The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-12
Insurgents Are Solid Against
 President Taft
This Despite Fake Stories Sent Out by Taft's Own
 Private Press Bureau
By Tayenner)

| The Farmer)
 Washington, July 11-President Taf
 will be opposed by progressive Repub.
 l1cans for a renomination on the
 ground that he is still the mouthpiece
 of Aldrich and, the great law-defyine
 industrial explorations of the coun- | try
 If proof was necessary to show that | the old alliance between Taft and Al | drich still exists, the President him. | self furnished 1t on two notable oc- l casions within the last couple of | weeks when he went out of his way
 to indorse the Aldrich near-central-
 bank scheme which is designed to give Wall Street absolute control of the 1 money and credit of the United States, and thus make it the absolute master | of business and industry
 | Progressive Republicans contend that 1 if the President should be renominated and reelected The would continue to oe the complafsant helpmate of schem- 1 CTS like Aldrich, who are striving con- stantly to make the great masses of | the public little more than the se.fs of the few men who compose the great l financial combination, Of which J. Pierpont Morgan and the Standard Oil capitalists are the most conspic- uous figures And MT. Taft now
  gressives.
 Therefore the only thing left for the public to conclude is that Mr. Taft's reelection would necessarily place back in control of Congress the same class of men who were swept out by the indignation of the public in the last election.
 That MT. Taft is but the mouthpiece of Aldrich in all his speeches in which ho io1 nfor scheme as being the most important legislation before the public is evil dent on the face of things. For MT. Taft has himself been frank enough to say that he knows nothing about the Ald1ich plan; that he has not stud has taken his convictions from those who have. told him the Aldrfch plan should be adopted
 Taft's strong endorsem ent of the AL drfch scheme will make 1t more neces- .sary. than ever for the progressives within his. party to prevent his nomi- nation. It also means that the A. drdch scheme will be made one of the big campaign issues of 1912. The Democrats desire no better issue. The scheme Aldrich has cooked up gives to Morgan the power Of life and death over business and industry. For the life of both is credit, and the. control of credit Taft would place absolutely in Morgan's hands.
 DEMOCRATS MAKING HONEST EFFORTS. 2 The Democrats are sincere in their efforts to run the House of Represen- tatives on an economical business basis. The report of Jerry South, public. shows that during the month of June saving of $S,561.90 was eff fected as a result of the abolishing of useless offices This item, which does not include the big reduction on the police force which the Senate has not yet concurred in but will approve shortly, means a saving of $102, TAP. 80 in a year.
 This is not a Stupendous sum, it is true. but the spirit is in striking con- trast to the $35 wastepaper baskets in the offices of Postmaster General Hitchcock and the expensive recrea- tions taken by the -Aldrfch monetary ragansett Pier.
 TAFT BUREAU REPUDIATED.
 Once more the White House press bureau has been forced to back-track It was like this: Franklin A. Shot well of Omaha, secretary of the Pro- greSsive Republican League of Ne braska, came to Washington, had a talk with the President, and was quot ed by the White House press bureau as saying that Nebraska was strong flor Taft for renominatfon and re- election Now it happens that the league which MT. Shotwell was made to appear as speaking for, is strong against Taft instead of being for him. When the officials of the Nebraska or ganization heard of ShotwelPs state ment they promptly passed resolutions IS-k Washington. The fact is the real progressive Republicans stand as a unit against Taft's renomination, and every indication is that if he secures the nomination again they will permit him to go down in defeat Then they will make an attempt to reorganize the Republican party.
 PROGRESSIvES LOSE GROUND. ]
 When it is too late some of the Re publican insurgents in the United States Senate who are opposing reel procity may learn that they are com hitting one of those huge political blunders that have been described as worse than crimes.
 REAL REVISION DOWNWARD.
 The wool bill, passed by the Demo- cratic House but not acted upon as yet in the Republican Senate, reduces the tax on cloth out of which the poor mans clothing is made, from 160 per cent to from 20 to 40 per cent; on wemen's dress goods from 150 per cent. to from 30 to 45 per cent, and on blankets from 160 per cent. to 30 per cent.
 FACTS ABOUT STEEL TRUST. ( The restriction of competition, which is in violation of the law, was the rrtme object of the organizers of the United States Steel corporation, ac- cording to informatio which has re- centiy come to light in Washington. When formed, the steel trust had property valued at s6S2, ,0O0, 900. But it was capitalized at $1,402, 900, 900. Of the capital stock, s720, 000. .000, or more than half, was water. Three partners of J. P. Morgan advanced BPS, 900, 900 to finance the trust and received stock worth 80, 500,000 The average rate of profit from 1901 to 1910 on the cor poration's actual investment was 12 per cent. Although this combine is in existence in plain violation of the law, the. Taft administration refused to prosecute it. The Taft administra- ton, however, co-operated with the steel trust by giving secrets of our battleships to foreign nations with the understanding that in exchange for these secrets the countries thus fa- vored would give a substantial con- tract to the teel trust. The man who permitted the exchange of vital gov ernment secrets in order that the il- legal trust could increase it's dividends was Philander C. Knox, now Secretary Cfofl ha1n Orcro jza