Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-26

ism, imperialism, or corporationism,
really means. I have met number
of AlaskanS and have always re-
garded them the same as other people,
intelligent, safe, sane and sound, but
they caused to be introduced in the
last congress a bill providing that
Alaska shall be governed by a chief
executive and four cabinet officers,
who, with four others, shall compose
it's Legislature, consisting of one house
only, and all nine men to be appointed
by the president of the United States.
What do you think of that, gentle
men? That is representative govern
ment. Representative Of the Guggen-
helms, and of the Morgan, Ballinger,
Cunningham and other interests-yes.
Mr.. Lloyd cited the fact that the
United States government has estab-
lished a rigid censorship of all news
that is given to the press, and that
Taft has taken rigid steps to prevent
congressman and senators from COM
ing into possession of facts which may
be valuable to them for congressional
inquiries into the business methods of
corporations and high-up law breakers.
president Taft, shortly after his in
auguration," said Mr.. Lloyd, 'issued
an order that no employe or attache of
the government, excepting cabinet Off
GERS, shall give any information rela-
tive to their departments to any con-
| gresham, senator or other person
whatsoever, and providing that in each
of the departments of government there
| shall be kept one man from whom all
| the NEWSPAPER reporters and others
shall secure the information they de-
sire. The result of this order has been
to eliminate many news items, of vital
interest to the public, from the news
columns of our daily press. Is it any
ho n 1Inric-
ing of the public? Is it not time the
people should demand the triumph of
Democracy?
"The Democrats have been more
honest in administrative affairs and
have given more general satisfaction
than the Republicans. Six years ago
the chairman of the Republican state
central committee of Missouri went up
and down the state crying out that the
Democratic state officials had stolen
$60, 600 900 from the widows and orphans
of Missouri. That was the year Mr..
Folk was elected governor. Nearly all
of the other administrative officers
elected were Republicans. They inves-
tigated the charges made by their
chairman and went carefully over all
the books and records, but in all the
previous thirty years that the Demo-
Gratis had been in office in Missouri
they found not one cent of money miss
ing or wrongly used.
TELLS OF CORRUPTION
"The following year there was de-
falcation of SCI 900 in the state treas
urer's office. The money was stolen
from within, not from without. The
treasurer was arrested and was given
the most farcical trial in the history
of Missouri. The rulings of the judge
in that trial were VIGOROUSLY ridicu-
Co.. taI A1
the prisoner went free on the ground
of insufficient evidence. A bill was
then introduced in congress providing
that as the money was stolen from
within and not from without, and the
crime lay between one of three men
which the court could not decide upon,
the treasurer should be freed and ex-
culpated. The taxpayers lost the
money.
"Down in Brownsville, Tex, however,
when a few negro soldiers shot up a
building and the inquisitors were un-
able to determine which of the men
was guilty, this same administration
held that the whole troop should be
dismissed from service. That is fire.
quently the Republican idea of justice.
"There isn't a department of the ma
tional government today" said Mr..
Lloyd, 'that isn't under suspicion.
There isn't department of the ma
tional government in which it isn't
known that there are men who have
gone wrong and taken the money of
the people"
Mr.. Lloyd stated that he believed the
two great issues of the present day, on
which the Democrats should wage their
fight, are anti-Cannonism and the
tariff.
''The only insurgents who are now in
trouble" he said, "are the insurgents
who fought the Payne-AldriSh tariff
bill, and then voted for it,"