The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-27

the distinguished eX-SpeaKer or the House stated during the reciprocity debate, he gives facts and figures that are seen through bias and computed through prejudice Applause on the Democratic side.) His case is typi- cal Of the Republican policy of putting
 friends of various, interests on com mittees that are supposed to regulate those interests.
 Anticipating. statement that my
 colleague might make in relation to this Norwalk Woolen Mill if he were preSent-and regret that he is not
 MT. Hill. He is here. Gaughter)
 MT. Reilly. I am glad to see the gentleman here. Anticipating ques-
 ton he might ask, I will say that the
 mill has not been running for the past
 few months. Why? If I were to fol-
 low my colleague, I might say because
 the tariff was not high enough on
 woolens to protect the American man.
 ufacturer-
 MT. Hill. MT. Chairman, may ask
 the gentleman a question right there? MT. Reilly. Not now. as have but a few minutes left. But thak would not be a good answer, because
 for years Stockholder, Director and Vice President Hill has been making woolen schedules as a majority mem Der of the Ways and Means Commit tee, and if it were not high enough he would add on as much as he liked. Applause on the Democratic slde.) Then, again, he has shown in his mi
 nority report to-day that the tariff was high enough-in fact, too high for, with an eye to the near future and with his ear close to the ground, he has recommended a reduction from the Payne-Aldrich figures. If the tariff was not the cause or the closing of the mill, there is an
 other reason that may be- attributed failure to meet the competition. Let us look at that a moment. Who are the competitors of the Norwalk mills? The American Woolen CO.-the Wool Trust. (Applause on the Democratic side)
 Oh. the irony of fate! While my colleague has been here breaking his
 neck to put enormous dividends in
 the pockets of the Wool Trust by a high tariff wall, that trust was engag- ed in it's usual pastime of putting a competitor out of business; and my colleague is one of the victims, unless
 he has been taken over. Applause on the Democratic Side.)
 The story of the Norwalk mills and my colleagues unselfish championship of the cause of American labor is the story of the robber tariff that the Ann erican people are beginning to learn by heart. They are getting their eyes | opened to the iniquities that have
 been perpetrated upon the American people in the name of the American woringman. Applause on the Demo cratic side.) They are realizing that l it has been a crumb for wage earners and a loaf for the tariff and mill ba- rons. (Applause on 1the Democratic side) The day when the smooth-ton- gued, polished advocates of pirat- | teal tariff can get away with thas stuff is passed. Applause on the Dem- ocratic side).
 The American WOrEmen know they are the poorest paid in all the world when their productivity is taken into account. The American wage earn CTS saw a panic and the hardest times | in 1907 under the highest tariff, except the Payne-Aldrich-Hil1 tariff.
 But they know now the tariff come on when they see him, no matter how
 disguised, and will not be buncoed
 again. They see a Republican Pres ident and a Republican Tariff Boare changing front and admitting that the bugaboo is busted and will have t<
 go into the discard with the reason. able profit" dodge. Applause on thu Democratic side) They can see the
 selfish interest behind the high tariff
 stalking horse, and they are simply waiting for November to come 'tG
 prove that the hoodwink days are pass
 ed and that they have had enough
 of the so-ca1led protection. The pro
 lection that makes them poor and lear
 in the sweat of their daily toll, while
 the tariff barOns wax rich and fat
 the protection that adds dime tt
 they eat Applause on the Democrati'