Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-07-10

In debating to great party his choice
of successor, and regret that that
party should have submitted so coward
ly to humiliation that was as mani
fest as it was degrading"
Mr.. Clayton called attention to the
failure of the Repub' lean convention to
insert plank forbidding campaign
contributions, quoted President ROOse-
velt's condemnation of the practice IN
his message of December, 1905. In
functions and contempts of court were
treated vigorously and several quota
tons from the message of President
Roosevelt were given to show that the
president had abandoned at Chicago
the policies he had so vigorously urged
in his message, adding:
ut is important to note that the act
session Of the first congress that met
under the first Democratic administra-
ton after the civil war and there la
Dor received its first recognition from
the government. One Republican adj
ministratiOn had succeeded another for
y
passed in the interest of labor or in
acknowledgment of it's right to fair
and equal treatment. The Repub.
fcans enacted tariff which enhanced
the price of products that labor had
made and capital owned, and they pre-
tended to do this with a view Of Sc
curing for labor higher wages. What
they gave, however, was to the cap
italist, and they trusted him to divide.
That the increased profits Of protected
employers have made them able to pay
the laboring man higher wages no one
can doubt, but it remains for the saw
Ing grace Of Almighty God so to touch
their hearts as to make them willing
to pay the higher wages.
among the contributions that went
to make up the monument that this
great man. Grover Cleveland, builded
in the respect and affection Of his
cOuntrymen. few are more striking
than his almost instant recognition, as
evidenced by the act of 1886, of the
sane and just demands of labor on the
laWmaking power. Under him Democ
racy blaZed the way and now remains
the untlinching champion Of every
sound reform in this direction. I'm
munity from law we promise nobody
immunity from oppression from its
very infancy the Democratic party has
been dedicated to establish and Sc
cure.
The Tariff
THE president and his party declare
that prediction revision of the tariff
would be unwise. This assertion has
been repeated in advance of every cleo
ton since the enactment of the Ding
ley law, and surely the country will
not again be deceived by Republican
promises to revise the tariff after the
election. Their appeal to the people is
this, give US another chance to make
you a promise and the promise will be
made
"What does protection mean? On
der the Republican policy of protection
the people, the consumers, while pay
ing a little over $3OO,OOO,OOO per year
into the treasury through import dutie;
Of foreign goods, pay over $780,
100000 a year in the enhanced price
of home produced goods. Our domestic
manufactures exceed Or total imports
by ten to one and they are nearly all
protected. 1t is safe to say that the
people pay at least So to the already
wealthy benefciaries of protectionisn
! for every dollar that is paid into the
trea ury. Behind the wall Of high pro
lection, which in some cases is alto
gether prohibitive, the trusts levy enor
nous tribute on the people. This
has amounted to not less than
not counting the amount paid to sup.
port the government. This money has
come from the pockets of the farmer
| the mechanic, the merchant, the pro
| fessional man and the laborer, and has
| been poured into the Golfers of the
| protected classes. More than two
| thirds Of the capital that derives bene
| fit from protectionism belongs to the
| trusts. The Democrats will revise the
| tariff downward and in the interest OF
! the tax payers. who are always for
gotten by the Republican party. There
| must be revision and a gradual reduc
| ton of the tariff by the friends OF
tariff reduction for the common good
and not by the benefciaries Of its
abuses, who justify use Of the impost
| taxing power for the chief purpose
of comforting privilege and profit upon
| the few at the expense of the many.
Trusts
at is the shortest of steps from the
| tariff to the trusts. Let it be denied
If they care to deny it, that the tariff
Is the real mother Of the trusts. The
president has made great pretense OF
| destroying trusts. Let him tell of the
| result. In a message deliVel ed to con
| gress he said: The department OF
| justice has for the last four years de
| voted more attention to the enforce
ment of antitrust legislation than any
| thing else. Much has been &C
| complished; particularly marked has
| been the moral effect of the proSecu
| tons; but it is increasingly evident
| that there will be a very insufficiently
| beneficial result in the way of econ
| omic changes. The successful prose
| cution of one device to evade the law
| Immediately develops another device
| to accomplish the same purpose. What
| is needed is not sweeping prohibition
| Of every arrangement, good or bad
which might tend to restrict competi
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