Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-02-23

SnOCk Lle CnIluSnCe DOL business, DuS'
mess must subscribe to the law or
suffer at the hands Of the admins
tration, because the president repre-
sents the law and the people.
OF the many reasons adduced to
bring out the vote for Taft In num-
bers unequaled, there were three
which appealed to the people of the
states which cast the great unbought
vote:
Thai there, would be genuine re-
form Of the tariff:
That Taft was the great harmonic
er who might bring about peace in
a party in which there was an appar-
emily complete. conflict between Roos-
evelt and the organization Of the
two houses of congress-;
That Taft would carry out the
Roosevelt policies and build upon
them.
The Aldrich law fell short of pub
lie expectation. Economically it may
or may not be an improvement on the
Dingley law. But the people of the
west are no longer quarreling with
congress as to that. THE ALDRICH
Law. rs NOT NOW AN ECONOMIC
ISSUE. 1T is "A MORAL ISSUE, Tht
people feel that the law was forced
down their threats against their will
In the interests OLA section of the
country or of a class Of the people.
And as a moral. issue 1t will not down
until aggressive steps have been tax
en- to amend it. The senate Grip
pied the presidents powers to make
Inquiries as to costs of manufacturer
1t confined the scope of the tariff
board and cut short the appropriation
for Its work.
And the J, fat little baron, from
Maine Dragged about 1t.
And the harmonizer had accom-
plished a work which, whatever it's
value may be. was disappointment
to the country which. felt that the
party pledges had not been redeemed
The president had made his first mis-
take-he allowed himself to be per-
suaded that the Aldrich bill was a
better bill than 1t was. And with the
courage which was splendid, he con.
tinued to harmonic the obstruction
lists and the warning wings of the Re
publican party. In this attempt the
president had to deal with practical
American politics, problem which
he temperamentally disliked, and in
which he lacked practical experience
He had been harmonizer in the Phi
lipines, in Panama, and in Cuba. But
the president and the people them
selves forgot that when he brough
harmony in foreign countries it was
under the guise of warships or be
hind the bayonets of the army. AND
he, like others, failed to realize that
under some conditions harmony Al
home must be brought about as
abroad with an AK"
He found in the speaker as his
predecessor did, a covert opponent
and the opposition of the speaker
a likable man of tremendous power
connoted the opposition of the othe,
powers in control of the house Of
representatives, powers great enough
to resist even the chief executive OF
the republic. And what the presi
dent faced in the house he faced in
the senate. for the very soul of its
organization was Aldrich with his
merry men. But he persisted in seek
ing to obtain progressive Legislation
by harmony in the face of organized
II covert, opposition. Smiling faces
of the leaders of the two houses
masked the opponents of his meas
ures.
The president finds himself en-
meshed, obstructed by an orgaaizatio
long experienced, and dominant II
legislation which beset him with pit
falls and bound him with withes
which he could not feel. K
And what was the composition o.
that organization and what was the
source from which that organization
drew its strength?
The strongholds of privilege.
And who were It's Representatives
in the two houses of congress?
Subsidized assassins of legislation
men who had grown to be as much a
part of the predatory rich as a fly
imbedded in amber. Western con
gressmen and senators who through
long association with the rich and
powerful. men who frequent Wash
ington, in official or unofficial life,
had been attracted by the great baub'