The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-07-06

dIlon. lie tnen quoted from Roots
speech at Cooper Union, New York.
in October, 1902, in which Root said
the tarin law on the whole had
worked well and that it is better to
endure a slight inequality for a time
than to incur the uncertainty and
disturbance in business which would
result from making changes. Fur
ther, the speaker said he had heard
that the president, in his political
tour of the West in the spring of
1913, made a speech on the same
subject and used the identical Ian
guage
verify said Williams, two souls
with but a single thought, two
speeches that read like one. and that
single thought so tremendously ex-
pressed as not to force a single spe-
cial interest to take its lips from the
public breast, for fear the public,
hnding 1t unnecessary, might shake
them all off. How humorous to praise
so highly our fellow citizen In
white"
Prices vary with national pros
perity," continued the speaker. "This
was all denied but yesterday, now It
is supposed that the volume of metal
lie money has been immensely In
creased and that the prosperity of the
country is all due to Republican leg
islation
WAS the Republican legislation
operative in South Africa and in the
Klondike? Was it Republican legis-
lation which made the immense
crops? What partnership is there be-
tween gold and human industry; in
genuity and the Republican party, of
which the Republican party is the
self-assertive senior member? What
monumental effrontery!"
Turning to the Republican party,
Williams declared that 1t chiefly
boosted that the Republican party is
responsible for every good which has
happened. This he denied, referring
to its present obstructiveness and it's
evasion of live issues, and to the IN
dustrial depression which the Repub-
licans attempted to shoulder on the
Democratic administration.
Williams quoted Elihu Roots
speech in the Republican convention,
in which it was stated that 1.-THE Re
publican party is the medium of the
people In the expression of moral SEN
timent." He referred to the post
office department, the public lands
bureau, the full sway of the bosses,
the celebrated order of Hell Roar
ing Jake" Smith, prescribing 10
Years as the age above which chill
uren were 10 be Killed In one of the
islands of the Philippines.
Continuing, the speaker said: "The
secretary boasts that the per CAPITA
circulation of money among the peo-
pie of the United States has increased
from $23.17 in March, 1897, to
$31.2O in May last, and that the
credit for that and the consequent
prosperity is entirely due to the Re
publican party. What a curious boast
this is for those who deny so strenu-
ously that the quantity of money has
anything to do with the value of
money"
Williams attacked the tariff plank
of the republican platform vigorous
ly, and then scathingly referred to
the hydra-headed monster of special
legislation advocated by the Republi-
can subsidies.
Turning to the Democrats, Will
Jams said they would nominate for
president man trained in the ways
OF the constitution, who won't usurp
the legislative or judicial functions
OF the government; who won't violate
international usage or keep the peo-
pie guessing what he will do or say
next, and it will nominate him on a
platform ignoring the dead issues
and dealing with every present live
issue in tone certain and unmistaka-
BILE, favoring economy in the admin
istration and wise and businesslike
revision and reduction of tariffs.