The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-21
W. D. B. AINEY SPEAKS TO
POTTERY ASSN
At Pittsburg Recently-Spoke of
Position Occupied BY State in Min
ing and nufacture-Called At
tention to Democratic Pol
icy of Free Trade.

tention to Democratic Pol
icy of Free Trade.
The annual banquet of the West
ern Glass and Pottery Association,
whose membership includes those
engaged in these industries in Penn
sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia,
was held in Fort Pitt Hotel in Pitts
burg recently. The principal speak
er was Congressman William d. B.
Ainey of Pennsylvania. Between
four and five hundred covers were
laid. Congressman Ainey's subject
was Change of Administration" {"
After commenting upon the position
of pre-eminence occupied in Penn
sylvania, in agriculture, mining and
manufacturing he called attention to
the fact that there were two hundred
and fifty-one companies engaged in
the glass and pottery industry in
Pennsylvania alone, employing thfr-
ty-three thousand men, and with an
annual output of over forty-six mil
lions of dollars. Few people realize
the extent to which this industry has
contributed to the prosperity of
Pennsylvania and the adjoining
states. Mr.. Ainey called attention
to the tariff hearings now being held
before the Ways and Means Commit
tee in Washington; that the repre-
sentatives of the labor organizations
last week appeared before that COM
mittee and urged that a protective
duty on glass and pottery be main
tanned for without it these indus
tries could not survive or continue
to pay the present wage scale.
He adverted to the line of cleav-
age which marked the different po-
litical thought of the old political
parties, and that democracy from
her former state rights position nat
urally and inherently had acquired
the policy of free trade. Mr.. Ainey
spoke of the recent utterance of
Honorable Ollie James, of the Ways
and Means Committee, who, answer
ing one of the witnesses, said that he
did not know of a single Democrat
who was a believer in a protective
tariff, and the comment of Hon. A.
Mitchell Palmer, also a member OF
that committee, who stated that the
policy of the incoming president and
the Democratic party was to revise
the tariff downward and steadily
| downward, and that manufacturers
should appear before that committee
and request any other consideration
of the tariff, were in effect seeking
| to have the Democratic party GO
| back on it's platform utterances.
The speaker, after calling atten-
| tion to the fact that this country
with the incoming administration
was embarking upon policy of free
| trade and whether it would accom-.
| n1iCh hU CUTTING of fnoo. ot n
| time, as intimated by Governor
Wilson, or whether the protective
| duties would be struck down by one
| fell swoop, he had no means OF
| knowing; that at least he took nc
comfort in the administration of the
protective policy at the hands of a
party and president who were not
in sympathy, and that the manufac-
| turing interests which honestly re-
quire protection could hope for moth
| ing from the Democratic party.
Mr.. Ainey pointed out that unless
| the elements of the Republican par
ty could be united that this country
would soon be upon free trade
basis. He had no solution to Offer
| by which the elements could be
united because he had small faith
| in this being accomplished by the
machinery of either the old or new
organization; that if accomplished al
all it must come out of a recognition
of the requirements of honesty OF
purpose, desire to act for the best
and wise and consistent leadership
and a recognition of the high rights
of all the people. He pointed out in
this respect that in our demand for
majority rule we are failing to
recognize that minority rights are
more important than. this right oi
dominance because it is as individu,
ais (members of the minority that
we receive all the benefits which
come from contact with government
and in our social and business life