The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-16

weather was changing in Rhode Isl- and-as we'll is in the rest of the Un- icn; that men who had long known that he was imposing upon them felt that the limit had been reached and they were not going to be imposed upon any longer They say that he wasn't even doing what he pretended t) do namely to serve the special in- terests of Rhode Island because he was serving only some of the special interests of Rhode Island.
 Now, there are various questions hich you gentlemen ought to realize are pending. questions that directly concern the farmer. The tariff inti ately concerns the farmer of this country. It makes a great deal of difference to you that Mr. Taft the other day vetoed the steel bill. 1t makes a difference to you in the cost of practically every tool that you use and it ought to be very significant to you that a democratic house of rep resentatives has just passed the steel tariff reduction bill over the presi dents veto q thing, am informed. is unprecedented in the history of the country that a house should have passed two tariff measures over the veto of the president.
 Tariff measures are not measures for the merchant merely and the man. ufacturer The farmer pays just as big a proportion of the tariff duties as anybody else. Indeed, sometimes when we are challenged to say who the consumer is, as contrasted with the producer, as far as the tariff is concerned, l am tempted to answer the farmer, because he does not pro duce any of the things that gets any of material benefit of the tariff and he consumes all of the things which are taxed under the tariff system" The governor explained the bene- | fits that might accrue to the farmer 1 from the Panama canal if a merchant marine were restored. He continued. One of the great objects i'll cutting that ditch across the Isthmus of Pana
 ma is to allow farmers who are near
 the Atlantic to ship to the Pacific coast by way of the Atlantic ports
 And one of the bills pending, Just
 passed by congress, provides for free tolls for American ships through thai canal and prohibits any ship iron
 passing through that canal which i,
 owned by any American railway com.
 pany. You see the object of that
 We don't want the railways to com pete with themselves because We iii
 derstand that kind of competition
 we want the water carriers to com
 pete with the land carriers, so as tt be perfectly sure that you are goin'
 to get better rates around by the ca nal than you would across the cont } lnent,
 l, Then there is another thing il which you ought to be deeply inter ested, which is in the program Of tht
 great party l belong to. That is the parcels post This is the only civil
 ized country in the world where the government does not see to it that
 rates established by the government enable men to ship their goods, large
 and small as they please from one end of the continent to the other. | We have no parcels post because may I conjecture the reason? be
 cause there are certain express com- panies which object.
 Now I move that the objections os all private enterprises be overruled. move that we establish n parlia
 mentary procedure by which they will not even be considered, not in or
 der that men who have made legiti-
 mate investments of capital may not
 have their proper return for it. but in
 order that they may not look to the
 government for their proper return
 for it. The trouble with the business
 Of the United States under the tariff
 is that men think they cant make
 money without the assistance of the
 government. And as long as you al-
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