The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-26

great state Of New Jersey. which have the
privilege OF representing. the great neigh
boring state OF Pennsylvania and the
great imperial state Of New York. where
the scarecrow of free trade ia being held
up in front. Who said free trader Who
proposed free trade' You cant have free
trade In the tinted States. because the
Government of the nlted States Ia OF
necessity. with our present division Of the
fields of taxation between the Federal and
state governments. supported by the
duties collected at the ports
| would Ike to ask some gentlemen IL
very much Is collected in the way OF duties
at tho ports under the tariff schedules
under which they operate. Some Of the
duties are practically prohibitive and
there Is no tariff to he got from them. But
that Is q matter on one side. What I am
trying to point out to you now is that this
protective tariff. so called. has become
| means OF fostering the growth OF particular
groups OF industry at the expense OF the
| economic vitality Of the rest OF the country.
What the Democrats propose Is very prac-
teal thing indeed.
They propose to unearth these special
privileges and TO cut them out OF the tariff
They propose not to leave a single con-
cealed private advantage in the statutes
concerning the duties that can possibly be
| eradicatcd without affecting the part of tho
business that Is sound and legitimate and
which we all wish to see promoted
Some men talk as II Democrats weren't
part Of the United states. met lady the
other day. an elderly lady. who said to me
with pride: Why. Governor. have been a
| Democrat ever since they hunted them with
dogs" And you would suppose to hear
come men talk that Democrats don't share
| the life OF the United States. Why. Demo-
crats-I mean eimon pure Democrats who
always vote the Democratic ticket-con-
stitute nearly one half the voters OF this
country. They are engaged in all sorts OF
enterprises. big and little. There isn't a
walk OF life or kind Of occupation In which
you won't find them: and as Philadelphia
paper very wittily said the other day. they
cam commit economic murder without COIN
mittins economic suicide. Do you suppose,
therefore. that half of tho population OF
| the United States or something OF that kind
| Is going about to destroy the very founda-
| tions Of our economic life by simply running
amuck amid the schedules OF the tarifl
| That len Z the prog gramme and anybody who
saws that II is simply doesn't understand
the situation in the United States at all.
All that the Democrats claim Ia this. that the
partnership ought to be bigger than 1t Ia.
| The Democrats are proposing TO intervene
| uuu Wy ioNciipk NHo'' 'S
protected special privilege expose special
privilege TO a very wholesome. Christening
kind of conf petition and then TO adopt proc
ess OF legislation by which competition will
be so regulated that big business can't crush
out little business and that little business
can grow instead OF being built by private
understanding into big business. and put
every man who is manufacturing or engaged
in commerce in this country on his mcttle
to beat not the capital but the brains Of his
competitors
In his speech at the Hyperion theatre
here tonight the Governor replied to
| President Taft's assertion that he feared
rainy days in the event Of the Demo-
cratic party coming into power, took
fling at Col. Roosevelt by asking If any
body thought that the Progressive party y
candidate was an "undcrstudy of Provi-
dence, and paid a compliment 10 Senator
La toilette as the -conquerabie champion
Of progressive IDEAS saying that men
who seek eXpediency rather than pursue
principle took him up for little while
and intended TO follow him. and then re-
jected him not because he was not the
genuine champion Of their principles.
but because they apparently saw their
interest lie in another direction"
Gov. Wilson will occupy the Presidential
suite at the Hotel Taft here tonight,
Tomorrow he speaks at Springfield
Barre and Fall River. Mass.