The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-05-11
SOME PLAIN SPEAKING.

SOME PLAIN SPEAKING.
Some one has lied!
1t is short, ugly word, but 1t fills
the bill.
Some one has lied.
Someone has been trying to make
us believe that the people are suffer
ing from republican misrule.
1t is lie. Look about you.
Someone has been trying to make us
believe that there is great deal of
idleness in the United States, that the.
unemployed are many, and that want
is widespread
1t is a lie! Try to hire someone.
Someone has been saying that
wages have, not increased as have
prices of the necessaries of life.
It is lie. Denison pays 1925 per
day for street work
Someone has been telling us that
you can reduce the price of foodstuffs
without reducing the price of farm
products.
1t is q silly lie
Someone has been urging that the
Payne tariff law was not revision
downward that prices were increased
ION account of it; and that it did not
redeem the promises Of the repub-
|lican party.
It is q lie!
The Payne law reduced the tariff on
654 articles and increased the tariff
on 220 articles. The Payne tariff law
decreased the tariff on goods the con-
sumption value Of which was $4,951,-
I87S.575. and increased the tariff on
goods the consumption value Of which
was $S78, Isl, O74. A balance Of over
FOUR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on
the DECREASE side of the ledger.
Someone has been telling that the
Itarin is causing high prices.
It is q lie!
Boots and shoes are higher than
lever before. But HIDES ARE ON
THE FREE LIST and the TARIFF ON
BOOTS AND SHOES HAS BEEN RE
lDUCED 60 PER CENT. Harness il
Istill high, but the tariff was REDUCED
ISIS per cent. The tariff on agricultural
implements was REDUCED q. pei
lcent, on all iron and steel products
THE reduction was from 16 per cent t.
SO per cent. On barbed wire the tarif
was reduced 81 per cent. Petroleum
land its products were placed OF
the FREE LIST,
Someone has said 1t was ricl
mans tariff.
1t is lie!
OF the $s7s.756,074 worth of good
on which the tariffs were increase,
$685., 9O3,54S come under the head o
|luxuries, articles of voluntary use
while $24O,852,525 come under tn,
head of necessaries. In other words
the user of Injuries pays three fourth
of the tariff increases and the user o
necessaries one-fourth. On the othe
hand, the nearly five billions of dol
lars on which were decreases wer
practically all on necessaries.
Someone is trying to make US be
lieve that the farmer is the chief sal
ferer from the republican system o
protection as carried out in the Ding
ley and the Payne tariffs.
1t is q lie.
During the past ten years the vain
of farms and of farm products ha
y increased AZ per cent, or from .went.
thousand millions of dollars to twenty
nine Thousand millions Of dollars.
Someone has accused the republican
leaders of being out of harmony will
the people as being tools of COZ
porate interests.
:. 1t is lie
Every one of the many splendid law
protecting the rights of the people
curbing the power of the trusts; tn.
laws under which Roosevelt began an,
Taft continued the prosecution
|against the malefactors of grea
!. wealth every one of these laws, W,
repeat, were placed upon the statut,
books by republicans. and republican,
!, of the Aldrich, Allison, Root, Cannon
: Elkins, Hepburn type.
Someone has impugned the motive
!. of President Taft and has accused hin
of betraying the Roosevelt policies, o
: which he proclaimed himself tn
friend.
> 1t is a lie!
Every public utterance of the pres
: dent. every message, every official &C
has been in line with Roosevelt po
3 icies. The very portion of the railroa
t bill which the insurgents would elm
I; mate, that giving the railroads powe
t to make agreements between then
j selves. is a Roosevelt policy, pure an
r simple.
{. GOmpOno hac cold that tho proo;dor