The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-06

naval appropriations have increased
 S and Dsnsiqnss ssa4 have rSsoGoss sSoss years has appropriated ss.42s,ooO. 900
 from ths. public treasury, or nearly
 d'SugiGvV a during four ors years r of civil war. Tn q recent statement to The World
 James A. Tawney.j of Minnesota, the Committee on Appropriations. said:
 great independent newspaper duriaag
 combat the alarming tendency In this
 country toward paternaiism ana min-
 tarism. sr per cent. of the governments reve-
 nues, exclusive of postal receipts, is o-day being spent to meet the cost
 Of wars past ,bs snd ERnssihe the alarming. alarm if the present military and
 naval program Is adopted and expen- Increase, it is not unreasonable to es- timate that within the next two years the government will be spending ae and the fear of 1t.
 l aGreat Britain alone approaches the United States in the per cent of her
 sxinuss military arln s1psapfa of her governmsntT meet However ciouded his record
 iaSs De Sa sso%n soe 9dafT aby deity and principle in combating militarism im perialism and jingoisu. The Woria considers his speech on imperialism at Democratic nomination for President, all his oratorical achievements. ln-
 ceedingly sound on what might be called foreign policy, or the great
 cause of arbitration and peace in place of war.
 Mir. Taft Not TnvineibIe. Tn spite of all Mir. Roosevelt's fren- zied rhetoric about swollen fortunes and the necessity of both an incorne
 and an inheritance tax when the tarin
 is revised. there is not solitary word ] in the Chicago platform advocating
 either an income tax or an inheritanee tax. There is not one word about the
 criminal penalties of the sherman law,
 frothing at the mouth over male factors of great wealth."
 The Republican platform Is weak.
 stner Ms AEans Ts' fSs eSs hs candidate is arrayed much or the | strength of organized labor because Of
 his decisions on the bench. however
 personal candidate of President Roose- welt, nominated through Mir Rooss-
 the army my of Federai officehoIders that
 Mr. Roosevelt controls. Brownsville
 is certain to hurt MT. Taft greatly. with
 Fs b d. yS5s n to nsaoe the Pses
 dent to modify a most arbitrary and despotic order. The excesses of the
 Roosevelt adpinistrstion yyill hurt of all the dissatisfaction which twelve
 years of uninterruptsd Republican 2 ad- IRepubiican party both in Congress and in National Convention would be
 heavy handicap for even a more popular candidate.
 The First Great 0uestien. But the first practical issue that must be faced and squarely met is
 that of dislocated business and indus | try. The people of the United States
 need need spmpioymeSt, pgadie men % they need bread. No campaign can be successful which does
 not take this great factor into eonsid-
 eration. h place Of an indiseFimiS;
 a continuation Of the Roosevelt reign of terror must come a realisation that
 guilt IS always personal and that the the poratlon crimes is to send the one re- sponsible man to. jail
 MT. Bryan must clearly recognize l sponsibility for the recent panic. and | picture the true effects of government l by denunciation in undermining con | lHO0HE0 with Mr Roosevelt's violence of utter anee, with his vituperation, with his Accommodation of the courts, with his reign of terror, is to surrender the most effective and legitimate weapons
 which the Democratic Opposition can wield in the campaign.
 I questions and show the country the peril into which Roosevelt extrava-
 gance, militarism and jingoisna are upon the courts, carefully avoiding all
 appeals to class prejudice. carefully ulent Issues of Populfsm and semi-so- | cialism, he will certainly make cred.
 itable showing at the polls: He would
 come out of the contest with great | er vote than he ever polled before.
 with greater honor. with greater repu- | tation than he ever had before; he
 would have the satisfaction of know inR that he had rendered great ser
 vice to Democracy.
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