New Britain herald., 1914-08-17
McLEAN'S SPEECH.

ich his audience likes to remem-
 because he always says it so we'll.
 when he talks politics he is apt to
 get the broad grounds from which
 views &other things and travels the
 Il beaten path of party allegiance.
 was one of the speakers at the
 dgeportt meeting Saturday and In
 address he said, among other
 ngs:
 Let us consider our fate as a tion if we had been permitted to bduce those things only which by
 son of our superior natural advan-
 res we. could produce at less cost
 m any,other nation. I do not want
 exaggerate. It is impossible to tell,
 course, what the precise situation
 uld be, but if there is anything of lue In the theory to which our pres chief executive and the democratic rty is so strongly welded, we would foreign producer for a very large rcentage of the common necessities a comforts of life. The republican rty has urged the necessity of diver
 led industries in season and out of
 son. and it seems to me that he who ns may and must read and admit ht industrial independence is as al to the life and happiness and owth of a nation as IS it's political dependence. The nation that takes V other position will sooner or later
 naked or hungry in times of war Id be robbed of its birthright in hes of peace"
 Let us leave the chief executive and e democratic party out of the argu-
 mt altogether and discuss the situa- bn as every man, woman and child
 understanding now sees 1t and we n all, see, how fallacious is the posi- n of, the gifted United States sena- r. The war has proven to the people
 this country how dependent we are h other. countries and how the policy lat has been urged by the republi- 3lns in season and out of season has . isLed the people of this country A tgh, tariff was necessary to give our .anufacturing business start; no one |enies.that but republicans said that must ttbe continued or we cannot do Sdsiness, and people believed them, but he claim is without foundation in bet and the evidence can be found on very hand. The American manufac- |lrer is making a large amount of pods, for less money than they are kade in foreign countries and Is eiling them there and the proof of 1t les in the fact that when this coun- ry's. export trade ceased because of the Tar the effect was felt in factories on his side. It also became apparent that he American manufacturer Is also de- endent on Europe for some, at least, f the supplies which enable him to tn his own factory so that all the ak of the need of high tariff to eep, out foreign goods on the ground hat unless 1t is done the foreigner LII undersell us in our own market nd our own factories will close is you'd not be the depression in this ountry that is now felt because of he inability to ship goods abroad and btain supplies from the same place f is only natural that business should ,ecome quiet for a time following the nactment of a new tariff law because t is necessary to adjust 1t to the new conditions, but to say that this coun- ry is experiencing the fear of foreign onnpetition as it did some twenty-five ,r fifty years or so ago simply is not o, that's all.
 Let us be reasonable in discussing lis subject because in a business tnse what injures one will injure all n some form for we are all depending h each other the farmer on the
  ,Eich he cultivates his fields; the cturer on the farmer for the cod he eats; the skilled and unskilled aborer give their services to their en- dover to develop his business. re- eiving in return money with which hev pay for the support of themselves nd their families and so on This nay not be the theory of the man who rants a public office but he is in a voeful minority and his interests arc ,ot to be considered in the same ,reath with those of the remainder of he people. All that is necessary is for sss;3s---