Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1910-07-22
Vital Washington News.
BY TAvENNER,
Special Correspondent of The Sentinel.
Washington, D. C., july IS, 1910

Washington, D. c., July IS, 1910.
Regular Republicans are declaring more
boldly than ever that Roosevelt will indorse
Taft.
Vice-President Sherman says that Roose-
welt will indorse the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law and the Taft administration in every
particular"
do not believe it. do not believe it
because | read Roosevelt to be too clever a
politician to put his o. X on such band of
criminals as that which dominates the Re-
publican party.
OF the word criminals" employ the
term advisedly.
The Republican party is today controlled
body and soul by the sugar trust. the steel
trust, the harvester trust, the lumber trust,
and other similar organizations. each and
every one of which is in existence in vio-
lation of the antitrust laws of the country.
Having no legal right to exist, each of
these greedy monOpolies is criminal cor
poration, and if the attorney general of the
United States would do his full duty they
would be forced to dissolve.
But if Roosevelt does indorse the Taft
administration, it will be and ought to be
his Waterloo. following in the due allotted
time his triumphant return from Elba. II
Roosevelt openly indorses such standpatters
as Taft and Senator Lodge, of Massachu-
sets, it will mean that he deceived the
people as to his true sentiment as COM
pletely as the prizefighter Jeffries deceived
the sporting world as to his real physical
condition.
TAFT PAST REDEMPTION.
Roosevelt will not dare indorse Taft for
these reasons First, Taft personally PROM
ised revision downward and then per
sonally signed a tariff bill which revised
the tariff upward
Second, Taft personally aided Boss AL
drich to cheat the people out of an income
tax which would take some of the burden
of taxation off of the poor and place it
upon the rich.
Third, Taft personally used all the power
at his command to prevent Speaker Can
non from being dethroned.
Fourth, Taft upheld Ballinger after the |
latter had been exposed and discredited as
having given aid to Alaska-coal-land grab |
bers.
Fifth, Taft counseled with Aldrich, Lodge, |
Hale. Guggenheim, PenrOse. Flint, Cannon, |
Fordney and other representatives of the |
special interests, and refused to accept adj |
vice from such men as LaFollette, Deliver.
Cummins Clapp and Murdoch.
Sixth, Taft is personally seeking to de-
feat LaFOllette and other genuine insur- |
gents because they endeavored to revise |
the tariff in conformity with the Taft pre-
election speeches.
ALDRICH'S EXACT WORDS
Senator Aldrich on February 81, 1910, in
the Senate, when speaking on the subject
of government expenses, said
There is no intelligent observer in Con-
gress or out of il who does not know that
the executive departments of this govern
ment are carried on either under obsolete
business methods or without any business
methods at all. There is no man who has
given this subject any attention whatever
who does not know or believe that at least
10 per cent. of the thousand million dol
lars which are appropriated annually can
be saved by the adoption of business
methods This question of saving $1,000
900. 900 per year-and ii can be demon
strated, 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 il, | would under
take to run this government for $300,000,-
OUO Tess tnan IL Is now run IOr.
LODGE AND TEDDY ARE PALS.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massa-
chusetts, is posing as the bosom friend of
Roosevelt He says that 7. r, will cam
paign for his reelection and Roosevelt has
not denied that he will 60 to Lodges res
cue. 1t was only recently that LaFollette,
of Wisconsin. in speech in the Senate |
exposed the same Lodge as the unscrupu- !
lous tool of the railroads and other special |
interests. Lodge is by training and nature |
untitled to represent any part of the United |
States in the Senate He can not outgrOw |
the ancient illusion that the business of |
the Senate is to legislate for the rich, re- |
gardless of the rights of the Door Unless |
all signs read falsely, Mr.. Lodge, of Massa-
chusetts. who declares the consumer is a |
myth. will be retired to private life yea,
and regardless of whether the ex-president
indorses or refuses to indorse.
"UNcLE JOE" HAS NOT RETIRED.
God willing, I'll be back in Washington
next session. and ii will be for the Repub- |
lican majority to determine who shall be
speaker"
So spoke Uncle Joe" Cannon the other
day. Speaker Cannon has not the least |
intention Of retiring from the speakership,
anu tilS puDiC 10 OlIy iOOnilb ltStlI 10 lillIlk
Cannon has served the cor
porate interests Of the country long and
and if the next House should be
Republican. Uncle Joe" will no doubt be
rewarded with another term as speaker.
HIDING HIGH PRICES.
To prove that the new tariff has not in
creased the cost of life s necessities stand
patters cite schedules in which the quoted
prices of manufactured articles are the
same as before the Aldrich-Taft law was
passed. The absurdity Of this attempt to
deceive consumers is manifest
II is notorious that the textile trust took
heroic measures to keep price quotations
normal for this season by making lighter
weight goods and using poorer material.
Their example was followed by foreien
makers who exported TO this country a
cheaper grade of cotton stockings at the
old prices. The net result, Of course, Is
that the consumers must purchase more
because shoddy goods wear out
quickly
Obviously, the aggregate cost of life's
necessities grows steadily as articles bought
deteriOrate in quality.
This method Of hiding high prices has
been boldly justified by eastern trust Off
Gals as legitimate business.