Fergus County Democrat., 1910-01-18
TAKES RAP AT TAFT.

TAXES KAP AL TAFT.
Judge Peter S. Grosscup, of the |
United States court of appeals, has
written an article for the North Amer
lean Review in which he announces
his willingness to leave the republi
can party and ally himself with a new
party that will have for its object the
curbing of corporate greed and the
equitable division among all men Of
the prosperity of the country. A
brief Of Judge Grosscup's article taken
from the Chicago Journal follows:
Judge Grosscup points Out, in his
scholarly contribution, that the need
today Of a new party for economic
adjustment, for corporate reform,
for tariff revision, is precisely the
same need that called the republican
party into existence when the Mis-
souri, compromise was repealed in
1855. The seven years of the Roose-
welt administration are characterized
by the eminent jurist as the period OF
awakening-a period of sentimental
revival with Roosevelt as the preach
er-and on the Taft regime he sees
laid the duty Of accomplishing the re-
form outlined by his predecessor No
results have yet been shown and there
is no prospect of any, he says, and
concludes that this failure may lead
the workers of the country to band
themselves together in a new party.
The tariff, as Judge Grosscup sees It,
is not the purely economic question
that it is commonly supposed to be,
but a question of fundamental human
right, the right OF every man to an
individual share in property. The
central figure of the period of awak-
ening,' said Judge Grosscup, was
President Roosevelt. but no one saw
more clearly than himself that his ad-
ministration had accomplished little
in the actual work of reframing the
laws to carry ONT its spirit--no one
saw more clearly than he that his
work was chiefly that OF preacher
OF righteousness To his SUCCESSOR
wholly selected by hianseif-was left
the constructive work that was ex-
peoted to be done. Roosevelt had
summoned the people; had impaneled
, them as great jury before whom to
: frame and to whom to submit the
: constructive proposals that would
carry out the purpose of the awaken.
r ing. The proposals themselves he lef
e to be framed and submitted by his
e successor. And upon that under stand
t ing his successor was overwhelmingly
0 elected. The first of these proposal!
e was tariff revision. That proposal wa.
c distinctly framed in the convention
that nominated Taft. 1t was sub
i mtted by him pointedly to the jur.
el of the people. The verdict returne'
Il was for rcvision--l,ot makc-b believe
e but a real revision: and nothing re
d manned after that but to put the yer
n dict into Judgment at the special scs
a, sion of congress. Whether the verde
n has been put into judgment or wheth
t er it was set asidc-Senator Aldric
NJ welding the real authority of tn
in party in power, the president satisiie
as with concession here and tiler
Mt around the edges-will be determine
a speedily, not by what the pres:der
,e says but by what experience shows Il,
us tariff benehciaries can do under cove
TO of the so-called revision. And if e,
I'd, perience shows that this, the fir
ut promise OF The new administrator
We has been br oxen, then what? Is it II,
then time to inquire where we arc?'
e. In analyzing his subject, "Prosperi
to with Justice" Judge Grosscup insis
er that the right of every man to ha,
he the surplus of his labor coined in,
ne property, without loss Or hiyersic
IA to any one else, is just as fundam ment
d? a human right as are the rights
d! possession of the bread a man ear,
ee by. the sweat of his face. of an ope
&c. field for mind and soul developme
at and of free and untrammeled exc