The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-07

sed mysteries of the tariff; If, say ing this, he makes no mention of his own bright unparticular profit my Gu | riosity Is aroused.
 There is more clotted nonsense talk ed about the tariff pre- and con, espec- ial1y con, than on any other subject Reader, is there any common sense In the views set forth below? I dc not venture to say so, for the views are mine. Be you the judgei 1. Reduced to it's lowest terms, a tariff 'benefts" an industry by rais- ing the price of that industrys pre- duct.
 2. If the tariff "benefits" all indus tries alike, wei are exactly where we were: we have mounted a pair of stilts. We have changed one-half to our-eighths.
 8. If the tariff "benef1ts'' some men and does not "beneflt" others, 1t is partial and unjust.
 The practical effect of tariff and of all tariffs to enable one set of men to enrich themselves at the expense of all the others. If you require proofs look around you.
 
 is the meaning of the word. A tar Tiff is essentially and always a private law: tariff Is Q special privilege.
 It all comes down to this: MT. Will son and MT. Hughes seek the same ends by different methods. MT. Will son would begin by helping first those who need help most: the workers, the men who actually do the worlds work I MT. Hughes would use the lawmaking power to help the men who get the profits of the worlds work. MT. Wilson's statesmanship is best summed up in the homely phrase of Henri Quatre: he would have "foWl in every pot"
 MT. Wilson's theory is that when the humble are prosperous the strong and the shrewd will manage to get three square meals a day.
 It is a good idea, think. The bull letin of the United States Public Health Service reports that to-day f1f- ty per cent. of our people are over- worked and underfed.
 MT. Hughes would like to help these overworked and underfed, as we'll as MT. Wilson. But he would go about it in a different way. He would pass laws to aid the prosperous, the success full and the lucky; and their generos- ity and 1iberality would pass the ben eft down to the working poor. We are told, for instance, that high wages follow the tariff. High wages do not follow the tariff: high wages follow strike. A high tariff does furnish a manufacturer with more money to pay high wages with if he wants to. But he does not want to- When you find a manufacturer who positively insists on paying higher wages like Henry Ford-pray .ob- serve how very popular he is not with the other manufacturers. They once called Henry Ford an anarchist. But not now.
 MT. Hughes would aid the manufac- turer by tariff laws; that is undisput- ed. That he would aid the railroads by granting them a rate increase is probable; considering his veto of the New York State two-cent fare bill and the Coney Island five-cent fares; con- sidering his past service to the New York, New Haven and Hartford R. R. considering, most of all, his stormy si- lence on that subject to-day, and his eloquent attacks on the Adamson Eight-hour Bill. That MT. Hughes would like to relieve capital of in come tax, corporation tax, munition tax, munitions tax and inheritance tax at least possible, in view of the fact that his campaign manager, MT. Will cox, wrote to every person or corpora tion in Maine-on the eve of the re- cent election-reciting to each on how those, taxes would oppress him. or it, and appealing to him, or it, because of those taxes, to support the Repub- lican ticket.
 Roughly stated, the Wilson idea is tc help the weak first, that the strong can take care of themselves. Mir Hughes does not say to help the strong, and let the weak help them selves. But it is entirely fair to say that MT. Hughes wants to help the strong so that the strong may help the weak. That might be good way too, if the strong would come through But will they? They may-in the fu- ture; they haven't, in the past.
 I am saying good deal about the tariff. Not because it is the most important issue-it isn't. But the tariff is the only one of Wilson's do- mestic policies at stake. MT. Hughes if felected, will be allowed to carry out the other items of the Wilson pro- gram; he will be permitted to better them but he will not be permitted to abandon them. The infamous Re- publicans won't let him. They would let him enact a high tariff.
 Listen to the words of MT. Hughes:
 "We can have a Humanitarian out look, which is absolutely essential. not only because it is right from a human standpoint, but because it is neces- sary from an economic standpoint
 have made a photographic en- largement of this subject and have giv-