New Britain herald., 1922-10-18
Taxes, Tariff and Prohibi- tion Mentioned by Demo- cratic Candidate.

l Shelton, Oct, 1S.--Speaking on the
 failures of what he called the
 Republican Do-Nothing" congress Thomas J. Spellacy, democratic nom-
 inee for United States senator. last | land house, particularly condemning
 their neglect of five million unem- 'ployed and charging that if the re- publican doctrine that a republican i tariff is necessary for prosperity, the republican congress was utterly dere- lict in not immediately providing it's remedy for mployment. Taxes, tariff and prohibition were mentioned | by Mir. Spelacy who cited prominent republicans as concurring with him in his opinion of the present congress, and he called upon Senator Mclean
 to return to Connecticut and render an accounting of his stewardship to | his constituents.
 MT Spellacy spoke in part as fol- lows:
 The past IS months have witnessed more distress than any similar period | in our history. over five million men 1 and women were unemployed and bus mess was stagnant during this period 1 Financial chaos and industrial ruin prevailed The workmen, the farm l CTS, the businessmen, need not be re- minded of their experiences. All this lduring an administration overWhelm- | ingly republican in all branches of | government. The people had voted for l t. night I propose to tell you about the present Republican Do-Nothing Con- gress.
 Let LIS see what the republican Congress did, or rather failed to do, during this critical period, We are | told that Nero fddled while Rome burned. We have been told by re- publican orators, for generations, that q republican tariff was essential for prosperity. Now I submit, if repub- 1 lican tariff would have returned five million men to work, if it would have saved the business man from failure or severe financial loss, if 1t would have helped the farmer, then it was the plain, evident duty of an over NutIHlIllSl ly itpbpIiSuii Noiio tNob HI mediately to have enacted a tariff law.
 However, all of 1921 and the first eight months of 1922 saw no passage of a permanent tariff act. It is not a fair inference that the tariff is not the great prosperity breeder claimed by the republican orators? To have failed to supply the remedy to relieve the industrial distress if 1t be still claimed that the tariff is the remedy
 surely cannot be classed as anything
 less than absolute disregard for the
 welfare of the people. l wish Senator
 Mclean would supply the answer; it is the Senator's duty te his constitu- ents.
 We all would be interested in learn
 ing why the republican party having
 the power, failed to restore prosperi- ty, or perhaps the Senator will admit that the tariff is not a remedy for all our ills In any event, the people of Connecticut are entitled to an ex- planation from their representative in the Senate of the United States. There never was a time when the
 
 trustee was not required to account for his stewardship, and the dignity
 of the Senate will not be lowered by
 one of the members associating for
 brief time with the people of his own
 State and rendering unto them an
 explanation of his actions of those Of
 his party. So, we may, l hope, expect
 the Senator in due time to speak for
 himself and relieve the Republican
 State Central Committee of the task
 of issuing statements for all the Re- publican nominees. This, my friends, lis not a government by state central committees. whatever the power such
 committee or any official thereof, may arrogate to himself.
 We have suffered and we are still suffering from onerous tax burdens. We participated in the greatest war In history and of necessity incurred billions of debt. The war has been ended for nearly four years. The re- publican party elected both Senate