The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-11-03


as they asked quietly and couteiously
so that the people would not note it al
a single time.
Have you ever stopped to think
what taxes you are paying on your
coal, pants, sheets, shoes, hats, ETC.
These fellows exclaim, put a tax on.
We want to shut the English out and
add that this helps the laboring man.
You are intelligent enough to know
that this sort of argument is untrue
and without foundation.
want to tell you there is danger
ahead in this nation if these condit-
ions are not broken into and destroyed.
Should such methods continue some
man, with perhaps heated brain, may
ignite the fagots which may blaze into
another Gettysburg or Shiloh and if
such should come feel for these men
who are grinding down the laborer and
the masses of this country. Where
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was franz
ed no democrat was allowed to see the
items of the measure until it was pre-
sented for passage. The meanest Grim
inal in this city or county is given a
hearing in open court but were not
given a chance to be heard Did you
ever hear of such methods in the his
tory of this country? l never knew or
read of such. Why are prices so high
in this country for every commodity
we use? Why, gentlemen, a good hog
is worth as much now as a negro was
before the civil war. In Arkansas it
costs $16 to catch pig by the tail.
Take everything we consume practic-
ally and | want to ask these republi-
cans and mugwump democrats what
makes this high cost of living. Why,
breakfast bacon has gone up SO high,
since it must pass through the hands
of the millionaire packing companies,
that the doctors are putting it in cap
sules and administering it to the peo.
pie. There is some reason for the east
ern manufacturer voting with these
grating republicans, but why home
spun republican or democrat should
do so don't know. / read your 81, 500
work of commodities on which we pay
$400 tax and who gets it, the govern
ment? No, these wealthy fellows l
have been talking about, pockets it.
Heading the free list is acorns follow
ed by persimmons and | wonder why
they did not add 'possums. Now,gen-
tlemen, [ cannot say too much for
"Bob" Taylor, whose name is house.
hold werd all over this land, not only
in Tennessee, but throughout the coun-
try. / am frank and truthful to you
when L say he made the best and
strongest speech in the United States
senate against the obnoxious republi-
can tariff bill and his speech was made
a campaign document by National
Mack in the Bryan cam
paign. When "Bob' Taylor asked |
for tariff relief on boots, shoes, cloth
ing, ETC., Aldrich smilingly handed us
acorns, persimmons and castor Oil. |
| shall never believe you will allow
this great Tennessean to be defeated by
any republican under any reasonable
He is making a sacrifice,
he has gone through the mill and no
man can say he is not clean, honest
and upright. He came back from
in response to second
call by the people of his state and you
tell me the people of Tennessee will de-
feat him for that little fellow whose
gall is busted? say again, no. This
battle in Tennessee is one of the most
phenomenal and spectacular ones in
in the history of the country and !
want to say TO you that if "Bob" Tay-
lor is elected he is likely to be the DEM
cratic nominee for president, The