Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-31
LOCAL, AND NATIONAL ISSUES.
  tContinued from Pags Fivs.)

claimed that he was not a great ad vertiser, hut an honest, capable. ear nest head of the government. Why do we want a change? The burden of proof is on the party that proposes a change. We know what we have now but we have only the bare campaign promise of those who urge change. Suppose the hard times come back in a year, we can do nothing but wal, then for three years to put these peo- pie out.
 Too Risky to Experiment. The democrats ask US to plunge overheard, to take a leap in the dark, and allow democratic president and house to go experimenting on the abolishment of a protective tariff. It IS too risky a thing for New England, It is life and death to the mill owners of our communities. President Tat has appointed a tariff board to ascer- tain the difference between the cost of production here and abroad and that Is to furnish the basis of pro- tective tariff. That looks reasonable and that will furnish our country with the millions which we need for tho conduct of government Our demo- cratic opponents show us no way of surely gaining this revenue we need. MT. Underwood would be the doni- hating influence in the party if Wilson IS elected. Free trade is hereditary with him and the south has never got ten, over that theory. They would like to drive our New England business down there if they could.
 Wilson in Hands of Southernsrs, MT. Wilson, if president Senator i5randegee claimed, would be helpless in the hands of the southern leaders and would be in the same position as MT. Cleveland in the latter's attitude toward the Wilson tariff bill, which Cleveland denounced but did not vetp.
 put allowed to become a law without his signature.
 The senator said he wished to dis abuse the popular mind of it's idea that there was a republican majority in the senete to stand between Wilson if president and the, people. In fact. there was only a republican majorit ty | Of seven, with coterie of seventeen | insurgents who vote upon every on portunity with the democrats. Tie republican senators can afford the people no protection, and it is now for the American laboring man and wage earner to think, of protecting himself against the change that he should fear under a democratic admin lstrat1on. If he does not, he will be lasking how he can get back to wbees ne was before he cut his own throat 1 If the American people won't protect themselves, but will turn over to for elgn manufacturers the advantage we. now have, then nobody can protect | them.
 On the Trusts.
 1 The tariff is not the mother of
 trusts, said the senator, for free trade, England has one of the biggest of the | trusts.
 | The speaker commended President
 Taft for his attack and dismemt Ar- | ment or several trusts under the
 sherman antitrust law, and Senator
 Brandegee stated that the commfttes or which hs Is a member expected to nave something to say in time in ad-
 dition to the Sherman trust law. The
 senator indicated that he. was op- posed to a trust commission in Wash 1 ington and argued for more home rule
 in states and communities instead of a
 transfer of all power to Washington.
 Can Stand on Partys Record. 1 What has Taft done and what has the republican party done? is the question, Is 1t not enough to run the
 government successfully? queried the
 senator. A record such as the repub- lcan party has made is reason enough
 for continuing them. Let well enougI
 alone. Make 1t better if you please
 under the control of the republican
 party, for there Is no desired reform
 that cannot be accomplished under
 the party. Vote then for a republican
 house to uphold the hands of William
 Howard Taft for four years more.
 Senator Brandegees' closing aprea