The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-29

trust evil would afford endless discus sion. But there is no very long argu- ment necessary, under the present condition The trouble that Demo cratic speakers have in the campaign he said, is that there is such a vast amount of material it is difficult to make a selection.
 As to tariff discussion. he noted { that both wings of the Republican party agreed with the Democratic
 party that the tariff law is wrong of the Republican party. said the | speaker, that it has confessed it has been guilty of hurtful tariff legisla- | ton. Conditions have come into be | ing,s said he, that not only has the country come to Democratic way
 of thinking, but both wings Of the the Republican tariff law is iniquitous and indefensibie. Taft had four years, Roosevelt seven, to redeem his pledge
 Roosevelt never denounced the tariff bill. It was only when he had aJ overweening thirst for a third term that he too Joined the Denocrats chorus, cried out that the tariff wsss-
 wrong and should. be revised dowl: ward. The old cry that tariff i necessary to protect the Infant indus tries is noFlonger heard, said the con- pointed out that the infant industries
 are growing .p to be pretty sturdy children, selling American products cheaper abroad than at home. To say that the sale of such goods as re- duced prices abroad is to market sur plus product, is an insult to the in- tel1igence of American citizenship to
 suppose that manufacturers deliber- ately turn out more than they can market is the utmost folly
 \ He aGduced figures to show that 45 per cent and the average wage cost IT per cent. But what becomes of the difference between IT and 45 per cent? It would go to the govern
 
 naturally. But the speaker argued, the goods are not imported, end un- tariff barrier. the great monopolies have grown up.
 1. .'I3y their fruits ye shall know them" quoted the speaker. As tariff reforTners Roosevelt and Taft don't bear any fruit. Then as to the ques-
 tions of the trusts. it is easy to look
 of the two Republican parties. Sena- tor LaFollette. himself a Republican, has pointed out that when Roosevelt's g administration began there were 146 there were more than one thousand. Moody's magazine points out that
 there was steady and large growth l of the trusts under both Roosevelt and Taft.
 He spoke of the Democratic record in Congress, of the Republican pre- would not be included in tariff re- vision and of the fact that these very articles which the Republicans said the Southern Democrats were inter- ested in protecting were actually in c1uded in the list of revised articles. Our southern manufacturers are quite content with what ever indus trial protection may come to them
 from levying a tariff for revenue"
 The paramount object of every tax IS the payment of public expense, the support of the government honestly ana economically administered. But
 we find from careful study that Of into the pockets of the manufacturers
 who. are sheltered behind this inde- fensible tariff wall and only one dol ernment
 Taking up the trust record of Roose- welt, he said that now the Bull Moose candidate believes there are good and bad trusts The speaker said he didn't believe there could be good and bad trusts any more than good or bad sion to pass on the trusts, and if they are regarded good" they should be given an immunity bath, and if they are bad they should be deprived of the right Of interstate commerce.
 The speaker said he had been taught to believe in the carrying on of legislative, executive and judicial, and he declared it at variance with the principles of American government to vest a commission with any such pow CT as Roosevelt proposed. It would mean, the speaker said, the passing of the republic and the advent of despotism, though it may be called by another name.
 Then he reviewed the Tennessee Iron & Coal O., case, Birmingham Ala has rich iron deposits from which steel rails could not at first be satis- factorily produced because there ws- too much phosphorus in the ore. But the Alabama iron workers were con- tent to proceed confident that from sourcefu1 New England, whence hao come Eli Whitney, would come an vent of the open hearth process show cd 8 way to make steel rails, get rio of the phosphorus and make better steel rails than could be manufactuf ed with the Bessenneer steel process.
 And the steel trust, unable to com pete, against the Tennessee connpanys reaSouab bfe prices, asked New York yaTse.- vT1x5 he