The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-27
Candidate Graham Points
Out Recent Republi-
can Record
TELLS OF LAWS MADE
AFTER PROMISES
u. S. Senator Dillingham;
Also Spoke at White
River Junction

White River Junction, Oct. 27.-Hor-
ace f. Graham, Republican candidate for
governor of Vermont, was given warm
reception when he spoke at a Republic
can rally here last evening with United
States Senator William p. Dillingham;
In his address Mr.. Graham referred es-
pecially to the acts of the legislature
OF 1914 as applied to the Republican
state platform adopted in convention
previous to the election that year. and
said that with so good record estab-
tlished, that the platform recently adopt
ed at the convention held in Burlington,
composed of the nominees on the state
ticket and the senators and representa-
tives also nominated at the primaries,
would surely be carried out by the legis-
lature next January. Parties have grown
to respect their platforms that is, the
Republican party has, especially in Ser
mont.
The 1914 platform declared in favor of
a direct primary, and the people have
had an opportunity of testing the law
that was adopted in response to the party
pledge The workingmen's compensation
law was adopted by the last legislature,
in response to promise made in the
| platform and to demand by the work
! ing men of Vermont This law has
proven its advantage and for its enact
ment, | am sure the working men give
credit to the Republican party of the
state. Publication of campaign expenses
was demanded in the platform, and it is |
now necessary TO let the people know
what the candidates expenses are in
conducting his campaign. A feature OF
much Importance, also advocated to be /
continued in the platform this year was
the continuation of the publicity bureau |
in connection with the office Of the sec
rotary OF state. This department has
been conducted with most gratifying re-
suits.
Senator Dillingham; on National Issues.
In speaking of what will follow the
close OF the European war, Senator Dill 4
lingham called attention to some fea-
lures of the Underwood bill, which, il h
continued upon the statute books, viii, i
in his judgment, bring disaster to New
England industries.
He called attention to the fact that
the wooden industries OF the country are
now prosperous, because there are sub
stantially no importations of wooens
from abroad, but, on the other hand that
American producers have increased their
expectations OF woolens as a result of
the war to three times greater than they
had orders for before the war began.
But in order to understand the con
dition in which this class of manufac-
turers viii find themselves when the war
closes let us study the question in the |
light of history Statistics show that |
under normal conditions, only four per
cent of the woolens worn in the United
States are imported; of the 96 per cent
Of woolens worn in the United States Il
and which are produced in the United +
States, sixty per cent are the product of
New England mills. Much discussion has
been had regarding what constitutes 4
lair import duty on this class of goods
rhe tariff board appointed by President Il
Taft under the authority of the Payne n
Aldrich bill made scientific study of the
question, tracing the cost of production
rom the time the fleece was taken from Il
1he sheep until the most costly fabric :
vas completed and reported that the
Inference in the cost of production of n
yoolens at home and in foreign coun- r
ries was substantially seventy per cent =
{ follows that tariff duty of seventy u
,er cent of the value OF the goods inn h
ported would only place the American :
working man upon a level with his Eu- u
opean brother, owing to the difference II
n the rate of wages at home and abroad +:
The Wilson bill passed by the Demo 7
ratio Congress OF 1894, placed a duty of
fly per cent upon the value of wooens
1t was known that this was
o be the rate, and the bill became OF
aw, and Immediately, vast shipments dc
{ woolens were made from Europe to GO
he United States, placed in bonded ware 5,
ouses, where they were held until the
ill became a law, and We're then placed I'll
pom the American market in such vol L
me that it has been estimated that be
wo-thirds of all the ready made cloth Fl
lg made in America the following year al
as made from foreign cloths.
| have the authority OF a New Eng =
ind manufacturer that eighty per cent n
t all wooden mills of New England were u
osed as consequence.
What do we find in the Underwood
i'll? Have our Democratic friends for
often that fifty per cent duty on tt
oolens absolutely ruined the industry
the United States, or, have they pur-
osely still further reduced the duty by
taking it only thirty-lve per cent in the
Underwood bill?
Whatever their purpose, such is the
let, and | present it TO you as conun- an
rum for you to carry home and consd- br
:, if duty OF fifty per cent upon wool to
Is closed eighty per cent of the wool gri
/ mills in New England, how many will Til
closed when the duty is further re. wi
iced to thirty five per cent? And what
true of the duty under the wooden ST
hedule is also true of all of the New Co
ngland schedules to a greater or less of
tent. adj
What the effect of this measure will 80
upon the New England industries as ito
whole can only be understood when we tel
call the fact that New England pro- do
ices sixty-two per cent of all the boots dan
ID shoes manufactured in the United an
a +as and these have been plaped upon inc