The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-10

| honest criminal prosecution of the
trusts which have done so much to
| increase the cost of living; force
the discharge of every superfluous
tax-eater now upon Uncle Sans pay
rolls"
| What do you think of Tafts first
year as PRESIDENT"
"On the whole it has been a dis
tinct disappointment. He went into
office with the good wishes of the
entire American people, but they
have not realized the high hopes
| they entertained for him. When he
| failed to force a revision of the tar
iff downward his reputation received
tremendous jolt, from which it has
not yet recovered. Some good bills
of the Sixty-first congress, but what
ever of good legislation was effected
at that session is overbalanced by
the evil of the outrageous tariff bill
enacted at the extraordinary session
and the president could have cured
the enormities of that bill or could
have stood forth in history as a real.
ly great man by vetoing it-a per-
formance which the people would
have sustained by an overwhelming
majority The president must have
been imposed upon by Aldrich, Can
non, Payne and company, or he
would have forced them to reduce
the tariff, or failing that, he would
have vetoed the bill"
What part do you believe Roose-
welt will play in the present poli;i.
cal situation and that of the future?"
"Jeffries could not come back. and
it remains to be seen whether Col.
onel Roosevelt can
What do you think of the railroad
rate bill as finally passed by con.
gress?"
1T is a better bill than the Hep
burn bill The Wickersham bill was
bad 1t was chopped to pieces and
improved, and most of the chopping
and improving was done by the dem.
ocrats and insurgent republicans.
DO you find the mass of the vot-
ers better informed in detail on the
essential issues of the time than
they were a few years ago."
They certainly are BY reason of
improved mail facilities, it is safe to
say that five voters now read
daily or semi-weekly paper where
one did some twenty years ago. The
newspapers have taught the people to
take deeper and keener interest
in legislation and politics, which IS
a rattling good thing for the country
a; large, as we'll as for honest. hon
| orable public men"
What part will the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill play in the campaign"
THE decisive part 1t will be
what the French call the piece de
resistance. Republicans promised to
revise the tariff downward. On that
promise they won Having gotten in.
they revised it upward. In the i'm
pending campaign the overshadowing
questions will be: Are men, in seek
ing office, under any obligation to
tell the truth? Is it any less dis
| honest to secure office by false pre.
tense than to obtain property in the
same felonious manner? Promises
made by men to carry elections
should be religiously lived up when
they are intrusted with power Any
other theory is dishonest dishon-
orable and un-American.
VIII the high cost of living be
an issue that will rebound to the
| benefit of democrats"
"Of course it will, for It can be
demonstrated beyond doubt that the
high tariff has increased the price of
manufactured articles and building
materials, This is shown conclu.
sively by the fact that nearly every
article manufactured in America is
sold cheaper in foreign lands than
at home. True. Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts has made
a report from his investigating com.
mittee that the tariff has nothing 70
do with high prices. which is as ab.
surd as his declaration in 1909 that
the ultimate consumer is a myth.
His committee was appointed for
the very purpose of reporting that
the tariff has nothing to do with
high prices-so its effect was dis.
counted in advance"
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