Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-16
DWGLT ON The TARIFF
EITTERLY ATTACKED SENATOR
ALDRICH AND HIS
ASSISTANTS.
He DISCUSSED The CANAL
Told OF How Merchant Marine
Could BE Built Up Through
the Panama Canal.

GLOUCESTER, N. j., Aug. Is
Under the glare Of the hot sun thous-
ands OF farmers massed about Gov
ernor Woodrow Wilson here today
and heard him make his first cam
Laign speech since he was officially
notified a week ago OF his nomlna-
ton 10 the presidency.
The governor spoke eXtempora-
! eousy at Washington park, where
the farmers OF New Jersey, Delaware
and Pennsylvania were participating
In u celebration. The candidate
dwelt mostly on the protective tariff,
which he called the restrictive tar
| IT," attacked Senator Aldrich and his
teriff making assistants, pointed on,
| the benefits of merchant marine In
connection with the Panama canal
and blamed the influence Of the ex-
press companies In halting parcels
post legislation.
The governor was frequently inter-
rupted by applause and cheers. When
| he finished many of the farmers
wanted to shake hands. The govern
OF was at the park about two hours
returning to Seagirt early tonight.
lie said In part.
IL regard this campaign as ] re.
gard every campaign In which peo-
pie have taken part since the world
| began, as simply continued strug-
gle to see to It that the people Were
taken care of by their own govern
ment. And my indictment against
the tariff is that 1t represents spe-
cial partnerships and does not rep
resent the general interest 1t is
long time since tariffs were made by
men who even supposed they were
seeking to serve the general inter
ests, because tariffs are not made by
| the general body Of members OF
either house OF congress They have
In the past been made by very small
gioups OF individuals in certain COM
mittees of those houses, who even re-
fused information to their fellow
members as to the basis upon which
they had acted in framing schedules.
lone OF the gentlemen who has been
most conspicuously connected with
this thing in recent years prudently
withdrew from public life, ] mean
Mr.. Aldrich. | at least give Mr. AL
drich the credit of having had a
| large weather eye. He saw that the
weather was changing in Rhode Is
land-as well as in the rest of the
union-that men who had long known
that he was imposing upon them felt
that the limit had been reached and
they were not going to be imposed up
on any longer. They saw that he
wasn't even doing what he pretended
to do, namely, to serve the special in
terests of Rhode Island, because he
was serving only some of the speclal
interests of Rhode Island.
Now there are various questions
which you gentlemen ought to realize
are pending, questions that directly
concern the farmer. The tariff in
timately concerns the farmer Of this
country. 1t makes great deal OF
difference to you that Mr.. Taft the
other day vetoed the steel bill. It
makes a difference to you in the cost
of practically every tool that you use
and 1t ought to be very significant
to you that dem ocratic house Of
representatives has just passed the steel
tariff reduction bill over the presl-
dents veto, a thing, / am Informed,
is Unprecedented in the history Of
the country, that house should have
passed two tariff measures over the
veto Of the president.
Tariff measures are not measures
for the merchant and the manufac
turer merely. The farmer pays just as
big a proportion of the tariff duties
as anybody else. Indeed, sometimes
when we are challenged to say who
the consumer is, as contrasted with
the producer, so far as the tariff is
concerned, am tempted to answer
the farmer because he does not pro-
duce any Of the things that get any
material benefit from the tariff and
he consumes all of the things which
are taxed under the tariff system"
The governor explained the benefits
: that might accrue to the farmer from
} the Panama canal II the merchant
marine were restored. He continued:
/ "One Of the great objects in cut
y ting that great ditch across the 18TH
mus OF Panama Is to allow farmers
who are near the Atlantic to ship to
the Pacific coast by way of the At
lantic ports. And one Of the bills
pending just passed by congress pro-
vides for free. tolls for American ships
through that canal and prohibits any
ship from passing through that canal