The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-22
ARRA|GNS THE
Administration
Congressman Palmer of
Pennsylvania Delivers a
Bitter Speech
INSURGENTS ARE IN LINE
So Declares the Disguised
Democrat.
President is Given a Severe
Grilling.
The Congressman Declares President
Taft and the Republican Party
Have Sold Out The People to the
Money Interests ana That Proposed
Legislation is Now Being Changed
To Suit the Money Kings--Refers
to the Pinchot AFFAIR.



Washington, March 22.-Declarng
that he insurgents who voted agans;
the resolution to Dust Cannon from
the speakership had been whipped
into line" and charging congress and
the administration with failure TO
keep the platform pledges of the Re
publican party Representative
Mitchell Palmer Democrat, Pennsyl-
vania, delivered a peppery speech In
the house today during the general
ccbate on the pension appropriation
bill.
"Now that the insurgents have been
whipped into line by the refusal OF
the public pap and by the success
full use of the most gigantic bluf In
the history OF this body" Palmer said,
"The men of independent thought
and action have been corralled into
the party caucus and made to prom
Use to be good And what has be-
come of the pledges of the Repubil-
can platform?
"The presidents legislative pro-
gram started out bravely to redeem
the party promises and to carry out
the policies which prevailed in the
elections of 1908, but one after an
other we see the item of this pro-
gram go down before the insidious
assaults of the system which now, un-
fortunately, controls the executive 9s
well as the legislative ranch OF TINS
government.
"We have witnessed the spectacle
of the greatest friend that conserva-
ton ever had being hurled out IRON
the councils of the administration be-
cause he was overZealOus in his sup
port of the cause to which he has de-
voted his life. We have seen the
( same faithful public servant hailed
{ into court before congressional IN
Nestigatng committee as cp-delehd-
ant with the man who is recoshlzeu
by the people as an enemy OF the pol
icy which he pers)nihes. Ana we
read in te public press that the pres
ident has abandoned all but one ol
3 lis conservation bills and even the
1 remantn is not seriously considered
$ by those i'm authority here.
8 1--WE see th<e postal savings bank
a him amended with the apparent appraV
r al of the administration In the inter
G ests of the great money centers oi
I the country. so that no man deprecates
a the growing strength OF the money
a power can give it support. We hnd th'
. Alaskan government bill derellct u
= the high seas of legislation.
" 1--WE witness the passing or th'
federal incorporation plan until
e more convenient season and ever
- statehood for Arizona and New Mexico
~ Is commonly reported to be ABOUT
n walk the plank which leads to obliv
III ion: while the presidents proposal u
'd amend the Sherman antitrust ac
ry has gone the way of all RepublicaI
promises, into the realms OF ancleh
history.
"Everyone of these measures wer
- nromised by the Republican plat
1 form of 1908 or originated with ant
was supported by the greatest IN
~ surgent of them all. the man wh
az taught the insurgent how to insurge
~ the man who walked off with the Re
- publican reservations with the great
10 rest disregard for results, them an wh
ad was responsible more than any othe
40 cause, or all other causes Tor TN
"a present chief executive, the man Wh
nd left as legacy to the incoming ad
70 ministration the unfinished program
which the Republican party In IL
al platform promised to complete"
oh Discussing President Taft's recen
,e. speech fine tariff, Palmer said:
"If the president had been one
us half as anxious to save the pennie
,es of the wokingman bq giving hir
.e- cheaper cotton goods, as he was
save the dollars of the steel trust b
dumping into its mills itsrawmater Ia
at much reduced expenses, his nam
would have been enshrined In IN
hearts of the poor as his praises al
now sung In the counting houses
H counting houses of protected wealth
"He might have won gratef'
IL plaudits of the home building and tn
~ home loving artisans of the countr
IN II he had not purchased his vaunte
N but insignificant reduction | nthe tai
~ iff on lumber at lthe price of trad
T war with Canada now all too imiI
ent, which is liable to bring into ol
n Grafton the maximum rate provide
In the law and Increase the tariff
lumber products by 100 per cent; bl
In that event, he would have won Il
'"o undying hatred of the powerful lun
ers Der combines in the great .Northwes
IF he had given thought to u
mt millions of shivering poor who inu
one now pay from one-third to one-ha
more Tor the clothes and blankets al
~" all the other woolen goods which pr
en- tect them from ley blasts OF winte
mis- party would have lost the ge
erous contributions of the sheep tru
.axy of the trackIass ,uast