New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1915, Page 3

f ] '] ~ » | Busy Days at our Art Department. Most everything wanted can be foun here for embroidery Crochet or knit- ting a few of our embroidery cottons are listed below- * Peri-Lusta embroideries, made England. in “Peri-Lusta” Slipper Cotton Art No- 6 comes in balls, 140 yards to the ball, comes in all popular colors, Buaranteed fast color. “Peri-Lusta” Convent embroidery Cotton small skiens of 22 yards each big variety of colors, all guaraniced fast, “Peri-Lusta” Floss embroidery Cot- ton (Red Label) Made up in long skeins, snow white only, we have it in all the best sizes. “Peri-Lusta” Filoselle embroidery Cotton White ornly comes in balls, 66 yards to the ball. Padding Cotton, 40 white only, bc oall. yard Dballs, strand 2for 5c. Silkene Art Thread, six comes in skeins all colors, “Bucilla”-Perli embroidery Cotton, large skeins, white and all colors, 6c skeins. “Bucilla Crochet Cotton small balls, all colors, No 70., ball 5c, suit- able for Tatting, Handkerchief ‘lace et Bear Floss 4 strand embroidery Cotton ,pink, blue, and white 10c ball Royal Society Ball Floss, white only, 10c ball. Royal Society, Rope and India all “ colors, 2 for bc. Bear Lustre white only, skeins, 4c skein. D. M. C. small skeins, white only, 2 for be. Crochet Cottons, Silkine, D. M. C. Bucilla, etc., white and ecru. Crochet Hooks, bone and steel, all sizes.* Amber Knitting Needles, all lengths and sizes. Tatting Shuttles in ivory, PULLAR /& NIVEN STATE of GONNECTIGUT Treasury Department - TAXES ON INVESTMENTS Owners of securities such as notes, bonds and other choses in action in- cluding deposits in bark, (not a Sav- ings bank) are liable to taxation either to the State or locally. The state rate is four mills on the dollar and must be paid BEFORE OCTOBER 1st- Enquire of your bank- er or write to STATE TREASURER. HARTFORD, CONN. A HEAVY PENALTY is fixed for avoiding this tax by a law passed by the last General A copy of the law will be as- sembly- mailed to anyone writing for it. F. S. CHAMBERLAIN, Treasurer. EKS IN ROLE OF PROSEGUTOR Argues for &Efifim of Democ- racy in First Degres - AT THIRD WARD BARBECUE Says Administration Has Been Incon- sistent and Inefficient—Big G. O. P. Crowd Attends Annual Outing at Lake Compounce, General condemnation of the demo- cratic administration was voiced by United States Senator John B. Weeks of Massachusetts at the annual bar- becue of the Third Ward Republican club this afternoon at Lake Com- Senator Weeks was the prin- cipal speaker and was one of the most important after-dinner talkers the G. O- P. of this city has enter- tained in years. ‘While Senator Weeks did not advo- cate hostility to President Wilson during the present dipiomatic discus- sions with foreign countries, he as .pounce. much as said that the president and the administration would be on trial at the conclusion of the former's term. Not only would the public peer into his record in regard to Europe, but it would also weigh the fitness of the administration in regard to its diplomatic dealings with Mexico and other countries on this side of the At- lantic. Senator Weeks condemned the administration as a falure and said it had shown its inconsistency and in- capability in many ways. It is guilty in the first degree of inefficiency, was the tone of his speech. The barbecue was a big success from every standpoint. The diners got their fill of roast sheep and of G. O. P, doctrine, so that no one was dis- appointed. The sheep tickled the diner’s palates and the speech tickled their ears. Automobiles loaned for the occasion, conveyed the members of the club and their guests to the scene of the barbecue and it was esti- mated that nearly 400 were in attend- ance. State Treasurer F. S. Chamber- lain was toastmaster. Senator Weeks spoke as follows: Don’t Embarrass President. “The democratic press, and to a large degree, the public seem to be okbsessed with the jdea that there may be, if there is not now, a movement which has in view a failure to sustain the president. I think I am quite within bounds in saying that there is no disposition on the part of any- one to do anything to embarrass him in any matters relating to foreign affairs while negotiations are going on. “In 1898 there was a very strong element in the United States which demanded that congress should make a declaration of war against Spain. ‘There is no such party today and there is no indication that any con- siderable number of individuals or any organized movement desires hos- tilities. The president is the representative cf all the American people in this situation and there is a universal de- sire to leave him unhampered in re- presenting the government 1in the delicate negotiations which are being carried on and which may from time to time develop. The country in this respect is in a state of watchful, pat- ient, sympathetic, and hopeful wait- ing. The Constitution and