The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-09-15
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Grover cleveland was elected by
democrats at time when the out
look for democratic success seemed
not nearly so favorable as the chan
ces for democratic success in 1912
now appear. Someone perhaps it
was Grant--said that the democratic
party could always he counted upon
| to make a fool of itself just at the
/ time The outlook for its success seem
ed the brightest. Unfortunately the
indictment was a true one. The
/ query now is: VIII democracy make
fool of itself in 1912?
Franklin Pierce AN eminent New
York lawyer and author of that ex-
cellent economical work, 'The Tar
If and the Trusts" in a recent COM
munication to New York papers
discusses the democratic opportuni-
! ty in manner that should provoke
earnest thought. He says:
no other party in the history of
! the world has ever failed to recog-
nize the existence of issues on which
! it could triumph as has that party
Not one democratic leader in a hun
dred appreciates the popular force
which might well be invoked today
against the republican party. The
Aldrich bill just enacted imposes
duties upon four or five thousand
separate imports which will amount
to about s5u0,D00,000 during the
coming year A great proportion of
these articles are practically prohib-
tied from import because the duties
are so high, but these duties, al
though they will bring probably
about $3.50, 100000 to $500, 100000
into the treasury, allow the manufac-
turers of the country through COM
binations to increase their prices
over a reasonable price to the ex-
tent of the duty and they will ex-
tract during the year at least bill
lion and a half dollars of the hard
earned money of the consumer Thus
90, 5000 consumers, more than
three-fourths of whom depend upon
their earnings by manual labor and
in clerical work, and all of whom
have comparatively little money
are required by the government to
pay that billion and a half dollars of
enhanced profit to manufacturers to
swell their tens of billions of dol
lars of wealth accumulated through
tice. Tens of millions of the poor
! are required by this law to take a
/ considerable part of their hard earn
/ ings to unjustly enrich the few
manufacturers. If the leaders of the
! democratic party had brains enough
! to al.JTpc' ate such a situation and
co - enough to present it to the
people they would blow the repub-
lican party so high that the laws of
gravitation would not act upon it,
There is but one end of legisla-
ton in our day. and that is to care
for special interests The ordinary
legislator does not seem to appreci-
late any other object Deputy Comp
.troller Kane for many years in the
Office of the comptroller of the cur
( .ency at Washington, recently said:
OF the fifty-four acts ameudatory
o. the original enactment (refering
to the national banking a9t which
have been adopted since that date
/ CFeb %, 1869 practically all have
been i'm the interest OF greater lati-
tude of privilege to the banks and
he tells US that it can be said that
none of these acts had for its object
the peculiar welfare of the deposit
tor Mr.. Ballir ger. secretary of the
interior on the next day after the
Inauguration Of President Taft com
menced to restore TO public control
/ the lands which had been withdrawn
by President Roosevelt. Within the
month of March alone he restored
continued to restore other millions
in April; and no sooner had he con-
menced to restore these lands than
water companies commenced to take
over the water privileges for electri-
cal purposes.
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