Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-07-21

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"Consicered as measure of recipro.
Guy, SAID Senator LaFoliette, Of the
canadian agreement, ait Violates every
tarlff p Ineiple of reciprocity heretofore
expressed in the platform declarations
o The Republican party, and recon-.
met dcd by former Republican presi.
dents. Considered as a tariff hin in
violates every tariff principle and plat
form promise upon which William ri.
L ~ was elected president of the
Uniied States.
yin the beginning il was heralded as
a blessing to the consumers. So WIS
the tariff bill Of 1909. II promises TO
re luce duties for the benefit of the peo
PIE. II reduces no duties, the effect Of
which can ever resch the people, but il
docs reduce duties for the mi'lers, the
packers, Standard Oil, the brewers, the
coal combines, and in some measure
for the already.
GROSSLY PROTECTED INTERESTS.
1t is nothing that it preiends TO be,
and processes TO be nothing that it is.
II is little brother to the Payne Aid
rich bill, the greatest legislative wrong
inflicted upon the American people in
half century"
The speaker said that the pending
legislation, based on the Canadian
pact, was so related TO the "strange
course Of Mr.. Taft upon the tariff
question and the protective policies
which he was elected to maintain
that the real stable worth of his rec
concentrations could not be fairly
judged without reviewing the more
importsnt issues involved in his cleo
ton and the more important acts of
his administrator
Continuing his criticism OF Mr.
Tsfts administration, Senator Latol-
lette said
throughout the first pages OF his
first general message, he found no
space to say word for the great meas
ures that had made the name of his
predecessor revered and loved every
where in the United States. Is it to he
wondered at that the Republican voter
ia 1910 felt that he had several scores
to settle? a president whom he had
elected, believed him to re the custo,
dian of the Roosevelt policies, had dis
missed the Roosevelt cabipet and APP
pointed in their places men, in the
main, of known hostility to those poll
cies.
ain all the record of his administra-
tion, no more glaring example is pre-
scented of the complete
SURRENDER TO SPECIAL INTERESTS.
and the complete reversal of Roosevelt s
progressive policies than that shown IN
dealing with the amendments to the
interstate commerce act. 1t would
have framed piece of legislation affect
ing interstate commerce more harmful
to the public interest than tie bill
drafted by the attorney general and
recommended to congress by President
Taft"
After reviewing the declaration o.
the Republican platform of 1908, on
conservation, Mr.. LaEoliette went into
the record of the Ballinger-P inchot
controversy and the general admins
tration of the interior department down
to The recent dismissal of the Cunning
ham claims. "The congressional ill.,
vestigalion of the Alaska coal scandal,
said he, confirmed the public opinion
which had early reached the stage of
conviction that Balinger was using
h official power to aid the Morgan
Guggenheim interests in wrongfully
acquiring control of the Alaska coal
fields. The subsequent history of the
Alaskan coal lands scandal simly con-
firms the bad faith and betrayal Of
public interest which the earlier testi-
mony clearly established.
"Her to the Roosevelt policies, as a
presidential candidate, Mr.. Taft was a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and the leading
and most enthusiastic Roosevelt cham
pon from the first to The last OF the
cam paign. Three months after he was
inaugurated he seemed TO have for
gotten that there ever had been any
well known Roosevelt policies. BE
had o sooner taken his oath of office
than he sacrificed the progressive cause
fer the
SUPPORT OF ALDRICH
and Cannon and their reactionary pro-
gram.
Reciprocity is apopular catchword.
The president seized upon it, He made
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