The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-10

O. the highest repute in the New York Herald sounds the keynote Of this principle. He says:
 Certainly the argument will not
 hold that a great public service is
 performed by putting out one man
 for no better object than to put
 another in his place.
 speaking of the President he says:
 woodrow Wilson. as President Of
 the United States, in all likelihood i. is apt to do better work with
 sympathetic team behind him. There must be good reasons why
 the (Cennecttcnt) delegation
 should be changed If they are to be
 changed
 Then again a Republican newspa- per. The Waterbury American whose patriotism and able editorial manage ment have given it a tone of responsf- bility respected throughout the nation, says:
 There is this to be said in be-
 half of MT. Kennedy that if Con- gross is to be Democratic, g Demo cratic representative will have
 more influence than a Republican.
 ''f that is true in the Fifth district of our state itf is also true in the Fourth district, and there is no reason why a President should be handicap ped in the middle of his term by an Iantagonistic House unless that Presi-
 
 service to the people. Jefferson be- lieved that the House of Representa- tives should be close to the people in order that the people might check and hold up an Administration that was not obeying the will of the people. 1T do not believe that anyone can say truthfu1ly that the present Ad- ministtatton under it's able leadership has not tried to keep the faith
 Probably the attacks that we will have to endure during the campaign are those concerning the tariff which has been held for years as mystical cure for all ills when the dose was administered by those who had a spe- cia1 pet that they desired to be fed on tariff milk.
 "IN THE DISTRICT WHERE WE LIVE F1FsAIRFIELD COUNTY. THERE IS NO INDUSTRY THAT NEEDS THE PROTECTION OF THE DUY- lE3LE1 LIST THAT IS NOT PROTECT- ED BY THE UNDER WOOD TARIFF
 We need it because we are away from the sources of production of our raw material.
 Now when I tell you how Connecti- cut fared~I I am not going to quote an authority from our own side of the House. but T am going to call the at 1 tention of our people to real Re- publican Senator, Albert Baire Cum I1lfns of Iowa. man who is loved by ! 1 life is as clean as a hounds tooth It | is ito be regretted that Senator Cum mfns is committed. to the give and take policy in the framing of a tariff bill. E
 He made an exhaustive study of the apportionment in the matter of the lIJnderwood tariff and in his speech to the Senate he stated that 87 per cent. of THE INTERESTS OF CoNNFzoTT- ICUT WEIRD PROTECTED BY THE lDUT1BLE LIST AS AGAINST B PER CENT. BEING ON THE FREE LIST.
 I t'As for his own state, Iowa. he said ! that A per cent. of the interests of the state were on the dutib1e list while 56 per cent were on the free list. Tn his great speech, Senator Cummins, representing the most wonderful agri- cultural state in the Union said that l lEonnecticut was second on the list in the matter of the amount of Ibus,. ness that had been protected by the framers of the Underwood bill. Ia- lence.
 The strong state of New Jersey was behind Connecticut with 80 per cent. l of her products on the dutibIe list and 20 per cent. on the free list.
 'tThe American people voted in ia vor of revising the tariff downwa rd l and the interests of Conn must 1 have been considered when we rank 1 second in the degree that our prod 1 ucts are protected.
 This effort to treat us fairly is shown in the matter of the fur hat l industry and that your representatives in Congress can make themselves felt and useful to their people in the fig ures as is shown by the Senator from Iowa.
 .'The hat manufacturing industry in our country is, I believe, the larg- l est center in that line in the United States. All the materials that go into | the hat are brought from a great dis tance- All we have to put into it is 1 our skilled labor.
 -In 1912 when MT. Hill was talk i ing a great deal about the hat indus try. the Payne-Aldrich tarif bill was