New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1916, Page 9

BRANDEGEE TELLS BRETHREN WHERE WILSON HAS FAILED Keynote Speech at Republican State Convention Re- st cted to Turning Political X-Ray on Administra- tion in Regard to Foreign and Domestic Policies. New Haven, Sept. 6.—In his speech at the openin ion of the republ an state convention at the Shubert theater last night Senator Frank B. Brandegee as temporary chairmar attacked at length the policy of Pres. dent Wilson in the Mexican situation, the democratic stand on the tar what he termed democratic extrava- gance, the policy new taxes and what he termed esident Wilson’s “hesitating and ating course” on the preparedness issu In part Senator Brandegee said: “At present there is every indica- tion that the people of the country intend to fin the house which they began in 1914, tend the process to the executive well as to the legislative br: the national government. In various tions of the country where special slections of representatives in congress been held, the republicans have been uniformly successful. There is a gen- eral feeling throughout the countr: that the present administration is | slacking in the ability to successfully conduct the weighty business of this | country either in its foreign or do- mestic affairs. Seeing visions and the | enunciation of cryptic phrases do not | tend to simplify the complicated pro- cesses of the public business, nor to promote the establishment of wise governmental policies.. When the ad- ministration took office, it promised to reduce the cost of living by reducing | “the rates of duties on goods imported | into this country. Everybody knows that before the breaking out of the great foreign war, after the demo- | cratic party had passed the new tariff | bill, this country was being overrun | with goods of foreign manufacture, our laboring men were being forced out of their jobs by foreign competi- tion, and the prices of commodities and hence the cost of living had not been reduced and the revenue pro- duced by the reduced duties upon im- ported goods were shrinking at a rate which if continued would have inevitably produced a bankrupt tre: ury. Of course, the breaking out of the foreign war soon checked our im- ports because of the disruption of in- | dustries abroad and the disarrange ment of the ocean-carrying trade. Owing to the great demand created by the war our exports have increased by leaps and bounds and by the re- establishment of ocean carriers our imports have of late tremendously n- creased. Because, however, of the reduced rates imposed upon these imports, the revenue derived from | them falls far below what would have | beene produced if these reductions in rates had not been made. i “The utter failure of the demo- cratic party to fulfill its promises to reduce the cost of living or to raise sufficient revenue by its tariff leg lation was one of the chief causes which led the voters of Connecticut two years ago to repudiate the demo- cratic party. In spite of this experi- ence and despite the full knowledge that at the conclusion of the world war, the country will be left exposed to the fiercest foreign competition in évery branch of industry and trade, the democratic party stubbornly de- cline to pass any legislation which | will effectively protect the industrics; amd labor of our country It is not surprising that inasmuch as the dem- ocratic party obstinately refuses to protect our citizens and our indus- tries at home that it should also de- dine to protect American citizens and American prope: abroad. “This . country demands and has a right to demand that the party to which it commits its destinies should have ‘a vision, an understanding, a breadth of knowledge and a lon(lcl‘-‘l ship wise and courageous enough to E both establish and enfo policies | which will at all times secure its safe- " ty and promote its prosperity. i The Mexican Situation. i address to the H two years ago, I denour republican | ~ed ,“In my conventior OOOhL! Nora’s mak- ing pie. Yum! Yum! We can eat all we want *cause Norah always says: “D & C crust is so loight it won’t be hurtin’ yez.” Is the Flour for me SELF-RRISING D & C Coupons are being distributed from houce to house entitling you to a package of D & C FREE. Be sure and get your coupon and use it &t your gro- cer’s at once. | protection | incompetent without any jas to create the impression not only the course of the administration in | its treatment of the Mexican question jas not deserving the designation of a ‘policy,’ and declared that it had been {‘an impotent and imbecile drift,—a mischievious meddling’ and, except for j that, ‘a do nothing polic The fu- tile efforts of the administration since that time are known to all. It would be impossible at this time to | detail at length .the sinuosities, the | suppressions, the secrecies, the illu- sions, the delusions, the makeshifts the inconsistencies, the misconceptions, the blunders, the ignorance and the | incompetence which in the treatment of the Mexican question have made confusion worse confounded. The press of the country has recited this | dreary and dishonorable history piece- {meal day by day. “The republican platform of 1916 declares as follows: ‘We promise to {our citizens on and near our border and to those in Mexico wherever they may be found, adequate and absolute in their lives, liberty and proverty” No nation which abdl- cates