Connecticut western news., 1922-11-02

diction."
 ''Now don't be carried away too much by those who tell you that they can construct a perfect tariff bill. When they reach Washington , they will find that there is another man there. If they go to the Senate they will find there are ninety-five other members of that body, and very likely, in order to secure legis- lation they will have to deal with that other ninety-fve, and if they are going to take a broad and statesman like view of things, they will have to make a survey of the demands and the requirements of all America"
 '''It is not easy to make a tariff It requires a consideration of all business enterprises and their com parison with like enterprises all over the earth, and it is no wonder that it took time, it is no wonder that the Senate of the United States sat for weeks from eleven o'clock in the morning until ten o'clock at night, and then for months from eleven o'clock in the morning until 6:30 in the afternoon"
 "That is the sacrifice that is re- quired of men that undertake to perform the public service that is necessary to support the welfare of America. But we have passed a tariff bill, and under it our prosper ity is returning, and there was need of it, greater need than at any other time in our history. The exchange of the foreign countries is against us. Their money is cheap at home, under which they can manufacture cheaply and sell here and secure in payment the high-priced dollars of the United States of America, that sell for a hundred cents everywhere in the world. Wages abroad, es- pecially in Germany, were lower -Uiiian ever before, inconceivably low -$6.30, not per day-that sounds more like America-$6.3 in gold measured the price of German labor per week, back before the war, in some of the skilled trades. The last report that l saw, emanating from Germany, now measured them at $2.30 per week. Can we compete with that and maintain the American standard of living; and the Republi- can prty is determined, in so far as it can exercise its influence and control conditions in America, that the American standard of living is to be maintained. It was for that purpose that we passed a permanent tariff bill. We found, of course, that in a period of liquidation there was a necessity for extending relief to almost all the business enterprises of our nation. Credit was exhaust ed. You remember the rates of in- terest that climbed and climbed un- til at last it was almost impossible to obtain loan of money at any rate per cent"
 "The railroads came to the gov ernment for relief, and that relief was granted, saving them, I believe, from a condition of bankruptcy. The agricultural interests came, and re- lief was granted to them to the ex- tent of billion dollars. They have aready used $35O, O,OOO,00O, and they are now in a period of sufficient prosperity so that they are beginning to repay that to the War Finance Board. Both of these things were done without expense to the public treasury.
 "We found also that in liquidating the war it was necessary, of course, to consider the interests of the ser vice men, and of all the money that America pays, it pays none, more willingly than that which goes to the relief of them and their depen- dents. We have made great appro- priations for that purpose and re- organized the administration of all of it. Two billions of dollars does not measure the appropriations that have been made up to the present time; for the relief of dependents, 0,000,000; for disabilities, $557,- 000,000; for disqualification, $200,- 000,000; for construction of new hospitals-for we have constructed those with 1000 beds in the last year and provided for the construc- tion of 5000 more-$46,000,000; for vocational education, in order that those who gave up their oppor- tunity of schooling in order to serve their country in it's time of need, that there might be reparation, an extension of opportunity that would place them back on the road to pros perity which was rightfully theirs, 9,0OO,0OO. There are 27,000 ex-service men in hospitals. Each month the government sends out 225,OO0 checks payable on disability claims, and 1000 on war risk claims; and there are taking voca- tional training something like 90,000 l men, with compensation for those in hospitals, and those taking the train ing, rising in maximum to $157.50 i each month"
 "We have been able to reduce the