The Adair County news., 1907-10-30

cry, who was on the ways and mean&
committee and who was on the sub
committee that helped to draft that
income tax. I happened to be ON that
subcommittee with him, and / look
back to my part in that income tax
with as much pride as ! take in any
act in my public career, and / rejoice
that now some twelve years after
the Democratic party fought for it,
Republican president. comes up and
admits that it is good thing and we
ought to have it in this country, and
even Secretary Taft-even Secretary
Taft-admits that it is a good thing,
only, yielding to his postponing habit
of mind, he thinks we ought not to
have it right away.
So you take the question of arbitra-
ton between capital and labor-a po-
sition taken by the Democrats in 1896.
1900 and 1904-and the president en-
dorses that position today.
! On four great propositions he has
accepted Democratic doctrine, and yet
ON some questions has not only not
accepted Democratic doctrine, but has
advanced very un-Democratic doc
trine He has not yet agreed with us
Is to the Importance of tariff reform.
although Secretary Taft-yes, even
| Secretary Taft-has made an argu.
ment against high tariff, and would
have tariff reform after a while.
But, my friends, the president has
endorsed ship subsidy. and when he
endorsed a thing not Democratic, he
found forty-one Republicans in the
lower house who refused to vote with
him and voted with the Democrats
against a ship subsidy. He endorsed
an asset currency. and yet the Repub-
licans in congress were afraid to pre-
sent 1t even to the lower house, but
agreed with the Democrats against
an asset currency even as an emer-
gency currency, that they dared not
present 1t as a bill and act upon it in
the house Of representatives.
Then the president asserted the
doctrine that a treaty can override
the laws of state in regard to their
school system. If l had gone to Cali
fornia and made an argument in de-
Tense of the right of the state to con-
troll its affairs, if l had gone there two
years ago, / could not have made the
people to understand the Importance
of the question, but the moment the
right Of these people to control their
school system was attacked, then all
the Republicans of California became
Democrats on the subject of school
control, and now the president has
proposed the national incorporation OF
railroads and other great corpora
tons; and, my friends, as long as
the American people understand that
the purpose Of the national incorpor
atiOns is to take out. of the hands Of
the people of the state the control nf
their state affairs, and carry that con-
troll to Washington, and place it down
there where 1t is almost impossible
to reach your representatives, there
will be a revulsion of feeling against
that doctrine as against the doctrine
announced in California, and you will
find the American people, Republican
as well as Democrats, lining up'in be-
half of the doctrine set forth in the
constitution. that while congress is
supreme in the affairs of interstate
commerce, the state is supreme in the
control of the things that concern its
own people and its own people alone.
So that where the president
has been Democratic he has
gained popularity, and where he
has been un-Denocratic he has
lost popularity, and thus by his
good deeds and by his bad ones
he has proven the strength of
Democratic ideas in this coun-
trv.