practices put the responsibility in such emer- gencies on the president. To sustain bim means that substantially every cone, recognizing that responsibility and not wishing to embarrass him in any way, is withholding and should withhold criticism and even critical cocmment. If he succeeds in the dip- lomatic contentions which he is mak- ing or may make, then the whole ccuntry will rejoice, the credit for the action will be his, and no republican has any desire to withhold it from bim; but silence now does not neces- s=arily mean approval and, when the war is over or when the particular contentions which have arisen have been adjusted, the president’s action will be passed on and his success or tailure be an element in determining whether or not the democratic party will be sustained in the elections which are to follow. President Will Be On Trial. When the time comes there will be discussed not only his diplomatic contentions with Europe but those with Mexico, with Santo Domingo, with Haiti the looting of the diploma- tic service at the beginning of this administration by the dismissal of trained ministers who had grown up AMERICA’S GREATEST CIGARETTE Tirkish i %mnhw in the service, the killing of American citizens in Mexico and by Mexicans on American soil, the repeated out- rages which have been committed in that unhappy country, and the des- truction of vast quantities of Ameri- can property during the Mexican in- surrections without any reasonable or effective protest from our government, “Thig destruction of property calls attention to one of the numerous in- consistencies of this administration. ‘As a result of the Pan-American con- ference. we find the administration urging American citizens to under- take business enterprises in Central and South American countries and Mr. Bryan even suggested an issue of government bonds to aid thosz countries in their imternal develop- ment, all of which seems ridiculous when we know that for more than two years the administration has not only failed to protect American-owned property in Mexico but it has told the owners of trat property that their entering foreign countries for com- mercial reasons was at their own risk, that presumably ‘they expected Ito make large profits, and that they must not expect the government to become involved in protecting them or their property. “This has been the most favorable action the administration has taken in the case of American investments in Mexico, Very frequently those in authority have even refused to dis- cuss Mexican affairs with those who had material interest there, assign- inug as a reason that having property interests would make them prejudic- ed witnesses ang that this tration did not care for that kind of testimony. Unpreparedness. “One of the questions which con- gress must consider next winter is that of preparedness. It is not be- coming hysterical on this subject in declaring that in many particulars we have not made suitable prepara- tion for our own defense. The Euro- pean war, many months ago, fur- nished us reasons for this course, making it imperative that we give } consideration to our military con- dition not because we desire war but to take necessary precautions so that if for any reason, while the state of mind of all nations is inflamed and prejudiced, we should become entan- gled in foreign complications we would not be impotent. “I note in the discussion in which Senator Lodge and the secretary of the navy have been engaged that both agree that the question of our mili- tary establishment should not be one affected by partisan politics. I am entjrely in sympathy with that view and, yet, the fact is—and responsibil- ity for neglect should be placed where it belongs—that the democratic party as an organization has been. in the rast decade, either opposed to or only negatively in favor of any military and naval development. This is parti- cularaly true in recent years. Al- most invariably when there has been a test vote on an increase of battle- ships, for example, when the republi- cans have been in control of congress, or any other change which would strengthen the military establishment, a great majority of the democrats have voted against it and -this has been true Iin many cases when they themselves have been in control of congress; so that even when they have had the power to do so they have not made any material increases in or strengthening of our military defenses. Refers to Record of Votes. To {llustrate the correctness of this statement, it is only necessary to refer to the record votes on providing battleships taken from the Congres- sional Record. For the thirty years between 1883 and 1913 there were ten republican and five democratic con- gresses. During the five democratic congresses there were authorized 144,- 000 tons of new ships, or 14,400 tons annually. During the ten republican congresses there were ‘authorized 1,066,000 tons of new ships, or 50,330 tons a