New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-16
Current Comment.
Editor Review:

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It seems to me there has not been
time in many years in which there has
been so much of vital Importance to the
people to comment upon as there has
been in the past three or four months
Public interest had been thoroughly
aroused by the passage of the Payne
! Aldrich tariff bill, which. contrary to
/ the promises of candidate Taft and the
reasonable expectation of the people
that there would be tariff revision
downward to meet long felt need, the
bill as passed was large upward re-
! vision on wooden and cotton goods,
/ which enter largely into general con-
sumption; and then, instead of the
President taking manly position, after
tamely submitting to the demands of
the tariff favored interests, and at first
pretending the tariff did not wholly suit
him, he soon came out strongly in favor
of the bill as a whole, finally claiming it
as the best tariff bill ever passed. Here
was plain betrayal of the people and
insult added to injury. So, one after
another of the Presidents acts and
speeches have but confirmed the reason
able conclusion formed by many persons
when it became known that nearly all
OF his cabinet appointees had been cor
poration attorneys, that the occupant
1 of fho ic%o
pletely under the domination of the
Large corporations and the centralized
money power of New York City. Now,
add to that his advocacy of ship
subsidy act of congress-, which Con-
gresham STEVENSON of this state has
recently started to expose the corrupt
| efforts to pass, and which is being ad-
vocated under false pretences for selfish
ends, on par with protective tariffs;
his throwing sthe burden of the post
office deficiency on second class reading
matter, in his annual message, instead
of placing where there is ready
remedy, on the excessive pay to rail-
road corporations for carrying mails;
and his effort to force congress to pass
a bill amending the Interstate Com
merce law and creating a Commerce
Court, which Senator Clapp the past
week has exposed as being really against
the interest of shippers and therefore
the people, and directly beneficial to
the railroads; these and other measures
urged by the president, coupled with
his evident purpose to aid the Aldrich-
Payne-Tauney gang who control con-
gress and national legislation, now are
called "regulars'' because they are
backed by Taft and control the ma
chinery of the party, as also its Offices
and the contributions, and thereby are
determined to crush or render powerless
the so-called ''insurgents," it would
seem, prove conclusively that the
leaders of the Republican party con-
tinue more and more defiant of the
peoples needs and their desires. Some
of the party organs frequently state,
while condemning or censuring the
presidents views and acts, that his in
tentions are good or honest, but it must
not be forgotten that those who ought
to know say the streets of his Satanic
Majesty's dominion are paved with good
Intentions, albeit he was cast out of
4 heaven.
| Referring more directly to the protec-
tive tariff it is difficult to visit the asser-
tion that protective tariff strictly in
terpreted, is a deception and fraud,
and from the beginning has been OBJ
tanning what it has under false preten-
ces, which is a criminal offense. It is
now and ever has been disguised fraud
upon the people; and although it may
seem unwarranted to attribute improper
motives to the founders of our govern
ment, who we're in dire need of revenue
to support the government, even they
admitted that in raising revenue by the
Indirect means of tariff they were de-
ceiving the people who were paying
taxes through it mperceptibly, whereas
they might have revolted in having to
support the government through direct
taxation. The Fathers also admitted
in providing revenue through tariff,
desire to protect manufacturers at home
Who might engage in supplying the
needs of the struggling people at home
and thereby encourage home industries.
But the patriotic Fathers could not or
did not see the monstrous curse they
were innocently laying the foundation
of. The 'sinfant industries they were
encouraging, growing from year to year
on what they were feeding, and at first
asking as favor measure of protec-
ton against foreign competition in thu
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