Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1910-07-08
Vital Washington News.
Washington, D. c.. July a, 1910.

Washington, D. c., July a, 1910,
The whoopers-up for President Taft
claimed that he was omnipotent and could
force Congress to do anything he desired" -
declared Minority Leader Champ Clark. re-
viewing the session just closed. in an inter-
view with the writer.
IF that be true one thing must be ad-
mitted. and that is that Mr.. Taft is in favor
of the reckless waste of public money.
THE total appropriations for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1910, was $l,O44,-
900, 900. whereas the appropriations for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1911, are
about 81, 058, 900. 900. an increase of $l4.-
100000. Such expenditures are abso-
lutely unjusti6able. When the President
came into Office he declared for economy
with great flourish of trumpets. The
newspapers were full Of what he was going
to do in that regard to relieve the taxpay-
ers of the land. But all such talk turned
out to be laundering in the index, as the
foregoing totals show.
Il have heretofore stated in the House
and out of 1t that Senator Aldrich said
good business man can run the govern
ment just as well as it is run for $780,
100000 per annum less than 1t now costs.
The President himself fixed the amount
which could be saved every year at $780,
100000. Other Republican big wigs,
notably Senator Carter, of Montana, Sena-
tor Hale. of Maine, chairman of the Senate
Appropriations Committee, and Hon. Jas.
A. Tawney, chairman of the House Appro-
priations Committee. have talked economy {;
but the fact remains that their economy
consists entirely of CAB and that they actu-
oil INT oeaAf hA snNtn nd
of reducing them.
"As they have large majorities in both
Houses Of Congress and could do as they
pleased, one of two things is true |. They
do not desire to economize or 2. They
are utterly incompetent.
But how can President Taft expect Con-
gress to ecOnomize when he sets the exam
pie of extravaganza not only by using up
the $4,000 annual allowance for travel
ling expenses, but uses up several thousand
dollars moreH Be il remembered no Presi-
dent ever received this travel pay till the
last part Of the Roosevelt regime, and
Roosevelt never used all of the allowance,
while his successor uses more. How can
Congress be expected to economize when
the Vice-President and Speaker set the
bad example by using automobiles paid for
with public money!
II am aware that economy is an humble
theme, but IL is close TO the hearts of the
people and millions of them cannot afford
to be taxed to support Republican officials
in their reckless extravaganza.
ROOSEVELT SNUBBED TAFT.
1t has become known in Washington
that President Taft endeavored to have
Roosevelt pay him visit at the White
House, and the latter did not accept the
invitation. This further emphasizes the
story that the Taft administration has been
so bad that Roosevelt will not dare to en-
dorse IL. 1t is said that the Presidents
invitation was carried to Roosevelt orally
by Captain Archibald Butt and delivered
on the day of Roosevelt's return. Senator
Lodge, Of Massachusetts. and SOn-in-law
LongwOrth, according to information that
has leaked out. also made strenuous en-
deavOrs to have Roosevelt pay his respects
to Taft at the White House, but I. X.
baked.
LODGE SHOWN UP.
Now comes Representative Butler Ames.
of Massachusetts. Republican insurgent,
with the statement that the political ma
chine of Senator Lodge of that State lis
backed by all the large corporations and
all the State and Federal patronage at his
command" and is used to advance the
selfish financial schemes Of the large rail-
roads. banking and manufacturing interests
he serves in the halls Of Congress. This is
hardly news to well-informed men in
Washington. Lodge is one of the Aldrich
Group, ever ready to increase the tariff and
serve the corporate interests. He stated
in the Senate one day that the ultimate
consumer is myth.
How PROTECTION Protects.
Protectionists assert that high tariff
rates protect" American workmen. What
is meant by the word protect ?" The steel
industry is one Of the most highly pro-
tected industries in the United States. The
high rates on steel products have PRO
tected" the American wOrkmen in that in
dustry by driving them from the mills.
Positions formerly filled by Americans are
now occupied by the cheapest foreign labor.
A report Just made on the conditions in
the mills of the steel trust at Bethlehem.
Pa, states that Il ,725 men, or 81 per cent.
of all the employees, worked twelve hours a
day; 220 workmen had a twelve-hOur day
except on Saturdays and 4.203 employees
had workday of ten and one-half TO
eleven hours in length" Thus does pro-
lection protect" the wOrkingmanl
PEOPLE WERE BETRAYED.
Tariff protection makes for monopoly"
declares Alfred Henry Lewis in Pearsons
magazine But that is not all he says. MO
nopoly." he declares, lis robbery arranged
by law. Anyone who would be monopo-
list would be pickpocket could he be safe.
The politicians in Washington have cheated
and betrayed you. They owed you revs-
ion downward and paid you with revision
upward, promised you bread and gave you
a stone"
How. INDEED
How can the government control the
trusts when the trusts control the Govern
ment Y'-SenatOr Owen, Of Oklahoma.