The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-08-13
Decline of Law-Making Bodies.

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Judson Harmon, Democratic govern
or of Republican State, possible can
didate for President, unless Mr.. Bryan
resolves to have another try in the race,
at banquet given by the Legislators of
Ohio, paid tribute to the law making
bodies of the nation.
There were judges" said Harmon,
before there were kings, Then there
were kings, and then there were judges
appointed by kings, and then there
were law makers and constitutions.
As civilization advanced, people won
the right of making and administering
their own laws, and the law-making
bodies became the safeguards Of the
people against oppression from above,
and, Also checked the people from their
own excuses in self government.
Then the governor warned the legis-
lators that the dignity of their calling
was being lowered, and that this was
mainly their own fault,
In the national government, the peo-
pie during the last six years have
strongly turned away from their Con-
gressmen and Senators, and gone direct
to the President, and they strangely,
also, pass around the courts and seek
an audience in the White House or in
the office of a cabinet minister.
In States there is tendency to ignore
the courts and 60 direct to the govern
or The disposition, however, to make
a car of the governor is less than is the
process of making an absolute ruler of
the President
The national law makers have them
selves to blame for being ignored by
the people.
In the Senate of the United States,
the controlling group, instead of look
ing to the people, have taken orders
from Privilege.
The tariff bill that we get is the hand
iwork of Nelson w. Aldrich.
| When the bill went to the Senate
from the House, it was in line with the
demands of the people of the North
west and of the South for tariff reduc-
ton, advocated by Beveridge, LaFollette
and Cummings, of Iowa, and other in
surgents.
When the bill was finished by Sena
tor Aldrich, those things that Mr.. Taft
himself had advocated were practically
eliminated. The New England manu-
facturer was remembered, and his de-
sires were crystallized into every line of
the bill.
Mr. Aldrich is a Senator from Rhode
Island His daughter married John d.
Rockefeller's son. Mr. Aldrich is SYM
pathetic with the Rockefeller point of
view
The farmers of New England do not
sell many hides, but the manufacturers
of New England make leather goods.
They have put hides on the free list,
The manufacturer of shoes can thus get
his hides from South America and force
the American farmer to sell him hides
at prices competing with peon labor,
and the farmer himself will pay the
same old protective price for hide
from his COW made into a boot, belt or
bride.
There was great talk about oil going
on the free list. Standard Oil was never
more prosperous than after the passage
of Mr.. Aldrich's bill Standard Oil
sold at 500 Friday. When Kennesaw
Mountain Lands put that S29, 900, 600
fine on Standard Oil, Standard Oil stock
went down to $500.
This tariff bill gives more advantages
to those who have already grown rich
by having a legalized unfair advantage
under the law over the unprotected con-
sumner and producer.
During the recent Presidential cam
paign you saw how that men in the
United States Senate answered to push
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buttons in the Office of Standard Oil
| Roosevelt himself was active in ex-
posing the subseryiency of the controll-