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VOL) XL. Aprilas,. 1013. No. 16 
WILSON’S CONSTRUCTIVE 
REFORM. 
PRESIDENT 
With the comparatively new scales of 
wages in European countries, the abo- 
lition of tariff on boots and shoes is go- 
ing to work havoc with one of New 
Kngland’s chief industries. Although 
it may be sometime, perhaps, before 
the European firms become well 
enough acquainted with the wants of 
the American trade to fulfil the de- 
sires of prospective customers on this 
side of the water, nevertheless it is a 
lack of protection of New England’s 
industries that is not particularly ap- 
preciated by manufacturers in this sec- 
tion. 
Everything seems to strike New 
England. The South will suffer 
comparatively little by Wilson’s ‘“con- 
structive reform.” With the greater 
part of those officials close to Wilson 
and the administration it is safe to 
say that the interests of the Southern 
states will be a trifle more carefully 
looked after than will the affairs of 
the New England states. 
The West will not suffer appreci- 
ably in the abolition of the shoe tariff, 
for what will hurt New England shoe 
manufacturers will materially aid 
those engaged in the same business in 
the West. The shoe business is gaining 
a rapid foothold in the West, and St. 
Louis is taking the lead in the manu- 
facture of the finished leather product. 
The tariff reformers who thought 
_the latter doing strike service. 
that they were striking a blow at the 
United Shoe Machinery Co., in taking 
the tariff off shoe machinery will be 
disappointed when they find that that 
concern will welcome such a step for 
the fact that they have large factories 
abroad. ‘They can manufacture ma- 
chinery cheaper across the water and 
this may have some effect upon 
operations at the Beverly plant. 
Gov. Foss’s SHREWDNESS 
Gov. Foss’s action on the tariff and 
milk questions show that he is as 
clever a politician as Beacon Hill has 
seen in some years. Whenever he sees 
votes escaping him, it is very easy 
for him to turn to the policies and 
doctrines of the party which he deems 
is best fitted to his political aspira- 
tions. 
The Governor’s views on the tariff 
were transparent enough to be seen 
through by all of his constituents and 
political enemies. Next fall he may 
wish to retract some of the state- 
ments he has made and it is safe to say 
that he will as usual do it with suc- 
cess. 
The least Foss could do would be 
to hit straight from the shoulder. In 
view of his recent utterances and those 
which he has always been in the hab- 
it of making regarding great questions 
it is apparent that a man of sincerity 
is needed in the State House. His 
word does not ring true, and it is to 
be hoped that the voters remember 
this next fall when Mr. Foss will pro- 
bably be a candidate for re-election. 
AN INCENTIVE FOR VIOLENCE. 
The protest of the Boston Central 
Labor Union and of Councilor Er- 
nest Smith of the Boston city gov- 
ernment was of no avail in withdraw- 
ing the Boston police from Hopedale, 
Just 
as in the Lawrence strike the impor- 
tation of these police gives an added 
incentive for acts of violence, especi- 
ally when the officers are entertained 
and feted as have the Boston and 
Metropolitan police at Hopedale. If 
the officers need a vacation it would 
be better to give them a legitimate 
one, and not send them to the strike 
region to incite the laborers to vio- 
lence. 
News reports show that the police 
are treating their trip to Hopedale 
more as a pleasure outing than as an 
occasion for service and impartial 
duty, and the effect of such conduct 
upon the strikers who are in dead 
earnest and fighting for better homes 
and better wages and better working 
conditions, can only be to exasperate 
them even to possible acts of violence. 
The cause of law and order will be 
better served by the immediate with- 
drawal of the Boston police 
Hopedale. 
Most of the Progressives who have 
talked publicly -on the result of the 
13th district election appear to find 
their consolation for coming out in so 
much worse shape than they predict- 
ed, hoped and believed, in the fact 
that they again demonstrated their 
power to prevent the election of a Re- 
publican. The Bull Moosers have this 
power in many states. But they must 
have some vital issues that will impel 
more concerted support by the voters 
—otherwise they will face disintegra- 
tion as the Republicans are facing it 
now. 
Good sense ruled in the killing by 
the House of the bill authorizing po- 
lice officers to take into custody all 
boys between the ages of 7 and 17 
years found smoking  cigarets. 
Cigaret smoking is not good for boys 
and should be discouraged in every 
possible way, but to seize them like 
criminals and give them a court rec- 
ord does not appear to be the best 
way of eliminating youthful smokers. 
The proprietor of a Chicago dance 
hall says he does not allow dancers to 
tub noses. The Eskimo glide must 
be prevalent out that way. 
Wonder if Prexy Wilson under- 
stands what geometrical relation the 
tariff has to New England. 
The D. A. R. are having a young 
revolution of their own in Washing- 
ton. 
Foss is being accused of a “double- 
crosser.” It is intimated that he will 
write a book on the tariff. 
“Wed with the glove.” “Divorced 
with the mitten.” The tariff. 
The girls got the number of the N. 
| OFtod bar aed Ball oP 
Knicker—Don’t you want a living 
wage? 
Bocker—I want more. 
I can afford to die on. 
I want one 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
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