The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-10

power of public plumber will work |
wonders and the call to the standard
of the party will bring many a doubt !
/ full patriot into line. When that time |
comes we shall have no more exhibit !
| tons of craftsmanship such as those |
, in du1ged in by our old time friend, .
EEbenezer. When the McLemore reso-
luton was before the House and four
| of the Republican congressman from
this State voted to support the Presi-
dent, Ebenezer voted the other woy.
Now, Ebenezer is a great statesman,
who knows all about the tariff; and he
can rattle the dead bones of q mort |
bund issue even more vigorously than
{Senator Mclean himself. and in addf- |
Ftion to that, Ebenezer has discovered
a new method of running for office.
The law limits the expenditure of a
Congressman to $3.50 or Whereabouts.
The statesman fronQ NoFwalk devised
a plan. by which he could run for Con-
sgress and get the benefit of an expen-
diture of nearly $4,000 and avoid url-
pleasant contact with the public stat
utes, This is statesmanship of a high
order and, therefore, it was to be ex-
/ pected that when Ebenezer was called
upon to explain why he voted against
1.-THE President he would give forth a
pient reply. He did. He said that
4 he had good reasons-but that he
would not divulge them to the public
for fear of embarrassing his four Re-
publican colleagues who had voted the
other way. That was not only states
manship-it was self abnegation,
am bunting. almost, to something he
| role
Peace and Prosperity
cot course it is to be expected, as
the campaign progresses, that we shall
hear, from time to time, archaic and
provincial arguments concerning the
ATrsT.o roe
/ obso1escent method and closes his
sIxeynotes address with an a1literative
/ epigram, as follows: Preparation and
protection will bring peace and pros
perity.
This is the sannat ton of his argt-
fment. Is it possible that the Senator
has been s1umberfr4g and that the
world has passed and he knew it not
Peace and prosperity are here They
are with US now. It is not question
Fof how to get then-but how to retain
them. The Republican Partx. under
| 3ts present management, is out of touch
with events. 1t seeks to turn back
1.-THE hands upon the dial of progress
and to restore the regime of privilege
land graft that America has put be-
hind her forever. It is party of OPP
position and not of achievement If
1.-THE Democratic Party were in SINH
liar condition Of mental collapse and
moral Bankruptcy with nothing to of
slfer but incoherent words of unpatrIotic
4 protest what would our Republican
friends say
Il fear that they would be unkind
enough to suggest that we were in
capable of managing the complex af-
teess1fzy Of ersesaaesat and should not
:, be trusted with power.
i The Underwood TariR Act
fNyithin the limits Of this address it
i IS Impossible for me to more than
81 plishments Of the present Administers
IN 1908 the Republican Party
q promised to revise the tariff schedules
Events had made that promise neces-
Il sary. The dying pledge of President
i Mckinley had to be redeemed He
said the day of exc1usIveness has
q passed The American people were
beginning to take a larger view of our
lecopoInic needs They had learned
fused to enable certain favored classes
81 to- write schedules so unjust as to be
z matters of public scandal and which
turned the wealth of the people from
the many toward the few. After the
election of 9o8 the managers of the
Slyise the schedules not downward,
81 however, In the interest OF the people,
but upward in the interest Of the in
terests,, This breach of faith with the
American people brought its Inevitable
/ consequ and in 1912 the Deno-
cratie Party was entrusted with power
q Our platform promises have been re-
deemed What we said we would do.
1--we did
The Underwood Tarin Act which
81 took the place of the Payne-AIdrfch
I f-Act has not DERIVED American indus
s tries Of any, proper tariff advantages,
but it has deprived the great trusts of
:. an opportunity to continue their plum
Eder Of the American people. Indeed,
!. our Republican critics, almost with
+. out exception, have abandoned the
claim that American industry requires
s. higher schedule rates than those now
s in force The chief criticism that SEN
q ator McI4ean9 makes of the Underwood
: law is that it has not supplied the reve-
81 nue. necessary to rum the government
: 1t is amazing that in the face of the
: official reports concerning the revenue
!, obtained under the Payne-A idrich law
and the Underwood law such a con-
tention should be made.
q Any candid student of the question
will easily see that the source Of much
of the disagreement as to the perfor-
q .naanees of the two acts grows out of
: the fact that the critics of the Under
wood law Intentionally fail to take in
to account the fact that the provision
/ for an income tax is part of the reve-
, nue. bill and that it was the purpose of
the Underwood law to relieve the peo-
: pie of some of the burden of taxation
I at the Custom House and to make up
the difference in income taxes upon the
wealth Of America
: The government reports disclose
that all ordinary receipts for the fiscal
year 1912 amounted to $691, 788, 465;
for the fiscal year 1918 to s724,111, =
+ 229; and for the fiscal year 1914, the
first year that the Underwood law was
a on the statute books, to $734,342, 700.
? IN other words, the Underwood law in
1914 collected $1o,232,4 more reve-
: nue. than the Payne act in 1919 and
: $43.565,2S5 more than the Payne act
in 1912. Nor is the Senator any more