New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1916, Page 8

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If there were more of and voters were given a chance ar both sides of the questions hted by such brilliant debaters, ections would be determined by what people think than by influence party managers can At the ordinary political rally, publican or Democratic, there be wild assertions and no one efute them. But in public de- vhere each side is watching the and looking for misstatements it the questions will come very peing presented in solemn truth. bould seem, too, that candidates fice would welcome opportuni- meet their opponents in publio especlally when the decision to the public as in last night's Eyeryone who attended that knows who won it, and who he better of the argument. There p need for a judge The audience uted Iitself the jury, and the is in the mind of every honest lvho went there willing to listen jively to both sides of the argu- . The facts and flgures were ced, the cards were thrown on ble, where all could see. The 1 is that the entire state of ticut could not have attended. jhe voters can read the reports newspapers of today and, if the t matter is handled by varlous ls with any degree of impar- , and accuracy, as will probably #n the majority of cases, they ame a fair decision. And such ision will not . be applicable to the debate, but to the fun- ptal issues which were presented speakers of the evening. s to be regretted that the time P the elections is so short as to t Senator McLean and Homer ings from meeting again in debate. Originally it was the on of Mr. Cummings’ campaign ger to draw the Senator into great debates, to be staged in nefpal cities of ‘the state. Be- of thd Senator's pre-arranged it was impossible to carry is plan; and last night will the first and last appearance of two brilllant speakers on the stage, at least during this cam- If the debate of last night s a custom that was prevalent political campaigns of old when pf the various parties met each in the public forum future gen- he will owe much to the energy ser 8. Cummings who was the _chaellenger. They Wwill owe a of gratitude to Senator McLean cepting the challenge and mak- pssible one of the most brilliant rical battles ever staged in this HE WAGES ARGUMENT. vould seem futile at this stage campalgn to discuss the tariff of the fact that President Wil- s repeatedly affirmed he will jnt 2 non-partisan tariff com- whether he 1s re-elected or Yet, his opponents, ever in of bait with which to catch the of workingmen, ory from the ops that if the Underwood tariff repealed the great army of g men must go back to the line. The hard times of 1913, many students of political y trace directly to the bations of Wall Street, are held 5t a tariff which was revised ward to follpw the dictates of ople of the nation no matter to | political party they belonged. hree parties of 1912, Democrats, essives and Republicans, went the people and sought elec- n promises of a lower tariff fthat embodied in the h bill. The Democratic party Payne- been elected kept its promise’ at score and, further, took the power away from the special sts by enacting what h as the Federal Reserve Law distributes the people’s money twelve regional banks through- he country. of en impending law that Wall became peeved and before the is now It was because ! upon an administration courageous enough to attack the monster in its lair. Now, in the last days of the campaign, when reason is thrown to the four winds and the fight is nar- rowed down to the last trench, “Any- thing to beat Wilson” becomes again the order of the day and-.the workers are told that they must repeal the Underwood tariff or go back to the soup kitchens. ‘Without defending a tariff that is destined to be revised and made fair |l.and Jjust bx the non-partisam tariff commission, which Mr. Wilson promises to appoint whether re- elected or defeated, it is well to look into the logic of this argument which claims that workingmen under a high protective tariff receive higher wages than those who labor under a low tariff. sThe argument in a nut- shell is this: In protected industries higher wages are paid to laborers in the United States than to those work- ing in similar industries’ in Furope; therefore protection causes high wages and its withdrawal tends to make ‘pau- pers of the working class in America. On the face of it, that argument looks good; but it overrides certain weighty considerations, the first of which Is that equally high wages are paid in unprotected as in protected industries. The unprotected industries in the Untted States of which farming, rail- roading, mining, and some branches of manufacturing belong, are vastly more important than some of the few industries seeking prohibitive and high protective tariff. The second consideration is that men who em- ploy labor, whether the concerns they conduct are protected or unprotected, are human beings and desire to pro- duoe dividends. To this end, they will employ labor as cheaply as they pos- sibly can.and there is nothing in a protective tariff that forces them to pay higher wages