The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-07-21
By Clyde H Tsvsnnsr

general OF the United States would
do his full duty they would be forced
to dissolve.
But if Roosevelt does endorse the
Taft administration it will be and
ought to be his Waterloo, following
in the due allotted time his triumphant
return from Elba." If Roosevelt
openly endorses such standpatters as
Taft and Senator Lodge of Massa-
chusetts it will mean that he deceived
the people as to his true sentiment as
completely as the prize-fighter JEFF
fries deceived the sporting world as
to his real physical condition.
Taft Past Redemption.
Roosevelt will not dare endorse
Taft for these reasons:
First-Taft personally promised re-
vision downward, and then personal
ly signed a tariff bill which revised
the tariff upward.
Second-Taft personally aided Boss
Aldrich to cheat the people out of an
income tax, which would take some
of the burden off of the poor and
place it upon the rich.
Third-Taft personally used all the
power at his command to prevent
Speaker Cannon from being de-
throned.
Fourth-Taft upheld Ballinger after
the latter had been exposed and dis.
credited as having given aid to
Alaska coal land grabbers.
Fifth-Taft counseled with Aldrich,
Lodge, Hale, Guggenheim, PenroSe,
Flint, Cannon, Fordney and other
representatives of the special inter-
ests, and refused to accept advice
from such men as LaFollette, Dolli-
yer, Cummins, Clapp and Murdoch.
Sixth-Taft is personally seeking
to defeat LaFollette and other genuine
insurgents because they endeavored
to revise the tariff in conformity with
the Taft prediction speeches.
Aldrich's Exact Words.
Senator Aldrich, on February 81,
1910, in the Senate, when speaking
on the subject of government ex,
penses, said:
There is no intelligent observer
in Congress or out of it who does moi
know that the executive departments
of this government are carried on
either under obsolete business meth
DDS or without any business methods
at all. There is no man who has
given this subject any attention what
everwho does not know or believe that
at least 10 per cent of the thousand
million dollars which we are appro'
priating annually can be saved by the
adoption of business methods. This
question of saving $lOO,OOO,OOO pei
year-and it can be demonstrated, in
my judgment, that the saving will be
much more than that's a matter
that should receive the serious at
tention of Congress. If | were bus.
mess man and could be permitted tC
do it, Iwould undertake to run this
government for $500, 900, 900 less thar
it is now run for"
Lodge and Teddy Are Pals!
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Of
Massachusetts, is posing as the bosom
friend of Roosevelt. He says T. R.
will campaign for his reelection, and
Roosevelt has not denied that he will
go to Lodges rescue. 1t was only
recently that LaFollette Of Wisconsin,
in speech in the Senate, exposed
this same Lodge as the Inscriptions
tool of the railroads and other specia
interests. Lodge is by training and
nature untitled to represent any par
of the United States in the Senate
He can not outgrow the ancient IL
fusion that the business Of the Senate
is to legislate for the rich, regardless
Of the rights Of the poor. Unless al
signs read falsely, Mr.. Lodge Of Mas
sachusetts, who declares the consum
er is a myth, will be retired to private
j lifa VOC and rpUn rdlnse ~ uhothe,