The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-30
GOVERNOR WILSON GREETED BY LARGE: CROWDS WHEREVER. HIS TRAIN STOPS Events of Opening Days Campaign Outside of New Jersey Are a
 Surprise to Him HAD EXPECTED NO DEMONSTRATIONS
 ALONG HIS ROUTE Intended Making But One Speech. Instead He Is Forced to Make Half Dozen Addresses and
 Shake Hands With a
 Multitude


 lon Board Governor wilson's spe- cial Car, Easton Penn, August 29.-- Gov Woodrow Wilson invaded Penn sylyania today. intending only to make an address at the state Grangers picnic al Williams Grove, south of Harris burg. The governor was surrounded by such big crowds wherever his train stopped that he found when he crossed from Pennsylvania into New Jersey at Easton tonight that he had made half dozen speeches, had shaken hands with thousands of people and had talked collectively to a multitude.
 It was the opening of the campaign outside of New Jersey and the days events were plainly surprise to the governor He had looked for no dem onssrations as his train plans were not decided upon until the last moment. But from early morning until nightfall the crowds gathered at the railroad stations and cheered enthusiastically.
 The governor in all rode 215 miles through Pennsylvania and when night came he w&&a1noC1 md hoarse. At Lam caster. HI Williams Grove, Reading. n and Easton, great crowds i railroad yards and the gov hpeted in t.ss talks with tli Of locomotivesA and
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 At h&< hg as well as back plat 9ormf&l the governor had n streni brawny blacksmith wrul Kernofs hand so hard at Wiln I've that for moment the notA3]21 }ped hi t.s.S hahd Iinips' ly |de and extended his left had governor said tonight his hsi bained him from the expe-
 thousand people wedged t{i( s in the big auditorium at Wfftf24ZV Grove to hear the governors principal speech, but far more were unable to gain entrance and the gov ernor made a second speech outdoors.
 The governor dgressed materially from his prepared speech but deyel- oped much the same line of thought, criticising Colonel Roosevelts tariff views and taking issue with President Taft's veto of the farmers free list bill. He referred indirectly to political con ditions in Pennsylvania as outlined by Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, who introduced the governor and spoke of the Penrose revelations.
 T do not know how many republicans there are probably within the sound of my voice. at least those who have been republicans, but are on the anxious seat" said the governor in his first speech at Williams Grove, but want to say that l entirely respect, though do not at all understand their reverence for the doctrine of protection. I haven't any reverence for any economic doctrine whatever except so far as it works. Now, the doctrine of protection is worth look ing at, as it works. It has been said. and it has been said so often that you have believed 1t. that the doctrine of pro- lection was maintained in our politics fer the benefit of the farmers of the United States
 Farmer Needs No Protection
 I am perfectly willing to admit that there are low duties levied on the pro- ducts of the farm coming from other countries but whoever heard of the far mer of the United States needing to be protected against the farmer of Eu- rope? As a matter of fact nobody ever feared that foreign grains and foreign farm products of any kind would come into competition with the farm produce of the United States, for the very good reason that we have produced so much that We lrave been feeding the world and the great surliius of the farms has gone out at our ports across the great waters which separate us from other continents and men all over the world have thanked God for the fertility of the fields of America.
 "'The American farmer never has been protected for the very good reason that he never needed to be protected. and his grains have sold at prices established by tEe prices which his produce commanded in foreign markets. That is an economic fact. Very well then your prices are not established by protection. They are established by your abundance which you ship to foreign countries. And in the meantime everything that you use on the farm, everything that you wear and great deal of what you eat but do not yourselves produce. including meats, bears heavy duty which brings about the interesting result that you are pay ing for the wealth of the United States and getting nothing or equiv aient to 1t 90 far as the tarfff is concerned. Now that hasn't just begun to be true. It has always been true, but you have had such confidence in some of your. leaders that you haven't allowed yourselves to thinx about it at all: because if you had though. about it, you could have thought this thing out in five minutes. VI
 People Do Not Approve
 q never have believed. no thinking man has ever believed. that the people of the great state of Pennsylvania approved of the things that were notoriously done by -<he political leaders of the great sta e of Pennsylvania The character of tie people of Pennsylvania and the eharacte of their government have been utterly ,in. like one another. and yet is it not true that you are not surprised by recent revej .slations? You have sat by hile the trus, tees did what they pleased with the goyl crnment of this celebrated, this rich. this powerful, this enlightened commonwealth
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