF extor-
tjon. special favor and monopoly which
we purpose 10 wipe out"
The New Jersey Governor did not men
tion the name Of Colonel Roosevelt IN his
sneech. and when some enthusiast In the
II. near the end of his address, ne an
swered by saying that he would have TO
forego the pleasure Of discussing Colonel
Roosevelt as he intended 10 devote this
last week Of the campaign to discussing
issues, not personalities.
At another point he told an interrupter
that the referendum was not national
question. but question for states, and he
suggested it's need IN Pennsylvania.
Governor Wilson's reception at the
Academy of Music was one that warmed
the cookies Of his heart. Before he arose
10 speak the entire audience sang Amer
lea" and when he left his seat the audi
once waving small American flags,
cheered for a full minute. His reception
at Convention Hall, which was packed 10
the doors. was. one big ovation BeIoro
going there hespoke to an overflow meet
ing outside the Academy of Music 10
more than a thousand persons.
Tariff and Trusts His Themes
The tariff and the trusts were the
themes of Governor Wilson's addresses
although he depressed from these suO)ecls
long enough 10 say something about pam
les asserting that the only way in which
a panic could be brought about in these
days was by the special interests using
their grin on the credit Of the country to
create one.
Think of the American people oeihs
papic-stricken at the idea OF reforming
their own government" he exclaimed sar-
castically.
The Governor blamed the protective sys-
en- for making panics possible, and then
denounced the kind of a tariff that pro-
tects the American as foNo~s'
q, hos sapped the originatlye powers
has sapped the independence; II nag
checked The energy OF america CIV
low we are asked not 10 Ventuie W gari
use our energy at all. IheIe 10 nV Ssva
1Us dispute among men as 10 Mhat , Ssa
,'cr me consequences OF the recent useb
IN which the protective policy mas oeen
put because, as your chdiIIllai soAC ~ &c
are not debating raalcal CH a3las 10 nTo.
is nobody seeking nauonal oAlSS "H' pa
poses radical changes a., .,.,-oo. g.,
Now. with regard TO radical changes III
the national programme. NoDody Is PIO
posing to upset business, any dIu v vn with
lie uUturning Of the foundations OF
business know that nobody is proposing
TO DO more than they promised 10 40 anu
Want 70 ask YOU 10 face very frankly
tie actual circumstances In when we
stand and then ask yourselves VIA VIZ -, W
ought 10 do. The so-called tarln sys-
tenn has ceased 10 be system OF pro-
lection. Ii has become system OF eh-
tortion of special favors and OF monop-
oily, and il is extortion and special favors
and monopoly that we propose 10 root
IN the meanTime, what has happened?
Trade in this country has been checked,
not fostered. Anybody VINO studlee tne
figures will see that America, 20 Tar 40
the merchant is concerned. and the man
ufacturer, is now in a sort OF STRAIT
jacket She is almost bursting the eanus
that hold her because Ehe Is producing
great deal more than the 6oma me nn, mar man
the gates Of foreign commerce America
will presently come TO case OF veIy
serious difficulty and congestion indeed;
And. while we have been provincial ana
domestic, and have turned all our
energies in upon ourselves, until we nave
grown too big for the very territory thar
DESTROYED the means of commerce. We
have allowed our merchant marine to go
absolutely 10 decay. England carries our
goods. Germany carries our goods. Our
ships do not carry them.
Canal for Foreign Ships.
We have now put our foreign trade
I'm fine hands OF carriers who have deter
mined the routes, and who select as their
ports OF entry the very ports In which
tbey have established their own CONNER
.ial supremacy, by a knowledge of for
eign markets and long ACQUAINTANCE
with the processes of foreign trade OF
which we are absolutely ignorant. -,
In the mean time we are spending mill
ions upon millions to dig great ditch
through the isthmus. What for! Ihere
are no American ships to go through that
canal except the coastwise trading yes
sells These same English and German
and French ships VIII use that metnou
Of communication. so that the western
coas. Of South America Will be as neal
Europe as the eastern coast OF south
America is now. and South American
trade, which ought 10 belong TO US WIZ VII
be more and more enveloped IN lne
processes and the means or buroPea"
commerce
Governor Wilson also took a fling AT
the third party programme on the regn-
lation OF monopoly, and also had some
hing 30 say about the Republican party
IN that respect He continued:
The men under whom trusts multi
Piled from forty to a thousand, from
forty 20 ten thousand. have become ac-
eustomed TO the multiplication OF trusts:
~ has actually come to the pass that
hey regard monopoly as the law .h OF IiI nay ~
nature. then America, as free govern
ment. must go out Of business because
Inc statement of the Democratic pat
FORM Is the statement that sums UP ms
Tory. that private monopoly IL absolute
" indefensible and intolerable. n u ~
any monopoly. Il must be pubic mo-
nopoiy and not private monopoly.
Domestic competition used TO take care
OF the prices; domestic competition useu