Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-10-22

Nv" trllst llaSnateS III the penlten-
tlary; of course, not all of them
llaughterl, but Just one or two to
See whether they liked it or not
lchcers and laughterI. The Demo-
cratic party has been educating pub
he sentiment on the trust question,
and. to-day the Democratic party is
responsible for whatever there has
been done, except as Mr.. Roosevelt
has. seconded the motion, every once
In a while, after a Democrat has
made it.
CRlTlCIsE PRESIDENT TAFT $ VIEWS.
Mr.. Taft does not unders tand the
trust question, and when | say that |
am saying the most charitable thing
| can say in regard to his position on
the subject, for if he did understand
the trust question you could not ex-
cuse him for the position he has
taken.
What is his position In his Co
lumbus speech that was made at the
beginning of his candidacy for nomi-
nation. the speech in which he an
nounced his candidacy, he said he
was in favor Of amending the anti
trust law-but how ? He said the
word unreasonable" ought to be
put IN there, so that instead of max
ing all conSpiracies in restraint of
trade unlawful, that the law would
only make unreasonable cOnspiracies
unlawful. or conspiracies for the un-
reasonable restraint of trade. Do
you know what that word "unreason-
able means ir criminal law? 1t
transfers the question from the Jury
TO the Judge. After you have CON
vlcted n man for having restrained
trade. it is for the Judge to say
whether 1t was an unreasonable re
Straint or not
My friends, if we are going to stop
the trust, we must lay the axe at the
root of the tree, and the Democratic
party has taken the only defensible
position when it says, not that pro-
duction on Il large scale shall be
stopped not that there shall be no
production. so large as to make use
OF the economies in production
That is not the position. Our party
position is, that a private monopoly
is indefensible and intolerable, and
that the line ought to be drawn at a
point that will make it impossible for
u private monopoly to exist in the
United States. That is the Demo-
cratic position. Checrsl. And,
my friends, it is the only position.
ACCUSES REPUBLICANS OF THEFT.
There is another question that we
have advocated. the income tax.
We have advocated the income tax
for a great many years; we passed
the law in 1904, and we have defend
ed it ever since, and now Mr.. Taft
comes and takes the plank boldly
from our platform and asks the Re-
publican House and Senate to put it
into effect, and the Republican Sen
ate passes it by unanimous vote,
and only fourteen votes were mega
tive in the House, and only two west
of the Allegheny mountains. Are
you surprised that wear a smile
that won't come off when | see our
doctrines appropriated? They some
times ask me if am ever going to
be a candidate again, and my an
swer is always the same cheers
and | hope these yonng men will
take these down exactly, and not
make the mistakes that are some
time made. My answer is always
the same, that while | will not prom
ise anybody never to be candidate for
anything under any circumstances,
| never expect to be candidate for
Office again. never desire to be q
candidate for Office again, and hope
that no circumstances will ever arise
to make it necessary to consider
even the question of candidacy.
But. my friends. there are several
reasons why | say that. might
give you one, and that is that Presi-
dent Roosevelt took some of my
platform and put it into law during
one of his administratiOns-on of his
termSIand Mr. Taft has taken my
income tax planks, and l don't know
what else he may have designs upon.
and | am afraid that if | ever run
again they will raise the three term
argument against me, and say |
have had two terms already. Loud
cheers. Now my friends | want to
ask you a question. What is the
use? What is the use of my being
bothered with the appointment OF
officers and quarrels among cabinet
officers and all the worry of the
presidency when | can get men to
dc the work for me and get rid of all
the responsibility? Loud and pro-
longed cheers.
ATTACKS TARIFF REVISION
The speaker said the Democratic
party had compelled the Republican
party to admit that the tariff needed
to be reduced.
In the last campaign the Repuhli
can candidates WED with each other
in declaring themselves in favor of Il
reform in the tariff When they got
to Chicago they wrote II platform.
and the people were actually fooled
by it. was not fooled, because |
knew the people who wrote it. l
had served with some of them
in Congress, and | knew that
they never intended any real ma
terial reduction of the tariff; and
President Taft suspected it. Do
you want to know how | know? |
asked him. And as our relations
were not confidential, asked him in
public, and | kept asking him.
said, Is it up or DOWN. You
saw. Revised" that does not
mean anything; is it up or
down. And finally he said "prOba-
bly, downward" Probably. What
does that mean? That is worse
than unequivocally; for when he said
probably he said he knew the men,
too. and yet now that it is over, he
feels constrained to support the
solidarity-is that the word-of the
party, and in order that the party