Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 14, 1914, Page 6

NORWICH BULLETIN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1914 'S KEYNOTE SPEECH . in Republican State Convention Setting Forth Issues of Campaign—Democratic Promises Fail—Lack v ‘ ————— ducts is the wages of labor and the k [ wages of the labor in manufactures in this country are double or treble those paid for similar labor by our foreign competitors. It is, therefore, obvious that the: tarift for revenue only policy, which is one of the funda- mental articles of the democrati creed, means, when finally executed. that the educated, skilled mechanics of America must consent to have their wages reduced until the article upon which their labor is expended can be produced in this country as cheaply as it can be produced by the foreign competitor. aliowing only for the cost of transportation. Democratic Promises Not Kept. The people of Connecticut will re- member that the democratic campaign orators, generally, two years ago pro- testeq vigorously that they did not intend to injure any legitimate Amer- ican industry, that they were simply going to prune and pare down such import duties as they thouught afford- ed excessive protection. They de- nounced the republican tariff as the mother of trusts by reforming the tariff. Pyesident Wilson right after inaug- uration called for the ~whetting of American wits by contest with the Wits of the rest of the world, The “whetting” has been in pro- cess for less than a year and we all know the results. Honest American laboring men, whose only capital was the knowledge of the trade which they haq learned, a healthy body and a litieal desire to earn an honest living by able. o daily toil have lost their only means _vw'g'flh of sustaining ~themselves and their o : families by the hundreds of thousands, d Many mills and factories have had to suspend operations entirely, others are running their plants four days a week with reduced numbers of oBeratives. Many of those which continue to oper- ate are running at a loss, and many others are making the contest without profit. The charity committees of all our great cities are besiezed by appli- cants for assistance. Mechanics who have lost their positions are traveling from place to place seeking employ- ment, Whether the manufacturers of Con- necticut and their employes have yet become “accustomed to the excite- ments and responsibilities of greater freedom” and to the heroic remedies | administered by the president and his subservient majority in consress can best be left to them to narrate from their experiences. As indicating the ufopla in which the president of the the docttine of | United States is living, I quote the this nation and all closing sentence of bis faritt message, at} as_follows: , originally assumed this| “For the present. I put these mat- “perfectly apparent. Before | ters on one side and think only of the south, with its slave | this one thing—of the change in our d its fiscal system which may best serve to Qpen once more the free chanmels of prosperity to a great people whom we would serve to ‘the utmost and throughout both rank and file. Where is Promised Prosperity? Now, has that rosy prospectus becn fulfilled? Where have the “free chan- nels of prosperity” been opened to the people? When the last presidential campaign opened, less than two years 880, we had at the head of this nation a wise and experienced presi- dent in the person of William Howard Taft. The country was everywhere in m Taft n for president and vice nited States. respectively, of u:; .ummws e state were not 'be entirely profi fexisting situstion briehy, { closely, The coun- “being governed by a par- % smicgelty of the 3 ~ country ‘more and a quarter of votes. solld the secti ‘%f sout e lon dominates its policies n while it remains in s result is that whenever ¢ &f‘cqnnnucm casts his 0 national = democratic t, or any candidate upon it, he ]l that he can to place in the . of the statesmen of the south- the determination of 'the ntal ‘Policies ' of - the "t W\! Bttitude of the n of South has always the heighth of prosperity, labor was| well employed at good wages, the na- tional treasury was filled—the repub- lican party was in power and, ‘there- fore, business was good. In the short space of a year and a half, since the inauguration of Mr. Wilson, how all this has changed! No business man can look back over this period of re- per ¥ or" o stricted business, of shrinking values, “course, apparent to the oubt, apprehension and distraction | most casual observed that this demo- | without feeling that he has been liv- ratic policy. FoiOf 8, tarlft for revenue |ing In a nightmare. No employe has k ~would drive every manufacturer | known from one week to another S ‘England out of business and | whether or when his wages were to be him to.shut down his plant | reduced or whether he was to be laid his led workmen, | off his work a part of the time. reduce the cost of pro- | When business men ventured to ap- luct to that of his for- | proach the capital of their own coun- tor. From 50 to 80 per|try for the 'purpose of protesting |ofithe cost of manufactured pro- | against the enactment of legislation Ed School ‘Next to Woolworth’s 5c and 10¢c Store chool Shoes SCHOOL SHOES FOR BOYS SCHOOL SHOES FOR GIRLS BUTTON AND LACE ALL GRADES — ALL PRICES Quality Shoe Shop CHARBONNEAU & ANDREWS Shoes which they believed would be disas- trous, they were treated with scant courtesy. ~For some time they were made to feel that their presence was undesired. - At one time they were de- nounced as insidious lobbyists and vague intimations issued from _the White House about _conspiracies ~ de- signed to thwart the policies of the president. ~ Representative _business men found it impossible to obtain au- dience with the president on matters of the highest importance. The congress of the United States has been kept in session for nearly two years. After thesbusiness interests of the country had been kept wavering in suspense as to what would be the final outcome of = democratic tariff tinkering, and #the Underwood-Sim- mons tariff bill had become a law, the democrats prophesied that prosperity was at hand. They had loudly pro- claimed in the last campaign not only that a revision of the tariff would throttle the trusts, but it would re- duce the cost of living. The democratic tariff revision proved futile and abortive in both instances. It not only failed to.do what it was guaranteed to do in these respects, but it did what it was promised it would not do, it produced a balance 6f trade with forelgn nations heavily against us. As a corollary to the tariff bill an income tax was imposed. It may well be doubted if the imposition of the federal ingome tax, however justifiable such a tax may be in principle, was a wise policy in times of peace. The several states are finding it increas- ingly difficult to provide the necessary funds for their steadily increasing ex- penses, and it would have been much wiser for the states to have reserved this source of raising revenue for themselves. In this way the states which had wealth to tax would have had the benefit of it within their own borders. Second Rate Fina: System. ‘When none of the promised beneflts appeared from the tariff legislation, it was stated that a new magna charter must be given to our banking and cur® rercy system—credit was to be set free from the shackles which made it the slave of the money trust, and as soon as this great piece of legislation was passed the waters of Drosperity were to gush forth as though their source had been smitten with the rod of _the prophet. Rather than engage in a contest with their own government, and fearing to 2dd to its hostility, the bankers and commercial institutions of the country were compelled to accede to a second rate banking and ourrency syshem. The legislation providing for this com- promise makeshift has been on the statute books for months, but the sys- tem is not yvet inaugurated. The promised prosperity, of course, did not appear. Thereupon, it was loudly her- alded that the president, being the head of the executive branch of the sovernment, had a legislative pro- “ramme, and that the legislative branch of the government would not we auowed to adourn until it had com- nleted the president’s legislative pro- gramme. It was denominated an anti- Tust programme. As such it was a misbranded programme. It is now urged that when this programme is divided into three parts—part one pro- vided for a federal trade commission with inquisitorial powers to exas into the private business of all cor- porations and individuals engaged in interstate commerce and to decidé, without any rule prescribed for their guidance, according to their own no- tion from day to day, what is fair and what is unfair competition in com- merce. There is nothing in this bill which will help business. There is nothing in it which will afford any advice, guidance or consolation to any puzzled business man as to whether what he is about to do is lawful or un- lawful. Its sole object is to examine into the private affaire of all persons conducting an interstate business, and to prohibit whatever the commission may consider to be unfair. Act a Burden Rather Than a Rel Part two of the programme is enti- tled “An act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes.” The title of this bill was no doubt de- slgned to convey the impression that congress was passing some le; lation against the trusts, but an examination of the bill will reveal that its provis- jons are directed against nersons and corporations engaged in commerce ir- respective of whether they are truste or not. The most casual inspection of the Dill by any lawyer or any person com- ‘petent to form a judgment will satisfy him that the bill dealing with the most intricate mechanism of commercial transactions fairly bristles with com- plicated legal questions, and that in- stead of removing any interrogation point will obtrude before the puzzled gaze of the business men of this coun- try interrogation points at the end of every paragraph. Part three of the legislative pro- gramme is a bill conferring upon tite interstate commerce commission the authority to regulate the issuance of securities by railroads. Possibly some legislation in relation to this subject will be necessary and proper in the near future, but the bill as drawn and reported is most vicious in several Pparticulars and, if passed in its pres- ent shape, would do more damage than A == Along the River of Doubt '—there are multitudes in perplexity as to the cause of their headaches, biliousness, 4 ' sleeplessness, heart flutter, nervousness, etc.