Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-11-11
AFRANK CONFESSION
REPUBLICAN PAPER ARRAIGNS
TAFT, ALDRICH & CO..
The Yakima Republic Gives express.
sion to Thoughts That Occupy
Minds of Many Members of Repub-
liCan Party. SAYS the Party Has
Drifted into piratiCal Hands.

There is a play called The Eas-
lest Way 1t is problem play
in which the heroine of the produc-
tion is confronted with the alterna-
tive of continuing an uphill fight 20
follow the paths of rectitude and vir-
tue or of drifting with the tide to-
ward the goal from which the Good
Book tells us there is no redemption.
1t requires character to stay
with the former course; it does not
require character to follow the lat
ter
That in brief is just the difference
between an old line machine repub-
lican like Senator Aldrich and an
'insurgent' like Senators LaFol-
lette, Dolliver and Cummins.
In Boston President Taft lauded
Senator Aldrich who did his might
lest to foist on the public a tariff
bill in which the revision promised to
the people by the republican lead
ers was upward instead of down.
ward.
In Winona the president read
such men as LaFollette and DOlliver
and Cummins out of the republican
party because they would not listen
to any revision except a revision
downward.
In Denver Taft defended the cor
poration tax and scored the income
tax, although he had admitted that
an income tax could be framed which
would be constitutional and he has
admitted that an income tax would
cause the burdens of taxation to be
borne by those most able to stand
them. This he excuses on the ground
that the republican party is pledged
to protective tariff.
Who pledged it?
Such men as Senator Aldrich and
Speaker Cannon and their cOterie of
followers who constitute the monied
interests of the country. They are
responsible for the whole program.
This repertoire has been fOisted on
the people and they have just dis
covered that high tariff causes a
raise in the cost of living and that 1t
enables extra dividends on the pre-
ferred stock of such Infant indus
tries" as the Steel Trust and Stand
ard Oil. Yet this is the protective
policy to which the republican party
is pledged"
Funny is it not how quickly the
scenes are shifted? Scarcely year
ago it was almost impossible to dis
cover a man who was not proud OF
the fact that he was a republican.
Walk down the street this morning
and you will discover Just as large a
percentage disgusted with that party
and for why?
hn
party stood for the welfare Of the
people as opposed to the interests,
while today it stands for the inter
ests as opposed to the people.
The people have not changed but
the republican party is dominated by
politicians today instead of public
servants.
That makes the difference and it
will not matter to the people when
election time rolls around hereafter
you will see more people voting for
men and principle and fewer for
party than ever before in the history
of this nation.
Else why do we hear so many
times a day from almost every walk
of life except the millionaire, the
expression, Il wish Teddy was back
in the White House?'
The party leaders have sure
enough started something this time
and the stampede is country wide.
From Boston to Seattle and Canada
to the Gulf the same cry is going up
and one wonders what it will be
when three years have elapsed. To
make a bad matter worse, the public
utterances of the president on his
trip have not allayed the indigna-
tion. They have confirmed what
people We're loath to believe. In
deed. it might be said that the pres
ident has done nothing but explain
and defend the party at every turn,
and self justification is usually self
ccusuation-Yakima Republic Gre