The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1910-10-08
A COMPARISON
OF REPUBLICANS

President Taft now declares
that the days Of the "po,k barrel
should he numbered, aud iutimatre
that another bill of the charactc,
Of former ones will merit A veto.
That il a reform that all but those
specially Interested can htarr,l,
join in. But the President goes
much further than that. and reads
Congress and his party a lesson On
the combination OF congressman t.
secure part Of the swag as being
cas- dangerous to the public veal
in certain Of it's aspects "a cor,up-
ton.
This Indictment OF Republican
legislation Is startling coming
from this source. and shows that
President Taft sees which way The
political wind il blowing and tha'
he ia becoming more progressive
In the same speech he further DE.
claree: 1.-THE evil in the corrupt
control Of = Congress or Legisla-
ture by private interest is mani
fest, and always calls for condem-
nation" 1t il too bad that the
eyes OF the President were nol
open to this log-rollIng process
If not corruption when Aldrich
Payne and Cannon were forcing
through the tariff bill which he
considered the best tariff law that
the Republicans ever enacted, but
which be now says must be revis-
ed forthwith by piecemeal.
veto, Mr.. President, OF the
rMfih bill which protects the
trusts m plundering the people
wQa6d have everlastingly made
I6nr political fortune. The refus-
al Of his constituents to endorse
the standpatter Congressman Taw
ney, whom you especially went TO
Wlnona to vouch for, shows that
such veto would have been vel
and the increased insnr
gent strength and Democratic viz
tories from Maine to California in.
dicate the same feeling elsewhere
In extennation Of the Presidents
signing the tariff till. il must be
said that Mr.. Roosevelt during hiS
seven years as President refused
70 even recommend any tariff leg ,
although It's crying ne
,essity was just as urgent then az
n 1909. The Republican leaders.
With but a few notable exceptions.
we're staltwart standpatters, and =
Mr.. Roosevelt was more eubser o
vent to their demands on the tar. !
# and other issues than President
Taft has been. The great differ
nee in the attitudes Of the two
Ia that while Mr.. Il
Roosevelt was loud in proclaiming t
eform with large Il, he accom- y
lished no refOrls during his two !,
erms Of office, while Mr.. Taft in =
sss than two years has done some
hing and seems to be willing to y
" and do more. He Ia making q
sal effort to reduce expenses and d
xtravagant appropriations-some !,
hing that Mr.. Roosevelt never =
Id. e
The moral Of this story is, that ~
D Republican President seems to r!
able to divorce himself from "
le worst element of his party: f.
I'd whether ntlined to stalwart,
m or insurgentism he finds his -
ands tied, for both factions df1 =,
are that "tariff protection ID %
'rdinal principle of the Repuki.
N party, and revision II tn
riff IL only q question of stand ~
& still or u slight reduction. "
When we hear of a Republican
resident vetoing an appropria.
IN bill or a tariff bill which q fo
eat majority of his party has va
ted for, we shall know with our ~
"a shut that the Republican -,
me is about played ont. o.
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