Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-14
DUNNE ARRA|GNS
TAFT AND c. O.P.
Chicagoan, in Powerful Speech,
Draws Party Around Bell
in Battle Array
DIFFERENCES ARE FORGOTTEN
Windup of Conference at Banquet
Great Demonstration of
National Teaching
Continued from Page one2


advisers men who had honor and manhood
enough to advise him to keep his campaign
pledges. Judge of their astonishment Wheh
they read of the selection Of the following;
Knox, the handy man OF the steel ana ot4ler
| Pennsylvania monopolies.
Nagel the attorney for the Standard OH,
! "Strict-C Construction Balinger, who believes
in the strict construction Of every law against
the government and IN favor Of private syndi-
cates-now under investigation by congress
Hitchcock. lassoer Of delegates and past mas
| ter Of practical politicians
s.niinois Central" Dickinson, and Traction
Attorney Wickersham, now made attorney
general.
Betrayal of the people and abandonment Of
campaign pledges was inevitable 1t came In
! the Payne-Aldrch bill, the elimination OF
/ Republican perfldy and national robbery OF the
| people.
fer to call It the pain" bill. For financial
pain has failed upon every man who has
bought suit. hat shirt or decent meal
since its enactment
The Republican party has placed so high
tariT upon the absolute necessities of life
such as food. clothing and building materials
! that foreign competition has been driven from
! the American market
This being accomplished, the lords Of finance
| who furnish the war chest to the Republican
party have syndicated the domestic manufac-
tories and fixed prices at what the people
will stand" as II yut by one Of the crowd.
MEATS CHEAPER IN EUROPE
So we have the beef trusts. which kill prac-
tcally oil the cattle, sheep and hogs OF the
country, and which, according to the Corbacher
I Zeitung, a reliable German paper has in cold
storage n 900 900 steers. 100000 calves 25,O0O-
| 900 sheep, 5o.O00.O00 hogs and 2,0O0OOO0O0 eggs
and sell their meats In London cheaper than IN
Chicago or Kansas City where the animals
are killed: and the flour trust, which is so
operated that a 14-ounce loaf Of bread costs
cents in Chicago. while 16-ounce loaf made
| out OF American -four, sells In London, Eng
land, for 2is cents.
What justification does President Taft
present in defending his action in signing
the pain" bill? 1 give it to you in his own
words uttered at Winona;
1.-THE interests of the party required me
to sacrifice the accomplishment of certain
things in the revision of the tariff which
had hoped for in order to maintain party
solidarity"
A more shameful admission and excuse
never fell from the lips of an American
president. 1t must be remembered that
when President Taft made his Nnona
speech he was not Republican candidate,
but was president of the whole people and,
when as president he says he sacrificed the
accomplishment of a revision downward In
the interests of party solidarity he admits
that he sacrificed the interests of his coun-
try for the interests of his party. In other
words. he betrayed his country for his party
shall not attempt to properly characterize
| this law ! shall content myself with pointing
out a few of It's beauties and pecularifies and
then quote the opinion Of few Republicans
| upon the same:
| creased cost TO American citizens Of men and
boys clothing will be In the year 1910
! s120, 100000.
= Tho duty on lumber squared with saws is
20 ner cent higher In the pain" act than under
! the Dingley act. .
g. on different grades Of woolen goods the
tariff is 1913 per cent H7 per cent and Il"
per cent. ,...
4 on the cheapest woolen blankets the duty
is 107 per cent. -,
ufr q
senate has raised the duty l cent yard ana
classed Il as a luxury"
6. The duty ON cotton stockings worth rom
81 to S1.50 a dozen pairs under the PAN act
has been raisel about 30 per cent
OUTRAGEOUsLY PROTECTED
Structural steel was outrageousy pro-
tected under the Dingley act. Yet under the
PAIN act, In some cases the tar1n mas oeen
stin further raised.
s. The outcry Of the people against the exac-
| tions and impositions of the Dingley law was
so insistent that the Republican party In It's
/ national platform pledged It's revision yet
| over 81 per cent Of the 2024 Items in the DING
| lev act have been either allowed to remain In
the pain" act at the same high hgures OF
| have been increased. ,
| Indeed 220 Of the items in the Dingley
act have been increased at the demand
of the tariff robbers in the Pain" act. Since
| the passage of the act the price OF clothing
! has advanced from 20 to 20 per cent
A fourteen loaf Of bread now costs
| cents in Chicago; in London sixteen
! ounces of bread. made out of American
| wheat car be bought for * cents. Ihe
| "Pein'' bill puts a % per cent tariff on Hour
The price of meats has increased enor-
| mously so that many American families
| are now compelled to do without II, Inc
| "Pain'' act places a tariff of 20 e per cent
on cattle and about 20 per cent on other
| live animals. -
But even when driven TO live on corn
meal the American citizen finds he must
| face "A tariff on that luxury OF 20 cents q
busbei. and If to dodge that burden he
| buvs potatoes he then finds a tariff of 20
! cents a busheL
REVOLT TAKES PLACE
As a result Of the high cost Of the neces-
stiles of life a revolt has taken place within
! the ranks of tho Republican party. Hundreds
| Of thousands of them have awakened 10 the
! fact that a high protective tariff cuts orr
! competition from abroad and encourages the
| svndicization of trusts and monopotes at
home with the result that while wages have
within the last twelve years increased only -
! per cent, the cost Of living has Increased over
so per cent, and that hungry belly IS now
| threatening the American WofklhsHdh' MS
wife and children.
| TTpon a careful investigation, I think 1t
will be found that there is not a strict neces-
eitv of life In tho production OF which the
EXTRA cost of labor in this country over the
cost of the labor abroad win exceed 10 per
cent Yet, under the present tariff laws the
tariff on some Of these necessities is as high
as 140 per cent.
If the Democratic party will adhere to its
demand for tariff reduction as expressed on
its latest platform, it cannot fail of success.
These principles are just and in the real In
terest Of the people and all arts OF mann
mon and the gates of hell' shall not pre-
vail against them.
The Republican party, drunk with power,
has successfully deceived the public so often
that despite the rumblngs of popular dis