The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-24
6 Q. TARIFF GREAT MENACE
 SAYS STRAUS
Leading New York Mer- chant Scouts Claims of
 ProtectiOnists

New York. Oct. 24.-Jesse Isidor Straus. of R. H. Macy & Co.,, one of New York's leading merchants and son of the late Isador Straus, busi- ness man and philanthropist, is an- other of the many big men of affairs, of the United States, to announce his alignment with the Wilson forces MT. Straus, treasurer of the Wilson Business Mems National League, has entered the campaign actively, de- c1aring that MT. Wilson's record, his experience, and the unwisdom of a change at this time, should determine every doubting voter to support his candidacy.
 In stating his reasons for support ing the President. MT. Straus says:
 "I am satisfied that MT, Hughes failure to answer the question as to hows he would have acted if com pelled to decide the quAstions which have faced President Wilson, is due to the fact that deep in his heart, he feels he would have done exactly as the President did.
 Furthermore. I am satisfied MT. Hughes feels that the judgment of posterity will approve the Presidents course throughout an administration beset more than any other admin istration in fifty years with internal and external embarrassments.
 Not since the Civil War, has there been an election in which experience in the administration of the presi- dential office was so important a fac tor in determining the candidate for whom the voter should cast his bal lot President Wilson has given us nr7, .lr,&,, ..s~- ized by President Lovett, of the Union Pacific, and President Under wood of the Erie Railroad, as suc-' cessful and worthy of further trial.
 "It appears to me that one of tlre greatest menaces of our national life is the Republican tariff-a menace even greater than it was in MT Oleveland's time when the country emphatically decided against it. If we would sell we must buy, and if we build wall against the produc- ton of other countries, retaliation on their part is inevitable. Furthermore, most of our industries are too firmly established to require babying.
 1T do not believe there is any doubt in the mind of any man that the Republican party, if in power, will enact, in gratitude for the than cia1 aid now said to be in process of contribution to it, that greatest aid to monopoly in this country. the ex- tra heavy duty on imports.
 '.As a third, and perhaps. less inn portant argument against MT. Hughes, I would urge his resignation from our highest judicial tribunal and his entrance into partisan poli- tics. l. believe that precedent such as this should be combatted and that the defeat of MT. Hughes will be a deserved rebuke.
 eff principle is the impelling mo- tive of the Progressives, I feel that they, should all turn to President Will son, for his administration has realiz- ed in great measure the legislative aims of the Progressive party. In this connection I feel keenly the un- seemliness of an ex-President tour ing the country, passionately and vituperatively condemning the head of our government, both as man and President. I resent the sorry figure of an ex-President campaigning as an extreme partisan, and fomenting, as only he can doment, that unrest which, in a greater or less degree, is apparent in every presidential cam paign. look back with pride to the figure of MT. Cleveland in retirement, making only an occasional public ap- pearance. and then in a digniied, constructive and impartial manner, giving the country the benefit of his mature experience and ripe judg- ment.
 During President Wilson's ad- ministration we have had. prosperity and peace. By all means let us re- elect him."