The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-08-17


d be-all and end-all of the son of pluto,
e racy. Yet he means well. He has
e good heart. His great handicap
a that he has so many about him VIII
know exactly what they want, and
n whom the public good is the last cor
0 sideration.
: Therefore it would seem that
! matters little what large schemes ar
4 promised or prophesied, so long a
Mr.. Taft sits in the executive chair
: The president has as little chance t,
) succeed as the executive of the nation
: as man in any other walk of Lift
l might have if he tried to serve twt
: masters.
> Canadians are Wary.
The Republican argument that {
high tariff is needed in this country
to maintain the high American wage
is shown up as a farce, pure ano
simple, by the presence in several
American manufacturing cummuni'
ties of agents of Canadian manufac.
turers, who are gathering figures ia
show that Canada cannot afford to
have reciprocity with us for the
reason that Canada cannot compete
against American wages.
The Canadians are beginning to
understand how it is that the steel
trust can sell steel in Canada for
about half the prices charged the
American consumer, and still make a
profit. They are learning that men
work in the steel mills twelve hours
day, and seven days a week for a
dollar and a half day, and it is for
the reason that they do not wish to
compete against the cheap foreign
immigrant and negro labor employed
by American trusts that some of the
Canadians are urging the defeat of
reciprocity.
And yet, the Republican protection
lists have argued all these years that
the great danger to American labor
was the possibility that it might have
to enter into competition with the
"cheap' labor of other countries.
This latest action of the Canadians
knocks the last legs from under that
ancient contention.
National Road Building to Be Demo-
cratic Policy.
Speaker Champ Clark has sounded
a high note that promises to throw
nice issue into the next campaign. He
is member of the Lincoln memorial
commission, and in that capacity he is
advocating the building of great
highway from the national capitol to
Gettysburg, "as the nucleus of a
great system OF national roads, built
by the government in cooperation
with the states" The majority of
the commission favors marble arch
in the city of Washington, which the
Speaker says would form fine meet
ing place for English sparrows but
which would not in any degree fit in
with the practical character Of the
great Lincoln. The Speaker has in
duced the President to defer action
on the memorial until legislation can
be passed to permit the building of
the Lincoln road. He will then work
for the adoption by the government
of a national road building policy.
Wickersham an Issue.
That Attorney General George w.
Wickersham will become campaign
issue by 1912 is regarded as practi-
cally certain by those who are looking
ahead. Wickersham has permitted
Taft to be blotted and be Smirched in
the Pinchot and other matters. Wick
ersham was on the side of Ballinger
against Pinchot, just as he is at pres
ent against DR.. Wiley. Develop
ments at the hearing before the STAN
ley steel committee, against the U. S.
Steel corporation contain many
fresh evidences that Wickercham ex-
emplified the alliance between the
party and the capitalists
and monopolists. The sequence Of
all this will be that Taft will get many
a whack over Wickersham s shoulder.
Competition or Trusts! Which?
When the Sherman law was passed
legislation was directed toward the
prohibition or destruction of monopo-