year; that is to say, the repub- ficans authorized substantially four times as much tonnage annually as did the democrats. “To give more definitely the cor- rectness of this statement, I refer to votes of record which have been niade in recent congresses. In the second session of the Sixty-first con- gress the senior minority member of the house naval minorit; Mr. Pad- gett, now the chairman of the naval committee, moved to recommit the naval appropriation bill with instruc- tions to strike out two and insert one battleship and this motion wag sup- ported by eighty-eight democrats, a very considerable majority of those who voted. In the third session of the same congress Mr. Padgett made a similar motion and ninéty-seven democrats voted ‘yes.” “In the second session of the sixty- second congress a republican member Mr. Roberts, of Massachusetts, moved to increase the naval establishment by building an additional first class tattleship. This motion was lost by a vote of 106+to 140 and, of the neg- ative votes, 137 were cast by demo- crats. The senate adopted a similar motion and on the motion to con- cur, made in the house, there were 150 negative votes, of which 145 were cast by democrats. “In the third session of the sixty- second congress, on a motion made in the house to strike out two bat- tleships and insert one, the vote being 174 to 156, of the 174 ‘yeas’ 146 votes were cast by democrats, and it should be noted that the democrats were in control of that house. The senate later inserted two battleships in the bill and on a motion to con- cur, made. in the house, of 168 nega- tive votes, the motion being lost, 146 were cast by democrats. “In the second session of the sixty- third congress a motion was made by o democrat to strike out two and in- sert one battleship, the vote being 106 ‘yeas’ to 202 ‘nays’; of the 106 {‘veas’ ninety-six were cast by demo- crats. The house was then control- led by that party. “In the third session of the sixty- third congress a similar motion was made, the vote being 149 to 165, and of the 149 ‘veas’ 136 were cast by democrats, In this congress both the house and senate were democratic. “On March 3, 1913, on a test vote relating to battleships, forty-six demo- cratic members of the house voted against the construction of any battle- ships that year. Administration Wobbly. “Therefore, it may be fairly con- tended that such preparation as we have made has been very" largely against the opposition of the demo- cratic party. This administration has wcbbled and has been as inconsistent on this subject as it has on almost every other important one, which might affect its political fortunes, vwith which it has had to deal, “When the contention was during the session of c¢ongress last winter that we should consider a military reserve and similar matters, at a time when it would have been wise to have given such important questions active consideration, this vas not done but, by the insistence of the administration, the time of congress was wasted in discussing the shipping. bill, which substantially ro one wanted passed. During that made adminis-. | | ing said on the question of prepared- ness that it was an ‘academic ques- tion and might be discussed as such.’ Later he told the people of Philadel- phia—the people of the whole coun- try, in fact—that we were ‘Too proud to fight' Now we are told that the administration is considering an ap- propriation of $500,000,000 for pre- paredness. If it is an academic ques- tion ang if we are too proud to fight, why waste any money on preparation? Secretary Daniels Ridiculed. “The secretary of the navy, who is cne of the war officers of the adminis- tration, has very largely devoted his energies in his naval policy to such matters as the instruction of seamen in the English branches. That is simiply an illustration of the activities in which our officers and seamen have been engaged, and it is charged that these courses have been taken at the expense of the efficiency, the gunnery and morale of the men though. ‘“The secretary contended early this summer, in a long discussion of the matter in a letter written to the presi- dent of Williams college, that the navy was absolutely fit in every respect in case hostilities were forced upon us. Within two or three weeks he has subscribed to the desirability of fur- ther naval development and up-build- ing, presumably Tepresenting the posi- tion taken by the administration that $500,000,000 or thereabouts should be spent for military preparation. “Wednesday of last week however, he made a speech in Philadelphia in which he is quoted as saying that the wars of the future would not depend on men or munitions but on chemis- try, presumably urging this view to justify the appointment of the boarq, headed by Mr. Edison, which has been given so much publicity. Inci- dentally I am glad to say the activi- ties of such a board can not possibly do any harm, although it is not, as 1 understand