The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-07-15
BRYAN'S CHARGES ARE NOW
PROVEN.

That the republican who now more
than President Taft himself is in the
public eye should prove the charges
made by William j. Bryan when he ac-
copied the democratic nomination which
he made against the republican party to
be true, is a curious dispensation of
fate, but it is an actuality and the curl
Gus spectacle of Boss Aldrich the head
of the republican party being the factor
is now self-evident. When MIR. Bryan
made his speech at Lincoln. August u,
| 1908, accepting the democratic nomin-
alton for the presidency among other
things which he said about the repub-
lican party was that he charged that
the republican party "is impotent to
accomplish the reforms which are i'm
peratively needed. Further, l cannot
concur in the statement that the re-
publican platform unequivocally de-
clares for the reforms that are necessary;
on the contrary, affirm that it openly
and VIGOROUSLY dissappoints the hopes
and expectations of reformers, whether
these reformers be republicans or
democrats"
For many weeks now Senator Aldrich
has been zealously proving the truth of
Mr. Bryans charges. Nothing has been
required of MIR. Bryan but to bide his
time, while Mr.. Aldrich and the repub-
lican majority produced the evidence.
On the whole the tariff bill passed by
the house was better measure than
was to have been expected in the Cir
cumstances. 1t was genuine attempt
at downward revision. 1t recognized
that the consumers demand for relief
was justified.
From the very beginning Senator Aid
rich showed that his purpose was to
undo the work of the house. He denied
impudently that the republican party
was under any obligations, expressed or
implied, to reduce the Diegley sched-
ules. He openly repudiated the pledges
of downward revision given by Mr..
Taft and other republican candidates
during the 1908 campaign. His policy
has been to restore the Dingley rates
lowered by the house, and he has sys-
tematically undertaken to raise many
of them. The Aldrich tariff out-Dingleys
Dingley. Yet its author asserts that it
fulfills the promises made by the repub
lican party at Chicago.
AS for the income tax, Senator Aid
rich has always opposed it. He admits
on the floor of the senate that he only
accepted the corporation tax as means
of beating the income tax. 1t was Mr..
Taft's suggestion, but Senator Aldrich
promises the repeal of the corporation
tax within two years. That means the
repeal of the publicity clause which
Mr.. Taft, in his special message, said is
the most important part of the bill.
Having tricked Mr.. Taft on the revision
of the tariff, Senator Aldrich proposes
to trick him with the corporation tax.
Senator Aldrich is in full control in
the senate. His leadership is recognized
at the White House. In the revision of
the tariff he has falsifed Mr.. Taft's
pledges, and in such reforms as the cor
poration tax and it's publicity provisions
he purposes multiplying Mr.. Taft's eff
forts. The republican party's i'm
potence to accomplish reforms, as Mr..
Bryan foresaw, comes from Senator
Aldrich's hostility to such reforms and
from the party's support of him as it's
foremost representatives.. Joe OBJ.
] server.