The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-24
GARY SEES LIKENESS TO
 REVOLUTION
CBy c. H. Tavenner.) )

l banquet in New York The food was 1 good; the lights were bright; the sil-
 yer shimmered; the wine 'Sparkled; the | cigars added a final completeness to | the happiness of all present. When it ] came Judge Gary's turn to speak, his
 mind was saturated with benevOleuces
 and his thoughts turned to the welfare of the republic, and the sufferings of
 workingm Listen to him: 1 Things are being said nowadays l that are closely akin to the things | that were said just prior to the French 1 Revolution. Unless the great corpO- l rations, capitalists, and men, Of large l wealth and power take a, leading part l in the amelioration Of conditions. there will be changes made later by the mob.''
 i The newspapers next day told the 1 story Of the banquet, and Of Judge 1 Gary's speech, and the same newspa- i pers chronicIed the testimony of wit 1 These witnesses too how the Steel 1 Trust forces men to work 12 hours l day, ' days week, for wages which l compels them to live like swtne-a con- dition which Judge Gary could amel- iorate with a, few strokes of his pen
 The banquet hall is dark The din l of their linen and viands. And some where in that deserted room, shrunk-
 en so small that the servants failed to
 see it when they swept out the crumbs 1 is Judge GaTy's Beautiful Altruism- Roosevelt Ard the Tarin. Just once in his life Theodore Roose- 1 welt expressed an opinion on the tar | if. That is; he almost expressed an ! wrote this sentence
 'Tn a later message shall discuss
 the tariff
 A preliminary draft of this message fe1I in the hands of Senators AIdrich and Lodge and Speaker Cannon. I'm
 mediately they rushed to the White ally was submitted to Congress, it con tained no reference to the tarif. Aside from that, no living man can
 point to a written Or spoken opinion that MT Roosevelt ever expressed on the tariff question.
 A Stand-patter's Wall.
 The Senate was discussing a bill for the establishment of a Children's Blu and Labor. Senator Borah, author Of the bill, had explained how the huge corporations were exploiting little chl1- dren. crushing them, with hard toil while they were yet Of tender years He explained that the bill contemp ated no interference with the proper rela- tion Of parents toward their own cnil- dren, and that it's purpose was merely to provide for the collection Of Statls- tics and information on which the sep araite states and municipalities could
 base a solution Of the child welfare problem.
 .'ln the great cities" concluded Sen ator Borah, little children fester and swe-te and staTve and steal and die by the thousands This bill is design ed to aid them-'
 Then up rose Senator Heyburns stand-patter, and for two hours the Senate Iist tened to his complaints about the 'sunconstitutionaIit Of the bill. His final argument was that Abraham Lincoln was a poor boy.
 Some Bald Facts.
 The Repub' 'ican campaign fund in
 1908 amounted to s1.665. .51s.27. The Democratic fund was S620, 644.27 The
 Republicans had more than a, million in excess of the Democrats. The number who contributed to the Republican fund was 12,230, and to the Democratic fund, 74,O00- Tn other
 words, the number of contributors to greater. and their contributions ann 1 ounted to a, million dollars less. The cor tributors to the Repub ican fund as 8 rule. were interested in legisla- men as J. PierPOnt Morgan Charles P-
 Taft, Andrew Carnegie. Charles M- | Schwab, John Jacob AstOr and the
 heads of the various woolen mills who desired the passage of the Payne-Al- dTich law, together with donations from Wall Street banks, railroad mag notes, and individuals representing the tariff trusts.
 The contributors to the Democratic
 fund ranged from S110,0Oo downward. 1 while contributions to the Democratic fund ranged from s5,000 downward. 'cEIeYating'' The WOrkingman. President Mckinley, in one of his sreeches said: "It must be conceded that the protective system has digni- fled and elevated labor. We observe its triumphs on every hand
 The industries most benefited by the l high protective policy are steel, wool and cotton manufacturing. and we Ob- serve the methods by which these trusts have "dignif1ed and elevated labor We observe. one result of this ''eIevating'' process in the Lawrence,
 Mass, strike, where who e regiments with drawn bayonets, are required to keep order among men, women ana children who are trying to retain their t1resen7 wages of s6, s7 and S a week. in which a cut has been threatened The ''elevating'' process is to be seen in the flower of it's beauty and trl- nmph, 'E- the steel trust s mills where men are forced to labor p hours a week for the same wages paid lahorerS for 5G hours work in free trade Eng land Still another evidence of the 'seIevating'' effect of protection on Ia Dor is seen in the employment by the trusts of thousands of children
 \ Big Difference.
 Millions for defence; not one cent
 The American Woolen AIi'Is company the wooIen trust, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in magazlne ao- verifying, the purpose of which was to F'educate'' the people into seeing the justice of Schedule K and the way It was making sheep raisers rich by pay
 ng a big price Or wool, and he way 1s was Sc ling good cloth to the Ameri- can people for less than they really ought to pay.
 And then, when the workers in it's
 mills objected to a cut in the s6 a week wages they were getting, the woolen company employed an army Of guards to protect it's mills When the state shortened the hours Of labor of course wages had to come down. Of course that patriotic company wouldn't pay g cents per week to it's operatives in order that they might have shorter hours and still get S6 a week
 LENTEN BIBLE CLASS
 The Young Women=s Christian As-