JULY 23, 10
The Commoner.
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Letters from the People
Mrs. Lida Aten, "Wellsville, Stony
Point, Ohio. I have Juat read your
article in the Woman's National Daily
for the second time and I can scarce
ly believe my own eyes, hut I thank
God and take new courage. It seems
so strange to me that great men like
yourself would live to your age in
this sin and rum-cursed country and
at the same time know exactly what
ought to be done and never raise
voice or pen till this late day, but
better late than never, and may God
grant that your tongue and pen may
never stop while your life lasts and
that every day you will deal such
sledge hammer blows on the way the
government is doing in their aiding
and abetting this worst curse of our
land today that they will be com
pelled to let go their hold on the
license system and no more bo a
partner with brewers and distillers
in destroying the best men of our
country, sending them to death and
destruction, and God pity us women
and girls too. But Jtalk about law
breakers; this government is the
biggest lawbreaker in our dear home
land today. No wonder the common
people have no respect for law when
everybody knows that the highest
officials both in state and nation &xfi
the worst lawbreakers we have. Best
wishes for a long and useful life and
great success. Please help to make
it easy to do rijht and hard do
wrong.
J. T. lailam, Tower Hill, 111.
I see in The Commoner of recent
date .you treat the subject of the
government issuing' liquor licenses in
prohibition territory. I think that
one of the most inconsistent things
in our government and I think your
arguments well taken. I hope .you
will push that question-'Until it is
changed: I believe now 'that if yotr
had taken up the fight agatast the
liquor business twelve years ago you
would now be our president. I tell
you that is getting to be the .ques
tion now and the man that takes
the other side or remains neutral
is going to be in the background. I
hope to see you come to the front
in this battle for the home and good.
You had better spend that fine talent
that God has given you in helping to
put down the greatest evil in the
world. I have spent twenty years
of my life in the work and find that
there is nothing I feel. better over.
We only have eo long to live and
ought to spend our time in trying
to make the world better. There
is nothing more inspiring than the
work against the liquor . business.
Let us hear from you hereafter;
come right out in the fight and the
Lord will bless and make you to
do great good. Yours for good, right
eous government.
MR. TAFT AND THE TARIFF
Said Mr. Taft in a speech deliv
ered at Cincinnati shortly before his
Inauguration:
"Unless we act in accordance with
our promise, or if we only keep the
word of promise to the ear and
break it to the hope," wo shall be
made accountable to the American
people and suffer such consequences
as failure to keep faith has always
been visited with. It would be bet
ter to have no revision a,t ajl, un
less we are going honestly and fair
ly to revise the tariff on the basis
promised by our party."
More recently, at the Yale alumni
dinner, the president declared that
"if the republican party does- not live
up to what the people expect of it, it
may be relegated to 'her majesty's
otfpbsition.' " This ' conscientious
view of the question of party obli
gation doubtless does not meet .the
approval of Senator Aldrlch, Speaker
Cannon, Mr. Payne, and others of
tho standpat school, but nothing is
more certain than it voices the real
feeling of tho country.
If the republican party does not
make good its 1908 campaign pledge
of a genuine revision of the tariff,
then the republican party Is booked
for certain defeat in tho congressional
elections of 1910. Thus far it has
not made good, and now it would
appear that at the eleventh hour the
country must look to the president,
and to him alone, to savo it from the
consequences of this bit of political
perfidy.
Tho house, submitting unwillingly
to the autocratic domination of the
speaker and the equally autocratic
leadership of Payne and Dalzoll, did
badly enough, but the senate has
done even worse. The Payne bill isj
no longer tno Jfayne dui, out tne
Aldrich bill, and as such it bears not
the slightest resemblance to what the
country had a right to expect from
last year's .'epublican platform
pledges.
Now the bill has passed the senate
and gone to the conference commit
tee, where there Is a slim chance of
its really objectionable features be
ing eliminated. In all probability it
will be finally adopted substantially
as it left Mr. Aldrich's hands, and
then the whole question will be up
to the president.
What will he do?
Will he veto it? If his record for
honesty and fidelity to the people
count for anything to say nothing
of his recent utterances above quot
ed he certainly can not give the
measure his approval. For the plain
truth Is that the Payne-Aldrich bill
Is a downright swindle on tho people.
The whole demand for tariff revi
sion which has befen so strongly
voiced by the entire country in the
last five years was based on the cen
tral ideal of removing or lowering
the duties on certain articles now
heavily taxed in tho Dlngley schedu
ules, but under changed conditions
no longer require such taxation. In
other words, while the people still
want a high tariff law, they most em
phatically do want a law protecting
many industries which do not deserve
protection. But Mr. Payne and Sen
ator Aldrich .have proceeded on an
entirely different theory. They are
standpatters of the most pronounced
type, and Instead of drafting a law
which would give relief from the
onerous Dingley schedules they have
produced one which would make the
burden on the people even heavier.
Everybody realizes that additional
revenue must be obtained, but all
of it need not be had by tariff taxa
tion. The president has pointed the
way, and tho country seems in agree
ment with his views. Even if tho re
publican leaders in congress care for
no other consideration than party
welfare they would do well to accept
his advice, for if the present tariff
bill becomes a law there will be a
storm in November, 1910, that will
make some other notable political
upheavals seem mild in comparison.
Meanwhile, the country will await
with interest the president's action
on the bill soon to be submitted to
him. Colorado Springs Gazette, republican.
WJIY NOT TRY THE RIGHT WAY?
President Taft is putting up the
"stall" of his life. In order to de
odorize the bad smell that arises
from the Payne-Aldrich bill, he sug
gests that congress enact a law to
coltect a tax from corporations on
their net earnings. The dispatches
In the newspapers state the presi
dent's influence is depended upon
to carry the" bill through congress.
Taft, however, seems to be short on
influence wheii It comes to having
the tariff, Vevisdd downward. Mis
souri Democrat (Kansas City).
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