The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-10-27
SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS

Mr.. Republican-You declare you implicitly believe
lin the wisdom of the socaed Roosevelt policies and that
the best interest of the country demand the carrying out
of the urged by the president upon congress-
How can vou then lend your support to party whose
chosen platform builders the Chicago convention,
jected, almost unanimously, every plank embodylng a
Roosevelt proposition!
In his messages to congress and in other public utter
|ances Roosevelt emphaticay advocates tariff reduction
Particles coming into competition with the articles con-
|trolled by the trusts Bryan and the democratic plat
form declare uncertain terms for this very measure
Taft and his platform oppose it. AS Roosevelt republic
can which candidate, which platform you logically
support?
Last year Roosevelt urged the necessity of an
tax Taft and his republican platform opposed to this
tax which the experience of nearly every civilized nation
in the world has proven to be the most just most eca-
cous method for raising governmental revenues known
Such tax would shift part of the burden OF taxation
from the bent back of American labor the shoulders Of
the very rich The Denver platform and it's able exponent
Mr. Bryan pronounce unreservedly for graduated in
come tax the form of taxation by which Lincoln was en-
abed to supply the snews Of and the lneg
rity of this nation.
Mr.. Lincoln Republican, Mr. Roosevelt Republican,
are you prepared to back the principles OF Lincoln
and Roosevelt simply because convention dominated by
corporate monopoly has set the pace for you?
In message to congress this year President Roose-
welt urged that it ESPECIALLY necessary that rep
resentaton of the national government have full power to
deal with the great corporations engaged in interstate
merce, especially the great interstate carriers
Bryan and the Denver platform advocate precisely the
same thing declaring ments to this end that the inter-
state commission shall be clothed with power
to require physical valuation of all interstate railways
The republican platform makers at Chicago threw this
proposed plank into the refuse lumber pile by plactc
ally unanimous vote. Taft's bulky form stands this
PLATFORM Will good Roosevelt republican rise and
expan how he hopes carry out the Roosevelt policies by
voting for Taft and the platform he represents
In comparatively recent redfot message to congress
that would be still sizzling If partisan politics had not
turned the hose it, good president called attention
to the need OF action III connection with the abuse OF
the Injunction in labor cases. The Chicago convention
spat upon the delegates who had the temerity rec
essness to propose antinjuncton plank The friends
of labor at Denver Incorporated measure III accordance
with Roosevets suggestions to congress- Bryan has al
ways advocated such measure AS government by
Junction is direct offspring Of the TaftTrust nuptials
the ex-udge will be pardoned yea, applauded for
now fathering his child. But which candidate, which
platform, Mr. Laborng Man who admires the Roosevelt
policies you going to support?
And truthfully continue to all the
prominent Roosevelt policies only to find that each and
everyone uceremoniousy dumped into the garbage
can by the Chicago convention.
Even Candidate Taft when monemtarily, accidentally
absentmlndedy, attempted to voice honest senti-
men is afraid to trust his ponderous avorupos upon the
shaky platform of his party constructed of veneered rot
ten tmbers and empty promises On such occasions
he abandOns his platform altogether.
Would it not be manly, more in keeping with
consistency and duty for Bryan and the Denver
platform this campaign and thus vote for the principles
for which you have been shouting for many months than
to totally back great through the adj
vOcacy OF which President Roosevelt has eneared himself
to the hearts of so many Americans?