The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-10-23
SENATOR TAYLOR
CONTINUED from first

and mauled ana push
whipped into line for Repa
ism before election day
threats Of the employing con
tions and then how it had -
scorned and derided after tn
ton and hosts had been
out Of employment by the q
down of mills and factories
big industries.
1.-THE Republican party will
you that wages have increased II
per cent. during its reign in this
country. They do not tell you
that the cost of living has increased
40 per cent. in the same length of
time. Figure that problem if you
can. 1t reminds me of the prob
lem about the frog in the well that
was given to me when | was going
to school a barefoot hoy in the
mountains of East Tennessee"
continued the speaker.
"The problem was to find out
how long it would take the frog to
get out of the well, which was
eleven feet deep, if he climbed up
one foot every day and then slip
ped back one foot and one inch
that night. A little boy figured
90 that for three days and then
said. STAY in the we'll, fer | can't
git ye out
"The question is, are you going
to stay in the we'll for the balance
of your lives? If you are, don't
come to me after election day IN
Washington, fer | can't git ye
out"
Knife Taft and Party.
Senator Taylor spoke of the con-
solidation of wealth and the CEN
tralization of power by the Re
publican party, saying that liberty
had taken flight and free govern
ment had been eradicated before
its onslaughts. The state of at
fairs, be said, was occasioned by
the tariff which the Republican
party has placed upon this coun.
try. He characterized this tariff
as the most dangerous and insidi
Gus form of taxation eve con
ceived by the mind of man anc
said that the time had now come
to knife it and cut it down to
reasonable basis.
"One way to do this" said Sen.
ator Taylor, amid a voIley of APP.
plause, SIS to knife Taft and thu
whole Republican party in No
vember."
Worship The Golden Calf.
"Wealth is the only god thi'
party has ever worshiped," con
tinued Senator Taylor, "and pow
er is the only thing it has evel
cherished. Why, | believe that i
the Republican party was by some
chance shifted into heaven it woult
not be long before they had dug
up the golden streets of the New
Jerusalem and put a tax on tht
harps of the angels for the pro
lection Of American industry"
Senator Taylor again turned hi
attention to the actions OF organ
lied labor in supporting the Re
publican party for the past forty
years. He asked pointed ques
tons as to what the party had eva
done for labor, and then answer
them himself.
He dwelt at length upon the
ton of the Republican part
forming its platform when
threw out the planks embodyW
the publishing of campaign con
tributions, the developing of rail
road values for the purpose o.
additional taxation, the income
tax plank and many others too nu
merous to mention. all of which
are embodied in the Democrat,
platform.
He asked why Taft was making
one kind of speech in the East
another kris in the West anC
probably VI another kind to de
liver in the South.
Touches On Banks.
Turning his attention to the re
cent panic, Senator Taylor spoke
of it as one of the new born chill
dren of the Republican party. HI
said there we're two systems O.
banks in the United States, WIFI II
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