The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
Senator Bob Taylor MakesSpeech
 On Tariff Reform
SING SONG OF THE TRUSTS
"our Bob" Makes Strong Democratic Address Which Will Be Used as
 Campaign Literature This Summer.

Washington, May 19.-A democratic speech, prepared for circulation in the coming presidential campaign, was deliv- cred in the Senate today by Senator Rob ert L. Taylor of Tennessee. MT. Taylor devoted his attention chiefly to the tariff and currency and policies of the repub- > lican party. but he also discussed many other issues that will be prominent on the stump next fall
 Senator Taylor delivered his maiden speech on the subject of tariff reform and the currency. Mir Taylor drew a parallel between the solar system, regulated by ccntripetal and centrifugal forces, and the government, the federal power being the centripetal, and the states power the cen trifugal force. He declared that as the confederacy was an emphasis of the force seeking disintegration, the federal power representing the other extreme is now en- dangering the rights of the state.
 Out of Balance.
 Discussing the President he said:
 "The system is as surely out of balance today as it was in 1861. And what is the difference to us whether we leave our orbit and go cavorting among the stars to freeze to death on the outskirts of creation, or whether we are drawn the other way to be converted into fuel for the sune
 What is the difference whether we 20 the secession route or the centralzation route. They both mean destruction of the union. 1 do not pretend to be a great constitutional lawyer but if that insti IL ment means anything it is that all power, not expressly conferred upon the federal government, is reserved to the states
 "In these imperial days when concern trated wealth Is intrenched under the dome of the capitol and centralized power is enthroned in the White House, what can be expected but the gradual en- croachment of the federal government upon the reserved rights of the states? How can the reign of equilibrium be preserved under the reign of big stick?
 q would not reflect on the chief ex ecutive of the nation. On the contrary I would praise him for the noble things he has done during his incumbency, chief of which is turning on the light and revealing tie enormity of the crimes ihs party has committed.
 Reached the Limit.
 But your peerless President reached the limit when he seized all the best reform blanks of all the democratic plat forms of the past and planted himself suuarely upon them Was there ever a grander spectacle of coup detat than this in the history of American politics? The question for you republicans is ''are you going to put his reform blanks in your platform at Chcago? If you are why don't you indorse Bryan and be done with it. If you are not you will repudiate your President
 He demanded the reform of the tariff system in the beginning of his admin istration, but of late he has contented himself with storming the citadels of wealth created by the tariff. He has not laid the axe at the root of the tree, but has only thundered at the rich, ripe fruit that hangs upon the boughs of the tree.
 "rho railroads" he said, "are only one string In the harp of thousand strings upon which our modern Orpheus is play ;n,. the triumphal march of federalism
 we hear" he continued, "a note from the metallic string of the steel trust and long sweet strain from the sugar trust, and a believing note from the beef trust and the ding dong of the copper trust and the ping pong of the leather trust and the sing song Of a thousand other trusts all of which are the legitimate results of an ab- normal tariff system. They are com polling the small industries of the country to sell out to them or be crushed in the coils of the serpent. They are sweeping out every vestige of competition in every department of manufacture and trade, which is the only safe guard of the people. No wonder we hear the burning appears for reform in the messages of the President. No wonder we hear the de- mands of long suffering people.
 No Tariff Reform.
 Tariff will never be reformed by a republican administration. It is true that all the republican candidates for the presidency are falling over each other to regale the American people with the most plausible promises of tariff revision, but none of them prom ises tariff reform
 He was sure, he said, the Vice Pres- ideat is sincere as a tariff reformer, .but the substance of this declaration has been made on the eve of political campaigns for the last quarter of a century"
 The republicans. he said, had never said whether they would revise the tariff up or down.
 'Satan," he added would have de- lighted with the plan or salvation, if he had been allowed to write it, but there would have been but little hope for poor, fallen man, if the terms of salvation had been dictated by that old black republican of the neither world. 1 Go back and read the history of broken promises, and see how the friends of the tariff have reformed it."
 ..Ha declared that the concentration of wealth in this country was rivaling that n T1ax rlpv, and Our financial system is the Siamese twin \ of the tariff system. said MT. Taylor l"and while the financial system is the lwealx brother of the pair. yet they are