The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-04-14
GOVERNOR HARMON SAYS REVl-
SION is A MOCkERY OF THE
DEMAND FOR RELIEF.
USES CAUST|C LANGUAGE
Ohio's Governor Declares That No Re-
lief Will Be Secured Save Under the
Guidance and Direction Of an Exec
utive and Congress Of the Good Old
Jeffersonian Type.

New York, April 13-"The reductions
in the pending tariff legislation form
nothing but mockery of the demand
for relief" asserted Governor Judson
Harmon of Ohio, in an address tonlght
at the dinner of the National Demo-
cratic club at the Hotel Savoy. He IN
sisted real relief would never be Sc
cured except under congress ana
executive of Jeffersonian rules and
treating taxes as means of pubic
revenue and not of private gain. Gov
ernor Harmon protested strongly
against what he termed the growing
encroachment of special privilege at
Washington, insisting that the steady
tendency since the civil war has been
to exalt the federal government at
the expense of the state, one result
being the neglect of economy and the
embarkation of the government into
extravagant enterprises. He instanced
the action of the last congress in ap-
propriatng $4,000, 100000 and the raising
of salaries in the face of growing
shortage, and continued:
Now. instead of seeking methods
of retrenchment, the president and
congress are devsing additional taxes
to exact from the diminished means of
the people and are proposing to issue
bonds besides. State officials VINO
would propose such course would
not dare to go home to their con-
stituents and would be forever dis
graced if they should take it.
He's Not There,
THE wage earners, for whom there
is the usual show of deep interest, are
not present OR represented in the
pulling and hauling which is going
on so as to secure the advantages
professed to be for them. The in
crease caused by the tariff will most
ly go, as it has always gone, to make
unnatural profits for the employer
whose soicitude for his Workmen
does not even take the form of fair
division of the spoils.
Some luckless interests whose pull
has grown weaker or has been over
come by counter-pull, like the wood
pulp paper trust, may, with great
ceremony, be annointed with the Oil of
sacrifice for the salvation of the
other but the reductions, when real,
will be a mockery of the cry for re-
lief.
1T is hardly fair for republicans at
least to charge with inconsistency
democratic congressman who take a
hand in this selfish scramble. In the
last campaign the republican candi-
date for president openly offered a
share of tariff spoil for democratic
votes. When special favors are the
order of the day, it is natural for a
representative to think he ought to Sc
cure a share for the interests at home.
Why Such FoIy7
''Why tax the people to build a
costly canal and secure ships for for
eign commerce while a tariff system
is maintained to discourage or kill
foreign commerce except such as con-
sists in selling our products abroad
for less prices than are imposed on
our own people. What state govern
ment ever committed such folly?
Surely, instead of the union domi-
mating the states which compose it,
it would be better far if the states
would require from the central gov
eminent which their people estab-
vance of the same principles and
practices Of economy, fairness and
equality of rights and benefits which
have always prevailed in them. This
can never be under the rule of the
republican party
Governor Thomas r. Marshall OF
Indiana was another speaker. He
declared the general welfare" clause
of the federal constitution had been
perverted distorted and made the
mother of evils untold
Governor Marshall said the present
tariff revision did not indicate an ef-
fort to so adjust schedules that reve-
nues will be raised
i:Angry Band.
Rather" said he, sit indicates the
ravages of a band of hungry advo-
Gates of support privileges trying not
to put money into the national treas
ury, but into the pockets of their
stockholders"
The dinner was national in char
acter, a number of prominent demo-
Gratis from other states being present
including Senator George E. Cham
berlain of Oregon
At the guest table were Governors
Harmon and Marshall, Senator Cham
berlain, State Senator Grady, John
Fox, the clubs president; Richard
Croker, Alton B. Parker, Charles F
Murphy leader of Tammany hall;
former state Supreme Court Justices
Morgan ]. O'Brien and d. Cady Her
rick.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota and
William I sent raPratS