Arizona republican., 1910-07-05

i ministratiOn and cannot be rooted out
 without a terrific struggle. The bene- | ficiaries thereof will pour a stream of gold like unto the river Pactolus into the republican poodle fund with which to debauch the voters of the land and then recoup themselves by more of | special privilege granted by the men for whom they buy the offices. For years that endless chain has been in l operation and it will continue to Op- crate till our system of government is thoroughly purged of every variety and every vestige of special privilege.
 ''The tariff graft-one species of special privilege-became so offensive that five or six years ago even certain republicans became dissatisfied and ! began to demand a revision downward First there were only what the doctors call sporadic cases of republican dis satisfaction; but the republican dis l senters increased so rapidly that in the spring of 1908 Hon. Sereno E. Payne. chairman of the great committee on ways and means and ex-Officio repub- lican floor leader in the house. was driven into declaring that he violated no confidence in stating that the re- publicans would revise the tariff His statement was equivocal, as he did not say whether the revision was to be down or up-but, considering all the circumstances under which his utter ance was made, he intended it tO be understood as a promise of revision downward; and to do him perfect just ice he claims that his bill is a revision downward.
 Clearly. he has been imposed upon by his arithmetricians, for his bill re- vises it up about III per cent on the average. His declaration. however did not allay the clamor among repubIi- cans. It swelled into such roar that when the republicans held their na- tional convention in 1908, they were forced to promise tariff revision in their platform. Again the promise was equivOcal, as it did not state whether the revision was to be up or down. But the demand for tariff revision downward was so strong and so insist ent that a majority If republicans ora tors and editors declared that the re- vision was to be downward. On that promise they won. Having got in. they proceeded to revise it upward. So that in the impending campaign the over shadowing issue is whether men in conducting a campaign are under any obligation to tell the truth or whether they are licensed to platter in a double sense-tO keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. Query: Is it any less dishonest to se- cure offices under false pretenses than to obtain money in that felonious man. ner?
 President Taft himself admitted in his Winona speech that the hw6o1en goods schedule is too high and ought to be reduced. I agree with him on that; so do you all Why then. have they not reduced it7 It is eleven months lacking one day since he signed the Payne Aldrich- Shoot tariff bill He is a republican. Both shOuses of con gross are republican by overwhelming majorities. As the democratic floor leader in the house I guaranteed that if the president would send in a mess age urging that the woolen goods schedule be cut to a reasonable basis. so that the people could have cheaper clothing and cheaper blankets. and MT. Chairman Payne would report such a bill and put it upon it's passage every democrat would vote for it. and every democrat in the house applauded my offer. thereby proving that I spoke their sentiments. That was on May 21. but the president has never sent in any such message and MT. Chairman Payne has never reported any such bill.
 Every newspaper in the land that commented on my offer to the presi- dent said that it was a fair propOsi- ton and should be accepted, By req son of republican refusal to cure that great outrage hundreds and thousands of people must shiver and freeze through the ensuing winter. Doctors and philanthropists are waging war against the great white plague. which the wooden goods schedule of the Payne Aldrich-S tariff till does so much to foster. Shame upon men who will not remedy such a gross out rage an outrage whose existence they admit, an outrage which causes incal-
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