The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-03
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1 CContinued from Page One.) | gives special privileges if we try to protect the farmers, the laborers in 1 our industrial plants and those who 1 operate our industrial plants
 | fThe protectionists say, make those outside of our country pay for the l privileges of selling their goods in our markets. The question, shall we have protection or free trade has been put before the voters of our country many times and answered every time by the great majority in favor of protection for our farmers, for the laborers in | our factories and those who, operate
 our industrial plants. Therefore, we shall assume that our people want pro- lection. a protective tariff I believe in a pro tective tariff, fairly and intelligently laid. They believe that if any indus try needs protection a bill of particu- lars should be presented, showing how much has been figured for the la- borer, how much for cost of manage and the reason why the protection is needed. That means a square deal for all. These fundamental items of cost must enter into practical considera- tion in business undertakings The tariff, if it is anything, is a business proposition and should be settled by if I am to be protected, I must know how I am protected. Our expert tar if makers at Washington, the biggest humbuggers in the country, saw that they could not fool the farmer. He l must be shown. The tariff makers l said. you shall be protected twenty five cents on every bushe1 of potatoes, l three dollars and sixty cents on every ton of hay, and so on through the farmers list.
 ssTurn now to the great army of industrial workers. How have they 1 been provided for by our tariff ex- perts? Has any certain per cent been considered for the 1aborer in laying | the tariff? Is there a bill of particu- | lars to which the artisan and 1aborer provided for by the tariff? Can any one tell what has been figured for l capital? What for management? No There is such bill of particulars 1 The money has been given in trust, | ostersibly for the benefit of the great | producing forces of the country with ! court or providing any way by which | their share of the protection can be | traced
 Ask your great tariff expert what | your share is in the protected indus 1 try that you represent? He does not know. No one knows. Citizens, think | on for the purpose of holding our home markets against foreign inVa- instriai T1Gh Ino91 nlamts m0 are the generals the laborers are the soldiers, and yet the soldiers do not know what share or the things they are f1ghting for be. longs to them Or whether they get anything at all.
 t'The Progressive Party says that
  partners in the great industries of our country, so far as a protective tar1ff is concerned, vet, some of our tariff experts have been in Congress half a generation and have never discovered it. Are they looking and working for the interests Of our country? Wash ingtOn is a long distance from the voting booth. A wilderness of figures and statistics blown over the country by a windstorm of oratory proves nothing. Laborers, do you understand them? Ask questions. If the answers are, satisfactory believe them. If not, it is up to the voter to say what
 whether there is to be a tariff for revenue or for protection. The subject should be taken out of the on a standard of business practice which prevails in other countries. commission for gathering and tabulat- ing facts should be established. The tariff should be changed, one sched- been heard and the fullest publicity given.
 Germany has thirty-two men work ing on their tariffs. Germany's sys- tematic commercial development and trade expansion astonishes the world. Two years ago, Congress, under pres of our country, grudgingly provided for a tariff commission of three Re publicans and two Democrats. This comm ission now hangs by it's eyends with trunks packed for long jour- ney. Surely the wisdom of Congress and our great tariff experts has been a marvel for the last twenty years. Will you have the Progressive Party or the old bosses, who offer you no protection at an protection that can be discovered only by faith.
 If the voters of the Fourth Con- gressional District elect me to Con- l gress in November I give you my $ pledge that I will work with all my ( ability and strength to bring about ( tariff reforms that will recognize the { fundamental principle of cooperation for the general betterment of all. The Doctrine that the laborers and capi- talist are partners in the great indus tries of the country, so far as the lay l ing of tariff is concerned, that the tariff is a business proposition, one in which the amount figured for labor : can and should show in the pay en- ve1ope. IT
 '.I will do my best to take the tariff out of politics, to establish an ade- , puate non-part rtisan tariff commission ' ' to gather and tabu1ate facts. :
 |tI will labor above all things to . the end that no tariff changes shall v be made unless a bill of particulars is produced, showing reason for , changes.
 T will labor for changes to be made one schedule at time, and only af- ter all interested have been heard and proper publicity has been given.'
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