it, the purpose of the members of this board to devote their energies to developing munitions or articles which will be of value in warfare but to pass on the proposi- tions made by others. It almost goes without saying that officers of the ravy, who bave a technical knowledge which even Mr. Edison and his con- freres can not have, are quite as com- petent to pass on matters relating to their own profession as can be any such board, But, if the secretary of the navy is now right in his conten- tion that chemistry is going to be the basis for fighting successful wars, why is it necessary to build battleships or submarines or battle cruisers or to organize sufficient military and naval reserves to make cur present army and navy reasonably efficient. High Cost of Living, “There has for many years been a constant increase in the cost of liv- ing in the United States and the whole world, due to many causes but largely to the fact that there has been a movement from the country to the city; that less people in proportion to the total population were engaged in raising food products and that the number of food animals, also in pro- portion to the population, was de- creasing rather than increasing. If this is true, there can be no other result in the United States than an in- crease in the cost of meat; for when our population increases at least a million a vear, the number of food enimals actually dccreases, and we shall see in the future, as we have in the immediate past, an increase in the price of food products and the increase will continue until it becomes so profiatble for the employment of capital in farming operations that it will be diverted from other opera- tions in which it is now engaged where the average return is greater than is ohtained from the same amount of capital invested in raising foed products. “But in order to obtain power, and by literally fooling the people, democratic party charged that this increase in the cost of living was due to tariff laws and other legislation for which the republican party was re- sponsible. Therefore the first activity in which it indulged, legjslatively, was to revise the tariff downward. There is probably no great public ques- tion—and it is the very essence of politics itself in this country —about which there is so much mis-information, so much preju- dice, as there is in the considera- tion of the tariff question. Demo- cratic orators traversed the country telling the people that they were oppressed by the duties which were imposed and succeeded in convincing a very considerable number of voters that the constant increase in living cost was due to the protective policy. “Now we have had nearly two years of a tariff law framed as its sponsors claimed, on revenue lines. The result has been disastrous to American in- dustries, to American labor, and has rot carried out a single one of the claims which the democratic party had assured the people would result if such a tariff were adopted. I am not at this time going to take up the subject in detail; but the most casual investigation shows that before the war, which commenced the first of August last year, it had been com- pletely demonstrated that the cost of living was not being reduced; that the tariff was not producing sufficient revenue for the needs of the govern- ment, and that American industries were being serfously embarrassed by the new rates of duty which were being imposed. ‘New England is a great manufac- facturing community and we are de- pendent for our prosperity, very largely, on the successful operation of the woolen, cotten, and leather in- dustries, and the great number of smaller ones which are in operation within our limits. Not in a single instance has any ont of these indus- tries been stimulated as a result of the change in the tariff; but we did import more products than we had done before. This was especially true in the woolen and worsted industries, where the rates of duty had been comparatively high and where the goods used by the average citizen were manufactured in this country. Figures indicate that the increase in importations in some branches of this Irdustry has been several hundred per cent, and that the importations, for time the president is quoted as hav- | instance, in the month of April, of this year, of woolen manufactures Wwere ten times as great as the menth of April, 1913, when the Payne-Al- arich law was In operation. It ousht not to be necessary to say that if now we import ten dollars worth of goods where we imported one dollar’s worth under a previous policy that instead of the nine dollars difference being manufactured in this country and labor receiving the wages which 80 with the manufacture of those goods, our capital employed in such manu- facturing becomes idle and the labor so engaged, unless it can find other cemployment, literally walks the street. Prices Have Increased. “If there was some compensation for this in the way of a