The Detroit times., 1910-01-10

duce prices but to prevent an increase.
A revelation, this. but even this object
has failed
Buy Cheaper Abroad.
THE consumer pays 100 PER cent
duty on his clothes. 161 per cent on
his blankets pays more for American
goods--than the foreigner. and this
practice OF selling cheaper abroid than
at home. the Republicans say In their
campaign book. Is to the glory and
honor of the American manufactures.
Protective duties have shielded the
trusts against foreign competition.
Rebates have shielded them against
domestic competition Thus freed from
competition a. home and abroad they
have waxed omnipotent. we must re.
move the cause II We wo'ld remove
the effect"
Mr.. Hemans was loudly creered
when he arose to speak on "Michi-
gan"
1T would be a pleasure to me-" he
said.s IF, the presence OF Republicans
would enable me TO say n so. My tel
low Republicans In opening my re-
marks. The progress OF events leads
me to believe that the best elements
Of the Democratic party and CT the
Republican party are getting closer to-
gether in sentiment and feeling than
ever before.
1T is not my purpose TO retell to-
day the story OF official corruption not
vet concluded that for vell-ni~ht 20
years has debssed our citizenship and
made the name Of Michigan a by
word among the states"
Michiqan's Low Political Morality.
when men of the very highest char
acter in the Republican party in public
addresses speak of the low estate To
which political morality has fallen in
Michigan when fcur candidates are
seeking the nomination within the
dominant party for the high Office OF
governor. each with glowing promises
FOR the future but with ominous
silence as to the past II is perhaps
best for Democrats to likewise pass the
record in silence. for familiarity has
already brought about a measure Of
acquiesccnce and men seem no longer
startled by the violation of public
trust.
while there Is nothing to be gained
by the repetition OF the story OF
be gained by the discussion of the
conditions and causes that allow 1t to
continue and that first gave 1t form.
Disparity Of Forces.
There are unquestionably many
causes contributing. but there is no
other one cause more potent. no otner
cne fact more prolific of evil to Michi-
san, than the feet OF the disparity OF
political forces within the state.
THE needs OF Michigan are many,
but first of all she needs a reform In
her public service: she needs civil
service law that impartially and hon
estly administered shall put into the
hundreds of places of state activity,
men who are there for service to the
state rather than servants of a politl.
cal organization; a law that will re-
move the temptation to fill places
with henchmen of political machine
tc be paid from the dollars wrung rfcm
honest toll. Think OF It, Michigan,
the only state Jf the northwest that
tenn of spoils. Michigan has made all
honest appeal tor the removal of
abuses in it's nominating system, buS
any system that can ever be devised
will be next to a failure as long as
there Is in army of men paid from the
public treasury the tenure OF whose
Jobs depends upon the nomination OF a
particular Individual The legislator
Is not free and unfettered so long as
from his county and his district
half dozen or more paid political ma.
nipulators can be turned against him,
The system that prevails takes the
money Of the people and lights the
people from obtaining the very re-
forms they would have enacted.
Fellow Democrats am not without
hope OF the future. There are eighty
thousand independent Republicans in
Michigan. although they may differ
from us in the fundamentals OF gov.
ernmental policy with us they hope
for q correction OF abuses that con-
.inue to sap the very vitality OF q
state. They have q right TO demand
and every Democrat should be proud
to maintain the only organization
which makes possible the correction Of
those abuses. II is our duty to labor
On to stand for bigh ideals In public
life"
Ex-Mayor Dunno. Of Chicago. spoke
on "The Democratic Position on the
Tariff" He declared that BETRAYAL
Of the people and abandonment OF cam
paign pledges by the Republican party
,ame in the Payne-Aldrich measure"
He closed with this stinging denuncia-
tion OF Taft:
what justification does President
Taft present in defending his action
In signing the Pain bill? give 1t TO
you in his own words, uttered at Win.
ona:
"'The interests OF the party requir-
ed me to sacrifice the accomplishment
Of certain things in the revision Of
the tariff which had hoped for IN
order to maintain party solidarity
"A more shameful admission and ex-
cuse never fell from the lips OF an
American president. II must be re-
membered that when President TAFT
made his winona speech he was not