The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-09-07
THE WAR OF 1912
Under God, the People Rule
and the Trusts Must Go

posed the cloven hoof and gave
the American people what they
may expect of him if again elect
ed. His criticism of Mr.. Under
wood and "Champ'' Clark, which
is essentially a criticism of all
democrats in the house and senate,
because all democrats stood to-
gether, is absolutely uncalled for
and is as ungrateful performance
as it is possible to make, for had
it not been for the action of the
democrats and insurgents in the
house in both the sixty-frst and
sixty second congress in lining up
almost unanimously in favor of
reciprocity with Canada, he would
have been the most thoroughly
discredited and Inundated presi-
dent since the days Of Andrew
johnson.
The president says that the dem
ocrats did not play politics about
reciprocity but they played pol
itics about the tariff. The only
politics they played was to keep
faith with the people and to re-
ligiously redeem the promises they
made in order to win the election
of 1910, which is the best and no.
blest sort of politics. If any pol
itics was played on reciprocity,
the president himself played it
personal at that. He vetoed the
wool bill. the cotton bill and the
farmers free list bill. thereby go
ing over boots and breeches to the
standpatters. Mr.. Taft gives as
his reason for vetoing those three
bills that he wanted to hear from
the tariff board first. What silly
slush is this to hand out to both
houses Of congress and the intelli-
gent American people. Doesn't
William Taft know that it is con-
gress, not the president, that
frames tariffs. MIR. Taft cannot
frame a single schedule or untax
single article. No tariff board can
add a single figure to any tariff
law or subtract single figure from
it. Congress must remain the sole
Judge of the information and rec
concentrations supplied by tariff
board. 1t cannot delegate it's func-
tions or shirk it's duty to make
laws.
The wiser think Mr.. Taft must
be sparing for wind when he made
that childish plea of waiting for
the returns of the tariff board. 1t
is safe to say there is not Sher-
lock Holmes or a Pinkeruon among
the bunch to find out what is 90
ing on in the enemies camp, (the
interests they will be guided into
the mansions of the trust mag
mates, the fatted calf will be killed,
they will be loaded down with
more tips" than the Queen of
Sheba was when she visited King
Solomon, and when they report
their answer will be leave we'll
enough alone-standpat."
MIR. Taft must deal with the
same congress that he dealt with
this summer. He must deal with
the same coalition that passed the
wool bill and the free list bill, for
the republican insurgents are COM
PEELED by circumstance to keep
step with the democrats on the
issue of tariff reform; they cannot
60 back to the regular wing of
their party without discrediting
themselves. Indeed the relations
between Mr.. Taft and the insur-
gents are likely to be more strain
ed at the regular session of con-
gress than at the special session.
He intends to invade their coun-
try this fall. He must defend HIM
self, and defense is inevitably an
attack upon them in the presence
of constituents and one which they
cannot fail to resent.
There is no common ground up.