Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-28
IN Influence for the doctrine

our influence for the doctrine Of
the open door"
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson
Does whatever his superior officers
(Taft, Aldrich, Cannon ct all demand
in order to hold his position; has
shown himself to be an enemy of
pure food laws by permitting manu-
facturers of food products to use ben |
zoate of soda in any quantity desired;
takes position retail merchants and
not trusts nor tariff are responsible
for increased prices. CThis is official
view of the Taft administration
Charles Nagel, secretary of Com
merce and Labor-Former attorney
for the Waters-Pierce (Standard) Oil
company; he is at the head of the
| department in which is located the
bureau of corporations.
| Secretary of War Dickinson-Harri-
man and Illinois Central lawyer; show
ed his hand as stool pigeon for the
railroads by blocinSg an Independent
line of steamships to Panama.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
lVeagh-His record is immaterial, as
Aldrich is real head of currency and
finance of country.
Ballinger-EXposed and discredited,
but still in office.
Il Truth About Maine,
Sufficient time has now passed to
get the truth from Maine. Authentic
! reports show that the Democratic vic.
tories there We're not won principally
upon state and local issues as the
Republican leaders have tried to rep
resent. The most prominent issues
were:
Failure of the Republican party tic
3 fulfill its campaign pledge to revise
the tariff downward, high cost of liv
: ing, Cannonism, Haleism. questions
t pertaining to prohibition.
The Democratic congressional car
didates promised to investigate an
eNpOSe the IOllUWlHS.
The cost of living as affected b,
a the tariff and the trusts.
Extravaganza in government e,
g penditures.
d The part played by Mr.. Wickersha
n in the sale of friar lands in the Phi
n ippines.>
= The amount of money Cortelyo
Il and other cabinet members squeeze
Il out of plutocrats for campaign pu
g poses when Roosevelt ran in 100
is and how much Hitchcock raised fl
t. Taft four years later.
ID The efforts of the trusts and syl
TT dictates to grab timber and miners
st lands and water power sites ar
irl Ballinger's relation thereto.
n The reasons why President Ia
Id joins the Guggenheims in denying
e. Alaska territorial government.
is The influences behind the rubb
il schedule, cotton schedule and wo
Of schedule of the Payne-Aldrich tart
bill.
The part played by national {
NJ ficers in promoting the plundering
ye the civilized Indians of Oklahoma
is. lawyers, claim agents and politician
OF Generosity of Aldrich.
Republican candidates for Co
10 gress boast of the generosity Of Sc
y. ator Aldrich in permitting larl
"a number of articles to go on the fr
70 list in the new tariff law. And De-
ne ocratic candidates are telling VIII
4. free list really consists of. Some
N. the things that the generous Rho
=, Island statesman permitted on t
;s free list were joss-sticks, bladder
10 dried blood and horse hair. TIL
&C there are birds eggs, lemon juit
n turtles and junk. Also acorns, BON
m ashes, zaffer, catgut, fossils, BRAZIL
III pebbles and oakum.
of Expensive Horseshoeing.
on One hundred. and forty dollars
street car tickets; $237.66 for hor
shoeing, $429.55 for soap and bru'
IL es. These are few of the SIN
~ expenditures of the state departmt
~ of the government in 1909. The hor
ON shoeing item is a gem as a sample
I'm the much boosted Taft policy of &C
to-the-quick" economy. The item
na s237.66 refers to the shoeing of fc
;s horses for one year.
,h Tariff Increases Prices
Prof. j. P. Norton, OF. Yale u
~ versity, declares that the "increas
prcportionate output of gold" is ]
the principal cause of increased pl
es. Prices in this country, un,
)R. protection, have advanced so
cent more than in England, uni
free trade, he says. In all countr
under the gold standard, the out
of gold must operate uniformly. TIL
ain fore, Prof. Norton concludes, tn
IRE must be some special cause at w,
in this country. He suspects it
ven the Payne-Aldrich tariff law
re. A Growing Army.
evil In the last eight years 1925
oes eral officeholders have been adj
ON to the pay role of the national g
ties eminent, at an annual increased
ave pense to the people of more tt
YER seventy million dollars.
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