—ills that constantly interfere with per- sonal comfort and success. There are others who have learned that coffee—with its drug, caffeine—is very often the cause of these troubles, and that a sure, easy way to es i & forts is to quit coffee and use , easy way to escape such discom . POSTUM —=2 pire, delightful food-drink, made entirely of wheat and a bit of molasses. It is absolutely free from the coffee drug, caffeine, or any other harmful or comfort- destroying ingredient. _ Postum now comes in two forms. Regular Postum—must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages. Instant Postum—-a soluble powder. Made in the cup with hot water. boiling required. 30c and Soc tins. Both kinds are delicious, and the cost per cup is about the same. Grocers everywhere sell POSTUM Ne good. T appeal to the inate common sense of the thinking people of the state of Connecticut, is this the time, in view of the fundamental changes already made in the last 18 months in this country, considering the strain under which the entire range of the busi- All Trolleys i DR ostingllre NEW FALL MERCHANDISE Arriving Every Day Women’s Sweaters. \ 33.90—Today............. All our various departments are rapi,dly' filling up with new, beautiful, serviceable and up-to-date merchandise of good quality. 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" have grouped a lot of fine Sweaters in grey, white, brown and 're s Gabardine and Men’s Wear \ 98¢ We value ness, financial and commercial inter- ests of the country have labored with the institutions of the old world crashing—in the. name of common sense, is this the time to further tinker with' the laws governing the transac- tion of business in this country? Has not the democratic party ex- perimented enough with the vitals of businese for one session of congress? Is it so that this mass of ill-digested, intricate and half-understood legisla- tion cannot be postponed until next December, at the meeting of the regu- lar session of congress, without dam- age to the country? What is the goad that is spurring the president on in his insistence upon inflicting these addi- tional troubles upon the business of the country? Is it that he fears that after the people have spoken at the polls on the 3d of next November his party majority in congress will be less sub- servient? It is that he sees the hand- writing on the wall and knows that, unless he forces his legislative pro- gramme through before the members of the present congress have taken the verdict of the people upon their rec- of prosperity. mental attitude of the interstate com- merce commission great transportation interests, are so fundamentally necessary to the well-being of the country. that the new banking and currency system, of another government commission at ‘Washington, is an experiment, although they hope for the best. that the government already master of the development of the railroad map of the country and the diceator They feel that the is hostile to our ‘which They feel | federal absolutely under the control They believe every is_demonstrated by our history, to break through the constitution or to evade it in any way in order to. pro- mote the welfare of the people. If it is desirable and necessary that the should exercise any power which it can not now con- stitutionally - exercise, minded citizen ought to be willing to wait until the constitution may be amended in the desired respect. To advocate any other course is to de- stroy all respect for law and event- uvally to tear down the most sacred Tight- of the trunsportation interests, owned by private capital—also controlling all the” finances of the country through its federal reserve board, and now reaching out through its federal trade commission to bring under its juris- diction and order all the private inter- state commerce of the country wheth- er conducted Dy corporations or in- dividuals—has become the critic and adversary of the business interests of the country. Their fears are not al- layed by the fact that there sits at the head of the president's cabinet, hold- ords, he could not get it'through at all? Time to Call a Halt. ‘While members of congress have su- pinely done the president’s bidding un- der protest and against their own judg- ment, and against the remonstrances of their own constituents, they never- theless will be held responsible by their constituents. Ever since the democratic party came into power it has promised the country that it was on the eve of the greatest era of prosperity that the country had ever seen. Every measure which it has passed was to be the welcome harbinger which should ush- er in the long deferred but much de- sired boom. Sadly and reluctantly the democracy itself is becoming con- vinced that something not hitherto understood by it ails the country. What is this mysterious trouble? It has been variously diagnosed as due to conspiracies of the interests and malefactors of various kinds. The