Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29

and his party there can be no
hope Of downward revision from
this source, while the Progressive
party stands firmly for the doc
trine of a tariff for protection.
We turn to Woodrow Wilson, the
only candidate who meets this ques-
ton fairly and s%quarely. Let him
speak for himself.
"'rhe tariff question, as dealt with
in our time at any rate, has not been
business. 1t has been politics. Tariff
schedules have been made up for the
purpose of keeping as large a mum
Der as possible of the rich and in1u-
entail manufacturers of the country
in a good humor with tho Republi-
can party, which desired their con-
slant financial support. The tariff
has become a system of favors, which
the ~phraseology of the schedule was
often deliberately designed to conceal.
who, when o come down to the
hard facts OF the matter, have been
represented in recent years when our
tariff schedules We're being discussed
and determined, not on the floor of
Congress, for that is not where they
have been determined, but in the
committee-roorns and conferences?
"We denounce the Payne-Aldrich
tariff act as the most conspicuous ex-
ample ever afforded the country of
the special favors and monopolistic
advantages which the leaders of the
Republican party have SO often
shown themselves willing to extend to
those to whom they looked for cam
paign contributions. Tariff duties, as
they have employed them, have not
been a NEAR of setting up an equita-
BILE system of protection. They have
been, on the contrary, a method of
fostering special privilege. They have
made 1t cas- to establish monopoly
in our domestic markets. Trusts have
owed their origin and their secure
power to them.
I'VE do not ignore the fact that
the business of a country like ours
is exceedingly sensitive to changes in
legislation of this kind. IT has been
built up. however, ill-advisedly, upon
tariff schedules written in the way l
have indicated, and it's foundation
must not be too radically or too sud
denly disturbed. When we act we
should act with caution and pru-
dence, like men who know what they
ave about, and not like those in love
with a theory. 1t is obvious thai the
changes we make should be made
only at such a rate and in such q
way as will least interfere with the
normal and healthful course of COM
MERGE and manufacture. But we
shall not on hat account act with
cimidlty, as If we did laur know our
W minds, for we are certain of our
grounds and our object. There should
be an immediate revision, and 1t
should be downward; un~hesitatingIy
and steadily downward
n tariff may seem to women 20
be only a political question, but in
reality 1t is of most vital interest to
them. 1t Is charged up in the Price
we pay for practically every COM
modify which enters into household
use. Let n example suffice-the
tariff on the sugar bowl.
The sugar trust is enabled by the
high protective tariff to charge over
two cents a pound more for sugar
han II there were no tariff on It.
This amounts to an average of SO a
year for each American family. Per-
haps you don't mind this tax. but
there are families in which it means
a weeks wages.
l have not space sufficient to ex-
patiate on every reason why Wood
row Wilson should be supported, but
it should influence women to note
what he, as Governor, has advocated
and accomplished for our sex in the
way of legislation. A few Of the
measures are:
A law limiting the employment of
working women to sixty hours a
week. This is the frst law relatingI
to women wage-earners ever enacted
in New Jersey.
An act making it obligatory to have
matrons in jails.
First appropriation in New Jersey
for women's reformatory.
Act for the establishing of mar
kets.
Provision for the Standardization of
the profession of trained nursing, n
feel that every woman should be
grateful that an opportunity Is given
her to support a man like Woodrow
Wilson, who is temperate in Ian
guagc, who thinks before he speaks
and whose record as Governor OF New
Jersey is a proof that, If it lies with
in his power, that which he adyo-
Gates will be accomplished.