Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04

nave made excellent mayors of Nor wien. have long known and greatly admired democrat fellow towns man of mine who spoke here the other night, and who was one of the ablest and most popular governors it was ever the good fortune of Connecticut to have. Democrats have filled many other places with credit and with hon. or, but this great industrial state of Connecticut has as much use for a democratic congressman as 1t has for infantile paralysis.
 The money of the warning nations has come over here in vast sums in payment of munitions of war, wages have been high and capital abundant, and this nation will present the best and highest market in the world in which to sell goods. When the sol diers over there come back from the trenches they will find their places taken by machines and filled with boys and women. The boys. who have from necessity become capable indus trial producers, and machines will re- main, and the women who have gone into industry will not be easily turned away-labor will be cheap and abun- dant, wages will be low. the cost of production will be small. These na- tions will then have cheap manufac- tured goods and they will need ready l money. This nation has their money and offers the best market in which | to sell. If we remain unprotected they I will undersen us in our own market, our own business will be prostrated, and the vast capital we have so easily | acquired from the warning nations will l be foolishly wasted and lost if this l situation is permitted to develop. The salvation of our industrial life | will depend first and foremost upon a republican protective tariff that will preserve our own markets from the l sale of the products of our own farms and factories.
 Protection Through Republican Suc- ] cess.
 l Only through the success of the re- ! publican party can this policy of pro- ] tection be adopted. In no other way | after the war can American wages be | maintained and the American standard | of living be preserved. A vote for the | democratic ticket is a vote against l your own interests and the welfare 1 of those dependent upon you. On the seventh of November every voter car 1 ries with him to the polls his own ! With the memory of little work only 1 two years ago under the Underwood tariff law, and the certain prospect ot i no work for many if that law remains l in force are the workingmen Of this country to be misled into voting the democratic ticket because in the clos ing hours of congress there was en- acted what our democratic friends are pleased to call the Flight Hour'' Law 1 I yield to no man in my desire tC improve the conditions of the work ingmen of this country. to add to thei1 happiness. to brighten their prospects I believe in the eight hour day, and hope the time may soon come Whe1 it will be economically advantageous
 to have eight hours for work. eight hours for sleep and eight hours fol play and refreshment. In many trades
 where the work is steady and con,
 tinuous it has been demonstrated thai
 eight hours of work will result in nc deminution of the total pile of pro- duction odt of which in the last an
 alysis all must receive their recon.
 pease.
 The Adamson Bill.
 But the Adamson bill was in nc
 sense designed to limit or curtail tht
 hours of labor for the class of em ployes it affected. It was simply {
 bill fixing by legislation ten hours pay for eight hours work. Upon this
 point there can be no controversy. Int
 democratic speaker of the house ruled | that certain amendments were nof
 germane because the pending bill wa!
 only a wage increase bill.
 | I will not say that the trainn1en ar
 not entitled to an increase of pay
 Their long hours, their responsibility
 their expenses away from home, tn
 loss for long periods of the society o
 their wives and children and the com
 forts of their homes, the lack of tn
 conrpanionship of their fellow citizens these and many other reasons ma; we'll entitle them to higher pay an'
 certainly would have appealed wit great weight to the sound judgmen
 of a fair and impartial board of arbi
 tration. I believe that the only prac
 tica1 way by which their hours of labo
 may be shortened, and they can hay
 more time at home, would be to pro | lo Ioo1f fnT
 time, but this is a matter for arbitra
 ton.
 Surrendered Arbitration Principle.
 If the president had stood frm1 for arbitration congress would hay provided for arbitration, and believ
 that there would have been no strik or that it would have been of ShOr
 duration because of the overwhel1nin
 sentiment of public opinion against il
 But he said it was futile to stan
 firmly. He meekly surrendered tn
 principle of arbitration. He pro
 claimed that eight hours had receive
 "the sanction of society," and unde
 the guise of an eight hour law thi
 bill was rushed through congress i
 the midst of a political campaign with
 out investigation or mature considera ton, practically without debate an } under duresS by threats of a strike
 not passed by Saturday night.
 The president himself has since sai that such a situation must never b
 tolerated again. On this point ther is now no difference of opinion. Tn whole controversy has merely bee ! deferred until after election. In tn improbabl eevent of his reelection will he be as yielding after electio as before? He has been known t change his mind.
 Woodrow Has Met Wilson. In the last four years Woodrow ha met Wilson coming back many time In 1912 he was in favor of a singl term and pledged to it by his plat , form, which he declared was not mere } ly molasses to catch flies. Why is h now running again? In 1912 he wa : in favor of free tolls for America ] ships through the American canal z Panama Why are American shiI
 now paying toll? In 1914, six month
 after the outbreak of the Europea war, and a year and half after tt r trouble in Mexico, he was opposed . an increase in the army and navy. an . said that the advocates of prepared ] ness were merely nervous and excite s and then year later he went aibol = the country shouting that '-the sparl e. were flying everywhere" and advoca,
 ed the Garrison plan. and then fe