The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-05-12
RECIPROCITY
WITH CANADA
"farmer's Bill" Will ReCtify tr-
rors of the Treaty
ESPECIAL INTERESTS"
r.. peoole are Awaking TO Their Rights
And 10 no Uncertain Tone Demand
Fair National Legislation

81 oroe bodies move slowly but
,,om;nG events cast their shadows be-
,a.a " and the shadow of the coming
aa Se of the people is even now
observable on the political horizon. In
ths thinking era which came upon the
u NV, in connection with the present
ppa"rrmo,,slv increased cost of living,
,hsv have about ceased to view things
,hro,,vh the "smok eyeglasses OF poll
TEXANS who while pretending to repre-.
conf them, were and are really ana
ociuallv representing special interests.
a discovery has been made that the ever
widening line which separates the COM
man people from corporate and money
ad interests is due to legislation Incl.
dsnt 70 a sort of secret partnership
which has long obtained between the
government and these same interests
through the manipulatiOns OF the AL
driches, Hales, Lodges and Depews OF
the Senate, and the CannOns, Paynes,
Tawneys and Dalzells of the House.
The people at large had not made
this discovery prior to the last Presi-
dental election. They had not learned
the stubborn fact that these same Re-
publican party leaders were, are and
had been '"cheek by joal" with special
interests. So, when the Republican
party pledged itself in platform platl-
tudes prior to the last presidential cleo
tion as being willing, even anxious, to
relieve the people from some OF the
burdens under which they were pend
Ing to make "the rich richer and the
poor poorer, the people did not doubt
that party's sincerity, althoughGf they
had stopped to think Of it, that party
was, at that very hour, in a position to
show its purposes by it's works; it was
in full possession of the, government
and, even then, in a position Ito do
instead of only promising Ito 90, these
things. Well, the electors of the land
listened to the siren voices of these old
time deceivers and trusted them with a
further lease of power. But, 10 and
behold, instead of redeeming in good
faith their promises to the people, they
proceeded, at once. to add insult to in
jury by giving the people stone in.
stead of bread; and then had the as
surance to claim that they had fully
met their ante election promises. Even
President Taft had the temerity to tell
the people that his party had, in the
Payne Aldrich law, fully redeemed its
campaign pledges. =.
Thus injured and insulted, too, the
people held the congressional elections
of last November and spoke in no un.
certain tones of reputation by chang
ing a republican majority of thirty-nine
in the house of representatives into
democratic majority of sixty-six and by
reducing the republican majority in the
senate almost to the vanishing point.
But the people having thus repudiated
the republican party's tariff legislation
and the republican president having
gone out of his way to indorse and APP
prove It IN the most positive and I'M
teqnivOcal terms, even calling it 1.-THE
best tariff law ever enacted by the
American Congress, President Taft
felt lmpeled to do some ne"hedging
against the ides Of November, 1872.
he could not ''go-back on" the Payne
Ahirich law by asking for another re-
vision of the tariff. He had "burned
the bridges behind him" in that re.
spect by the enconiums he had heaped
upon that last revision of it. But he
nad to do something to save his party.
he sweated beads of blood in quest of
new Aaron's rod of future hope.
me immense mountain of Republican
authority labored hard and the mouse
Hproduced in the shape of reciprocity
with Canada turned out to be pole
cat. On its face. it seemed to he
broad and statesmanlike measure for
the relief of the consumer; but, upon
analysis, it was found to carry it's pro-
visions like everything else the re-
publican party has done for fifty years.
most palpable, unjust, unfair and in
v,ldlous discrimination against the pro-
aacers of the land and in favor of those
VINO prey upon them. As submitted by
.ne president, it would put the farm
CT wheat. corn, oats, cattle, hogs,
s,aheep and so forth on the free list, but
a would retain the miller's wheat
noar, corn meal. cat meal rolled oats
anu so forth, and the packers beef,
P'k, mutton, veal, lamb meats and so
!. IN on the protected list. In word,
y you'd put upon the free list every,
mag the farmer produces If untouched
~ any other interest; but, If touched
~ any other interest at all, it would
.e.nalIl subject to duty, thus protecting
M 1nat other interest And yet President
iait sought earnestly and diligently
:" nave this discriminating measure
s fusneG through the republican sixty
n l"n. congress in it's expiring hours,
, .es' the people should get next" But
!; ;,'a Ivy to the shortness of the session,