Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-09-07
AGGRESSIVE
DEMOCRACY
Record Of the Special Session
Of Congress Leaves A
Clear Field
A MILITANT DEMOCRACY
Obstruction to Public Senti-
ment has Been Placed
on G. 0. P.
A MILITANT DEMOCRACY

President Tafts vetoes of the farm
ers free list and of the downward re-
vision of the wool tariff schedules,
only serve to throw into sharp defini-
tion the impressive lesson of Demo-
cratic cOnstructiveness as exempli-
fled at the recent session of Congress.
gress.
The credit of achievement, and the
responsibility of obstruction, are plac-
ed exactly where they belong. Un-
der the handicap of Republican
President. and of Republican Senate
the Democratic House of Representa-
tives has carried through an extensive
and efficient program of relief to the
public. Backed by the Nation, it has
even beaten beaten down some of the
Senate barriers, has imposed terms
and conditions on the garrison of that
stronghold of reaction, has won vic
tory for reciprocity after it had been
repudiated by the last Republican
Congress, has passed this free list bill
the wool bill, the cotton bill, the
Statehood bill, the direct election of
Senators resolution, besides inaugti.
rating far-reaching retrenchments,
and curbing the trusts by investiga-
tions that have done more to check
lawless monopoly than has any other
bit or bride tried in the last twenty
years.
But now, between the Democracy
and the people to whom it brings
rescue, rises another fortress of priv
ilege, as, in the battle of German
town, during the Revolution, a sim
gle stone house, garrisoned by com
pany or two of British. stood between
Washington and the capture of Phila-
delphia. That fort is the White
House. 1t is there that Mr.. Taft,
welding the veto power, waves sig
nails of encouragement to the stand
patters of the Senate, the Paynes,
Cannons and Dalzells of the House,
and uses the authority vested in him
to neutralize the splendid campaign
of Democratic progressiveness.
1t will not be neutralized.
By his reactionary vetoes, and the
threat of other reactionary vetoes to
come, Mr. Taft only opens the way to
a decisive mapping out of Demo
cratic triumph greater than that of
1910.
The remedy for construction men,
aced by obstruction is militancy. The
Democratic worker of 1911, baked of
the just objects for which he works,
becomes the soldier of 1912 as he
was the soldier in 1910.
The hosts which won the nation
wide Democratic victory last year,
will be reinforced next year, by a
multitude of Republicans, who have
waited and watched, reserving deci-
sion until they should see whether
the Republican crash of 1910 had
taught their party any craftsmanship,
whether Mr.. Taft had profited by that
severe experience.
These sentinels on the watchtowers
Of Republican politics, now have their
answer They have seen relief to the
country near They have seen il
brought by Democratic hands. They
have seen President Taft interpose
his vetoes between the givers and
the recipients.
They have also seen that in the
struggle of the past months in Con-
gress, all the retrOgressive elements,
all the confusing elements, all the
elements that fought against down
ward tariff revision, and other meas
ures of progress, and, when driven to
bay, haggled for any vantage point
that might tell against the people,
and for the privileged interests, were
Republican.
The inevitable outcome of such a
situation is, to exclude the Republican
party from the consideration of all
who are in sympathy with progress
i've tendencies, to eliminate the Re-
publican party from further liberation
by those who have cOndoned its mis-