than are prevalent in the community where the indus- try thrives. The Dingley Act of 1897 was the extreme limit to which a highly protective policy has been car- ried in the United States and it did not guarantee to any laboring man any other privilege than a ten hour working day and a full dinner pail. The Dingley Act, or the Payne-Ald- rich Act, or any of these various in- struments of trade control, could not guarantee, nor were they designed to guarantee, anything for the working- man, for the simple reason that em- ployers in protected industries buy labor as a commodity and pay not one whit more than the market demands. Such wages do not depend upon the protective tariff. The third considera- tion upon the wages argument is that wages and protection do not neces- sarily go hand in hand, and the records show that they have not. The headquarters, absolutely refuses to divulge the source of his information. As yet there is not a cabinet official who claims to know this Mr. Warren. Ana soflies a political roorback, while a new member is solemnly initiated into the now well established Ananias Club. AND FANCIES. in FACT It may develop November that the October straw vote carried a bigh percentage of chaff.—Minneapo- lis Tribune. It appears that there are two wom- en running for congress. rette Rankin, republican nomination in Montana, is picked for a winner, but Miss Hattle K. Howard, running in Colorado on & progressive ticket, succeed.—Springfield Republican. ator Lodge will have documentary son offered to arbitrate the question restrained only by a threat ory the part of Hengy Lane Wilson to leave Mexico City.—New York World. When Mother Sings, harrassing round Of the day in a reverent hush, To be foiled in melody rare as sound note of a sky-hermit thrush. the o thinks no one hears, Out of tune and oft pitch, it is true, But I feel all my worries dissolving in tears ‘When she quavers. for you." “I'm praying From the country of youth she has journeyed afar; She Is turning aweary and wan; And they rest by the way who with hope for a star ‘Were her mates in dawn. I can fancy, at moments, tender face, And some golden heads flashing at play Intermingle with thoughts heavenly grace, While she sings “Happy Day, Hap- py Day.” “The Home Over There” thinking most now. Are its portals of pearl swinging near? is light, not of sun, pale, placlid brow, And it may be her loved ones can hear; They may troop through the gateway to press near their own; They may smooth her soft, silvery halr As she sings—dear old wistfulest tone, “I shall soon be at there.” —Margaret Perkins Weekly. Staging a Speech. (Louisville Courfer-Journal) ‘°Al11 fixed for my speech ?”” inquired Congressman Wombat. “Yep. You’'ll find the laughter and applause in the correct places.” the roseate a strong, of the of she is There on her mother—in home over in Capper's very men who argue for a high pro- tecttve tariff for this country claim they must have it to exclude the goods of Burope where cheap labor abounds. They are fearful most of all to com- pete with the cheap labor of Germany and we know that Germany has a high protective tariff, or did have be- fore the war; yet, wages In protec- tionist Germany are lower than in free trade England. It can be readily seen that the wages argument can never be welcomed into the realm of thinking men, can never enjoy repute with trained students of economics, however effective it may be in politi- cal campaigns. A POLITICAL: ROORBACK. Baron Munchausen was the direct- ing genius behind the story dished out by Benator Lodge for the purpose of discrediting this administration in the last days of the campaign. The Presi- dent of the United States has branded as false the assertion that he at any time wrote a postscript to the Lusi- tania note, four of his present cabinet officials affirm his stand, and two erst- while members do likewise. very beginning of this the American people branded it as balder- dash. The manner in which it came about was too flimsy. The learned Senator from the Bay state got the libel story from one Grafton Cushing, who got it from a Professor of medicine in Tuft's college, a man named Bailey, who in turn got it from young Henry C. Breckinridge of Kentucky, former Assistant Secretary of War, who, al- though he was not a member of the President’s cabinet at the time, is sup- posed to have told this great state secret to an absolute stranger while riding in a smoking car on a train San Francisco and ion of who making ado Mr. Breckinridge de- running between Omaha. Senator about nothing pended upon hearsay for And, according to Mr. the man who reports having 1 such a story on a smoking last July is a “scoundrel.” Having d posed of that end of it, the Republi- hal headquarters, , Mr. Wilcox, with According to the ve Ledge his story. Breckinridge, car now comes rsion W to the fore a new ve e which a man nam of New supposed to 1 heard some such simil cabinet officer; but Mr. We repeated attempts by the cabinet offi- ed George § irren Jersey ave ory from ren, after From the |, rd | “Better arrange for some fellows, too, to ask a few questions. And T'l11 have the answers