Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-18
GOV. BALDWIN TO LOCAL DEMOCRATS
Addressed Crowded Rally at Town Hal-Clams the Party Has Proved Its Worth in State and National Politics. Augustus Thomas Makes Eloquent Address-Dissects the Tariff Question-Vote of Sympathy and Hope For Recovery of MT. Roosevelt

tion which he showed after he was l shot; the resolution to give that ad- l dress to the waiting audience in Mill Waukee, though he were to die for it, all this was simply magnificent. The American people Is one in it's admira- tion of his undaunted and indomitable will.
 Gentlemen, the democratic party of Connecticut achieved some results when they got the people to give them share-a very small share-in the government of the state two years ago. It can achieve more results if it is given a larger share in 1t this year. Don't elect a lone democratic governor again, but elect the whole ticket, and cap the climax by electing for presi- dent our great leader, Woodrow Will son.
 Eloquent Speech by Mir. Thomas.
 Mir. Thomas followed Governor Baldwin with an easy, eloquent ad- dress, punctuated with humor and yet deeply impressive when he wished to drive home the point that he was making. He won his way to the good graces of his audience at the outset with a graceful eulogy of the every day task and the everyday worker, which he concluded with the state- ment that he had more respect for the $2 bill of the everyday worker than the unearned millions of any plutocrat of whom he had ever read.
 We are taking part in a government, he continued, and it is wise that we should know what We are doing Gov ernment is the power that can im- pose taxes and use force to collect them if necessary. Let this wonder full definition sink in. Thomas Jeff ferson once said that the whole art of government consists in being sim ply honest.
 There are always two parties in a 1 country, said MT. Thomas, the party of standardization and the party of 1o- 1 cal government. In the first, the smallest number of people knowing the least about the question in hand have the management of it. In the second, the largest number of people ! Knowing the most about the mattef have the management of the party. The man who mistrusts his fellow be- l ings belongs in the party of central
 ization, but the man who trusts his l fellow beings is a democrat at heart. Moses was a democrat He wrote, "Thou shalt not steal" Pharaoh was a republican, living in luxurious ease, only unpaid labor about him. and he died chasing a progressive minority. (Laughter and applause.)
 On the Tariff.
 Mir. Thomas continued by saying that he wanted to talk somewhat about the tariff. He developed the tariff | question from its inception when it
 was put on cloth to protect the weav- CTS here from the machine made cloth | nf m nd Ia oIy od hNrr hn for l if ran from one class of goods to another and how it grew and grew to prohibitive prices in some cases and having the result of the manufacture | of inferior limitations by American
 manufacturers of the things that the tariff wall keeps out. For every dol
 lar that the government gets by tariff, the American citizen pays six dollars ! to the dealer It has been computed | that if every man who works in a tariff protected industry should quit work and receive their pay as a pen
 sion, the country could do it for half
 what it is paying now for these things.
 If this is so, somebody is getting very
 rich.
 The speaker gave his big audience a l concrete example of what success in American business life could mean by stating that if Julius Caesar could have had for 1000 years the salary of 1 the president of the United States and
 have put it at reasonable interest he
 still would have now only one fifth
 of the fortune of Andrew Carnegie For such a condition every man who voted for a protective tariff is re-
 sponsible, for Carnegie has secure
 this sum honestly according to our ls laws.
 Hope for Roosevelts Recovery.
 To a suggestion from the speaker al
 this point that the audience express it's
 sincere hope for the recovery of MT
 Roosevelt, the crowd rose responsively
 and iD silence to its feet.
 MT. Thomas painted a vivid picture
 of his recollections of impressions al
 the assassination of Lincoln and wen
 on to refer to the words of Mckinley
 "The time has come to reduce the
 tariff" That was the last virtuous ut.
 terance of the republican party, saiC
 the speaker, because Mckinley mean
 it. There have been promises since
 but they have not been sincere. MT
 Taft spoke for a tariff revision down
 ward, but he signed bill which was
 revision upward.
 The speaker had hopes, he declared that the tariff would be so reduced b, lu6 Oei1OcTdlS IHdL IL WOulu not pd,
 the expenses of the government. Thi ought to be paid by an income ta, upon the shoulders capable of bearin | 1t, the barons who make the money . He read some criticisms from republi cans on the tariff bill, These includ
 ed what Senators Beveridge and Dolli yer said. in consequence of whicl President Taft withdrew from MI Deliver the republican patronage Tn price that Deliver paid for telling tk truth, said the speaker, was to b , thrown into a position where he die 1 | in the harness.
 He told of what a congressman O , the investigation committee on mi conditions in Lawrence had told hin 5 the deaths from 47 to 50 in 1000 c , lchildren under years of age, mostl I from lack of proper nourishment, an
 the number of stillbirths among tn
 families of mill workers, due to tn
 miserable conditions where wome work for $6.O8 or $612 a week. Thi , is in an industry with 90 per cen ,. protective tariff. which the democrat are declaring they will wipe out t A great burst of applause greete , the speaker as he concluded NnpWicH nEI EGATION ON