The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-25
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Editor of The Democrat
 The Naugatuck Valley towns were built and flourished under the stim- Illus of our U. s. tariff duties that nave always been favorable to man. utacturing industry. In fact we in New England have become under protective tariffs since the Civil War ot 1861-65, the manufacturing cen- Ter of our United States. It is impos- slble to fully estimate the value &C., crulng from protecting duties levied on foreign made goods, similar to those manufactured in our indus trlal centerS and we are justified Tn insisting that we shall be pro- tected in our labor.
 Protective Tariff
 The Republican party was the champion of a protective tariff and National as well as State elections were won on the issue. Neahamiah Sperry, Congressman from Conn, was strong advocate of having cnarges levied on various kinds of imported goods and according to the value in connection with the imports, were subject to a percent on their price at the port of ship ment and known as ad valorem, all done to protect the American operative in our industrial centers. You cannot stimulate American in- oustrial life by putting free trade into existence.
 FT1T-
 The Democratic party, has always been the advocate of free trade, or as they state, tariff for revenue only. The home of free trade in the past was below the Mason and Dixon line in U. s. this being an agriculture section of the country, they claimed that low cost manu- 1actured goods was advantageous to them. They were willing then as now to sacrafice, especially New England industries. to a selfish de- sire to buy foreign made goods. The bulk of that sections agricul- tural products was sold in the mar kets of the manufacturing centers.
 Low Duties
 New England and middle states were the markets, that gave them cash, but the free trade advocates were strong for low duties on inn ported products. The fight is be- ginning again of protection versus free trade. The New Deal Admin istration, more New Deal than Democratic. is now advocating low CT tariffs as means of promoting post war trade, all done under the name of reciprocal trade agreement and would extend the trade agree ment act to June 12, l948, and give the president authority to lower ta- riff below level of Jan. l, 1945 by 60 per cent.
 The tariff on imported goods has been known as the HaWley- Shoot Tariff act of 1880. The outlook of those faVoring reciprocal trade agreements at this time is an atti- tude of good neighborS, friendly feeling, be your brothers keeper, brotherhood of man, even if 1t brings our manufacturing interests to short time schedules, as was ex- perienced in the time of the old Underwood tariff act three decades ago. It must appear to all Amer jeans that the administration forces are more pre-occupied with the well fare Of alien manufacturing inter- ests than of our own.
 It must become apparent to Americans that the real reason of the agitation for reciprocal trade agreement with foreign manufac- turing interests is the highly idealis- tic attitude of New Deal bureaucra- tic regime. that it is more humane to foster good and friendly neigh borship than it is to build up our own structural interests. hope that the people who wanted new idealism will be completely and fully grati- fled beyond desire.
 The New Deal structure is begin ming to crumble, owing to the vasil- lating, wavering policy of it's parti- cipators. They would destroy the Bill of Rights to gratify their own desires.
 New Deal Theories
 The Democratic party has always been the party of dissension ,rea-