Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1914-08-14
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS.
United States District Attorney Dun
nett Has Resigned Position to Make
the Run.

the Run.
Alexander Dunnett of st. Johns
bury announces his candidacy for Con-
gress in the following letter:
To the voters of the Second Congress
sional district of Vermont:
l have resigned my position as
United States attorney for the dis
trct of Vermont to become a can
didate for Congress on the Republican
ticket in this district. Having been
out of politics for about eight years
| think / should say that | believe the
great question properly dividing po-
litical parties in the United States is
the tariff. | am not "stand-pat-
ter / have always believed in re-
vision of the tariff to meet present
day conditions, but such a revision
should always be upon the lines of the
protection of our industries. | am not
of that class of protectionists who
have advocated in the past a lowering
of the tariff. 1t is my firm conviction
well afford to pay for articles that
can profitably be produced here what
it costs to produce them in our own
country, and the only proper occasion
for a general lowering of the tariff
is to provide greater revenue for the
government.
AS a practical proposition this gov
eminent has never been able to grow
richer while the labor was performed
abroad and the money sent abroad
from this country to pay for the
the products of labor. Such a system
always involves the sending of money
out of this country and throwing our
own laborers out of employment. In
the opinion of experts this county Is
| capable of producing foodstuffs suf-
fcient for five hundred millions of
people; and while foodstuffs sufficient
| for our own people can be produced
at home our agricultural interests
should have the benefit of the market
In its last successful national cam
paign the Republican party stood upon
| the strongest protective plank that
was ever written into its platform, but
by the vacillating attitude of our lead
err upon the tariff question, his at
tempted reciprocity with Canada and
| his advocacy of general cutting
down of the tariff, the temporary
downfall Of our party resulted.
This country in 1914 is in the humili
ating position of living under tariff
framed by the people who declared in
their platform that protection was un
constitutional. They have directly
adopted the principles originated and
most brilliantly advocated by John G
Calhoun more than eighty years age
when under the spell of his reasoning
South Carolina passed the notification
act. These principles were so rank
| that Andrew jackson threatened tC
hang the author, and they have beer
repudiated by the people of this gov
eminent for more than half a century
The principle that this government
has right to protect itself, lis people
and its industries Is so firmly estab
lished that in the last presidential elcc
ton more than two million majority OF
votes were cast in It's favor-the TAT
and the Roosevelt votes combined. AL
believers in this doctrine should stanC
together, and no community is NOR,
vitally interested in it than the people
of Vermont. | believe not only that
this country has the right to protect
but that its duty and interest are tt
protect its labor and its industries as
much as t is its duty to protect it,
shores from foreign invasions.
While | am not without views OF
pending and prospective measures il
Congess, | prefer in this limited spac,
to speak of measure not pending, It
my knowledge, in relation to our ar
my. | believe that mlitay school,
should be established for boys whC
have completed the common schoo
studies in which agricultural and Other
useful learning should be impaired
These schools should be entirely fee
but attendance should be upon condi
tion that the student should for Ger
tain number of years after graduation
serve in the army when called upon
believe such schools will ACCOMPLISH
three purposes:
First, They will do away with tn,
necessity for Il large standing army.
Second, They will provide yer,
largo and efficient army in time o.
need.
Third, Every part of the body poll
tic will be strengthened by the con
slant addition of this body of well
trained and well-educated young men
And finally, ! think this can all b,
accomplished as cheaply as we supper
our present standing army and the mil
itia of the several states.
| do not say that this general propo
sition can be formulated and writer
into law at once, but | feel that Their,
is an opportunity for an endeavo
toward progress along these lines.
This district is rather off on tn,
side respecting the great CONNIE: ia
and industrial interests o. the country
but it has interests as dear and i'm
portant to its people as any, and i
nominated and elected to this higl
but it has interests as dear and i'm
my pleasure to do what | can for you
and my state and my country.
ALEXANDER DUNNETT.