The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-29

Professor Irving Fisher, of the de- bartment of economy at Yale, in -an interview In the New York Times, gives nix reasons why he will vote for Pres ldent Wilson. The reasons follow:
 Q> The so-called issues of Amer acAnism." preparedness, the Lusitania incident. the Mexican situation, and all others that have grown out of foreign a5falrs. appear to me to be merely red herrings across the trail" intended to put the public off the scent l have little doubt that, by diverting attention from themselves to these trumped-up ssuea. the republican "old guard" hope to put over" on the public another s'Payne-Aldrich" tariff. They expect to work the war and Mexico for all they are worth to both hide and guide their own private interests after the election. The real joker in the re- publican platform is plank which. when the time comes. if it does, will be solsnnly cited as a mandate from the people for restoring the good old fashioned high protection.
 Every informed voter knows that as the infant industries grew they were not left-to shift for themselves, as'wa.s originally intended. Being big and powerful they contributed, the big funds to republican campaign expen- sos and. after election. received renew ed,, often increased protection in re- sturn. Such purchase of legislation is ."within the law" but it has always l seemed to me almost as great a scan dal as the corresponding, though less illegal. purchase of state legislatures by . railways or of city governments by ublic utility corporations. The "sdu- cation of the public" in favor of pro- { tection by which even the laboring man has been made to believe that it is for his good has been. for the most pert, subsidized The protected in teS.sts have had speeches written for conzressmen. have paid the expenses of printing large editions, and have distributed them under government frank. That such sO-called protec- ton had become a national scandal, . Prostitution of public interest to pri- v1tg interests, was. in effect. recog- nixed by MT. Taft and other conscien- tious republicans. But his administra- tion only demonstrated how difficult it is for party which draws its financial support from protected interests to re- wise the tariff against these interests.
 CD Moreover, quite irrespective of the moral issue in protection" it 1, seems to be bad national policy to keep the tarin longer in politics. The election of MT. Hughes would surely do this. That of MT. Wilson would at least so far toward dropping the tariff out of politics and toward taking politics out of the tarin. It is worth noting that if such result can be ac- enpsished through, tariff commits sann 1t will certainly not be through . tariff commission appointed by pro- ttectionists.
 (3) I have not agreed with all parts of MT. Wilson's Mexican poli- cy, but believe that, at heart, it is I sounder than that which MT. Hughes isoerns to indorse. Few of the Ameri- can people realize, as MT. Wilson real azes, that here, too, is a case (and a i far worse one than American protec- tton) of special interests capturing a governnent in their own behalf. The i people, of Mexico have. I believe, been exploited by handful of interruptions foreign capitalists, including some Americans, who, through Diaz, virtual .ly robbed Mexico. Diaz virtually took the lands and liberties of the Mexican people and sold them to foreign con- cessionaries. These exploiters, or their agents, sought to continue the system through tho assassination of Madero and the elevation of Huerta-
 We must have order in Mexico. and we oWe 1t to our citizens to protect thefr legitimate Investments in Mexico, out we also owe it to Mexico and to our own national ideals not to help to restore that kind of order. or protect that kind of investment. by which
 Nexicans have been systematically robbed. Moreover. doubt if real and permanent order in Mexico will be possible which is based on the unjust methods and Ideas of a Diaz.
 @ So far as our relation to Eu- ropean analrs fs concerned, do not think that VIC e1,al1 become more ef- Mcfent by swapping horses while we are crossing . stream. A change may plunge us into war. and 1t would cer- tain1y, in the four months between election and Inauguration. paralyze our forsien policy completely.
 (6) There fs another great danger ito our national efficiency in voting the republican ticket. If MT. Hughes Iis elected the senate will probably re. main democrafic. Only a republican 1andslide can make the senate repub1i. can, and of such a landslide there seems no prospect. It seems unlike. fly that the republicans can retain al sixteen of the republican seats whicf win bs yaca4ed, and at tho same time win half Of the eighteen democratic vacancies. Yet . victory as complete as this must be won in order even t obtain . republican majority of onl vote. x
 l hope the time may come when VI shall correct a political system fl which such deadlock is possible; bu at present we voters are confronted by . condition, not a theory, and mus act accordingly.
 (O Tho democratic platform fl
 more progressive and effective thar the republican. Its plank on public health. for instance. is the best which we have yet had in any national plat. form. This means. hope. that this great subject. the basis of the states lmanship of Lloyd George and other European leaders, will soon be brought before the American people as never before.
 c'he plank on woman suffrage is also
 more progressive than the republican. MT. Wilson is more careful than MT. Hmxl1eG tO avoid giving fha i'm pro csfox,