The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-31

! man who helps the poor not only In
election years. but in all the years and
| all through the years They ought
to despise, and doubtless do despise.
the man or the party which plays upon
their passions to win an Office for n
man who has done nothing for them
and for party which uses them only
In the sacred cause of Plunder.
A SAFE GUIDE FOR MIR. TAFT.
Now that Mr. Taft has really start
ed after the revision Of the tariff. and
as he apparently does not apprehend
tho true Democratic view of the sub
iect we would commend to his careful
and prayerful consideration some Of
the plain thinking of Grover Cleve-
land touching this most important
matter. This is the Democratic view
Cleveland:
1.-THE Democratic party claims that
when, through Federal taxation, bur-
dens ere laid upon the daily life of
the people, made necessary for the
Governments economical administers
ton, and intended, whatever is the
pretext, to enrich u few at the expense
of the many, the governmental COM
pact is violated. A distinguished JUS
| tice of the Supreme Court with no
Democratic affiliations, but loved and
| respected when living by every Ameri-
| can, and since his death universally
| lamented, has characterized such
| proceeding as none the less rob-
berry because it is done under the
forms of law and is called taxation ;"
| In his letter accepting the nominal
| ton for President in 1855, Mr.. Cleve-
! land said:
"The platform adopted by the Ma
| tional Convention of our party con-
| tains the following declaration: Judg-
| ed by Democratic principles, the inter-
| ests of the people are betrayed by I'M
| necessary taxation. Trusts and COM
! binations are permitted and fostered
| which, while unduly enriching the
| few that combine, rob the body of our
| citizens by depriving them as pur-
| chasers of the benefits of natural com
| petition Such combinations have al
| ways been condemned by the Demo-
| cratic party.
1--WE have entered upon no crusade
| of free trade. The reform we seek to
| inaugurate is predicated upon the ut
| most care for established Industries of
| American labor. and a sincere desire
| to relieve the country from the ipjus-
| tice and danger which threaten evil
! to all the people of the land"
In an address to the Cleveland
| Democracy of Buffalo in May. 1891.
Mr. Cleveland said:
"Our Democratic faith teaches us
that the useless eXaction of money from
| the people, upon the false pretext of
| public necessity, is the worst of all
governmental perversions, and in
wolves the greatest of all dangers to
I our guarantees of justice and equity,
we need not unlearn this lesson to
apprehend the fact that behind the
fact that such exaction. and as it's
source of existence, is found Public
| Extravaganza.
In an address in the opera House
at Providence, Rhode Island, in April
1892, Mr.. Cleveland said:
eve have never lowered our stand
ard. 1t surely was not policy or eX-
pediency that induced us definitely to
carry the banner of tariff reform as
it went forth to meet a well organic
ed, desperately determined army in
the disastrous field of 1888. A time
serving or eXpediency hunting party
would hardly have been found, the day
after such a crushing defeat undis-
mayed. defiant and determined: still
shouting the old war cry, and anxious
to encounter again In the peoples
cause our exultant enemy We had
not long to wait. At the Waterloo OF
,tt ~ Il .t,,l; 4 TOW
and principle and steadfast devotion
to American fairness and good faitl
/ gloriously triumphed over plausible
/ stiffness and attempted popular de-
ception The Democratic party Still
! champions the cause which defeat
could not induce 1t to surrender, which,
no means short of complete accom-
plishment can tempt 1T to neglect"
Mr.. Taft, you will find in Mr. Cleve.
lands messages and addresses and
writings the surest lamp to your feet
and guide to your path in the tariff
work you have commended to your
party. OF course, IL there shall be a
Democratic majority in the next
way now by which it can be prevent
ed 1t Will reject the Republican doc
trine of protection as announced by
your party in 1908; but if you are
serious in your desire to revise the
tariff downward and we believe You
are Democratic House will do more
| to carry out your policy than the
present Republican House. All that
we wish to do Just now, however. is
to explain the true Democratic posi-
ton on the tariff question, and to com
mend to you the wisdom and righteous
ness Of your following where Glove
land led.
-.
TIE QUESTION or SPACE AND TIME
Professor w. II. Pickering has con-
Il tributed very clever article to the