ready.” Journalism “As Is.” (Hartford Times.) We have our editorial controver- sies here in New England, to be sure. They have them in New York, also Witness the time, not long ago, when the Tribune and the World had a hot contest as to which was the more un- patriotic during the Civil war; also the recent feud between the Sun and the World anent the virtures and de- tects of one Charles E. Hughes. But it is down south, in the Blue Grass country and realms adjacent, that the journalistic cudgels are wielded most lustily_ often to be fol- lowed by the brandishing of the edi- torial pistols at dawn on a blasted Lealth. The most recent example of this form of warfare is afforded by the Louisville Courler-Journal. Here we are: The Nashville Tennesse, o Chattanocga editor as saying that “since Wilson refused to consent to & candidacy in 1912 personally con- and Watterson, he has not stood ver- well with the Wall street organ,” ang adds on its own account “that Wat- terson’s treatment of the president is something between a caress and g blow.” The Courier-JTournal desires to say that the Chattanooga editor lied like ressecan ougit to be ashamed himself. And, as the Courier-Journal us- ually says just what it desires, who shall stand in its way? It has evi- dently said a mouthful. That Is journalism of the old order—'‘as is. of A Good Resolution. (New York Evening Post.) One resolution every conscientious citizen and man of sense who ex- pects to go to the polls next Tuesday should immediately frame and adopt. And it is that today, at sunset, the Learing of evidence shall be closed so far as he, the individual voter, is concerned. His decision may remain open until the very last moment be- fore this date, and shall dismis thing brought forw - it as in- mpetent, irrelevant and in all prob- bility a fake. The voter of sense will this day highly resolve that his action on elec- tion day will not be affected by any of Wi accepted a | million-dollar bribe from Carranza, of Hugh ntered Into an through | to make Jeremiah ‘O’Leary secretar ate; to ab- startling the dem- next from sclosures v B or Pull- { man s: to make the next eight | davs, in short, a closed season for roorbacks, canards, mare’s nests and as enacted reaped its vengea_ncel cials and the Republican National cock-and-bull stories. Miss Jean- | who has the regular | cannot hope to | |§ There are times when I pause on the She Is singing old hymns when she | ducted by Thomas F. 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To the Editor of the Herald: Recently I read in the Record a statement to the effect that the manu- facturing industries of United States are in danger under the Underwood tariff law from the flood of imported foreign goods from our northern neighbor, and more especially the paper pulp industry. According to the statement, nine-tenths of the product of the Canadian mills finq a market in the States. $10,000,000 of paper pulp reached the States from Canada in 1914, increased to $15,000,- 002 in 1915, while in 1916 unknown quantities are still on the way. Mean- time I would ask, is that the cause of the present scarcity of all kinds of paper and the abnormal high prices at which all paper products are held at tho present prices? Undoubtedly it must be the importation of cheap, foreign made goods that has sent the of shoe leather and all kinds of apparel away up into the “nineties”, during the last fourteen menths. Meantime, how about the paper market in Canada? In 1915, nine-tenths of the product of her pulp mills, $15,000,000 worth, was ex- ported to the States, which leaves con- siderably less than a million and a half dollar’'s worth to be consumed at home. Newspaper acreage must have had an abnormal shrinkage since the European war has been in progress. C. F. SHELDON. BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA Dr, William Heinecke, Well Known Publicist, and Native Born German Analyses Political Situation. Editor of the New Britain Herald: The politicians of the German- American Alliance notice with dismay that German-American :‘tize‘ns are turning away from the mndxd«afte of the making of the German Alliance. They are now frantically appealing to German-American voters to stand by Hughes. Staatz-Zeituns, “Should you vote for gins: bearing the headline Wilson?"”" be- ltter German-Americans from all s o country at the invita- ‘ Fi?:\lbaffift;(l; Centralbund of Pennsyl- Comia. had met i €hicago on May 28 ana 29, 1916, to define their attitude foward the coming presidential elec- tion, and had appointed a conference committee for the purpose of for- taulating & declaration of principles as well as a statement, later on to bo published, setting forth which one of tho presidential candidates would be deemed worthy of the support of German-American voters, ete.” Aftor they had selected a candidate after their own heart, as they thought and had asked all American voters to support their can- didate, they experienced a most pain- ful shock when they had to see all their nice little political program up- set by the allegiance of ‘‘their” can- dldate with Roosevelt and the vio- lently pro-British