The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-11

CANTON, Ohio, September with
the opening of the Democratic state
campaign here today with Gov. Judson
Harmon of Ohio the candidate for re-
election and the choice of Ohio demo
Gratis for the presidential nomination
in 1912 as the chief feature on the pro
gram, the Ohio campaign is on in full
force. The republican campaign open
ed a week ago today at kenton.
In his keynote speech today Gov
Harmon gave most of his attention to
state issues, but turned to the discus
sion of national issues long enough to
score the present national administra-
tion and tell his hearers that the only
hope for the people lies in the success
of national democratic ticket.
The speaker scored the Payne-Ald-
rich tariff revision as legislation ini-
mial to the interests of the con-
sumers, no would not be deceived
by fair talk in attempts to defend it.
Altee Pomerene, candidate for lieu
tenant governor, and other candidates
also spoke.
Gov. Harmon's Speech.
Gov Harmon spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Congress is now approaching bill
lion dollars at every session, every
cent of which is levied on the people
of the country by taxation in some
form. And it is confessed that the ex-
travagance and mismanagement cause
a waste of no less than three hundred
million dollars each year in the Or
dinary conduct of the government,
which is more than the combined eX-
penditures of all the states in the
Union. 1t is surely time the people
should bestir themselves in this mat
ter, for every one of them is compelled
to pay federal taxes on almost every
thing he buys for consumption or 9th
er use, whether he owns property sub
ject to state and local taxation or not.
Tariff Increases Prices.
"And every one is not only compell-
ed to contribute to this enormous out
lay of the federal government, but is
also made to pay a much greater
amount in the shape of increased
prices on goods made in this country
because of a tariff law formed for the
express purpose of making him do this
to swell the profits of manufacturers.
The people were long deceived
about this, but they were so aroused
by the awakening, which came at last,
that the republican leaders were fore
ed to promise prompt relief by reduc-
ing the tariff taxes. A special session
of Congress was called to make the
promise good. How they did it has
been told by many republican men,
bers of high standing and authority.
"These men have shown how slight
reductions were made where they
would give the people no relief, but
furnish a basis for the misleading use
of figures, how by artful phrases,
whose meaning and effect were not
generally understood pretended re-
ductions became really increases, es-
pecially on the cheaper quality of
goods used by citizens of small means,
how the whole performance was eva
sion and deceit dictated by the very
interests from whose oppression the
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you 1out at the instrumentalities of
order, and therefore at the instru-
mentalities of progress.
progress is not proportioned to
the capacity for revolution, but it is
to the capacity for law
Are we growing impatient at the pro-
gress of law? Are some Of our lead
ers growing impatient at the slow
progress of law? hTe characteristic
OF all great governing peoples has
been poise, patience, and ability to