Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-04
TAFT WILL SIGN
 MEASURE
No Politicians in Washington Doubt Payne-AIdrich Bill's
 Ratification
PRESIDENTS STATEMENT
 BELIEVED SIGNIFICANT
Especial to Reyiew.1

ininu ot any WEI AniOlMlCu here in Washington but that Presl- dent Taft will sign the Payne-Aldricn bin. Look where you will. interview prominent men from morning until night. and it is impossible to find 8 statesman of prominence who will ad- init that he maintains the belief that the president will veto the measure.
 President Taft's statement while in the south that he believed the tariff bill would be one that he could sign. was so construed by many as to in dicate the satisfaction Of the presi- dent with the pending bill. by ninety five per cent of the newspapers of the nation. and by every branch of the business world accept the trusts and protected manufacturers. Tae latte~, alone, appear to be perfectly satisfiet l. They have made no criticisms, what. ever.
 It must be understood, howeer, in justice to the President. that he ,s not in a position where he can exe-- else wide unbounded discretion as to whether he shall sign. refuse to sign, or veto the tariff bill after it is passed by congress. He was elected as the head of the party of protection. Be cause of being Republican president. he really has no choice. He must sign the bill. or at least not do anything that will prevent it's passage. even if it does give the trusts little heavier prize package than heretofor. In do- ing so he is merely carrying out the idea of the protection principle.
 When the president signs the bill ph trnn,tSnS n fnrfhar innroaca the cost Of living, he is only perform ing the ceremony for which the pro tected interests wished him to be elected the chief executive. He will be doing exactly what the big manu- lecturers understood he would do when they made large contributions to the Republican candidate because they expected. and had right to expect, that if the party of protection was victorious. Aldrich would look out for their profits in framing the new tariff measure, and that President Taft would also dc his duty (sign the Aid rich bill) as the head of the party of protection. The trusts were there fore most liberal in their campaign contributions.
 If President Taft would sign a tariff bill placing sugar, lumber. oil and oil products, iron ore and steel, and wool en and cotton manufactures on the free list. the Republican party would in all probability go to pieces. The protected interests would 10 longer be Given monopolies on the American Ina kets and be free to extort fabulous profits from the American conSltrer. Therefore thev would no lonSar be xir'rg to contr'but to ths Ca'.pai Sn fund such colossal sums as they arc no. contribl.its, and w1uil mo- ID all probabi,t- adopt the 1esDeratc tactics they now use to compel their employees to vote the Republican ticket
 The tariff system as it is now man ipulated makes it business proposi- ton for the trusts to be in politics They donate a certain amount of money to the Republican campaign fund, with the expectation that the high tariff wall will be kept propped up. and they will be able to get their monopoly on the markets of the American consumer.
 Therefore when Mir. Taft signs the Aldrich-Payne bill. even as vicious as it is, he is not deserving of a more severe epithet than "an extreme pro tectionist." It is more the principle, and less the man, which is to be blamed for any advance in the cost of living which may follow the new tariff law.
 President Taft's acts and associa- tions since becoming president, how ever, are such that he cannot hope to escape being classified with the re- actionaries. "A Tariff Reformer.' in the June number of the American magazine. measurers the new pres' dent as follows:
 What will Mir Taft do? I wish that the question did not insist upon popping up it's head I want to think Mir. Taft has no more use for MT. Cannon than I have. and that he re- joices as I did that Mir. Aldrich Is to retire to private life. l should like to believe that he had no more sympathy with the group of free and Dearfree senators than he had with the Aldrich. Elkins-Penrose combination, that he would rather see an insurgent than standpatter But it does not look so just now in Washington. The two most frequent callers at the White | House are Messrs Cannon and Aid rich. and the faithful are taking theiT cue from them. The free men and re volters are not called as yet. It looks very much as if the day of reaction !, had come. That it's headquarters were at the Presidential mansion
 What will Mir. Bryan do? Will he ! in the interests of party peace-anc !; dishonor-comprdmise on the down | ward cuts-iet the swindler stand overlook the jokers which are hidden
 iu the schedule jungles or will he veto any bill which is not frankly in the ] intarast of the average mau2'