the fundamental duty of pro- tecting its citizens can maintain the respect of the civilized world. The present administration has utterly, re- peatedly and lamentably failed in this respect. Its attitude from the begin- ning has been one of meddling just enough to irritate all the factions of Mexico in turn, but its course has been so hesitating, vacillating, and fixed policy in Mexico but throughout the world that its utterances are hollow and meaningless words and that its threats may be evaded or defied with impunity. The various governments of the world gave no more serious consideration to our state department when Mr. Bryan was at its head than they would have done it if it had been presided over by Sancho Panza. “The great foreign war broke out on August 4, 1914, The whole coun- try after a few weeks began to take account of its own condition; intelli- gent people everywhere began to in- quire into the efficiency of our equip- ment for the protection of the vast interests of this country and of the lives, honor and liberty of its citizens. Men remembered that our own coun- try achieved its independence by force of arm that within a generation of the war of independence it had been compelled to wage another war with the British empire; that from 1861 t0 1865 the country had been involved in still another stupendous struggle for the preservation of the union; that n 1898 we 1 been forced into still another conflict with Spain; that in all these wars our country had been taken unawares and had been caught unprepared. Prudent and patriotic people all over this broad land de- manded that steps should be taken to put our country in a position of preparedness for whatever might come. Sensible men everywhere rec- ognized that there was but one guar- ntee of safety. This guarantee con- sisted of an adequate army and a sufficient navy. “The president having in December, 1914, delivered himself of these re- marks, deprecating a larger increase in the standing army, ‘advocating the commission of our defense on land to such of our ‘citizenry” as might volunteer for training and increasing the strength of the state militias and having sneered at those who favored a sufficient increase in our land and nayval forces at once as being “nervous and excited,” for a time rested upon his oars. The effect of these utter- ances of the commander-in-chief of the army and navy, upon the country, was evidently not what had been ex- pected. The demand for adequate in- crease in the strength of both the army and navy and its proper equip- ment proceeded with accelerated pace and vigor. Within a year it had be- come apparent that the country had pudiated the views of the president which he had expressed upon this | subject. “The president, therefore, changed i his mind. Vacillating Policy. “As to the plan proposed by the secretary of the navy and recommend- ed to congress by the president, it would have strung the new authori- zation of naval vessels out over a period of five years, whereas the plan finally adopted by congress compres- ses it to a period of three years and adds to the program of ships four super-dreadnaught battleships of the largest dimensions and of the fastest speed. I have rehearsed this brief history in the effort of the country to prepare itself to maintain its honor and its ve tence and to restore, if possible, its prestige throughout the world for the purpose of showing the hesitating and vacillating course of the president of the United States. It will be observed that he usually starts then ensues a period of hesi- on, then he changes his mind and sometimes, luckily not always, too | late, he corrects his former errors. After the administration had ognized Carranza as the repository of the exccutive power of Mexico, the slaughter and destruction continued h unabated fury. Carranza was Gither completely unable or entirely uawilling to bprotect our citizens. Americans were not only assaulted, urdered, and outraged in Mexico, but the Mexicans emboldened by the course of our administration ard pro- vided with arms and ammunition from our own country insolently and repeatedly crossed our berder and aughtered our citizens and de- siroyed their property in our own country. “Our officers in command of our army in Mexica have been notifled by the Mexican authorities that they must not change their present loca- tion by a foot to the south, to the PUBLIG NOTICE SLATER’S New York, Boston, Provi- dence, Hartford, Springfield. ‘Will Open the Largest Shoe Store in Connecticut at 843-845 Main Strect, Hartford. OUR OPENING SALE SATURDAY, SEPT. 9TH. Means You Will save $2.00 to $3.00 on Eveq Pair of Shoes You Buy New Store. New Styles New Goods Saturday Morning We Wil Place on Sale 50,000 Pairs of Men's, Women’s and Chil- dren’s new Fall and Winter Shoes. You can buy New High Grade Footwear at less than you ever saw it marked before. 