Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-07-14
TAFT AND ALDRIcH.

iTeSlueul lall Sdlu dt MllWduhee.
"There are many schedules of the
tariff in which the rates are eXces-
sive. 8 1t is my Judgment that a
revision of the tariff in accordance
with the pledge of the republican
platform will be, on The whole, sub
stantial revision downward.
Senator Aldrich said in the sen
ate.
"NIr. President, Where did we ever
make the statement that we would
revise the tariff downward?
president Taft said at Cincinnati:
Il believe that an income tax
when the protective system of Gus
toms and the internal-revenue tax
shall not furnish income enough for
governmental needs, can and should
be devised which under the decision
of the supreme court will conform to
the constitution.
Senator Aldrich said in the SEN
ate
II shall vote for the corporation
tax as means of defeating the in
come tax.
president Taft in his message pre-
senting the corporation tax said:
another merit of this tax is the
federal supervision which must be
nyarcicol in ordar ~ ,,ol,o +bn lou,
effective over the annual accounts
and business transactions of all cor
porations. If now. by perfectly le-
Gitimate and effective system of tax
alton we are incidentally able to pos.
lSess the government and the stock
holders and the public of the knowl-
edge of the real business tran
sactlons and the gains and profits of
every corporation in the country, we
have made long step toward that
supervisory control of corporations
which may prevent further abuse
of power:
Senator Aldrich said in the SEN
ate:
Il am willing that the deficit shall
be taken care of by corporation tax
but at the end of two years it should
either be reduced to nominal
amount or repealed.
''And yet President Taft is allow
ing Senator Aldrich to act as spokes-
man for the administration, and has
changed his ground every time to
suit the purposes Of the senator from
Rhode Island"
Here we have an Indictment of the
president. We have, in the quota.
tions from the presidents speeches
and messages, the paramount issues
on which he made his campaign. The
president, during the campaign, found
it necessary. to success to declare
himself in favor of tariff revision
downward. He found it expedient to
declare for an income tax as just
means of raising revenue to sustain
the government. On these issues
and because of the presidents appar
ent support of them, he was elected
to the presidency.
It would naturally be CONCLUDED
that the quotations above were from
the editorial sSage of some democrat
ic newspaper--some paper which may
desire to make political capital Of
the controversy going on and the
peculiar stand of the president a,
this time. Not SO. The quotation.
are from. the editorial page of the
Des Moines Register and Leader
4 which is old-fashioned enough to in
sist that platform pledges be KEEP
and promises made by thecandidat
for president be made good.
In what deplorable light Senate
/. Aldrich has placed the president
Why does he stand for it? Wit
few words. Aldrich repudiates every
thing the president has said. He eyel
suggests that the president is il
with him in killing the income tax
that the corporation tax is subter
fuge, framed for the purpose, ant
that the presidents intentions ar,
not honest, as. in a year of two tht
tax shall be repealed.
| What spectacle Aldrich is max
ing of Taft before the country! Th
president is put by the senate bos
in a position where it would not b
reaching far to come to the conclu
sion that Taft is attempting to dou
ble-cross the people of the country.
n Why does the president stand 70
it? Why?-Register and Leader.