The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-29
OPEN LETTER
 TO E. J. HILL


 Editor of The Farmer, Sir:
 October 19, 1912. Ex-C Congressman B. J. Hill, Repub1f- can Candidate for Congress, 4th District, Connecticut. Dear MT. HilI:-
 nlent of the Parcels Post previous to the time that a great popular de- uland forced the measure through SIS it not true that you did not vote for Parcels Post until popular demand forced you?
 ss. Did you not tell Horace Jaokson of Bridgeport that Parcels Post was all right for such little countries as Belgium England and France. but was no good for this country?
 Did you not oppose the establish ment of the Postal Savings Bank pre- vious to the time when you foresaw a great popular demand would make it politically untenable for W6u to re- main longer in that position?
 Do you really believe in perrna- nent tariff commission with plenary powers of iavestigation which shall revise the tariff one schedule at a time as the, condition of trade de- rna1gds, or is that only 2. bluff to catch votes?
 If you are sincere in your demand for a. tariff commission. why did you not fight for the permanency of the tariff commission which obtained during the Taft administration? $Do you think anything will ever be- accomplished by the federal prose ciation of big business
 Don't you think big business should be controlled by a strong commission the same as the railroads are at pres ent held in check by the Interstate Commerce Commission
 vili you dght for a Federal Indus trial Commission
 Don't you think child-1abor should be abolished throughout the length and breadth of the land by g federal law?
 win you light for a federal anti child labor law?
 Do you believe in a. minimum wage fer working girls and women which shall insure them a decent living
 Wil you fight to put such a law on the statute books of the nation and thus strike a staggering blow at the u7onstrous whitelslave trade?
 DO you stand for the people. not part of the time, but all of the time. or do yosi stand Tor the Iaavisi hle Cow erhInsnt Do you think it is right that ). Hen ry Reraback should be chief lobby 1st Of the New Haven road and at the same time be executive head of the Republican party
 Are you not firmly convinced that big business is in politics, that both oI dparties are thoroughly gangrened with the corruption funds of the great corporations?
 DoSyou believe that it is kever pos sible to reform any body polite from the inside2 Did such a. thing as re- from the Inside and invariably failing. ancient, mediaeval or modern times Isn't it true that all great reform CTS tried first to bring about reform fro nnt1e inside and invaria bly, failing, achieved success by abandonmel1t of the old forns2
 DO you know that Thomas Jefferson said that the political life. or efficiency Of party was limited to about thirty years2
 Do you know any good reason why women should not vote?
 Will you fight for woman suffrage? Do you realize that in this country there is one law for the rich and an other for the poor? Do you realize that in many g1aring instances the courts are so a.drninistered2 Do you not believe that the people are a prop CT tribunal Of last resort for the re view of judicial decisions of cases in yolving social. economic and indus trial justice?
 ts Are you progressive in any sense. o1 the term or only a marvellous jugglel of incomprehensible figures
 Yours truly,
 GRANVILLE D. STUBBS,
 Dan bury Conn.