Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-06-15

cate Democratic Unity-Vice Presi-
Trick Likely to Prove a Boomerang.
By WILLIS j. ABBOT.
Some people may say of the first SEES
sion of the SiXtieth congress that it is
a congress that has done nothing.
That is Il gIDss injustice. 1t has done
the people by appropriating something
i'll the neighborliood of 81 600 UOO,O0O
and has provided the United States
treasury in the very middle of Re
publican panic and hard times with Il
deficit approaching $1JO.0U0,OOO. OF
course it has not done anything to re-
lieve the burden of taxation. Not one
single law has got past the eagle eye
of Speaker Cannon or of Leader AL
drich i'll the senate that has reduced
by the most intinitesimal fraction of IL
mill the taxation upon any article of
common use. The tariff has not been
touched and will not be touched until
after election. Internal revenue taxes
have not been reduced. But the APP
preparations, all of which come out of
the pockets of the people, are greater
than ever before in the history of the
American congress.
1t is proper to make it clear that the
deficit of $15O,OOO,OOO which this con-
gress and the twelve years of unre-
stricted Republican rule will leave as
a heritage to the American people
could have been avoided not by higher
taxation, but by lower taxation. The
tariff as it now stands is intended not
to produce revenue, but to protect
American manufacturers. The meas
ure of protection which they wish and
upon which they insist is that which
prevents any imports whatsoever. and
as the imports fall off the revenues to
be derived from the tariff fall off pro.
portionately. That is the reason why
the country today faces prodigious
deficit and stands face to face with
another increase Of the bonded debt
This congress has done nothing to re-
lieve the financial stringency which is
felt all over the country. The twelve
years of Republican domination in the
White House, the senate and the house
of representatives, all practically under
the same control, have produced for
the American business community only
distress and disaster. We used to
hear, as Senator Gore of Oklahoma
pointed out in a speech before the Dis
trict of Columbia Democratic cOnven-
ton the other day, that pancs and
hard times We're the exclusive political
properties of the Democratic party.
What now? We have had the ROose-
welt panic. We are suffering the Re-
publican hard times. \ congress which
has been for at least twelve years in
control of the dominant party has
shown itself incompetent to pass any
measure for the relief of the business
community. \ president who was sup
posed to represent the cheering issue
of the full dinner pail has so welded
his big stick that the empty freight
cars and the mile of idle locomo-
tives photographed the other day by
one railroad have come to be known as
''Teddy Bares" What this Republican
congress will offer to the people as
justification for its existence the Re-
publican members themselves are puZ-
Zled to express.
Real Democratic Progress.
The last few days have served to en-
phasize the growing unity of the Dem
Ocratic party. The mere fact that it
is uniting upon Mr.. Bryan is of less
Importance than the obvious fact that
it is becoming unified. On one day
three states instructed their delegates
for Mr.. Bryan, Michigan, Missouri and
South Carolina, with an aggregate of
eighty-two delegates. And in other
states where the conventions have not
yet been held district delegates have
been chosen and either instructed or
announced themselves as favorable to
his candidacy. This indicates substan-
tial Democratic unity. There are COM
paratively few states yet to act in
which there is any partisan or faction
al contest. After Alabama acted the
theory that there was dissension in the
south was dissipated, and after Michi-
gan spoke the idea that there was any
material contest in the northwest was
abandoned.
Tho Denver Rally.
The convention at Denver, IL the
practical men in the house and in the
senate are talking frankly, will be
love feast so far as the head Of the
ticket is concerned. I heard Repre-
sentative Garrett Of Tennessee talking
the other day to man wholly disso-
ciated from politics, and he insisted
that pretty nearly every Democratic
representative in congress wished to
see Mr.. Bryan nominated, though many
Of them disagreed with some Of his
views. But as Garrett put 1t, however
much the representatives might dis
agree, each one wanted to be reelected
and each one felt that the nomination
of Bryan on the ticket would help to
pull him through in his district. 1t is
a curious fact that, while there are not
a few senators and representatives
who are politically unfriendly to Mr..
Bryan, all Of them say that his strength
in their districts or in their states is
such that they do not wish to antogo-
nize him. This is a matter for the men
who read only the great, 80 called, met