The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-05

deadIocking our own government dur ing 1919-20. and the utter lack or any foreign policies since eXhiblted by the Republican admin1stratlon' has kept Europe at a standstlI ana caus- ed protrcated uncertainty, delay and chaos in international, economic and other affairs during all this time In the meantime. our great foreign com. merce of s13.500, 0,eo0,0OO in lS2O slumped to less than s7,0OO,000,0O0 in 1921.
 Our Idle Fleet.
 "One immediate result, coupled with Republican failure to adopt any shipping policy, is that our great fleet of 1,500 merchant vessels once busy is now chiefly floating idly in their docks. Another result of the collapse of our reciprocal foreign trade relations has been our inability to collect any part of the principal or even the interest Of our govern meth foreign debts of $11,0 ,00o,000,0O0 thus necessitating corresp pondIngly high taxation of the American peo- pie.
 The Republican administration still clinging to the fossllized and ancient notions and policies appE- cable alone to a provincial country such as was ours 40 years ago, has been wholly unable or unwilling to grasp and apply the true fundamen- tals to our postwar international po- litical, economic and social condi- tions. Most naturally this fatuous course steered America straight on the rocks of industrial stagnation and the shoals of industrial depres- sion.
 t'The reactionary Republican ad- ministration is. and has been equally suicidal in either the failure of the utter impracticability of its domestic economic nOliPiRS Having in l92U corruptly accepted vast contributions from certain selfish American manu- facturers bent on a Chinese tariff wall the present administration in a feeble way never before excelled, seriously proposes to allow these sell fish interests, as in the day of the Payne law, to come to Washington and write their own exorbitant and unconscionable tariff rates.
 Gain Wiped Out.
 The consummation of this corrupt prediction bargainr-fying as it does in the face of every sound economicl law of today-malnS the utter iiSlo cation Of our domestic economic sit uat1on and the permanent prevention of the development of maintenance of a. sound, ha-Ithy reciprocal interna- tional trade It means the wiping out of the great gains and advantages this nation has achieved in domestic and foreign finance and commerce during the past eight years It means the re-
 
 bery under which the American peo- pie are to be taxed billions of dollars for the benefit of a. certain class of manufacturers who financed the Re publican machine in 1920.
 It means the contracting of our re- cent increased volume of production or 50 per cent and of an annual in come of 5,00O,0OOO back to the pre-war level with the resultant idle ness of vast capital and labor It means that this nation will be at a hopeless disadvantage in foreign trade on account of artificfaIIy high cost of production levels at home. It means that the losses on what he buys Of five dollars for every dollar of tax benefits he receives.
 ''It means the driving of our naer- chant marine off the high seas. It means high monopo1iStic prices at home and dumping of sIrpluses at for lower prices abroad It means that we propose to sell to other countries but not to buy. It means in brief that instead of maintaining and advancing our position as the center of world finance. and the leader in world conn merce and industry, we shall shrink and shrtvel up to the small dinen- s1ons of a second class nation, while other commercial countries, big and nttle' outstrip us and take our place at the head of the great column of na tloTs- Commercial isolation is the only well-defined domestic economic policy of the Republican leadership.
 Democratic Boast.
 DemocratS welcome among others this Republican issue of 'commerciai lSolatlon,- provincial, immora absurd and unjust high tariff taxation, Ihey propose to expose the jobbery, the entr1gue, the injustice, the com Lhercla1 bargains and the patent eco- homie absurditfes of the proposed general tariff legislation of the pres ent Republican Congress.
 Democrats are able to boast do- mestic and international finance, com merce and industry. Proclaiming these modernized principles to the during the coming campaign noint the way of all good citizens to stable permanent domestic prosperity. and sulue the nation back to it's true course as the great world leader in Hnance. commerce and morals
 No amount Of excuses, alibis. or expIanat1ons by the administration can m1slead the American voters this Iin1e- nhe farmer, the business man ana the laborer, see feel and know Just what has happened to them mus lar under Republican rule. They know that Republican leaders have broken their plighted word, and that only the Democratic party now can be depended upon to promote the wei rare and happiness of all the peo-
 The report is that MT. Tyler's sacrifice in 1920 for the governorsbip entities him to a place on the ticket. Wateroury leaders are said to be seeking that post for Charles Hart. Corporation Counsel
 A committee consisting of Mrs Rose McDermott of New Haven Mrs Hiram Percy Maxim of Hartford and secretary of the state committee were appointed, to draw up a set of rules to govern the election of delegates to the state convention. Under the present ruling. which will be in force Tor the selection of delegates this fall there VIII be more than 1000 dele gates present
 The rules now in vogue provide a oeIegaton from each city and town representative of twice the number of senators and congressman and in addition one delegate for each 1000