The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-08-15
Washington News
Items Of Interest From Our Cor.
respondent, George w.
Summers.


Washington, by which all the
members Of both Houses of Con
gress who are opposed TO the
trusts and the highly protected
industries prospecting at the ex.
pense of the common people have
united in the interests IF the
people to bring about changed
conditions. While the Demo
Gratis are the leaders of the new
coalition and the promoters of
the policy of tariff reduction,
they are not strong enough in
Congress to enact alone the laws
they would like to pass and it is
only with the assistance OF those
Republicans who believe the
people have rights 4 owe those of
the trusts and protected monopo-
that the Democratic measures
are being adopted by Congress.
On the one sides are the Dem
ocrats and the Progressive"
Republicans, representing the
Roosevelt school. while on the
other are the Taft supporters
and the "Stand-Patters." The
former are fighting for the peo-
pie, the latter for the trusts.
And the people are winning out
in the fight. Only the veto of
the President can prevent the
passage of laws beneficial to the
people and intended to reduce the
cost of living; and there is a pos
slbillty that eve if the Presi-
dent vetoes the tariff reduction
bills, as he threatens to do, there
will be enough champions of the
cause of the people in each House
of Congress to pass them over
his veto.
A result Of the action of the
Democratic House of Represen-
tatives in passing bills to reduce
the tariff duties on many of the
necessities of life, has been the
formation Of two great parties 49,
one tavoring tariff reduction; the
othdr opposing it. 1t is needless
to say that the Democrats are the
leaders in the party favoring tar
if reduction, but they are not all
of it. is not a partisan fight
which is being made here but a
fight on principles, with the Re-
publican party divided as to it's
views on tariff reduction 1t is
the fight of the people against
the Interests and Trusts, with
the Democrats and the Roose-
welt or LaFollette Republicans
on the side Of the people and the
President and the rest of the
Stand Patters" on the side of
the trusts.
Bills reducing the tariff duties
on practically every article of
ordinary use in the homes and
on the farms, on wool and cotton,
have been passed by the House.
The Senate has passed ali of
these except the bill REDUCING the
duty on cotton, which has Just
been sent to that body. and
which will be passed. The Sen
ate has passed those bills for the
reduction of the cost Of living by
the votes of Democrats and
Progressive" Republicans, and
they will all be sent to the Pres
sdent, who, it is insisted by his
friends, will promptly veto every
bill intended to reduce the tariff
duties on any article.
If the President vetoes these
bills for the reduction of the
duties on the nocessaries of life.
the people will know where to
place the responsibility. The
Regular" wing Of the Rcpubli-
can party headed by the Presi-
dent and the "Sland-Patters"
who stand by the tariff no mat
ter what burdens it places on the
consumer, are opposed to any re-
duction in duties under which the
people have been groaninq and
from wnich they have been de.
handing relief. Candidate Taft
befoee he became President
promised a reduction on the tar.
iff downward and the people be.
lieved him. lie declared the
wool schedule Of the PAYNE.
Aldrich bill 'indefensible" and
yet he signed it. He Joined