The Democratic advocate., 1906-07-20
DEMOCRATIC TICKET,
Editorial Notes.

Judge Brewer is. rather previous in giving
Secretary Taft credit ''for guiding the country
safely through the intricacies of the Philip
pine situation" The Philippine tariff bill
and other proposed laws for the island are
still in the pigeon holes of the Senate and
House Committees in spite ofall the efforts OF
Taft and the President. Perhaps Judge
Brewer is a standpatter and believes in letting
things drift.
Senator Elkins says Americans do not know
how to distribute wealth, but after the cam
paign is over in West Virginia this fall, he
will discover he has done his share of distri-
button.
Trust products are costly to the citizens and
cheap to the foreigners. Why not revise the
tariff that protects the trusts and even things
upf
The Presidents Summer Solstice at Oyster
Bay has commenced on quite strenuous
plan. One of the corps of detectives and
body guards knocked down and backed an
eye of an innocent photograper, who was
authorized to take a snap shot of the Presi-
dent. Thus is greatness guarded by rntfans.
The President has given Senator Beveridge
the credit for the meat inspection bill, but
Congressman Wadsworth and the Packers
knocked down the persimons.
The hot weather and the Congress got on
the Presidential nerves, but the Democrats
were quite cool and comfortable, thank you.
The Beef Trust and the railroads are point
ing with pride to the record of Congress and
the President agrees with them, so everyone
should be satisfied.
If we assume that family consists on the
average of FIVE persons, it will cost every
family in the United States S55. 10 to pay the
debts contracted by the last session OF Con-
gress. Congress appropriated a sum equal to
S11. .O2 per capita on the $4,000, 900 people in
this country. 1t was not a property tax, but
an indirect, insidious, dishonest tariff and in
ternal revenue tax, equivalent in its operation
and effect to a poll of about $50 on every
adult in the country.
The idea of Federal regulation Of business
has been advanced farther than ever before;
bnt the people have gained nothing, while the
State governments have lost immensely. The
republic of Roosevelt is an empire very differ
ent from the "Uniou;'' and the States are de-
generating into mere provinces.
As the Administration never discovered the
filthy condition Of the Beef Trust establish
meuts, although the taxpayers we're paying
for nearly thousand inspectors, what guar
anty have we that with more money and more
men the Agricultural Department will get
busy and keep the packing houses in whole
some condition.
Mr. Armour's yacht was placed al the dis
posal Of Princess Alice and her husband al
Kiel. Mr. Armour isn't soured bit by Mr..
Roosevelt's talk about his packing house. BE
knows it was all feint TO get s., 600, 600
more patronage for use in bribing ''the small
farmers and mechanics of the East whom
Roosevelt denounced in his book The Win.
ming ofthe West" as ''unft to be mentioned ID
the same breath with cowboys. Mr.. Armour
is related to the cowboys.
Most Republican congressman consider
their greatest achievements Of this session 10
be the ''pure pork bilr' which makes some
Republican constituencies believe they are
''doing things" The Democrats point with
pride that they forced the Republican major
ity to vote for rate bill, pure food bill,
and other remedial legislation that have for
years been the principal planks in Democratic
platforms.