The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
JUDGE PARKER
 MAKES ADDRESS
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 ------------------------ ----------~--~--~--~-~- ] throughout We find the result in con- crete expression in appropriations by 1 Congress for a single year Of over $1,OOO,-
 000,000 with a deficiency at the close of
 the fiscal year of some $6O,OO0,0O0.
 And the example of the republican
 federal administration has been faith i fully followed by governors and legisla- ] lures in the many states which have ] passed under the control of that party l Our own state is an example. During
 the last year of the long term of service ] of Governor Hill total state approprla-
 tions were a little over S13,000,000. For 1 IA years now the state has been under
 the control of the republican party and l year by year appropriations have steadi-
 ly increased until they have now reached l the sum of nearly 900.
 Great Extravagance.
 And as great extravagance calls for l great revenues, and as great revenues
 must be raised by great taxation, and
 as all taxation in the end comes to be
 paid by the people, however indirect i it be in form, and as the raising by great taxation of great revenues affords great opportunities for unjust gain, we need 1 not be astonished to find that the re- publican party in order to obtain the 1 vast sums of money necessady to meet the demands of it's eXtravagances, has
 .yillfully through it's promulgation and enforcement of excessive tariffs, aided in and brought about the upbuilding of the majority of those giant fortunes which the President has denounced so vehem-
 ently.
 Passing strange though, is it not, that in such denunciation be- the erstwhile
 free-trader, did not suggest that the pri-
 mary step must be to so modify the tariffs as to render impossible the future
 creation of similar fortunes. Obviously that step was then, is now, and must
 continue to be the foremost step toward l any real Improvement of the very con-
 ditions which he assails.
 Judge Taft, in his letter of acceptance admits that the great majority of the i combinations in. restraint of trade, the formation of which the hiEa tariff es- pecially invites, have arisen within the last ten years. During all that time the republican party has controlled both the 1 federal government and the government
 of substantially all those states which have created or tolerated them-for we
 have yet to hear of their creation or tol- eration in the southern states which are under democratic control.
 Seeks Sush Fund.
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 reason; it is but the next step in the progression. Not daring to trust alone l to an appeal to the people to indorse that party's administration of affairs, it has sought large sums of money to aid in Influencing a favorable result both in 1 the state and in the nation. The bene- ficiares of the tariff have long been | looked to to fill the campaign chest. The l implied agreement to protect the inter- f1f of i sion; it has been an essential element of the scheme; a cornerstone in the founda- tion of the structure, and are of the vicious circle by which the whereWithal to enable contributions to influence cleo
 tions should be supplied to the contribu- tors through the party which they re- tain in power.
 And so the contributing corporations have grown in number, swelled in af- fluence and gained in influence until the point was reached of practical work ing business alliance between the re- publican party and the favor-seeking cor porations. The alliance continued in full ] force until the revelations of the insur- ance Investigations of 1905 disclosed its existence by irrefragible testimony which shocked the public sense.
 Ut is not only the highest desire of all good citizens of all parties what
 
 clean, but 1t is essential to the liberties of the people. That result will not be accomplished until business and politics are divorced by statutes, the violation
 of which will result in imprisonment We can never hore for that result while the republican party is in power. It has
 created it's Frankenstein. The creature must be fed 1t has created a system
 of corruption which has now progressed to the point of controlling the power
 which created il. It is an arithmetcai progression steadily increasing scale. A constant demand for more privileges,
 for greater opportunities, for extended
 advantages, met by a constant cry for i greater revenues that more offices may l be created, that more individuals may have a pecuniary interest in sustaining
 the corrupt whole. The republican party ] has reached point where it dare not pause Like the dram drnker it must 1 continue it's debauch with ever increas- ing quantities of stimulant until a gen. eral ruin involving, as well as itself, i the entire people closes the chapter Of l history"
 Attacks MT. Sherman. | It was at this point that Judge Parker
 made his attack on MT. Sherman and l from that he went to the case of Pres l ident Roosevelt and MT. Harrison. say
 ing:
 Here we see a man of great ambi- l tion, and, as we are told, of lofty ideals | become so accustomed to this party l custom that he does not hesitate to n- vite MT. Hartman to Washington to l secure his good offices for money rais- l ing purposes, taking indeed the precau- 1 tion absolutely to assure his coming by
 suggesting in letter that after tho l election he desired to consult him about 1 the railroad feature of his message. What may have occurred at that meet l ing we do not know. but that it was 1 sufficiently agreeable to MT. Hartman l to lead to his contributing and raising | Immediately upon his return to New l York tho sum of s265,000, we do know.
 as also ut quarter of million ol l that money was scattered over this /, state of New York for practical uses 1 by practical men Are we to assume 1 that the smiting of the stockholders Of