The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-18
WASHINGTON LETTER
(Staff Washington Corres.)

(StaI1 WdSh1ngtOn COrreS.)
 Washington, July 18.-Regu1ar re- publicans are declaring more boldly than ever that Roosevelt will endorse Taft. Vice-President Sherman says that Roosevelt twill endorse the Payne-Aldrich tariff law and the Taft administration in every particular"
 l do not believe it. I do not believe 1t because I read Roosevelt to be too clever a politician to put his O. K. on such band as that which dominates the Republican party.
 The Republican party is today con- trolled body and soul by the sugar trust, the steel trust, the harvester trust, the lumber trust and other sim liar organizations, each and every one Of which is in existence in violation Of the antitrust laws of the coun- try.
 Having no legal right to exist, each of these greedy monopolies is an ille- gal corporation, and if the attorney general of the United States would do his full duty they would be forced to dissolve.
 But if Roosevelt does endorse the Taft administration. it will be aud ought to be his Waterloo, following in the due allotted time his trium- phant return from Elba". If Roose- welt openly indorses such standpatters as Taft and Senator Lodge of Mas sachusetts it will mean that he de- ceiyed the people as to his true sen- t1ment as completely as the prize fighter Jeffries deceived the sporting world as to his real physical condi- tion.
 TAFT PAST REDEMPTION
 Roosevelt will not dare indorse Taft for these reasons:
 First: Taft personally promised re- vision downward, and then personally signed tariff bill which revised the tariff upward.
 Second: Taft personally aided Boss A1drich to cheat the people out of an income tax, which would take some of the burden of taxation off of the poor and place it upon the rich.
 Third: Taft personally used all the power at his command to prevent Speaker Cannon from being dethron-
 Fourth: Taft upheld Ballinger after the latter had been exposed and dis credited as having given aid to Alas ka coal land grabbers.
 Fifth: Taft counseled with Aldrich, Lodge, Hale. Guggenheim, Penrose, resentatives of the special interests, and refused to accept advice from such men as La Toilette, Deliver, Cummins. Clapp and Murdock.
 Sixth: Taft is personally seeking to defeat LaFollette and other genuine insurgents because they endeavored to revise the tariff in conformity with the Taft prediction speeches.
 ALDRICH'S EXACT WORDS.
 Senator Aldrich on February 21 1910, in the Senate, when speaking on the subject of government expenses, said:
 .There is no intelligent observer in Congress or out of it who does not know that the executive departments of this Government are carried on either under obsolete business methods or without any business methods at all. There is no man who has given this subject any attention whatever who does not know or believe that at least 10 per cent of the thousand mill lion dollars which we are appropriat- ing annually can be saved by the adoption of business methods: This question of saving $100, ,000,0 900 per year-and it can be demonstrated, in my judgment. that the saving will be much; more than that-is a matter that should receive the serious at tention of Congress. If were bus mess man and could be permitted to do it, I would undertake to run this Government for $30OO0O,OO0 less than it is now run for"
 LODGE AND TEDDY ARE PALS!
 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas sachusetts is posing as the bosom friend of Roosevelt. He says T. R. will campaign for his reelection, and Roosevelt has not denied that he will go to Lodges rescue. It was only recently that LaFollette of Wiscon- sin, in a speech in the Senate, expos ed this same Lodge as the tool of the railroads and other special interests. Lodge is by training and nature unfit ted to represent any part of the Uni ted States in the Senate. He can not outgrow the ancient illusion that the business of the Senate is to legislate for the rich, regardless of the rights of the poor. Unless all signs read falsely, Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts, who declares the consumer is myth, will be retired to private life, yea, and regardless of whether the ex- President indorses or refuses to in- dorse.
 JUNGLE JOE'' HAS NOT RETIRED.
 ."God willing, I'll be back in Wash ington next session, and it will be for the Republican majority to determine who shall be speaker"
 So spoke t'Uncle Joe" Cannon the other day. Speaker Cannon has not the least intention of retiring from the speakership, and the public is only fooling itself to think otherwise. Cannon has served the COrpOTdIo 1n- terests of the country long and faith fully and if the next House should be Republican, Uncle Joe" will no doubt be rewarded with another term as speaker.
 HIDING HIGH PRICES.
 To prove that the new tariff has not increased the cost of life's necessities. standpatters cite schedules in which the quoted prices of manufactured ar ticles are the same as before the Ald- rich-Taft law was passed. The ab- surdity of this attempt to deceive con- sumers is manifest.
 It is notorious that the textile trust took heroic measures to keep price quotations normal for this season by making lighter weight goods, and us- ing poorer material.
 Their example was followed by for eign makers who exported to this country a cheaper grade of cotton stockings at the old prices. The net result, of course, is that the con- sumers must purchase more frequent Iy, because shoddy goods wear out quickly.
 Obviously, the aggregate costs of life's necessities grows steadily as arti- cles bought deteriorate in quality.
 This method of hiding high prices has been boldly justified by eastern trust officials as legitimate business.
 PERSONAL MENTION.