Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LIKE
TO BE HUMeUeeED?


leader of the House of Representa-
tives, thinks that Aldrich, Lodge an,
their conductors pattern after tn,
late lamented Phin T. Barnum, whit
maintained that the American peo
pie like to be humbugged
"The republican leaders" M
Clark says 'appear to act upon tn,
philosophy voiced in the old saying
Promises like piecrusts, are mad,
to be broken AT any rate they
have in the most flagrant manner
broken their promises, made in ev
cry possible manner-in platform, OF
the hustings, in the public press ant
in private conversation. When Straf
ford heard that Charles the First hat
agreed to his death, i'm bitter agony
he exclaimed: Put not your trust
in princes'-words which We're uset
with fearful effect after he was il
his grave and which had much to dc
in causing Charles to lose his owr
head. Hereafter, when the Repubdi
can Big Wigs promise anything the
reply of honest men should be: Put
not your trust in Republican Stand
patters.'
Forever and forever as long as
the river flows
AS long as the heart hath pas
sions, as long as life hath woes.
a Republican platform should be re-
garded as a contrivance to get in on
and not a thing to stand on after
getting in.
Up to date only two men of any
consequence have dared to assert op
emily that there was no Republican
promise to revise the tariff down
ward-Senators Henry Cabot Lodge
and Nelson w. Aldrich, but both are
New Englanders eager for tariff
bill by which New England may fat
ten at the expense of the rest of the
country. Their denial of Republican
campaign promise to revise down.
ward was received with shout c
derision from sea to sea and from
the Great Lakes to the seething wa
ters of the sunlit gulf Indeed, when
their remarks were repeated where.
ever two or three American citizens
were gathered together, "the short
and ugly word" was generally heard
frequently prefaced with an adjective
not fit to be mentioned to ears po-
lite. Republicans We'd with Demo.
Gratis in denouncing that pair Of
New England Senators for denying
a fact known by everybody of any
degree Of intelligence whatsoever
Senator Lodge also distinguished him
self by abolishing the consumer al
together.
The plain truth is that Republican
stump speakers, including the Repub-
'lican Presidential nominee and Re.
Publican newspapers with hardly an
exception played the downward re.
i vision or the tariff as. the trump
card in the exciting and intricate
game CT Presidential politics. That
it helped, perhaps enabled, them to
win, there can be no doubt Presi-
dent Taft has never denied that he
not only favored but promised down
ward revision In fact in speech
at Yale this summer he asserted that
Republican ante-election promises
for downward revision must be kept
and that if they were not kept the
Republicans were likely to be put
out of business. The pity Of it all.
50 far as he is concerned is, that he
has been made to believe by such
'Eslight-of-hand performers as Senator
i Aldrich, Mr.. Speaker Cannon and Mr.
Chairman Payne that the Payne, AID
4 rich-Smoot bill is a downward revi,
sion, and, therefore at least, par
tial redemption of his and the Re.
publican ante-election promises; bu-
l instead of being revision downward
it is revision upward. Did the
people vote last year to revise the
tariff up? Not that anybody heard
of. Was this extraordinary session
called to revise it up? Who has the
gall to say that it was called fol
that purpose? The whole perform
ance is stppendous confidence game
AS revision downward the Payne
Aldrich-Smoot bill is the widest
farce put upon the boards. Its aver
age rate is at least per cent. high
er than the average of the DingleJ
bill as it stands and that, too, not
counting the farther increase which
will be caused by transferring Ger
tain items from the free list of the
Dingley bill to the dutiable list of the
Payne -Aldrich -Smoot monstrosity
That's not the worst, however, for OF
March 81, 1910, an additional increas
of 25 per centum ad valorem will. be
placed upon nearly every item. Tha'
comes through Senator Aldrich's MAJ
imum and minimum scheme. 1t will
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then be found that in practice the
average rate is about 27 per cent
higher than the average rate of tht
Dingley bill-which is protection
run mad and which result is an op
en- defiant wicked reputation of th'
ante-election promises of the Repub
lican leaders for tariff revision down
ward.
No doubt the desire for fat cam
paign contributions from the pre-
tected interests also induced fey
Republican insurgents to return int
camp.
When was a boy back in the Hin
Country of Kentucky heard an oil
ord raodv dontor who WAC