New Britain herald., 1924-10-31

exercise the right of citizenship and prove ourselves worthy of the privilege that is ours. This Is our day of opportunity. Woodrow Wil- son said; Great spirits of the past must command us in the future. The greatest Democrat who ever lived, the founder of the Demo- cratic party, Thomas Jefferson. gave as the sum and Substance of tho party's aims: Equal rights to all, special privileges to none The Democratic party with these prln- ciples has outlived every other po- litical party and will live to see the Republican party so down into the dust from which 1t rose, unwept, unhonored and unsung.
 "The Republican party has al- ways been aligned with special privileges, It has always supported autocracy. plutocracy. oligarchy, monopoly, and I might say oilygar- chy. Those who say Sero is no material difference between the Re- publican and Democratic parties, either do not know whereof they speak ,or they are careless with the truth. The Democratic party stands for equal rights; tho Republican party for special privileges.
 "lt is no relief to adopt the ab- surd, visionary, idealistic and uncon- stitutional so-called third party. Dan ger lies in committing. the welfare of the country to the hands of either branch of the divided Republican party. In the hands of the Demo. cratic party alone is there hope.
 Andrew Jackson, old Hickory, as he was called, a stern advocate of justice for all. fought for low taxes and a change in the currency sys- tenn. The currency system is not an issue in this campaign, because the federal reserve system, Demo- cratic measure, fostered by Demo- cratic president, places our currency now on so firm basis, yet so elas- tic, that political opponent cannot make it an issue.
 Tt is. a sad fact that the people of the country are burdened by taxes Although the Republican party has been In charge of every branch of the government for well nigh onto four years it has not only afforded no relief but has added to the bur den.
 Tariff Should Protect All.
 "The country must have a tariff revision to give relief from high living expenses. am not fanatic or an extremist on tariff. ] be. lieye tariff should be levied for rev. enue, primarily, with protection as an incident, not as the Republicans desire, tariff levied for protection with revenue as an incident. Tariff should be drawn for the protection of all, capital. labor, and that group that is all to often overlooked-the consuming public. We pay too much for what we must buy.
 "The Forney-McCumber act which I regard as a financial monster, has caused an increase of four to five billion dollars in tariffs. Of thi. amount less than one-tenth goes tc the public and the remainder to the coffers of the protected profiteers It is unfair and undemocratic. What we want is tariff that distributes it's good among all.
 "'Public office is a public trust. Oh for another Grover Cleveland How he would have struck otit against the 'unclean vultures who besmirch the history of our country He would have scoureed them a. the Master scourged the money. changers from the temple.
 Secretary Hughes says there is nc issue but the good record of Calvin Coolidge. This is nonsense and hy.