Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-19

Like all theorists of his class, Wood
row Wilson. the college professor, is
against the protective tariff of this
country, and has started out on his
campaign with that as the chief is
sue on which he expects to win out.
To the indifferent voter. the voter
who does not care a whOop which way
1t goes, stating that it will make no
difference to him.. should like to
say that it will make a difference to
him. no matter what his position or
Job may be. There is no surer way of
plunging the country into panic and
hard times than to put the Democrats
into power and allow them to put their
free-trade notions into full swing. 1t
is no experiment, II has been tried be-
fore and has brought on the hardes st
times this country has ever passed
through. ] refer to the two terms un-
der the administration Of Grover
Cleveland. There is only one pos
sible way for Wilson to win out in the
coming fight and that is for the vot-
ers to disabuse their minds of all tie
prosperity that this country has en-
joyed. completely through the efforts
resulting from Republican admins
tration; to the progressiveness that
means history, and cast their votes
for the Democratic standard-bearer
regardless of the consequences.
One of the first plumbers that the
Democrats intend to make ii placed
in power is to repeal the duty on su-
gar, or come so awful near doing so
that 1t will give Cubans a chance to
practise a calling next to highway
robbery; Louisiana and a number of
the other southern states that grow
cane will suffer to an untold end, the
beet-sugar states will be compelled to
close up shop, a phrase that does not
seem to mean much in cold type, but
which would affect millions of dollars
invested I'm the enterprise and nearly
millions of workers, and at the same
time knock the spots out of Hawaii.
The southern states of the Union
have heretofore sneered at free trade
and everything that went with it from
the fact that they thought their pros
perity could not be reached or HARM
ed by the free entry of boots and
shoes, clothing and the like, but when,
then there was a howl from these
same states and that howl has been
and has now settled down
into continued series of yelps. They
do care and fear, free trade now, and
any Democrat with free trade or a.
reduction of the tariff especially on
sugar as one of the foundation piers
of his platform had better look to
other states for support in the COM
ing struggle, for that sngar-tariff-re-
ducing stunt hits them right between
the eyes ..55
AS I said before. we here have. moi
say In who shall be president, but at
the same time the exact state of af-
fairs should be brought before the
mind of the new yoter-the young
man who will cast his first vote for
the officials of the territory, and let
him understand that the status of the
Democratic party is the same here as
on the mainland even IL we do not
vote for president. =, ~ =. ......- -.
With the lowering of the tariff will
surely come the lowering of wages.
That issfwhere the shoe Is going to
pinch. Purchasing this and that
at about one-haf of what
you pay for 1t now, in case the tariff
was reduced would swhoop-a-la, but
when you opened your pay envelope
and found only $7.65 where, before
tariff reduction there was always $15,l
there would not be SO much whoop-
q la. 60 -. l.. %. -.
Let the young voter keep In mind
the fact that England is our most
competitor, and may
add, free trader. What are the
wages paid there? Recently the COM
mission appointed by the London
board Of trade investigated the condi-
tons, Of labor in this country. They
did Investigate and reported, and on
page Sc OF that report viii be found
table giving the comparative wages in
this country and England and Wales.
Taking the latter as 100, this country
pays as follows: = -
Bricklayers 301, stone masons 270,
30, plasters $50, plumbers
nee or