Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-25
Somersault by
 the President
WHEN HE SIGNS THE PENDING
 TARIFF BILL
SPEECH BY BRANDEGEE
Connecticut Senator Points Out Tariff Inconsistencies of Democrats-Party to be Inferred Three Years Hence.
Especial. to The Bnlletin.l ]

\0pCN4d1. lO 1HG bu1I6Cln.l Washington. Aug. 24.-During the on Saturday afternoon Senator Bran degee secured the floor and said he wished to call the attention of the senator from North Carolina to the fact thah the president of the United States on the Sth day of April last ad- dressed the congress as follows: It would be unwise to move towards this end headlong, with reckless haste or With strokes that cut at the very roots of what has grown up amongst us by long process and at our own in- V1tat1on. It does not alter a thing to upset it and break it and deprive it of chance to change. It destroys it. We must make changes in our fiscal laws, in our fiscal system. whose object is development. 4 more free and whole some development, not revolution or upset or confuSion.'
 Democratic Promises.
 MT President: It was said repeated ly by the president and by the leaders of his party in the campaign that the intention of his party if given power, would be to revise the tariff so as not to injure single legitimate industry, and those who were attempting to make the people of this country appre-> hensive that any legitimate industry which. in the language of the presi- dent, had grown dp according to our own invitation and under our own laws would be injured, was an im- proper attempt on the part of republi- cans to distort and misrepresent his position and that of his party.
 Now the senator from North Caro- lima, the distinguished chairman of the committee on finance. stands on the floor of the United States senate and says that in the makeup of this bill there has been no attempt whatever aQnarfafn ha ke- tween the cost of production here and abroad, that there has been no attem pt to incorporate single protective fea? ture in thiH entire bill, that there has been no attempt to protect any indus try that has grown up III this country for the last forty years under the invi- tation provided bx< the Jaws of the country. and aets3of congress- and that, instead of abiding by what the president said Ill his solemn message to this congress within four months, of not proceeding to destroy anything, but to make the changes in the fiscal policy of this government gradual, so that things might be developed and not be upset and reduced to confusion. they boldly state that their intention is to destroy at one swoop the entire system of protection.
 A Complete somersauIt.
 If the democratic party can con SlSL0ully CldlL1 IuaL L1lS IS a W1S0, QlS- erect and conservative policy intend ed simply to readjust inconsistencies in the existing laws so as not to injure single legitimate industry, they can turn 8 more complete somersault than any political party has ever succeeded in doing in this country and still re- tain power.
 T have not criticized the president of the United States. The senator (Simmons) has pronounced glowing panegyrfc upon the president Of the United States. will. however, say, now that the senator has called my attention to the matter, that if the president of the United States ap- proves his bill, after what he said in his message to this congress on the 8th day of April the president of the United States has turned just as com plete a somersault as have the mena- bers of his party; but I have no doubt that with his usually successful and compulsory seductiveness he will have the entire majority both of this branch and in the other trailing submissively in the rear. and that they will be pleased upon this. as upon all other occasions, to give each other complete dissolution and to pass bouquets and various flowers to each other, until finally after the people have had one more chance to express their opinion upon this concotion of absurdities and inconsistencies there will be placed little wreath of lilies of the valley upon the corpse which will be inferred three years from now. Gaughter)
 Trying to Ward Off Panic.
 MT. President: The senator states that no panic has been produced, all though the bill inpends ovef the pros perity of the country like cloud. The senator and his friends have been say ing for weeks that the interests were in a conspiracy to procure a panic for the purpose of discrediting this bill.
 "Of course, it was absurd, as a great many of their statements are absurd, about the intention of the interests to pull down the temple about their own ears Instead Of trying to produce a panic, everybody is talking as cheer fully as he can, for the purpose of warding off as much as possible of the come upon the country The people who have their notes in the bank to pay for their stocks of goods are try ing to prevent any panic which would result in calling their loans. Every body who is stocked up with goods is trying to whistle as he passes through the umbrageous shade of this impend- ing horror, and to cheer himself up, so that at least he will gain time enough to work off upon the public portion of the product which he has manufac- tured with the savings of his business 
 warehouses are opened and foreign goods made by cheap labor are dumped upon him in competition in the market where he has produced his goods at higher prices, better wages and upon American standard of living.
 Country Prosperous Today.
 'I do not want any panic, and my party does not want any panic. We have not provided any panic at all. The country is prosperous today. I congratulate the senate and the coun- try upon the fact that we have the testimony of the chairman of the committee on finance embalmed in the Congressional Record. so that if this bill when put into operation, does not produce conditions which the country will say are an improvement upon the existing conditions which, from the senator's statements, I should judge were about as good as we had a right to anticipate. the people of the coun- try could then turn back to the words the senator (Simmons) has today ut tered and contrast their conditions then with their condition now as testi- fled to upon the highest democratic authority, and see how much they owe the democratic party. and whether 1t has Justified the temporary lease of majority power which has been aeot- dentaIiy4 cenferred uncn 4t.n