The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-23
HUNTER EXHIBITS HILLS
 BAD CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Nora Man Voted Against Income Tax Voted For Payne Tariff Bill Voted Against Panama Eight Hour Day, the Compulsory Pilotage Bill and Many Other Remedial Measures

Robert Hunter. Socialist candidate Tor congress in speaking to the Singer rno4orv rvorkmen. yesterday, spoke in part as follows:
 few days ago Congressman B. J. HfiI attempted to speak at the fac tories in Bridgeport. He went away I an told under the impression that e< had beena very. badly treated He rthen teIeEraphed to Victor~IzssSBerg the Socialist Congressman from Mi waukee, asking him to plead With all,,ere ere Socialists here to give him square deal My friends, it is signlf1cant or bix things when a stand-pat congress. man in Connecticut must telesra;pn s.a;pn,., oo Socialist Congressman in Wlscon- sin to get for himethe ear of the Work- iuemen in his own district r.,,
 I regret it very much if MT. alh , was not treated with courtesy It IS rsaatter for us all to regret, but II MT sists lsas Sl2 GRPa2 asssiS hir duastioag. M has a tco sensitive soul for polltical Ale:
 Fine oratiofs cover a multitude or sins and orations never tell us any tEing except what the orators ss.afore Mant es to know. In my opinion. thereIore, <4,o,ss f1Se voters ought to ask more questionS sEs1 fhev do. They ought to hold their representative to account ...
 But ask any fair-mtnded man III this district why should MT Hill ex- pecf tEe votes of working-menE Ion- EressInan Hill has served of, Hlgneeer yr1e ar YOU of one single law he has ever Tn. 1f9duced there in the snterest cf laooIE Cant he tell me or you or one ,la 2 i ro ~pri that he has ever spoken there III fba interests of labor? He sends us rTear variety of speeches connected Sa ons rne sinEie laFl sentence ent nee in which Ee plessds for the rights of workIngnen:
 think. my friends, that none or x6l consider me person Mp4 mHo,o t;or ard Itask- you therefore to conslder with care the following record Of MT Hills work in Congress
 1r Tast came to his ruin through the breaking of every pledge made py rYs party for reduction in the tarlH- well. next to sAldrich and Payne. con xressran E. J. Hill of this olstrlcI nal mas See1e- tieA most consistent. stand-pat, hrxh-tariff, advocate in Congress
 Asainsss every; ateIsapt made I3s15ocra4s by Ta4s fe do away with certain outrageous features of the tariff. MT. Hill has stood like a rock In the passage or the Payne Tarin Bill. MT H1lI ana aii she. other sCongressmen from Connectl- eilr voted Yea and Nay whenever Payne voted yea and nay nave fire complete rolI-cal1 and there are certainly not more than two stances when Coreressmap Hill voted against the advice of Payne: -
 Now as--tfe factortes Congressman Hill is making claim that a nigh tar if means high wages I ask you, is that true? Let's test that assertlop
 MT Hill voted against free Jumper That was a vote for the Timber Trust Well do you not know that the Il. Ili1- her workers are about the most mls- q erably paid and oppressed tollers Tn this country? Do you not know tnae they are now on strike against wages hours and conditions that no uecenl men sHzld tolerate?
 MT Ein voted not ny for the out rageous Woolen Schedule in the Payne Bill. bue he also in this last session again voted against the attempt to re aI1ce the taxes on wool. It was est1- mated that the bill for reducing the taxes on wool would save the people Of this country S50,00G,0OO yearly in he cost of clothing
 well. did the Woolen Schedule raise txrsu t4saf-ti1e recent strike in Law rerces s<sf s8 6oo nin=ha ritIs was against the Woolen Trust? And do you not know that oue-third of those Eorkers earn less than s7.00 a week? Has the sarin which costs us $5O,OO0s 900 year puf penny in the pockets of the mll- hands of Lawrence, or of any other mill-workers? MT Hill voted in the last Congress against reduction Of the dutles on metals It was estlnat- ed that this reduction would save the American people $s0, ,000, ,e09e yearly.
 Was this -in--thes Interest of She steel workers or. of Prick. sSehyvao, Car Well. do you not know that the wages in the Steel industry area at the star vation point, and do you not know twelve hours day. seven ddys in the ~eck2 Has the high tariff benefited the wages of the Steel workers? Congressman Hill two years ago wenI to Danbury to get the votes of work ingsnen there on the ground that he was the originator of the high tariff OF hats He sstld the two men who had asked him for this high tariff were Samuel Mundhiem of New York and Charles Marshall of Fall River.
 Now these two men are perhap the Lest Labor haters and oppresSors in the hatting-trade. Marshall was res- pc1sibie for the great lockout in Dam btfry in 1903 Mundheim was respon- sif.Ie for the great lockout of 190S-os. TlIese two men have cost Danbury un- ToId millions
 Now let's be on the square. Can any tie patience to listen longer to Con gressman Hill?
 The Income Tax. Now Congressman Hill is an expert on taxation He makes me. think of the man that Sam Johnson once re- ferred to- That fellow said Sam, has only one idea. and that idea is a wrong one-'
 specialist on taxes But has any man ever heard him advocate taxes on wealth or big incomes or -inheritances Every other country in the world now has az tax on incomes. They are try snx9f1t1fft burden of taxation from theS backs Of the toiling millions to put it upon swollen fortunes and ill
 For years in this country a body 7 of earnest men have struggled to get an income tax. An Income Tax was clared by the Courts, unconstitutional A bill was then introduced to amend the Constitution Well, here was a chance for Hill to vote for one taxa einrn hill NThich UOrlld benefit the DeO-