Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-07

III. and Mrs. Taft and their guest, Miss Mabel Boardman, spent quiet Sum- day here with Senator Crane. The sec ond day of their six-day automobile trip through Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire was in marked contrast to the first. In the morning, the presidential party attended church in Dalton and late in the afternoon motored to Senator Cranes country place, seven niles away.
 To Visit Fathers Birthplace.
 Early tomorrow the presidential party will boavd the White house ari- tomobile again and strike northward into Vermont. They expect to take luncheon in Brattleboro and dinner in Manchester. On the way the president will visit the birthplace of his father at Townsend, Vt. In Manchester the party will be the guests over night of Robert T. Lincoln, son of the martyred president.
 Sees Republican Tide Rising.
 President Taft tonight summed up the political situation. as he sees it, in a statement In which he says, in part:
 T have every reason to be satis- fled with political conditions. have been simply overwhelmed for days past with letters and newspaper clippings showing the trend of the tide toward the republican party, It's platforms and it's candidates. have been especially gratified by the news from the north western states. Chairman Hilles of the republican national committee, who has been visiting the northwest, tells me that reports from all parts of those states bring most gratifying evidence of republican confidence and activity, with earnest determination to achieve the success of republican principles and candidates.
 Reason of Present Prosperity.
 The principal reason for, the ex- isting prosperity is the assurance that uder the republican policy of home protection and trade expansion, Amer ican industry while reaching for the foreign market, is not in danger of 1os- ing the home market. While our for eign trade Is growing more rapidly than at any time in our history do- nestle commerce is making advances fully as remarkable.
 For the man or the community en-
 
 have little attraction, no matter how vociferously recommended as cure- alls for the body polite.
 Living Cost Higher in Europe.
 "The higher cost of living is world wide. The aim of the republican party is to see that American workers are enabled to meet the cost of living by keeping employed at good wages. It Aa a e1fr ar1l md nvrI practical as 1t is simple. and does not need volume of rhetoric to explain 1t or get around it. While the cost of living so far as most of the neces- earles of life are concerned, is not so high here as in Europe, the wage- earner here is getting from more than double to six and seven times the wages paid in Europe, and is in that proportion able to meet any increase in the cost of living.
 Wages Must Be Kept Up.
 T am pleased to note that former Governor Douglas of Massachusetts, an earnest and most estimable mem- Der of the democratic party, refused to be carried away in the current of Idle reasons for the high cost of liv- ing. He attributes it chiefly to the increased annual product of gold to S9VV,UVO,UUV rom about One-fOurth that output of gold twenty years ago, and he expects that as long as the present output of gold continues with no change in the weight of gold coins, prices will have a tendency to mount higher. Obviously, the democratic party and Governor Wilson, with such conditions facing us. could not select worse time for proposing to the American worker--as in effect they do propose by urging a reduction in the tarin-to consent to- lower wages with a view to more open competition with labor abroad. Wages must be kept UT and the way to keep them up is tC keep the tariff protective, and not fo1 revenue only
 iassartial Enforcement of Sherman
 Law.
 '1 propose in dealing with the trus question to keep the great combina. tions of capital within exactly tn, same control as the city or crossroad grocery pays a federal license for sell ing cigars. l mean that both shal obey the law. That's all. Simple. is i not? The Sherman law has been and will continue to be, enforce, against all violators, however rich an, powerful they may be-"