reduction in the price of clothing, there might be found, perhaps, sufficient reason for the change; but that has not been the result. I think I am safe in saying that no one has bought clothing any cheaper than they did before the Un- derwood tariff bill became a law and I am confident that I am correct in saying that substantially all -of the staple articles which are used by the every-day citizen have increased in price rather than decreased since that time. The latest figures issued by a government department on the cost of living show that there has been a larger increase in the cost of living in this country since the Underwood tariff bill became a law than during any similar period sinoe 1896. It could not be otherwise when one stops to look at the facts as they exist. “The entire effort made by the democratic party has been to demon- strate that the manufacturer was making unreasonable profits. Some- t'mes thé manufacturer does make large profits as a result of fortunate purchases of his raw material; some- times because he develops a product which meets the popular taste, and, frequently, because he conducts his business in such a way that he makes economies where others would fail to obtain as favorable results. There are always men who will succeed in a business where others, under almost exactly the same circumstances and conditions, have failed; so that it i true that some manufacturers havc made large profits, and,-yet, the truth is that the average manufacturer of | staple products has not made larger | rrofits than have similar manufac- turers abroad and no one familiar with investments would advise tho investment of capital in enterprises which were making less profits than those made, for example by our great manufacturing industries in New England. the | 1 “I have frequently called attention MILLIN % ORICINAL CREATIONS OF LOUISE, LUCIE HAMAR AND Exact copies of characteristic Hats B Reboux, Evelyne Varon, Maria Guy, Louvl' Paulette Berthe, Susanne Talbot, Georget Duc and other Paris Modistes. CUSTOM MADE HATS Designed and created in- dividually to meet the wishes of each client. to the contention made by democrats | about the additional cost of a suit of clothes due to these abnormal profits | made by a woolen or worsted manu- facturer. These figures would appl with equal aptitude to any other casc | correctly the make. and it will illustrate contention which I now suit of tailor made clothes made from | American fabric cost in Boston about | This cost is made up of the fol- | $45. iowing items: The tailor’s profit, $12 the union labor price for making th suit, $20; the commission house profit | on the cloth going into the suit, $5: the cost of the buttons, thread, linings, $2: manufacturer’'s price for the cloth going into the suit, $6; and | this $6 includes cost of raw material, labor, over-head charges, and manu- facturer's profit. A careful inquiry as to the manufacturer’s profit in such instance convinced me that he did not make over thirteen cents a yard or about forty-eight cents profit on the cost of the cloth going into the $45 suit of clothes; and, yet, demo- cratic campaigners have had the effrontry to tell people that if the duty were removed the suit would cost much less. If the entire duty har been removed the difference in cost could not have been more than forty-eight cents because that was the entire profit made by the manufacturer of the cloth. But, as a matter of fact, the foreigner has raised the price of his product to correspond to the greater American market so that the fcreign producer has been the bene- ficiary rather than the American con- sumer. This contention is amply il- lustrated in innumerable instances and any one of you can prove it by making inquiries of your grocer, for example, and compare the prices which you are paying for similar goods now and two years ago. ° “We were told that if sugar were put on the free list that it would re- duce the cost of sugar to the con- sumer. The duty on sugar hag been reduced; in 1916 it will go on the free list. The reduction has cost the government in the past year $18,000,- 000 in duties, which will be still fur- ther reduced next year, if the law goes into full effect, $56,000,000 more; and, vet, the price of sugar is three- eighths of a cent a pound higher than it was when the Underwood bill be- came a law. Tarif Law a Failure. “Without, therefore, any further discussion, I think we may say with assurance that the democratic conten- tion that they could stimulate foreign trade, stimulate our local industries, and at the same time reduce the cost of living by putting on the statutc books a tariff law based on revenue aione, has been a complete failure and that the American people when they have another opportunity will insist cn the tariff law being so revised that there shall be suitable protection to our own capital and labor and so that it shall produce sufficient revenue to provide for the