The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-14
HUDSON HARMON
 GOES AFTER TAFT
Says President Has Been Wrongly Advised--Not Kept Pre-Elec- ton Promises, As well As
 Promises Made Later.

Boston, Sept. Ex-Governor Juds0n Harmon, of Ohio, in an address be- fore the Boston Democratic Club tonight scored President Taft's at- titude towards revision of the tariff. He declared that the President had been wrongfully advised or he would not have vetoed the bills passed at the special session.
 This action and other marks of paternity the governor affirmed, suggested that his position in this matter was adopted off spring, like the defense of former Secretary Bal- finger"
 President Taft had not kept his pre-election promises, as we'll as great many other promises he had made since assuming office" de- elared MT. Harmon.
 His position is simply that those who, by trickery and tariff making, have apparently secured a license to impose exhorbitant prices on the American people shall go on doing it in spite of what congress may do" said the governor, until the five men who are not irresponsible to the people, nor even experts, and composing the Presidents tariff commission, shall advise him how much these taxes ought to be re- duced and how to do it scientifically. He admits that they are too high on those absolute and uni versal necessities of life, but he fears these bills may have cut them too much.
 "Al the men, women and children in the land must continue to suffer an admitted wrong which affects health and comfort rather than run any risk of causing too much shrinkage in profits made excessive by law. The people must not even have the benefit of the doubt. "The payne-Aldrich law had far worse sire than ignorance and it is reflection on our plan of govern ment to say that the fragrant in- iquities of that law shall go on de- flying good sense, common know ledge and honest purpose until a commission without legal responsi- lbility or authority shall decide how the duty chosen law making body may deal with them.
 For the President to defeat the action of congress especially when
 it follows the plain mandate of the country merely when he is not cer- tain about it himself and wants to wait for somebody else to advise him, is new and perilous departure from the wise design of the consti- tuition. The consumers of the coun- ltry are entitled to at least partial
 Immediate relief. This congress gave and the President took away.
 His tenderness was all for the few
 who profit by the present excessive lrates. He hardened his heart to the multitude who are compelled to pay
 the exhorbitant prices, which in lclude them.
 Not content with calling the ma- ljority in congress unscientific, in-
 competent and ignorant" continued IGovernor Harmon, the President lcharges them with insincerity, em- Iplaying the ruder language of the
 stump. He says they were playing Ipolitics.' Surely trying to take Icredit from those who have earned
 it is the worst form of playing poli- ties
 Let our friends in congress take
 heart, for if what they have done
 is playing politics. the people will
 cry go on with the game The lThe tariff never will be taken out
 of politics so long as it is to be pros
 tituted for private gain, and those Iwho get or wish to get the gain,
 can control the organization of one lof the great parties. For the voters
 will always use the other party for their defense and the conflict
 will go on until it is settled whether lprivileged classes or the people shall lrule, for those rule in a country in
 whose behalf the taxing power is
 employed"