Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-09-29
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
BY CLYDE H. TAvENNER.

OF living by VetOlne the tarln DlllS because
the tariff board hadn't reported.
Here is some tariff-board history that
the President will not probably refer to-
The tariff board was created September
| rs, 1909. On June Z, 1911. 81 months
later. Congress called for whatever data
the board had collected on cost of manu-
featuring wool. and was informed the board
had nothing to report. What was the tariff
board doing during these 81 months?
Soon after the appointment of the board
its chairman, Henry C. Emery established
headquarters at the private residence Of
Frederick Hale. son of ex-senator Eugene
Hale, of Maine, who has been known for
years as one of the most powerful defend
ers of ultra protection.
In October, 1910, it was announced that
1.-THE work of the board was to be doomed"
at series of banQuets. Then for three
months the banqueting campaign occupied
the time and attention of the board The
two most important banquets at which the
members of the board were wined and
dined were given by the Arkwright club
the leading association of high protection
manufacturers of the country, and the Ma
ti0nal Association of Wool Manufacturers,
the wards of schedule X The plan adopt
ed for estimating the costs is the plan
which. at the dinner given by the benef-
Charles of the wool schedule, Emery was
advised to adopt. That plan practically
amounts to this The tariff board will sup
ply the wooden manufacturers with sam
pie of wooden cloth and card. and manu-
facturers will periodically jot down their
version as to the cost Of manufacture in
the United States.
II was year after the board was created
before il started to investigate the manu-
featuring end of the wool tariff And this
is the board for whose report all tariff re-
vision must be held up
GOVERNMENT BY STEALTH.
The Taft administration is even unpopu-
lar with the army of government employees
in Washington. While they are not saying
anything publicly, the government clerks
are bitter because of the many rules inau-
gurated under Mr.. Taft which interfere
with their personal liberty and deprive
them of rights guaranteed to all citizens
by the constitution itself. If the clerks
should protest against their conditions.
even to Congress. they would lay them
selves liable to discharge. The object of
the administration in resOrting to these
harsh gag-rule methods is to prevent a
leakage Of information injurious to the
Republican party, such as occurred in the
Ballinger case.
The following official order signed by
George Otis Smith, director of the Geological
Survey gives an idea of the Russian-like
censorship attempted in one department I:
Rule No. 2. That no interview shall be
| granted without securing from the person
soliciting the same promise that he will,
before submitting the material to his pub
LEGATION Office, present copy Of his manu-
script to the director for approval" So
| far as is known among newspaper men in
Washington, nothing SO drastic as this in
Che way of press censorship was ever at
tempted before in America.
TAFTs OFFENDING.
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, has formu-
lated a bill of particulars wherein Taft has
offended Some Of the Presidents offenses
are: His position on the Payne Aldrich
law; his position on the bill for the further
regulation of interstate commerce /. his pO-
sitiOn on the changes made on the postal
savings law his position ON the control
and disposition of the public domain his
position on the proposed income tax law !;
his position on the Canadian reciprocity
bill his work for the peace treaties; his
vetoes OF the WOODEN schedule; the free list
bill. and the resolution admitting New
Mexico and Arizona as States. AS this
list embraces nearly everything in which
the President took part, Mr.. Taft evil
IDENTIFY failed to please the Insurgents in
anything.
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE.
Philippine independence in nine years
This Is the definite promise contained in a
| joint resolution fathered by Judge Cyrus
Cline, Of Indiana, which resolution Speaker
Champ Clark declares will In all probability
be passed by the House this winter. Judge
Clines plan provides that the Philippines
shall be permitted to elect the upper House
of the Philippine legislature in 1915. adopt
in 1917 a constitution to be approved by
the United States. and then comes the de-
finite promise that by July, l920-nine
years hence the United States shall with
draw sovereignty over the Philippines and
permit the Filipino people to establish an
independent representative government.
No WAY To SToP THIS TRUST.
For years and years the sugar trust is
known TO have stolen from the government.
By means Of false weights and tricky
springs to cheat the scales and by bribery
of government officials, this rapaciOus trust
diverted into its own Golfers millions Of
dollars that should have gone TO the gov
eminent in revenue. The trust was caught
red handed in its thievery. yet nobody was
punished nobody went to jail.
The government finally put a stop to the
revenue stealing. The dOctOred springs
were taken away and the corrupt customs
collectors were discharged. This forced the
trust to adopt new methods in order to
maintain its inflated dividends. 50 recently
II sent out wall about short crop" and
2artaA oil
they were during the Civil War The
sugar trust is determined TO get Its.
WHERE The MONEY Co.'s
What becomes Of all the money the big
trusts extort annually from the American
people2 Everybody knows they exact mil
lions in tribute each year. and a stranger
from Mars, were he to read the newspapers
of this country, would wonder how the
trusts could get strong boxes big enough
to store away all the money they take from
the people.
Recently an enterpTising statistician fig
ured Il out that American heiresses the
majority Of whom are the daughters Of
American trust magnates-permit their
broken down titled foreign husbands to
enjoy the income from one and three
quarter million dollars.
This money. If spent by parents in Anne
RIGA by whom II Is earned, would educate
approximately million children each
year. Or II would give employment to two
hundred thousand American workmen at
good wages.
The DAY Or RECKONING.
The House Of Governors" appointed a
committee Of three Of its members 10 argue
against the Sanborn interstate rate decis-
ion when the case reaches the Supreme
Court. The committee was appointed be-
cause the governors feared the rights Of
the States were in danger Of being violated
by the highest court in the land. Each
member OF the Supreme Court. when he
takes his oath, solemnly promises to pro-
tect the rights Of the States as well as
those Of the nation. Why, then. should
the governors be apprehensive Why
should they consider Il necessary to tell
the highest court what its duty Isl
The very fact that the governors recOg-
nfzad tho nacaaaitu for afich acfion fndi-