elements of Amer- Theirs is the most tragi-com- on that people who wanted to ho taken seriously, themselves in. They had attacked President Wil- son for his alleged “anti-German” and ‘“‘pro-Pritish” attitude They had staged with great pomp a ‘‘conven- tion” and solemnly issued a “declara- tion of their principles’ measured by which President Wilson had “going too far” in his foreign policies, concerning Germany. Now they find themselves in alliance with a party which has as its only issue the accu- sation that Wilson he not gone far enough,” because he failed to declare war on Germany after the invas of Belgium and the torpedoing « the Lusitania. They wanted to see Wilson “beaten zle” because he had failed an embargo on munition- they demanded of him. find th ves fighting oulder to shoulder the party nd for a candidate, who not only ap- prove of the munition exports (being the party of Morgan & Co., the finan- sial agent of the Allies), but acc Wilson for having violated ica. ical po! themselves could find ce xports Now they as An appeal in the New York | | this: i prejudices of race, German- | | tempts to make / { Ttanc | ceived heen | on | his | as they stated, would have made war ‘“duty” by not having also sent the U. S. army and navy against German barbarians. There they stand, united in arms against Wilson, the German Alliance, because of his actions against Ger- many,—and their friends, the Roose- velt-Hughes combination, because of “his inaction” toward Germany’s ‘“vio- lation of international law!” The determined opponents of Wom- en Suffrage and Prohibition have not only to swallow that, but have also to swallow in silence the insults of- fered them by Roosevelt’s contemptu- ous reference to them and their po- litical activities as to ‘‘professional German-Americans,” whose ‘“foul In- trigues will gain them no influence over him,” their chosen candidate Hughes, “worthy of their support!” If they really had any “principles,” they would see reason enough to thank God that during these critical vears the American policy has been in the hands of a man of strength of character and wise counsel instead of those of a smiling, non-committal politician like Hughes and a rabid German hater like Roosevelt. What are those ‘principles” now, anyway, for which these ‘‘professional German-Americans” stand? In view of their alliance with the party of Wall street, with Morgan & Co. and the pro-Allied element of the coun- try, they seem to have shrunk down to a measly “rather vote for the devil than for Wilson.” alllance going to last, this German- American-Anti-German-pro British Alllance? Forsooth, the strangest tcam ever seen! Now, lacking the courage of honest conviction to admit their political blunders, these ‘“‘professional German- Americans” ‘are even brazen-faced ernough to urge German-American citizens to vots for Hughes who con- gratulates his friend Roosevelt on his speech in which he slaps them -in the face. Why should German-American cit- izens vote for their pro-British didate Hughes and his conglomera- tion of office-seekers, war speculators and enemies of laboring men The real German-Americans have, since they know where Hughes stands, no interest in his campaign except one— to see him and his henchmen de- ted. He does not stand for the o7 the German Alliance convention nor does he stand for “un- qualified loyalty” to our country. He s for an office. s the most idlotic campaign, America has seen in a hundred years, as far as the republican party is con- cerned. They have no issues except Get Wilson out, so we may get in! They are not offering a solution for one single problem with which Wilson has had to wrestle. They have rothing to offer but the barefaced im- pudence of the office-seeker who hopes to get into power by resorting 1o slander, defamation, vilification of the government for the good it has done to the country by keeping Amer- jca out of trouble. They are appeal- ing to the hatred, the ignorance, the cloaking all this under stolen slogans like “dominant Americanism”-—‘““unqualified loyalty 1o the country” etc. After Roosevelt’s speeches and Hughes’ Indorsement of them,—"T subscribe to every word Mr. Roose- velt said,”—Ilet the cat out of the republican bag, German-Americans ave no quarre! any more with Pres- ident Wilson, who, as it appears now, bas withstood like a rock all at- erica the catspaw and sordid, selfish But they recognize the campaign for of forecign nation private interests. this danger in Hughes. The politlcians of the German-Al may still have an issue against on. But it is not of their May convention, tried their hand at “mak- ing American Presidents.” They have sunk down to the unenviable posi- tion of coolies of the party which made them the laughing stock of America. They have but one griev. ance against Wilson, as they them- selves are forced to admit publicly in that appeal to German voters in the New York Staates-Zeitung: :‘Wilson Tas called us ‘creatures of passion, disloyalty and anarchy’ he has of- fended us,—down with Wilson!” Well. what of it? Hughes Roosevelt did more to these Te onal German-Americans,” what is that to us German-Amer] whom