The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-02-14
ATTORNEY GENERAL
HARMON ON CHANCES.

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tary ought at least to have admitted
in fairness that it was not the Demo
then there is nc need to say 70, be
cause everybody knows that no Dem
ocrat has so much Is pushed a broom
in a government Office for almost
eleven years.
and issuing bonds in time OF
peace. The Democrats had to issue
bonds 10 discharge a duty imposed
by law, and here are the Republicans
issuing interest bearing bonds with.
out authority, not to meet the needs
of the government, but just to raise
more money to deposit in banks with
out interest.
Their pet humbug has bursted in
their hands and great is the wreck
thereof. 1t is a dreadful blow to con-
fidence. The people cannot now be
sure that what they plant will grow
next summer. All frauds prove to
be boomerangs at last.
THE second advantage the Repub-
licans have had over us is at least
an honest me-, because we gave it
to them. They have hung together,
while we have pulled apart.
But now they are at it hammer
and tongs among themselves. 1t is
more han the mere clash of personal
ambition. Any sound party can stand
that and eve thrive on it, because
it is a proof of vitality and hope.
care nothing about the cause
further than to know that they are
strong n deep seated. The Repub-
licans never look the trouble to in
quire into the right and wrong of
Democratic quarrels. They just grin
us do likewise now.
"They are quarreling now about
their President and his ways and
sayings. Some declare he goes gun
ming too much after trusts and other
big game which grows in the Repub-
1ican preserves. Others say he oes
not go cunning for them enough.
While more complain that he keeps
the whole 1eighborhoOd disturbed
because he will not use smokeless
powder, but likes a lot of noise and
smoke and smell. So everywhere
they have gone from whispering to
shouting and from calling names to
blows. Up in Ohio they have pulled
razors.
Il believe the people at large are
suffering more from the exactions of
the tariff than from any other single
cause.
"The favored interests were per
mitted as everybody knows TO write
the various clauses in the Dingley
to suit themselves, and they
were not at all stingy about it either.
Their contributions had won the cleo
ton, and they were enjoying their
own.
For e. ten years, in spite OF
Increase il the amount of
articles taxed, the Republicans have
to reduce the rates of taxa
ton. So a part of what the people
are made to pay which oes into the
treasury has, in spite of extravaganza
in all directions, filled it with idle
money. Hundreds of millions which
do nobody any good but favored
While the far larger part of
what the people are made to pay
which goes to h favored interests
in the form of arbitrary advance in
prices to home consumers has rap
idly bred illicit wealth.
when Havemeyer, the head of the
trust, had to admit under oath
that the tariff is the mother of
trusts there was a loud protest all
along the Line of beneficiaries. They
fell back on their stock argument.
Look at the Standard Oil Company.
on the free list.
81 confess that point USED to puz-
zle me a little until l discovered the
facts. h only country that could
export oil il any quantity was Rus
STA which puts an enormous duty on
imports of oil. So there was slipped
into the Dingley bill a clause which
provides for the same a of duty
on oil imported here which the coun-
try from. which it comes imposes on
American oil. OF course we&have had
no oil from Russia. though petroleum
and >its products are nominally on
the free list.
Il have seen a careful estimate
showing that every family in the
United States contributes an average