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Our army is, and for weeks has been, constrained to this ignoble attitude, and the administration at Washing- ton has joined with Carranza in the creation of an international joint high commission to consider, among other things, how soon our army shall be withdrawn from Mexico, and whether the Mexican raids upon American soil have not been inspired by American citizens. Meantime the entire available forces of the National Guard of the various states are en- camped along the Mexican border in the performance of police duty in the effort to protect our citizens from Mexican assaults upon our own ter- ritory. It is estimatedq that the cost this position until December amount to $130,000,000 and an issue of government bonds is to be made to provide this amount of money. It would seem that if General Carranza is worthy to be recognized by our government and to receive its ald and support that he might by the use of his own armies protect our border irom the the incursions of his own countrymen. Tariff Bill Injurious. “I have already alluded to the ter- rific blow dealt to the industries of the United States by the democratic tariff bill. I will give a single illus- tration of the effect that this bill has had upon our revenues. For the fis- cal year ending June 30, 1913, the value of our imports was $1,813,008,- 234 and the revenue collected upon these imports at the average rate of 17% per cent. 0f duty which then applied, amounted to $318,142,344. For the fiscal vear ending June 30, 1916, the value of our imports was $2,197,929,982, which discloses an in- crease for 1916 or $384,921,738. Up- on the greatly increased imperts for 1916, owing to the fact that the aver- age rate of duty to be applied to them had been reduced to 9.6 per cent., the revenue collected from them was only $211,866,222. From this it appears that although our imports for the fis- cal year of 1916, had increased by the enormous sum of nearly 000, our revenue for the fis ending June 30, 1916, had decreased $106,276,122. If the average rate of duty which obtained in the fiscal year of 1913, to wit: Seventeen and one- half per cent. had been applied to the imports for the fiscal year of 1916, the total imports for this fiscal year being $2,197,999,982, we would have collected a revenue upon imports for this year of $384,637,746. By apply- ing to these imports the reduced rate Liver Sluggish? You are warned by a sallow skin, dull eyes, biliousness, and that grouchy feeling. Act promptly. Stimulate your liver —remove the clogging wastes —make sure your digestive organs are working right and—when needed—take BEECHANM'S PILLS edicine in the World, ey M 10 200 b ~] of maintaining the National Guard inf will | Inf duty, to wit: Nine-sixths per cent., ] it resulted in our getting only $211,- | 866,222. The difference between these two sums collected as revenue is $172,711,524. This sum of $172,000,- 000 would have paid the entire pense of maintaining the national guard upon the Mexican border and ex- | i left over $40,000,000 besides to be ap- | |8 plied toward other democratic indebt- edness. The proposed bond issue of $130,000,000 for maintaiming the na- tional guard would have been avold- ed. What does the democratic party propose to do in the way of protect- | ing our industries and our labor from | forelgn competition when the war | shall have terminated? Nothing. | the foreign war has demonstrated anything, it has proved conclusively the necessity of a nation being so far as possible self-supporting. have been absolutely impossible torl Germany to have ‘conducted the pres- | ent war unless by the long application | of a protective tariff she had so| strengthened and diversified her 1n-’ dustries as that she has been able to Ir B It would | ITAMto2P M NOONDAY LUNCH FOR MEN AND WOMEN maintain herself almost entirely upon ! i3 her own resources. The policy of the president and his party is to leave this country and its industries and | labor entirely unprotected from the competition of the labor and capital | of other countries. Such prosperity ag the country now enjoys is due in large measure to the tremendous pur- chases made here by the belligerent governments. As soon as the war closes these purchases will cease. “America is rich and its store of wealth has been greatly increased by the money recelved from war order purchases. The purchasing power of the American people at the end of this war will be greater than any oth- | er nation and our market will be sought after more than that of any other nation. Foreign labor will be compelled to work for what it can get. Even the wounded and conval- escent will be compelled to do some- thing in an industrial plant to get any wage possible to prevent starva- tion. America will be the best paying : market in the world, and all the bel- | ligerent nations will make their pro- ducts as cheap as possible and send them here to sell to our people in competition with the products of our own factories. This process was well | under way before the outbreak of the ! war and we were only saved from a tremendous depression in this country, which would have been brought about by the democratic tariff bill, because of the outbreak of the war. Will the intelligent laboring men of Connec- ticut vote to keep that party in power which absolutely declines to protect them against the cutthroat competi- tion which is bound to be brought against them at the close of the war? Extravagance of Administration. “The democratic party, although it denounced the republican party in 1912 for waste of money, wrung from the people by oppressive taxation and demanded a return to that “simplicity and economy which befits a democra- tic government and a reduction in the number of useless officers, the sal- aries of which drain the substance of the people,” as soon as It attained power, entered upon an era of reck- less extravagance that has never been even approached before in all the histo of the government. It has not only wasted the proceeds of the taxes wrung from the people, but it has created hundreds and thousands of useless offices and cxempted Rold- ers thereof from the operations of the civil service law. It has embarked the government in enterprises which have never been considered as legi- timate flelds for government operation and has appropriated millions upon | titlon with our own citizens. 