The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-16
MAKES FIRST CAMPAIGN SPEELii TO EIGHT THOUSAND FAR
 MFRS AT GLOUCESTER.
0F RESTRICTIVE TARIFF
Regards Campaign as Struggle to See That the People Are Taken Care of--Says Tariff Con
 cerns Farmers Most.

Gloucester, N. J., Aug. 15.-Under the glare of hot sun, thousands of farmers massed about Governor Woodrow Wilson here today ant heard him make his first campaign speech since he was officially notified week ago of his nomination. to the | presidency.
 1 The governor spoke eXtemporane- ously at Washington park where the farmers of New Jersey, Delaware and | Pennsylvania were participating in q celebration. The candidate dwelt mostly on the protective tariff, which he called the restrictive tariff, at tackled Senator Aldrich and his tariff making assistants, pointed out the | benefits of a merchant marine in connection with the Panama canal and blamed the influence of express companies in halting parcels post leg islation.
 The governor frequently was inter- rrpted by applause and cheers. Whel he finished speaking many of the | farmers wanted to shake hands. The | governor was at the park about two hours returning to Seagirt early to
 night
 Governor Wilson said in part
 T am interested in politics, not as
 a search for office, but as a great con
 test devoted to something very defi-
 nite and practical indeed Politics
 ought to be considered as a mers
 ocean for oratory Politics ought tC
 be considered as a branch of the na-
 tional business, and man who talks
 politics ought to tell his fellow citi-
 zens very distinctly what he thinks
 about their affairs and what his own attitude towards them is.
 Here, we are at a farmers picnic and on this day l suppose we might say that the farmers occupy the cen | ter of tho stage. When did the farm CTS ever occupy the center of the stage in our politics? I don't remem | Der any time. 1 have seen the inter- ests of a great many classes specially regarded in legislation, but l must frankly say that 1 have seldom seen the interests of the farmer regarded in legislation. Ane one of the great est impositions upon the farmer of the country that has ever been de vised is the present tariff legislation of the United States.
 q have not heard of farmers wait ing for a hearing before the commit tee of ways and means of the house and the finance committee of the sen- ate in order to take part in determin | ing what the tariff schedules should | be. While you were feeding the world congress was feeding the trusts. No body doubts what the process of tariff legislation has been, because every body who has been curious enough to | inquire knows what the process of tariff legislation has been.
 "I would be ashamed of myself if tried to stir up any feeling on the part of any class against any other class. l wish to disavow all intention of suggesting to the farmer that he go in and do somebody up. That is not the point. All that l am modest | ly suggesting to you Is that you break | into your own house and live there. And l want you to examine very crit | ically the character of the tenants who have been occupying It. It is q very big house and very few people have been living in it and the rent | has been demanded of you and not of them. You have paid the money which enabled them to live in your own house and dominate your own premises.
 T regard this campaign as 1 re- fard every campaign in which peo- pie have taken part since the world | began, as simply 3 continued strug- gle to see to it that the people were taken care of by their own govern nlent. And my indictment against the tariff is that it represents special partnerships and does not represent | the general interest. It is a long time since tariffs were made by men who even supposed they were seeking to serve the general interests, be- cause tariffs are not made by the general body of members of either either house of congress. They have in the past been made by very small groups of individuals in certain com mittees of those houses who even re- fused information to their fellow members as the basis upon which they had acted in framing the sched- ule
 sOne of the gentlemen who has been most eonspicuously connected with this thing has in recent years pru- dently withdrawn from public life. mean Mir Aldrich. 1 at least give Mir, Aldrich the credit of having had a large weather eye. He saw Chat the