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Show TARIFF IS HIS SUBJECT Wilson Talks to Farmers, .Says Industries Need -No Help Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 29. Governor Gover-nor Woodrow. Wilson djd .a little stump speaking gtoday in support of himself. Not intondlng to make any but scheduled addresses .he was greeted by such big crowds at both Lancaster" and Harrisburg that the candidate found himself making speeches from both ends of his car, shaking hands with hundreds and waving Ills straw hat to the many peoplo who dotted th9 windows of the surrounding buildings. TJbj first demonstration was at Lancaster and as a preliminary to the formal opening of n;s campaign in Pennsylvania later in the day at Williams Grove, it pleased the governor gov-ernor very much, "I venture to say 1 am very much more Interested in jou than you are ln me," said tho governor, "because the interesting and delightful part of campaigning in the .last two years, ns I have found it, has been that the counti'v Is witnessing an, uprising upris-ing of the people. A crowd like this means business. You are discovering not only that the government ought tor belong to you, hut that If you only 'hump' yourselves it will belong to yen. Because, just between you and me. recently it has not belonged to you. At least vou haven't been running run-ning it you have been standing off and seeing it run. "T don't mean by this to stir up pasBion or feeling. I simply mean that we must get together again We must draw all men into conference. That is what I am interested in; aud the reason I said I was interested in you more than you are in me is that 1 know the strength of a public man is in proportion to those nien who are gathered with him." The governor also was greeted by a large throng at Harrisburg where he stopped only a short time on his way to Williams grove. Willlcms Grove. Pa.. Aug 29. Governor Wilson, in a spoeoh at a farmers' rally here todav talked of tile farmers' "share of prosperity with existing tariff laws. He said in part' "It Is strange that we should have put off so long looking Into our gov- ernment to see whether It is in fact rnn. according to the rules we orig- fnally laid down for it, but it is cci- ! tain that we now are looking into it j very sharply Indeed, and without the ( least danger that we shall be deceived ! again as to its character Our idea of ll has been from the first thai it was a genuine partnership and ihat all -nere upou one looting and were to share alike. "But a vory Interesting thine has come to light The government lias been In tho bauds of selC-appolnted trustees and tb partners have Seldom been allowed a real governing voice in its administration. ' We had supposed that we were conducting the national business along tho lines laid down by Jefferson but wo find that as a matter of fact we have been conducting It along the lines laid down by Hamilton. Hamilton Ham-ilton believed that the common run of men had little qualification for such business, that it could be really comprehended com-prehended and wisely directed only by those who led In commercial am' industrial enterprises and oned the chief bodies of property In the country. coun-try. And ln our time the leaders of the Republican party have consciously conscious-ly or unconsciouslv adopted his notion no-tion Financed the Ptriy. "These men financed party campaigns cam-paigns and were always on. the Inside when partv -policy was to be determined deter-mined They were the trustees. What went pu in the trnstoe meetings we wero seldom allowed to learn learned learn-ed indeed only by lmpertinont inquiry, in-quiry, only by congressional investigations investi-gations or' trials In court which the trustees complained sadly interfered with the regular course of business. "Colonel Roosevelt has professed himself a convert to the protectjc policy and has Bald that while, no doubt, some duties were too high and ought to be lowered, on th whole the policy puraued by Republican administrations admin-istrations had been the right one; and he thought the 'prize money' which had been received under that system by tho manufacturers of the country was legitimate booty. "The analogy is a very interesting one. Prlr-e money is generally acquired ac-quired by capture and not by any process of earning, but Mr. Roosevelt Is always frank and s.nys that his only objection to tho system is that too much of the prize money remained remain-ed in the -hands of the officers and (oo little of it is distribute'd to the crow. His own object, he avows, is to see to It that more of the prize money gets into the pav envelopes of those whom the free-booters employ. The interesting point 1 wish to raise now ig 'who supplies the plunder-, from whom is the prize money taken? Old Fanhioned Idea. "The present Democratic congress had tie old fashioned idea of government. gov-ernment. They supposed that its benefits ben-efits aud protections were to bo distributed dis-tributed and equally Bbared, It introduced in-troduced and passed a bill which became be-came kuqwn as the farmers' free list bill. That bill put many indisponsa-r ble things on the free list. Most prominent among them wore agricultural agricul-tural implements because the American Ameri-can farmor pays more for his agricultural agricul-tural Implements than any other farmer in the world The American manufacturers who make agricultural Implements sell them much cheaper on the other side of the water. On the other aide they undersell the lo- (Continued on Page Flv.) oo TARIFF IS HIS SUBJECT (Continued Tom Page One.) cal manufacturers of agricultural implements im-plements and proo by their eagerness eager-ness for the foreign business and their rapid expansion of it that they can afford to do so even with the additional addi-tional cost of the ocean freights. "But sucn exchanges did not comport com-port with tho Ideas and plans of the trustees, and the president vetoed the free list. I daro say he was right from his point of view, for he represented repre-sented the trustees and not the people. peo-ple. "The trustees represent also the big bankers in whose hands our banking bank-ing system lies, and no Republican administration, no Republican congress con-gress has attempted to serve the farmer as rhe ought to be served in the matter of credits. It is practically practi-cally impossible for tho farmer to borrow money on the kind of security ordinarily demanded at tho banks. It does not serve his purpose to borrow It for the jihort periods insisted upon by most bankers Ho needs rather long credits and he needs the money on his own kind of security. He can't be mortgaging his farm every time he needs a little monc Other countries coun-tries have discovered how to assist him. An admirable system of agricultural agri-cultural societies has been developed In Ireland and an excellent one In Germany and the present Democratic congress has done nothing better than to provide for a careful investigation investi-gation of this subject with a view to early action so that the law may bo fitted to the creation of these new instruments in-struments ot business which the farmer farm-er so much needs and ought to have." |