Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-12
AssA|Ls
THE TARIFF AGAIN
Jersey Governor Speaks to Big
Crowd at Syracuse
State Fair.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 12.-Gov-
| ernor Woodrow Wilson cached here
at 1920 o'clock this morning with
Acting Chairman McAdoo, of the
national committee, and Norman e.
Mack. The party went to a hotel,
where they met Governor Dix and
| his staff.
Governor Wilson talked politics this
afternoon at the State Fair before
the largest crowd that yet has gath
cred to hear him in his presidential
campaign.
"We have the right to look to our
government" he said, mot to sup
port us, but to remove the obstacles
to our individual ~self-support. They
say prices have risen all over the
world. Yes, they have and they
have risen faster and higher in high
tariff countries than in low-tariff
countries. There, again, intellectual
gifts stand in the way of the asser-
ton, because we don't have to have
very much brains to read statistics,
and statistics are ope nto every man
which show that the United States is
burdened with the cost of high living
as no other country in the world is,
and there must be something special
in the United States which makes it
true.
Take the price of meat, for in
stance. and the price of meat is at
the heart of the business, for it is
meat that makes the blood red and
makes work easier. The price of meat
l.@a -, -. On aal An aAnt fa
ten years in this country, and the
price of American meat has no gone
up a fraction of a cen per pound in
London markets"
The Governor asked humorously
what effect the mere transportation
of meat across sail water adds on
the economic processes of the coun-
try.
1.-THE argument for protection he
continued, ''when there is domestic
competition is different from the ar
gument for protection where there is
no domestic competition. The wall of
the tariff enables certain gentlemen
10 get behind ii and say, we are all
of us ~secure-why cut n another's
throats-why not stand together?
And they did with reference to meat
without mourning thH danger of the
provisions of law"
The governor here referred to the
circular letter, revealed during the
trial of the meat packers i'll Chicago.
in which appropriate prices for meat
we're suggested. and he said. with a
gentility unsurpassed in the history
of the eqpiette the suggestion was
always accented"
Schedule X also was discussed by
the governor, who told Of a cor!Ner-
sation recently with a prominent
wooden manufacturer. who, ne said,
admitted that schedule K YVES wrong.
II find myself the subject of lar
CESS by my opponents in reference to
the tariff continued the Governor.
'eThey all have said, We are not go
ing to disturb the tariff and we are
going to let the government regulate
the trusts" The Governor re-
marked here that those who objected
to the tariff only because of an un-
even distribution of, it's benefits. and
those who were willing to have the
trusts "stay as they are" but under
the control of the government, de
clining to attack the central difficulty
of the problem and a man who
said this vas utterly unable to solve
the questions of our life and hasn't
nerve enough to get centre
The Governor referred to h tar1fi
as a malignant growth that re-
ouired a surgical operation"