Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-07-20

Third: Taft personally used all
the power at his command to pre-
vent Speaker Cannon from being de-
Fourth: Taft upheld Ballnger af-
ter the latter had been exposed and
as having given aid to
Alaska coal land grabbers.
Firth: Taft counseled with Aldrich
Lodge, Hale Guggenheim. Penrose,
Flint, Cannon, Fordney and other rep
resentatives Of the special interests,
and refused to accept advice from
such men as LaFollette Deliver Cum
Minis, Clapp and Murdoch.
Sixth: Taft is personally seeking
to defeat LaFollette and other genu-
inc insurgents because they endeav-
ored to revise the tariff in conform
ity with the Taft prediction speech
es.
Aidrich's Exact Words.
Senator Aldrich on February 81,
1910, in the Senate, when speaking
on the subject of government ex-
penses said:
"There is no intelligent observer
in Congress or out of 1t who does not
know that the executive departments
of this Government are carried on
either under obsolete business meth
DDS or without any business methods
at all. There is no man who has
given this subject any attention what
ever who does not know or believe
that at least 10 per cent. of the
thousand million dollars which we
are apropriating annually can be
saved by the adoption of business
methods. This question of saving
500, 600, 900 per year-and it can be
demonstrated, in my Judgment. that
the saving will be much more than
that's matter that should receive
the serious attention of Congress. II
were business man and could be
permitted to do 1t, would undertake
to run this government for $500, 900.
900, less than it is now run for.
Lodge ard Teddy are Pals.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge o
Massachusetts is posing as the bosom
, friend of Roosevelt. He says T. R
will campaign for his reelection, an,
Roosevelt has not denied that h
will go to Lodges rescue. 1t was on
ly recently that LaFollette of Wis
consin, in a speech in the Senate
exposed this same Lodge as the ur
scrupulous tool OF the railroads an
: other special interests. Lodge is b
. training and nature untitled to reI
e resent any part OF the United State
i. in the Senate. He can not outgro,
the ancient illusion that the bus
ness OF the Senate is to legislate 70
the rich, regardless of the rights q
. the poor. Unless all signs read false
j ly, Mr.. Lodge of Massachusetts, VIII
/. declares the consumer is a myth
will be retired to private life, yea
and regardless of whether the ea
president indorses or refuses to in
J, iorse.
"Unele Joe" has not Retired.
God willing, I'll be back in Wash
ington next session, and it will b
for the Republican majority to dt
termine who shall be speaker.
So spoke Uncle Joe" Cannon tn
d other day. Speaker Cannon has nc
+ the least intention of retiring fro1
the speakership, and the public i
only fooling itself to think otherwise
Cannon has served the corporate ii
-qaIsJ pue 5uoI 6Ilunoo sqp 10 s,seIe
8 fully, and II the next House shout
81 be Republican, Uncle Joe" will n
|no doubt be rewarded with anothe
term as speaker.
Hiding High Prices.
To prove that the new tariff ha
nVe AAS1SdoSA tHc SVst VI LILIES lit
cessities, standpatters cite schet
ules in which the quoted prices {
manufactured articles are the sam
as before the Aldrich-Taft law wa
passed. The absurdity of this attemI
to deceive consumers is manifest.
1t is notorious that the textil
trust took heroic measures to kee
price quotations normal for this sea
on by making lighter weight good
land using poorer material.
Their example was followed by fc
eign makers who exported to tn.
: country a cheaper grade of cotto
stockings at the old prices. The n,
result, OF course, is that the col
sumers must purchase more frequen
ly. because shoddy goods wear o,
e quickly.
It Obviously, the aggregate cost
Lies necessities has been boldly jus
It fled by eastern trust officials as 1
> Ultimate business.