Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-06

lars are extracted yearly from the
masses of the people on the pretext
that it is done for his benefit, but
he knows now, and 80 do the mer-
chant and the farmer and the peo-
pie in general, that not one dollar
of the fund raised through the tariff
goes to the laboring mans benefit,
that instead, it is used to create null
ui-mi llionares and purchase rotten
titles of a still more rotten nobility
for silly American girls.
"The laboring man will not soon
forget the attitude of President
Taft and his chief henchman in con-
gress with respect to the democratic
amendments exempting labor unions
from the operation of the Sherman
Antitrust law. The president OPP
posed the amendment and used all
the influence of his great office to
defeat it. But he was entirely will
ing, yes anxious, that the railroad
pool should be exempt from the op-
Grafton of the Sherman law. Yes,
condemn the laboring man for COM
bining to maintain his wages at a
| living scale, but permit the great
transportation lines Of the country
to combine that they may increase
the burden on the shipper, whether
merchant or farmer. Such Is repub-
lican doctrine and such Is the way In
which that party serves the laboring
man and the people in general.
"The last republican national plat
form declared for a revision of the
tariff. The people demanded 10
know whether the revision was to
be upward or downward. The ma
tional candidate. inter: citing the
platform, answered downward
The people were content. and voted
Mr.. Taft into office. The country
knows how we'll Mr.. Taft and hti
party have kept the promise. Th'
tariff bill passed did not work
downward revision, but placed thu
rates on the necessaries Of life high
er than they ever were before. Tit
amount which the farmer, the arti
san and the citizen generally contri
butes through the tariff to the swol
len fortunes of the speciaf inter
ests and unjustly rich have been in
creased. Never was a more flasI an
betrayal of great public trust
Does any one believe that II the re
publican party, had told the trutl
during the last national campaig
and said to the country before cleo
tion that If successful it would d
what it has done, the people woul
have chosen Taft? Never.
"Mr. Taft has posed as the spec
tally annointed successor OF MI
Roosevelt and my policies and a
consequence gained thousands Q
votes. But here the people wer
fooled again. Mr.. Taft signalize
his devotion to my policies by gra
ually removing every friend Of Roos
evelt and by surrounding himseI
with men whose lives had been d.
= voted to the defeat and destructio
= of the things, which my policie
were supposed to embody.
81 am not a worshipper at tn
Shrine of Sycamore Hill. The diI
tinguished occupent thereof has sal
many things that were good, but hs
done very little that can be con
: mended. In office he was a law III
to himself. Checks and balances
the constitution had no weight wit
him. He punished the lawless-pr'
'' vided they were his enemies. +
= shielded the lawless-provided the
. were his friends.
Notwithstanding all this, he POI
ularized what he was pleased to ca
my policies. If Mr.. Taft said
the people of the United States th'
he would not follow my policies
could not have been elected. tt
!, country knows this and is prepare
to punish the betrayer.