The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-12
CANNON PARTY IS
FOOL|NG TAFT ON
REFORMS
ALFRED HENRY LEWIS SAYS 1T
lis THE SAME JUNGLE JoE."
THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
TRUSTS.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Speaker
Cannon Is "fooling" President-eiect
Taft regarding the proposed revision
of the tariff and other reforms tnat
Mr. Taft is pledged to secure. says
Alfred Henry Lewis. in a dispatch to
the New York American. Mr.. Can
non was made leader OF the lower
branch of congress by the trusts. says
Mr.. Lewis. and he asks II Mr.. Tart
trusts. even after the supposed "un-
Outstanding" between the two states
men.
Mr.. Lewis says:
Mr.. Taft met Mr.. Cannon and they
conferred" Today, Ciceroned by Mr..
Cannon. Mr. Taft met the Republican
members OF the ways and means COM
mittee and they conferred"
Mr.. Taft asked for these confer
ences" Mr. Cannon floor manased
them. The purpose on Mr.. tart
part was 10 tell Mr., Cannon and 9TH
ers what he wanted done In tarin.
The purpose on Mr.. Cannon's part
was TO fool Mr.. Taft, and TO continue
and confirm him in that sood-natured
trance concerning the next speaker
ship into which the hypnotic Mr.. Can.
non threw him.
Mr.. Cannon Is as cunning as pet
fox-a genius for chicane He sur
rounds Mr.. Taft like a garden fence.
Also he is the Peter Pan" OF poll
tics, and always goes equipped OF
those little capsules OF political chlor-
al ready TO knockout" his victims.
At the conference" Mr.. Taft talk
ed and the members OF the ways and
means committee listened. just as
when he and Mr.. Cannon conferred"
and he talked and Mr.. Cannon listen
ed The man who listens learns
that the man who talks commonly
winds up by knowing less than when
he began
When Mr.. Taft got through with
the ways and means men and the
vulpine Mr.. Cannon, he knew nothing
about them-speaking tariffwise-
they knew all about him. He had by
the time they parted pointed out and
marked for them every stump OF
White House tariff sort that might be
expected TO lie in the way Of those
trusts and private producers whom
Mr.. Cannon favors and compels the
house. by stress OF his speakership-
which is a despotism-to favor.
This was frankly kind OF Mr.. Taft.
1t gives Mr.. Cannon and the others
ample time to consider how best to
pillow around those stumps.
The upshot of both the conference"
of today and Taft-Cannon confer
ence" is that the enemy has seen Mr..
Tafts hand; he has not seen the
enemy's hand. The enemy's hand. be
ii known, is held and played when all
is in by the senate.
Mr.. Taft was voted into the Whits
House 10 adjust the tariff scales 50
that, while producing what revenue
was required, they would still balance
evenly between consumer and pro-
Queer tipping neither this way nor
that in selfish favor of either.
That being the public thought when |
the people called Mr.. Taft TO the I
presidential fore. how has he gone
about it,
Mr.. Cannon is speaker OF the
house. Mr.. Cannon hungers to be !
continued In that engaging speaker
ship. Mr. Cannon comes ostensibly |
from a constituency in and about
Danville, Ill. His real constituency, !
the constituency which he truly rep
resents and has always truly repre-
scented. are the trusts-the money pir-
ates of Steel. Beef, Sugar. Coal, Rail.
road, Bank and Standard Oil. tina.
browbeat statesmen" when they can
aud bribe them when they can be.
There are the public enemy In a
strictly tariff way. They champion
the producer, Indeed. they are the |
producer already fat with an Illicit
three inches OF fat on his selfish ribs
They are against the consumer
gaunt and lean of flank as the result
of those very robber tariff conditions
which Mr. Taft has been pitched upon
to remedy.
These, as say, are the enemy.
They are represented in the house ty
Mr.. Cannon. They made him speak
er. And these-the foe--are the pre-
else block forces that Mr. Taft was
chosen by the people to fight Can
he fight them without fighting Mr..
Cannon?
At today's conference" Mr.. TAT.
and Mr.. Cannon appeared arm an
friendly arm--a gushing case OF com.
rades Boon companions They are
not fighting, not going to fight.
Does Mr. Taft imagine that Mr.. Can
non has changed? Is he so fatuous
as to suppose these cormorant forces
all appetite and lack OF conscience.
behind Mr.. Cannon have changed? /
No; they are the same. Mr.. Cannon ,
Is the same. Even now they and 4
their house herd boss. Mr.. Cannon,
are laughing at how easily he be-
came their dupe. They soaped the .
step with fattery, a few specious
promises. plausible lie or two, and +
he fell. The crying trouble Is that +
the popular cause fell with him.
Mr.. Taft is honest. No one doubts
It. But to be merely honest is not. /
for White House purposes, q com. !
plete equipment. His very honesty
made II easier for Mr.. Cannon TO do
with him what he would Mr.. Can
non Is many things one doesn't like
But his worst defamer has never cali
ed him fool"
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