The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-09-01

it should be reduced so as to relieve the
people of some of their burdens.
He told the people that the Repub-
lican platform pledged the party to a
revision of the tariff downward and that
he stood on that platform. Upon that
platform and his pledges to the people,
:" Tat was elected President. Con
giess immediately, both branches being
Republican, went into session and finally
adopted the PAYNE Aldrich-Smoot Tariff
Bill.
While the bill was being considered
by Congress it will be remembered by
the people, that the papeis had much
to say about Mr.. T9n's insisting upon
a revision of the tariff downward, and if
the bill did not revise the tariff down.
ward, the President would veto the
bill The bill was passed notwthstand-
ing all of the talk about the veto to the
contrary by both branches of Congress
and it was sent to the President Then
the strangest thing occurred ever known
in the history of politics Instead Of 4
veto of the bill. the President signed it
and made it law.
II was then announced that the Pres-
dent had simply surrendered to the
Stand patters and instead Of standing by
the pledges of the platform and his own
pledges to the people to reduce the
tariff. he had actually signed bill which
increased the tariff 1t would not have
been so bad if the bill had simply main
tanned the old tariff rates, because the
President could then have said that he
could not get Congress TO act, but he
signed bill which increased the bur
dens OF tariff on the people, which both
the party platform and he himself had
promised the people should be reduced.
In the face of these facts how can any
intelligent man believe the President was
sincere when he promised the people to
reduce the tariff.
If Mr.. TAFT had been sincere he was
bound by eve.y sense of manhood
and honor to veto the Payne ldrich
Tariff Bill when it was sent to him for
his signature.
How can an intelligent people believe
anything but that he was hypocrite and
demasogue in his speeches promising
reduction of the tariff and only made to
get votes by deceiving the people.
But he went further and made his case
worse, when at the instance of Aldrich
the Trainer of the bill, he went into the
Western States to defeud the bill and
then told the people that it was the best
tariff Bill that the country had ever had.
Then when. largely by reason of the
increase OF tariff rates, the prices went
SO high up that the people could not buy
the barest necessities, and the people
raised such clamor from Maine to Cal
iforna, Mr.. Taft went West again. and
,ried 10 reconcile the Insurgents He
extended the glad hand and told the In
Sui S0iit CCHdpOIS diu OOlls CSSilCu, lildl
paris of the tariff were too high, and that
if they came back into the fold, they
should eat again at The patronage trough,
and that The Wool Schedule was "inde-
fensible"
But the Insurgents refused to take the
bait hat he held out and the Republi-
Can party was showed under last fall.
Since then Congress has made a mild
reduction in the 'ndefensible, Wool
Schedule, and Mr.. TAFT vetoed that
There can be nothing more NECESSARY 10
convince the people that Mr.. Taft is the
champion of high tariff ard the special
interests, and they will never be dis.
turhed by Mr.. Taft.
The people should have known that
when they elected him. He IS an Ohio
Republican. and whoever heard Of an
Ohio Republican that was in favor of a
reduction of HE tariff or anything else
against the special interests Mr. Tail
will never be able TO fool the Western
people again by his speeches and his
pledges.
Mr.. Taft and high protective tariff are
both doomed to defeat at the polls in the
next election no matter what he save