president says that it is purely “psy- chological.” “What is_the true reason? Why is the country living from hand to mouth? Why is no mill extending its plant? Why is there no rush of new capital into the productive indus- tries of this great and powerful na- tion? Why were projects curtailed and plans for new ventures returned to the pigeonholes? Why have our most optimistic and courageous Amer- ican business men hesitated to enter into new ventures while capital laid idle in its repositories? Why did all these conditions of arrested develop- ment and delayed activity exist long before the breaking out of the Euro- pean war last month? Why is it that nobody has made any money? The Cause is Lack of Confidence. I will tel? you in a few words. New enterprises halt and industrial _ac- tivity hesitates because the business men of the country universally dis trust andq fear the democratic party and Its policies. It has become firmly imbedded in their minds that the gov- ernment at Washington is hostile to them and their enterprises. When the president saye that this condition of dry-rot and distemper is purely “psy- chological” he uses but another form of words to state that confidence has gone. Lack of confidence cannot be cured by few frigid, skllifully ~ arranged or by the beautifully balanced and classical phrases of the academi- cian or the scholastic. iness men of this country ¢ feel that the policies of the ation at Washington are un- congenfal and will not/be productive ing the portfolio of our foreign® rela- tions, a man hy. reason of whose here- sles and radicalism the democratic party went three times down to defeat. The republican party has always stood like a rock for a protective tar- iff_to American industries, thus secur- ing tHe American scale of wages for American workmen. It has ‘also al- ways_stood, and stands today, for a sound and stable currency, every dol- lar of which, as was said by gallant Joe Hawley, must be as sacred as a soldier’s grave. Consular Service Looted. South America beckons us today. The opportunity of centuries lies open, but our consular service in South America has been looted by the ap- pointment of worn-out political hacks, who are ignorant even of the lan- guage spoken in the countries to which they are accredited. The ac- complished officials Wwho occupied these places had become fitted by experi- ence and association with the lan- guage, the people and the institutions of the country in which they had so- journed, and could have been, if they had been retained at their posts of in- calculable benefit to the country. in grasping the opportunity which pre- sents itself. Nat only our conseflar service, but the whole spirit of civil service reform has been ruthlessly vio- lated for the purpose of making pure- Iy partisan appointments:, A Look Around, We are only three generations dis- tant from our birth as a nation. Can any such progress as we have achieved uring_that period be elsewhere in- Flanced? Today we are a nation of 100,000,000 people, the richest most powerful on’ the globe. ‘What shall we do with that nation and what shall it become? What shall our form of government be? We have been for some years, and still are, passing through a period when men appear to be re-examining the founda- tions of their beliefs. Do we wish to change our form of government? Have other nations made such a success of their forms of government that we wish to_adopt the plan of any other country? The most learned statesmen of other countries -have pronounced our form of government to be the most perfect form of republican democracy that could be devised by the will of man. The republican party believes n the constitution of our country and in the and intenance of law and order. Ie be- lieves in systematic, regular orderly progress. It does not believe that it is necessary, and it believes that fact guarantees and protections of our properties. our liberties and our lives. 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Market and Shetucket Sta, Teleohone 63-12 It is of the utmost importance that the state of Connecticut should through its own state officers and state legis'ature exercise every atom of power that it can under the constitu- tion in the management of its own affairs. The neglect by the several states to occupy fully this fleld fur- nishes one of the strongest tempta- tions for the government at Washing- ton to interfere, needlessly, with the private affairs and home relations of the people who reside remote from it. During my twelve years in Wash- ington I have been more and more impressed with the tendency to con- centrate all government power In the federal government in Washington. It is of the utmost importance, there- fore, that the states should most zealously guard whatever powers they have and should exercise them to the fullest _extent. Foreign Relations, The policy of the national admini; tration in dealing with the. Mexican situation, which in derision came to b known as the policy of “watchful waiting,” at no time deserved she dig- nity of the designation of a_policy. It was nothing more than an impotent and imbecile drift. Beyond this mis- chievous meddling our so-called Mex- ican policy was