25¢ HUDSON LUNCH v 284 MAIN STREET millions of the people’s money to start these government enterprises which are to be run in direct compe- This era of unrestrained waste and useless ex- penditure has, of course, produced a large deficit in the treasury and the democratic party has been driven to unusual and oppressive methods of direct taxation to prevent the bank- ruptcy of the treasury. “The appropriation made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, as they have already passed at this ses- sion of congress amount to $1,630,383,- 642. Of this amount approximately $390,000,000 can be properly charged to what is commonly termed for the fiscal year 1916, larger by far than any appropriations made by any re- publican congress amount to $1,114,- 937,012, showing an increase for the fiscal year of 1917 over that of 1916 of $615,446,670. Deducting the $390,- 000,000 for preparedness, it is evi- dent that there was an increase of appropriations for the ordinary run- ning expenses of the government for the fiscal year 1917 over 1916 of $125,446,670. There have also been authorized @ entered into at this sion of con contracts amount- ing to $316,875 The funds to meet these cont s must be provid- ed later. The appropriations for the last three years of the Taft adminis- tration amounted to $3.144,774,381. For the three years of this adminis- tration the appropriations amount to $3,861,438,833, or an increase by this administration of $716,664,452. “To partially provide funds taward meeting these unprecedented appro- priations, the democratic party has 1d passed what is known as “an act to increase the revenue and for other purposes.” It Is estimated that this Dill will raise in taxes levied directly upon the people, the enormous sum of $205,000,000. In my address to the republican convention two years ago I stated that however justified an increased tax might be in principle, it was exceedingly unfortunate that the democratic party had been driven te resort to its impasition in time of peace. The several states have nearly cxhausted the field of taxes, The federal government can tax anything. €o far as possible the fleld of taxes cccupied by the states should not be trespassed upon by the federal gov- ernment. Many of these taxes are in- equitable, unjust, discriminatory and pressive, but the democratic party has been compelled to resort to them | or else to impose new vpon the government bonds. “As I indicated in my address to your convention two years ago the two great menaces to the nation are | canstantly increasing power and as- sumption of the president and cow- ardly subserviency of the congress. | Unless the usurpations of the execu- tive are checked and the backbone and courage of the national legislatar: ere strengthened by support from their constituents at home, the actian | of the legislative branch of the gov- crnment will shartly become merely the reflex of the will of the executive, | The crying need of this country today is men in congress who will stand by | their honest convictions even if that | by issuing that during the next four obligations | ° posses: The democratic party has abdicated to one man. Candidate Hughes, “The American people have decided years at| least the White House shall be occu= ried by Charles Evans Hughes. For years he has stood a cammanding figure in public life. As a great lawyer, as chief magistrate of the ‘empire’ state, as an assoclate justice cf the supreme judicial tribunal of, the nation, his ability, his high char= 2cter and his public servic have shone resplendent. He has responded| to the call of the country and the nation seeds him today. “He believes in restoring our ad- 1ministration affairs to a business basis. He stands firmly for the protection of American industries and labor. He ocates industrial and commercial well as military preparation. He es a keen insight iInto the perations of government, and a troad grasp upon the baslc necessis. ties of our life and activities. He will ccrrect current abuses. He will come rand the confidence of business. He will promote the civil service. He will establish justice. He will elevate the diplomatic service. He will pro- tect American citizens in their rights all over the world. He will restare our prestige abroad and maintain the honor of the nation. He will hold aloft the stars and stripes and com- pel respect for the national emblem. He will, with dignity and wisdom, administer all the duties of the great office of president of the United States nd his election will be the guarantee course shall cast them their offices, of peace, progress and prosperity.” Motoring To arnd Fro HEY! | warw veu GOSH DARN YEW _aLL- The LOVELY "TRIP You HAD LAST “JUrE To THE SUMMER PLACE JW/M% /%gf BY BRIGGS ISNTT BEAUTL (TTLOVELY ! sucn FUL™ SCENERY ! How DARLING OF Paep L To GIWVE US SUCH: A LOVELY > Time( i d i DRIVE SO RECKLESS! OVER THESE AWFUL RoADS- | CAN'T STAND 1T! '™ HUNGRY HEALTH PER-MITS HEALTH BACK The oTWER DAY(?) Z 7