The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-29

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 pose that will help the campaignf How do we know but that It is3 This Is one of the evidences of the growth of imperialism. The head of the Gov ernment Can do no wrong.
 Tayior Pvt Forward. , "An assault on his policy is an as- sault on the people and hence the peo- pie's money can be Iegitimately used for his vindication. My speech charg- ing administrative extravagance seems also to have created some excitement. And this time the administration puts forward Horace A. Taylor. He makes a statement after a call on the Prest- dent. He is described in the report as Acting Secretary of the Treasuy.' The Secretary's absence from his post for these many weeks makes 1t necessary that some one should act for him. hence Taylor. I will read you what he has to say"
 The. speaker then read from news- paper clipping the interview referred to.
 Now you will observe that he mo- where challenges the figures given by me. They cannot be questioned. They show that after taking the fifty mil-' lions paid for the Panama Canal and rights, this Government spent one hun- dred and sixty millions more last year than 1t did seven years ago under a Democratic administration.
 T called attention to other figures and evidence establishing, as claimed. extravaganza tendencies and ask you now to note that Acting Secretary of the Treasury Taylor does not mention them. Nor does he deny that the ex- penses exceeded the receipts last year by over forty million dollars. Nor does he deny that for the first sixty days of this year the xpenses exceeded the receipts by s24,0oo.000. In this connection I call your attention to the fact that the expenditures so far this year are greater than they were year ago for the same period. Since the thirteenth day of June there has been spent s1ss,6s1.077. During a like per-. tod last year there was spent s17e,i6Ss- 6s7.
 Purpose of Taylor Interview
 "Returning to acting Secretary Taylor's interview 1t would see mas if It's purpose-if it had any beyond that of creating mist was to deny my assertion that there were 'adminis- trative orders forbidding government officers from making public any state-
  propriations are based"
 '.He says, you will recall: This is 8 mistake. MT. Parker seems to have unfortunately acquired from untrust- worthy sources, considerable n1isin- formation
 My answer is that the treasury de- partment, of which MT. Taylor Is now and for some time has been acting head. on the 7th of September last is- sued this order:
 "Treasurery department. office of the Secretary, September T, 1904.
 "Division of Appointments.
 "The heads of bureaus and chiefs of division. 'secretary's office. Treasurer department.
 information bearing upon the esti- mates of this department for the fiscal year ending June 20. 1906, be made pub lie until the estimates shall have been approved by the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury.
 .sBy7 order of ssae secretary,
 lsignedl W. H. HILL
 "'Chief clerk. s"r have copies of orders issued to other departments which I took the nrecaution to obtain before making nublic the statement now challenged.
 Parker as q Farmer.
 1T understand that the majority Of vou are farmers. As was born and brought up on farm and have lived upon one for a number of years as a matter of choice, think understand something about the burdens they have to carry.
 "The farmer has suffered even more. possibly. than the wage earner by ex- cessive tariff duties. Hundreds or thousands of farmers in this country have voted for high tariff. Every time they did 1t they voted to add to their burdens--to add to the cost of nearly all they buy. Some were stimulated to do 1t by the suggestion that 1t was necessary to build up our infant industries. As I said the other day, however, many of these industries have at last become giant industries.
 'The largest of these is the United States Steel Corporation with stocks and bonds amounting to $1,400, ,000, ,000. Now suppose a collector of that cor poration should come to each of you and ask you to contribuate $1, or $5 or S25 year toward the support of that corporation. Would you do 1t? Is there any argument that could possibly be adduced that would persuade you that it is for the good of the country for you with hundreds of thousands of others to make O small contribution toward the larger profit of that insti- tuition? Certainly not.
 Assessment on Consumers.
 "Is 1t not just as absurd for you to contribute to that corporation indirect ly? Every time you buy a shovel, a blow, a sewing machine, a moving ma chine or other article containing steel you are contributing a very substantial part of the purchase price toward swelling the profits of the steel in- terests Every $1.5o. nearly 50 cents is an assessment made by the tariff law upon the buyer for the benefit of the manufacturer.
 Now do you think the law ought to compel you to pay an assessment every time you or the members of your family buy an article of clothing or buy anything to use? That is precisely what we have been doing until we have concentrated the wealth and power of this country in comparatively few hands.
 Now the building up of these great combinations usually called trusts was prompted by excessive tariff duties. but 1t has been extended far beyond the plans of the orlginators. That the operation of most of them have proven harmful to the general public good cannot be questioned.
 Reef Trusts Work
 "As an illustration of their method of working we will take the beef trust. which controls a major part of the