proportion of the national expense which has generally been agreed should be provided through the collection of duties. The second legislative matter of im- portance taken up by the democrats after they obtained control of the gov- ernment was a change in our banking end currency laws. After the panic of 1907, and against the vigorous op- position of the democrtic party, which doveloped into a filibuster, the repub- licans put cn the statute books what was known as the Aldrich-Vreeland currency act, which, in fact, was an emergency currency law. All kinds of ills were predicted by democratic legislators as a result of this legisla- tion. There was no necessity of put- ting the law into operation until last summer, at which time it was in- A and READY-T! In great var and colorin trotteur hats uality at very prices. pure, delicio ICE CREA La Jake Le £ for % Jzrel voked to carry the country over the emergency which arose at the be- beginning of the European war, and the manner in which it responded at | that troublous time was a complete | refutation of the gloomy predictions | v’hich democrats had made, “They may claim that the passage of the federal reserve act was re- sponsible for our getting over those unusual conditions so earily; but, as a matter of fact, the federal reserve act, other than a moral influence which it my have exerted, had noth- ing whatever to do with our being able to bridge over that difficulty. It was under the provisions of the Al- drich-Vreeland act that between three and four hundred millians circulation needed at that time was provided. “This act had among its pro- visions a paragraph authorizing a monetary commission, which was made up of republican and. demo- cratic senators and representatives. This commission gave the whole sub- ject very careful consideration, mak- ing a report which I am confident will be considered a suitable basis for fun- damental banking and currency legis- lation not only at this time but for many decades to come. Unfortun- ately when this report was made to congress, accompanied as it was by a bill, the house of representatives was controlled by the democratic party and, under such conditions, it was im- possible to obtain action on such an important, involved and difficult ques- tion. “One of the planks of the demo- cratic national platform, adopted at Baltimore, advocated banking and currency legislation along limited lines and that party is entitled to the credit of taking the matter up and of obtaining a result; indeed, any party is entitled to the credit or should be charged with the discredit of legisla- tion which takes plade during its in- cumbency, provided it can not be clearly shown that its final action was modified by the action of the opposi- t:on, preventing what would have been harmful to the cause involved and in the last analysis to the best in- terests of the country. T think that can be shown in this case. “A bill was framed and presented to the house committee on banking and currency, which reported it to the house. This bill had the approval of the president, and it passed the house without any considerable opposition. | | #ay that if the bill as it house had become & la! would have failed to pr sults which the country n rational banks had bees it, but it was so crude 80 many features that that I can not believe s.ble for national banks joined the system, which, would have made the if it had not been =80 reasons. “It must not be foi this time the bill had the administration support of the presiden the purpose of the u»dmini the democrats in the the bill to immediate and adoption. This hasty prevented by the activity can senators, who were few democrats, who d many of the features of result being that ample h given to trained experts and currency matters ai ticnal propaganda was which resulted in betw: five hundred changes b the bill, some of them . very considerable and a of vital importance. after many months, h passed, although it was ite value impaired.in ¢ too, with the sanction ment of the administ any case, it is now on books. I believe that velop it weaknesses | we will obtain through it § which will respond to the country, but I ini possibility is not due te cratic administration to extent than the fact that tration had urged and to produce some kind of “The law is still too criticised, other than it at the time it passed, and glven a fair trial. seems to me that it is stance in which may claim some ecredit taken part in accomplish tant legislative result; b iz not only entitled to % the original studies givi substantially eve h ir it was taken the monetary s Many democrats believed the bill would be ineffective; others believed it too conservative, but they voted for it with the hope that the gubject would be given further consideration in the senate. I do not hesitate to =‘antially everyth was based on the democratic position in the declarations which in their party platfy this subject. 21 Furthe this adm