The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-03-23
BITTER ATTACK
ON PRESIDENT
Palmer Of Pennsylvania Ad=
dresses the House.
CALLS HIM PLANT TOOL

Declares Executive Took Greater In
forest In Reducing Tariff on Goods
Necessary to Trusts Than He Did
on Those Needed by Common Peo-
PIs-Spsaker Lauds Ex-President
| . Roosevelt as the Original Insurgent.
Washington, March 23.-Referring
to President Taft as rather plant
executive" and characterizing former
President Roosevelt as "the greatest
insurgent of them all, who taught the
Insurgents how to insurge,'" Repre-
sentative A.. Mitchell Palmer (Dem.,
fa.) attacked the administration from
the floor of the house.
Mr.. Palmer, in introducing His at
task upon the Republican organization
and the administration measures, said
that the country could expect little
real benefit from this show of effort
on the part of the president to redeem
the pledges of the Republican plat
FORM
The speaker said he did not impute
to the president any lack of good
faith, but, he added, ANY student Of
recent and present conditions in the
Republican party must realize that,
however much the president may de-
sire to carry out the promises of his
party In relation to these measures, he
was bound himself hand and foot to
an organization in the congress which
has demonstrated on innumerable
occasions in the past that it can be
true to nothing except it's own false
traditions"
Criticises the Tariff Bill.
The first effort of the administration
hayed by Representative Palmer was
the tariff. He related how President
Taft had promised the voters in his
public addresses before election that
the pledges of the Republican party
"for tariff revision meant tariff re-
duction.'
"The people understood then," said
Mr.. Palmer, that in presenting the
platform the Republican party gave
it's promissory note to the American
people. 1t was endorsed by William
H. Taft and accepted by the people at
the elections. It never would have
been accepted without that endorse
ment, for the credit of the maker Of
the obligation had been sadly impaired
by the record of years of broken
pledges.
IF President Taft had displayed but
half the zeal in an attempt to force
congress to reduce the tariff taxation
on the necessities of life that he dis
played in securing those reductions of
duty which will result in greater
profits to the protected manufacturers,
already enriched by operation of tar
If laws beyond the dreams of avarice,
he would have earned the right to say
that as the endorser of the Repub-
lican party's promises he had saved
its obligation from protest. "
American People Deceived.
If he had been but half as anxious
to save the pennies of the working
man by giving him cheaper cotton
goods as he was to save the dollars
Of the steel trust by dumping into it's
mills it's raw materials at much re-
duced expense, his name would have
been enshrined in the hearts of the
poor as his praises are now sung in
the counting houses of protected
wealth."
The reduction in the tariff on lum-
Der was described by Mr.. Palmer as
purchased Eat the price of a trade war
with Canada, now all too imminent,
which is liable to bring into operation
the maximum rate provided in the law
and increase the tariff on lumber prod
uets by 100 per cent"
ITO say that the American people
were deceived" he proceeded, "by the
double play of rather plant execu-
tive and an astute leader of the Re-
publican organization during the last
inning of the tariff game is to impute
to the citizens of this country lack
of intelligence for which there is no
warrant in their record for prompt
punishment they have melted out in
the past to parties recreant to their
trust"
The thrilling events of the last few
days in congress, the Pinchot incident,
postal savings bank and federal cor
porations all were included in Repre-
sentative Palmer's diatribe.
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