New Britain herald., 1916-09-06

1 of duty, to wit: Nine-sixths per cent l 1t resulted in our getting only $211,- l 866,222. The difference between these two sums collected as revenue is $172,711,52 This sum of S172,OOO.- 900 would have paid the entire ex- pense of maintaining the national guard upon the Mexican border and left over $40,0 900 besides to be ap- piled toward other dem ocratic indebt- edness. The proposed bond issue of $l3O, 100000 for maintaining the na- tional guard would have been avoid ed. What does the democratic party propose to do in the way of protect ing our industries and our labor from foreign competition when the war shall have terminated? Nothing. If the foreign war has demonstrated anything, it has proved conclusively the necessity of nation being so far
 as possible self-supporting. It would have been absolutely impossible for Germany to have conducted the pres ] ent war unless by the long application of a protective tariff she had so strengthened and diversified her in- dustries as that she has been able to maintain herself almost entirely upon her own resources. The policy of the president and his party is to leave this country and its industries and labor entirely unprotected from the competition of the labor and capital of other countries. Such prosperity as the country now enjoys is due in large measure to the tremendous pur- chases made here by the belligerent
 governments. As soon as the war
 closes these purchases will cease.
 America is rich and it's store of
 wealth has been greatly increased by
 the money received from war order
 purchases. The purchasing power of
 the American people at the end of
 this war will be greater than any oth-
 CT nation and our market will be
 sought after more than that of any
 other nation. Foreign labor will be
 com pelled to work for what it can
 get. Even the wounded and cOnval-
 escent will be compelled to do some
 thing in an industrial plant to get ;
 any wage possible to prevent starva-
 ton. America will be the best paying market in the world, and all the bel |
 ligerent nations will make their pro-
 ducts as cheap as possible and send them here to sell to our people in
 competition with the products of our l own factories. This process was well 1
 under way before the outbreak of the l war and were only saved from a l tremendous depression in this country, l which would have been brought about l by the democratic tariff bill because | of the outbreak of the war. Will the 1 intelligent 1aboring men of Connec- | ticut vote to keep that party in power | which absolutely declines to protect 1 them against the cutthroat competi- l tion which is bound to be brought 1 against them at the close of the war? l
 Extravaganza of Administration.
 'The democratic party, although it 1 denounced the republican party in ! 1912 for waste of money, wrung from | the people by oppressive taxation and | demanded a return to that ''sim mplicity ! and economy which bef1ts a democra- 1 tic government and a reduction in | the number of useless officers the sal | aries of which drain the substance of | the people, as soon as it attained 1 power, entered upon an era of reck- l less extraVagance that has never been even approached before in all the | history of the government. It has not only wasted the proceeds of the ] taxes Wrung from the people, but 1t has created hundreds and thousands of useless offices and exempted Hold CTS thereof from the operations of the civil service law. It has embarked the government in enterprises which have never been considered as legi- innate fields for governm ent operation and has appropriated millions upon