Wilson never offended, vho are thankful to him for kept America out of trouble pecially with the old uzainst which Roosevelt and Hughes W vhen th and “pro- having es- How long is this ! can- ; the miscon- | they had been in Wilson’s place? | Why should other German-Ameri- | |cans, Who are not ‘“professionals,” help cheap amateur politicians to save their face and vote against our own Lest interests and the neace of Amer- {ica Macht Euch doch nicht lacher- lich! DR. WM. HEINECKE. LAUGHT] | Serves. the Purpose of a Corective | and Means of Self-Discipline. (New York Tribune.) | The story of the young man out in ! Minncsota who killed himself because : his associates made fun of his ridic- | ulous personal appearance reveals a | trait of human nature which is more lor less common to us all. We hate | to have people laugh at us. We usu- i ally know how to defend ourselves against an assault upon our persons or an attack upon our possessions. when any one seriously criticises our conduct or questions our integrity. But against the shafts of ridicule we are helpless. Bergson says that laughter has sur- vival value to society as a corrector j of abnormalities. It helps to preserve the average or mean type by making all variations uncomfortable. Laugh- ter, he says, signifies a withholding of sympathy from the object or persson regarded as comic, with the result that its victim is made to suffer by feeling excluded from our gregarious- ness. Hence, laughter has always been used by great reformers like Tirasmus and Voltaire in aiming a blov: at what they regarded as social abuses. Bergson also says that laughter is a purely intellectual exercise—a point which is open to dispute, considering most of us are with our jokes and Jibes; also considering the fact that almost every great truth and new discovery from the days ‘of Noah to Charles Darwin has been received with hoots of popular scorn and de- risfon. Laughter is a mark of intelligence only. where one is able to laugh at himself, to smile with others at his own awkwardness, whims, shortcom- ings and personal peculiarities. One needs a certain amount of wisdom in order to know when he is making himself ridiculous. He must be big enough and wise enough to put him- self in another’'s place and see him- =elf as others see him. It jis then that laughter serves the purpose of a corrective and a means of self-disci- pline. But this requires a certain breadth vision which not every one pos- sesse! Lincoln had it, and with all the sadness and tragedy of his life this ability to laugh at himself kept him sweet and human, saved his wit | from irony and cyniclsm and en- abled him to laugh, not at pecple, but 1th them. It is this trait of quaint self-ridicule and aloofness from that petty sense of dignity which spurns gelf-criticism which constitutes the true sense of humor. All the great ‘humorists from Aristophanes to Mark Twain. have had it. Half the fun of life must be enjoyed at one’s own ex- rense. ; A man may be dead In earnest in his devotion to some great cause, as was Lincoln, vet keep his faith in himself and his ideals and say with the smiling Emerson 'Why little man?” It is this sense of hu- mor which preserves balance and saves a man from bigotry and fa- naticlsm. For want of it among good people and reformers many a noble cause has failled and many a moral ideal has been dendered almost unen- | durable. i { i i of i Weighty Reasons. (Springfield Republican) | Some weighty reasons for defeating | Wilson might be summarized for bus- ! iness men in this style: | During his administration, approx- imately speaking, the population of the United States has increased from 94,736,000 to 101,300,000. The na- tionel wealth has been increased by $41,000,000,000, or 21.9 per cent. The | American debt to Burope has been ! reduced from $6,500,000,000 to $3,- | 160,000,000, a decrease of 51.4 per ! cent. Gross annual bank clearings | have mountel upward from $166,408,- 1000.000 to $224,338,000,000, a gain of 31.9 per cent. Total bank deposits have increased by about 6% billions of dol'ars, an increase of over 33 per cent. The stock of gold in the United States has risen from $1,818,000,000 fatherland, | to $2,439,000,000, a gain of 34.1 per | cent. 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If the foregoing reasons for de- feating Wilson are not enough, threes more may still be adduced: ages paid in manufacturing in- dustries have increased during this administration from $3,760,000,000 to $5,320,000,000, a gain of 41.5 per cent. The value of manfactured prod- ucts has been augmented by no less than $9,400,000,000, an increase of 41.2 per cent. Capital employed in manufacturing industries has risen from $21,000,000,000 to $32,200,000,- 000, a gain of 30.9 per cent. Every business man,. farmer and wage-carner . will see the point. Every- thing Wilson does is wrong. What- ever happens under his administra- tion is a national calamity. Down with Wilson. The is passing present political campaign into history with the torch- parade practically eiiminated and the political banner only rarely seen. But the button remains.—Bos- ton Globe. light