Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-23
TAFT TOO PLANT,
ASSERTS PALMER
ROOSEVELT CALLED GREAT
EST OF INSURGENTS
PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRAT SAYS
BIG STICK MAY BE USED
Predicts That Those Responsible for
Broken Republican Pledges Will
Feel Force of the Former
Presidents Weapon
rAssoclated Pressl

ASSOCIATED Pressl
WASHINGTON, March 22.-Refer-
ring to President Taft as q rather pill
ant executive, and characterizing for
mcr President Roosevelt as the great
est insurgent of them all who taught
the insurgents how to insurge, Repre-
sentative A. Mitchell Palmer Demo-
crat, of Pennsylvania, attacked the ad-
ministration from the floor of the house
today.
Mr. Palmer, In introducing his attack
upon the Republican organization and
upon administration measures, said the
country could expect but little from
this show of the president to redeem
pledges of the Republican platform.
The speaker said he did not impute
to the president any lack of good faith,
! but he added "any student of recent
! and present conditions in the Repubi-
/ can party must realize that however
i much the president may desire to carry
out the promises of his party, he has
/ bound himself hand and foot to an or
ganization in congress which has DEM
/ onstrated on innumerable occasions II
can be true to nothing except Its own
/ false traditions
The first effort OF the administration,
said Mr.. Palmer was the tariff. lie
related how President Taft had prom
lsed voters that pledges of the Repub-
j lican party for tariff revision meant
/ tariff reduction
Denounces New Tariff
"The people understood then" said
| Mr.. Palmer, that in presenting the
4 platform the Republican party gave its
] promissory note to the American peo-
/ pie. 1t was indorsed by William II.
Taft and accepted by the people at the
elections. 1t never would have been
accepted without that Endorsement, for
the credit of the maker of that obllga-
ton had been sadly impaired by the
record of years of broken pledges.
IF President Taft had displayed but
half the zeal i'm an attempt to force
congress to reduce the tariff taxation
on the necessities Of life he displayed IN
securing those reductions OF duties thal
will result in greater pronts 10 the pro
tected manufacturers already ehrlcheu'
by operation of tariff laws, beyond the
dream of avarice. he would have earned
the right TO say. as the indorser of the
| Republican party's promise, he saved
its obligation from protest.
IF he had been but half as anxious
to save the pennies of the WorNngman
bv giving him cheaper cotton goods as
he was to save the dollars of the steel
trust by dumping into its mills raw
material at much reduced expense, his
name would have been enshrined in the
hearts of the poor as his praises are
now sung in the counting houses OF
protected wealth"
The reduction Of the tariff on lumber
was described by Mr.. Palmer as pur-
chased at "a price of trade war WIN n
canada. now all too imminent, which Is
liable to bring into operation the max
! imum rate provided in the law and IN
crease the tariff on lumber products by
100 per cent"
People Not Deceived
"To say the American people were
! deceived" " he continued, by the double
play of a rather plant executive ana
IAN astute leader of the Republican or
ganization during the last inning or inc
tariff game is to impute to the cltlzehs
] of this country a lack OF lhte!llsG3Ilc,c .3il,..
for which there is no warrant IN tnelr
record for prompt punishment lhey
/ have meted out in the past 10 parlles
recreant to their trust
The thrilling events Of the last lew
/ davs in congress. the Pinchot incident
Dostal savings banks and federal cor
porations all were included IN ltepie-
sentative Palmers address.
Nov that the insurgents have been
whipped into line" he said, by the re
fusal of the public pap and by tne
| successful use of the most gigantic
bluff in the history of this body, ana
/ these men of independent thought anu
/ action have been corralled into the par
tv caucus and made to promise TO be
good, what has become OF these pledges
in the Republican platform? Ihe Re-
nublican legislative program starteu
| ont braVelv TO redeem the party prom
ises and to carry out the polcleS tnd'
prevailed in the election of 1908, put'
| one after another, We see TINS program
/ 90 down before the inSidious assaults
of the organization which now untor-
tI,ratelv controls the executive as well
as the legislative branch OF the govern
mcnt. o;1A
,,Iyo have witnessed the spectacle OF
tbe greatest friend conservation ever
had being hurled from out the couhclls
Of the administration because ne WaS
oycrzealous in his support of the caust
to which he has devoted his me we
see the postal savings bank bill amend
oil vim the apparent approval of the
administration, i'm the interest of the
GREAT money centers of the country, SC
mat no man who deprecates the grow
inc strength of the money power car
give it his support We find the AlaS.
kan government bill derenct upoi
the high seas of legislation. we VII
ness tie passage Of the federal lncorpo-
,.o+ion hiH and even statehood for Arl'
IONA. and New Mexico is commonly re-
Dorted to be about to walk the plahh
which leads TO oblivion .,-..
I-non these measures Representative
Palmer said lie had no opinion TO eH-
press. Some Of them, he admitted, Wer'
sunpOrted by members of his party.
,,rhe noint 1 desire to emphasize ne
said lis that every one OF them was
nromised by the Republican platform
of 19O8-or originated with ana wa
supported by the greatest lhSureeHt o.
them all, the man who taught the IA,
surgents how to insurge; the man WlC
was responsible, more than any otuel
cause. for the present chlet executive
the man who left as legacy TO 'Ilt
Incoming administration the uhllnlsheu
nroqram which the Republican oaruy Il
It's nlatform promised to complete
In conclusion, Representative Palilel
reminded the Republicans that Whiit
they had "been binding fast their coall,
tion with the president the greatest oi
aIl Insurgents had been coming out OIL
His PARTY" he said as he took ms
scat will be more fortunate than lts
performances deserve If they DO not
and up0n his return that his hitherto
/ effectiVe weapon will be poised III lhe
mir ready TO fall about the heads OF
/ those who are responsible tor the
/ breach of his partys plighted faith
EUGENE soNGER ACQUITTED
FRESNO March 22.-Eugene Songer
was TODAY acquitted by a jury in the
] Ind