The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-10
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 play, and the Golden Rule that were urge the lowering of this schedule, the raising of that, or the abolition of an other. Take the subject of denatured alcohol, for instance. As soon as it was brought to the fore we began to get a perfect avalanche of protests from temperance societies, anti-sa- against the idea of allowing this pro- duct to be manufactured at all. The temperance people wrote, sent resolu- tions by the peck, and came on to Washington in person to impress their objections against this terrible dena- tured alcohol. We were assured that if we allowed it to be made without the tax we would create whole armies of wretched drunkards and would have upon our consciences the tears and broken hearts of cities full of widows and orphans. The assurances of scientists and experts that the de- natured alcohol could not be used as a beverage and therefore could not possibly make any drunkards, seemed to have no effect upon the crusaders. They knew better.
 "At last the secret came out. When we turned down the temperance ar guments being ground1ess, new crowd of anti-denatured alcohol people appeared on the scene. The wood al- coho1 makers swooped down on us and demanded that we protect their mono poly by refraining from putting de- natured alcohol on the free list. They
 
 pie forward to fight their battle for them
 Tt was much the same story in many other lines. We would get a storm of protests or appeals from the best people in section or city, against pr in favor of some particular tariff schedule. We would pay no at- tention to the altrustic arguments and then. in a little while, we'd receive a visit from the man or the men who had financial interest in the game JT7n rlan 1aH 1r111d ah "a needs of Uncle Sans treasury would ; a rule be found Nto be the most heavily interested in some hidden fea- ture connected with the tariff that was to bring the treasury out of it's defici+.
 After sitting through those hearings broadly when hear any one get up and talk about the tariff a patri- otic or benevolent institution. The man who does the talking usually nlea- sures it's patriotism and benevolence by what it will do for him
 Seth Bullock, the chur11 of T. Roose- Welt and doughty marshal of South Dakota, is just as active in chasing the dimes and dollars to which he lays claim as he is in rounding up criminals ; and stock thieves. He has just made the Treasury Department pay him ten cents which the auditor had withheld story is told in decision in Bullock's favor, made by the Comptroller of the Treasury.
 It seems that one of his deputies had to make short but hurried trip by train on official business. At the station where he boarded the train I the agents had left his office to go to dinner. So the deputy could not buy a ticket and had to pay a cash fare. i This cost him eighty-two cents where as the ticket would have cost only seventy-two cents. The auditor held | up the ten cents difference but the i comptroller decided that under the cir cunstances, it not being possible to purchase ticket, the extra expendi- ture was justified.
 things President Taft does, but it is l certainly one of the things he does best. 1 For instance, not long ago, the Pres ident attended a banquet at Newark. N. J. He did ample justice to the provender. and there was no scarcity thereo. The menu was at least two | feet long, and in these days of high | food prices it would have struck terror | to the heart of the bravest housewife. | After the banquet the President de- Hvered a rather lentghy speech. Per- haps that explains what followed. Maybe speaking wfets his appetite, for when the President climbed aboard his private ear. fifteen minutes after rising from the banquet board, he hail. ed the porter. with. Anything to eat?'' There was, and the President got it. #G