nothing except a do- nothing policy. The New England Situation, I have already referred to the fact that our country is being governed by a2 minority. The great majority of the people of this country are opposed to this kind of government. They are disgusted and heart-sick. Why should they not unite to restore the republi- can -arty to power? The products of the farms and factories of our own state have seen their protection with- drawn. Our investors have seen their securities shrink and shrivel. Why should our people vote to continue in power a_party whose policies result in such aisaster, and whose represen- tatives talk ome way at home and vote the other way in Washington? Connecticut is a hive of manufacturing industries. In most of the staple cultural products we cannot com- used in our factories and the coal which furnishes most of our operating power must be hrought here to this northeastern sectiomr of our country from other parts of the unfon. When metamorphosed, this raw material, so transposed, must be shipped back and marketed. It these industries are to be crip- pled, we shall be deprived of our in- dustrial life blood. Our banks, our insurance companies and all the other. Institutions” which depend upon this great basic industry will in turn suf- fer. It must be borne in. mind that the tariff tinkering which has taken place is but the first step in the pro- gram of the democratic party to elim- inate all protection and to put. the country absolutely upon a tariff-for-: revenue-only basis, intentionally ex- cluding all protection whatever on the theory that to protect any industry is to confer a special privilege. % The Remedy. To prevent this disaster, the repub- lican party must be returned to power, Two years ago the democracy obtained Power upon a set of false representa. tions. Tt promised to improve the condition -of the people. It has not done this. I do not say that it went into power because the people of this state belleved the promises made by it. The people of this state know that too well to trust it. But coincident with ‘these false represen- tations 34,000 citizens of this state voted for a new third party under the idea that they could elect its can- didates to administer the government. The withdrawal of this great percent- age of former republicans from their party enabled -the democracy to slip into” power. At present the entire delegation in the national house of representatives from this state is com- posed of democrats. The people of the state would never have allowed that situation to arise if they had thought that there was the slightest danger of its happening. Such a con- dition has never existed in this state before since the republican party won its first national victory in 1860 and elected Abriham Linco'n. It is safe to say that it will never occur again. LITTLE THINGS EVERY AUTO OWNER NEEDS COTTER PINS. LOCK WASHERS, TAPER PINS, HEXAGON NUTS, CAP SCREWS and CASTELLATED NUTS, | and to lead it. but to do so without put up in tin boxes especially fof au- tomobile use. sizes. A full assortment of The C. S. Mersick & Co. High-grade Automobile Supplies, New Haven. Connecticut GALAMITE GOAL MyCoal Is £11 K p° Under Cover JOHN 0. PECKHAM 52 Broadway F. C. GEER, Piano Tuner 122 Prospect Street, Norwich, Ct. 5 ‘Phone 611 They promised retrenchment and re- form. They promised to reduce the expenditures of the government, but the appropriations made by this coh- gress will exceed those of amy of its predecessors and will amount to near- ly a billion, two hundred million of dollars. There has been a reign of Teckless extravagance in. the .expen-. diture of the people’s money. In- 'stead of attempting to economize un- der existing strained conditions, new taxes are to be laid upon the people. Labor. i The laboring man should be the strongest in his support of the prin- - ciples of the republican party. In this state and in this nation the repub- lican party has placed upon the stat- ute books nearly all the legislation designed to -improve the conditions which surround the employment of [ labor. We have a' and deep ' sympathy with the toilers who form 7 the bone and sinew and e great modority of the citizenship’ of this country. We desire to help the toil- ing masses who earn thefr lving by - manual labor to better their condi- tion and in the administration of the wvernment we desire to do every- ing possible to surround their em- ployment with sanitary and comfort- able condjtions, to secure quick jus- tice when' they are injured in the line of .their employment and to simplify the processes of awarding damages for injuries, Republicans Will Lead! The worlg moves and conditions change, and the republican party pro- poses to keep pace with the adwance hysteria and by methods which will comport_with the dignity and stability+ of our institutions and the self-con- trol and sanity of our people. View- ing with pride the grand achievements of the republican party since its or- ganization, and believins that its res-.. foration to power is necessary to the continued progress and presperity of our country, we confidently submit the issue to the determination- of. . the thoughtful and intelligent voters of the state, © Ceal ‘