The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-26

| Nlllt lHtIt was uOl u DtilOGIdt any |
where in sight of a federal office, and |
crops were good as well as every nat. |
ural condition, hard times came back |
| again and struck these pretenders
while In full strut.
A Republican Panic.
We Democrats are too patriotic to
desire party success through general
privation and distress, and too sensi
BILE. besides, because we must suffer
| Just the same as our Republican
neighbOrs. We would have been will
ing to rest still longer under the false
| reproach of our adversaries If we
! could thereby have averted this dis
aster to labor and enterprise. But all
fair-minded men must be glnd nc ~"
are. that, IL IL had to come, It came
when It did to expose and overthrow
these presumptuous prophets of Baal.
For a while they were speeches.
Then they butted their noses against
the walls OF confessed hypocrisy on
one side and admitted responsibility
on the other. At last, when they
found there was no escape, their can
didate in his acceptance declared
that anyway, the times, bad as they
were, would have been worse IL tho
Democrats had been in power! Then,
hearing the laugh which greeted this,
he said, Elect me and | will bring
J back prosperity
But he has been sitting on the lid
all these years. Why did he not keep
prosperity in the box when he had It
there? Everybody knows II Is easier
| TO hold on to a thing than II Is to
! catch It again. What help does he
expect. If elected, which he has not
had right alcnE? Or does he claim
he will be stronger aud abler than
| the president at whose feet he sits?
Does he not advance as his ch.el
claim the fact that the president
picked him out and nominated him
for the succession, and that he in.
tends faithfully to carry out existing
policies?
But why wait until after the elec.
| ton? These men are still in full con.
| troll OF every department CT the gov
ernment, so why not turn on their
prosperity now? What are they wait.
ing for?
SO the last phase of a desperate
situation is a conspiracy Of assertion,
led by Speaker Cannon They have
already brought prosperity back
agam See all those mill men at
Youngstown marching at full pay
with new uniforms!
Taft and the Tariff
After eleven years Of gloriiying the
tariff law as the unfailing breeder of
prosperity, too sacred and delicate for
the slightest touch, 1t is now confessed
that II must be changed. Not by hands
Of the profane who know II only
as law which taxes the people, in
! part by public officials for the expense
OF the government but in greater part
by private persons for their own
profit by way OF collecting higher
plicCs for their goods. No, the
changes must be entrusted only 10
those who made the tariff in the frr'
place, and they are the very men w..o
profit hy It,
But what hold would Mr.. Taft's ad.
&. ministration have on them which Mr..
Roosevelt's does not have? Mr. Taft,
vita the president behind him, could
not get the relief he asked for the
Fiipnos, How does he expect TO
force a general reduction? Some OF
the duties are too low, he says. lie
will have no trouble in getting those
raised, but the same solid opposition
would Withstand him II he should try
to have single item lowered.
The president and Mr.. Taft protest
ed loudly when they found that 1t was
proposed to charge them the same
prices for supplies for building the
Panama canal which were charged
the people at large-prices higher
than the dealers sold the same artir
cles for abroad after the cost and risk
of shipment across the sea. They
threatened to buy what they needed
abroad. But they said nothing about
the same imposition which is prac.
ticed on the people. And finally they
meskly submitted to the imposition
on the government
When San Francisco had to be re
built congress was induced to aid
/ the unfortunate inhabitants by ex-
empting them from the tariff laws.
This was an admission that those
laws simply impose burdens on the
people. Why then should not the
millions whose earnings are thus
levied on by the greedy beneficiarles
Of the tariff be relieved also, at least
by reducing the charges?
Tariff Exceeds Difference In Wages.
Great tenderness for the working
men is again professed, The pretense
was when the tariff law was passed
that It only made up the excess in
wages paid them, II is now admitted
that the duties go far beyond this dlr.
ference, In some cases enabling the
employers 10 make raises In prices
which exceed their entire payrolls.
1t IL said again that in revising
the tariff the excess in wages must
still be made good by the government.
But II the duties when fixed were for
: the benefit of the workmen, why were
they not allowed TO take hand in
the figures as well as their employ.
ers? Why was not their right 20 tho
provision thus ostensibly made for