The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-24
TARIFF. HITS
 POOR HARDEST
GOV. BALDWIN DECLARES WAGE FARMERS THOSE WHO PAY FOR PROTECTING THE
 TRUSTS.
I. R,S STAND ON MATTER
Did Not Act While in Office And Even Now Puts Main Stress on Other
 Subjects.

Bristol. Oct 24.--ttA moderate tariff and an enlarged free list, is what your town and my town want to make our factories prosperous and to give their employees the necessaries of life at more reasonable prices" declared Gov. Simeon E. Baldwin at Demo- cratic rally here last night. ContInu- ing, he said: ''The only party that you can trust to give it to you is the Dem ocratic party"
 The governor attacked the Repub- 1ican attitude on the tariff and also assailed the new Progressive party.
 Governor Baldwin spoke in part as follows:
 the country at large are taking a spe- c1al interest in the election, this year, and there are several reasons for it.
 One is that there has been. a breaking up in the Republican party and not a few. of old-tirne Repu biieans are asking themselves, in the language of the Georgia congressman, Where am I at?
 s'1he fact is that Colonel Roose- welt has swept 9 very large number of former Republicans into his per sonally conducted party. because they felt as he felt, that the policies of the Republican party had become in tolerable. He has great qualities of leadership. Who can fail to admir- e the pluck with which he refused to disappoint his audience in Milwaukee the. night when he was shot, and spoke to them for an hour with a bull let. in his chest?
 Two years ago the country put it. self half way under the Democratic sentativen was elected. Half the gov ernors of states were Democratic. What did this overturn of two years ago mean?
 For one thing, it meant that the tariff humbug was exploded
 Tariffs are necessary, but exces- sive tariffs are not. Tariffs are primarily imposed to get revenue, and any tariff that raises more revenue than is needed, is a wrong to the American people. we have had tariff board--a pretty poorly devised one, for it was made an agent of the president in stead of congress. They have reported some conclusions One is this: that high wages and the highest wages may go with the lowest cost of nanu- small part of that cost. The best la bor, the best skill, and dexterity in handling machinery. generally com turns out the best goods.
 It has been repeated often by. Republican newspapers and magazines if makes full dinner-pail that some have really believed it. Who pays the high tariffs? The people. On what part of the people do they bear the
  on the day wage-earner. Half the families in the country do not earn. bo alL to1a; nav oyer So @ se0e year It is the, they is paid by the London workman, paid for American beef sent from the United States. It is they who pay two paid in Europe They pay more be- cause of an unwise, yes, and unfair protective tariff on these necessaries of life. To protect whom The Amer ican beef trusts. A handful of Louisi- ana sugar planters. Another handful of western beef growers.
 The Democratic House of Represen- tatlves tried to put sugar on the free list and meat on the free list. Give us Democratic President and with the aid of the honester Republicans in the Senate, the people will get relief from some of their burdens.
 And no Connecticut industry by est dollar We are not for free trade We are not for no tariffs. We are for fair trade and fair tariffs.
 T m talking to people in manu- featuring town I live myself in a manufacturing town.
 "A moderate tariff, with an enlarg- ed free list, is what your town and my town want to make our factories pros porous, and to give their employees the necessaries of life at more reasonable prices.
 party. frhe Repnblican G party 'e is against such reduction as you need, and the Roosevelt party is led by man who, for eight years in a great office, acquiesced in the tariff policy of the Republicans, though he, per sonally, it was understood, was against ever-protectien: He kept quiet, as to that. as President, as not to dis turb party harmony. He had the chance to relieve the people, and he failed to use it. Even now he puts his main emphasis on other things and trims his sails to suit his com pany, in his voyage with Perkins of the Harvester Trust Company and of the United States Steel Company as his trusted financial adviser and back
 We have it recently, on the word of a Hartford manufacturer, that there is no sound Connecticut factory that could not thrive, if the tariff on it's products were cut 20 per cent
 '-The Connecticut manufacturer, if you give him fair play, can beat the world. The American workman, give him fair play, can beat the world.
 Fair play to him carries free meat, with no tariff of 25 per cent. to favor a beef trust; lower tariffs on woolen twice as much for his clothes as the English or the German workman
 Fair play to the Connecticut man a % sragbf rrss raw wd mater1a1s the American ship to the ocean, under the Stars and Stripes.
 "If we want these things, we can have them by voting the Democratic ticket next month.
 Let Connecticut send a solid Dem ocratic delegation to Congress. Let her elect the Democratic State ticket, all through Let her give her voice and vote for Woodrow Wilson as the spokesman of the American people. the guide to sound and permanent national prosperity"