The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-05-12
TO WHAT EXTENT HAVE THE
DEMOCRATS A FREE HAND
IN THE ADMINISTER ALTON
OF THE GOVERNMENT.

~ - ~ - ' 4-AN4N A'A44AN
There is great deal OF public discus
sion as 10 the Democratic party having a
free hand in the administration of the
government ItiS an important consid-
Grafton for the people OF the country.
and it's up TO the people to enforce the
demand and 20 urge upon their repre-
septatives in both branches Of Congress,
to SO exercise their powers and so fulfill
their duties as TO show tina, they have
free hand
The people elect the President and
the members OF Congress, and it is their
fault and their loss, and IT they do not
elect in every case men who have a free
hand and who will use their powers and
their free hand to administer the gov
eminent 10 promote the welfare OF the
people The people for fifty years,
with the exception Of President Cleve-
lands two terms, entrusted the govern
ment to the Republican party
In all OF these years the people could
have elected men with . free hand to
govern the country, but they did not do
it.
The Republicans who were elected
and have had free hand to serve
the people, but they did not exercise the
free hand
So they did not do it for the simple
reason that they did not want to do it.
They conducted the government in the
interest of a special class who were max
ing money by exploiting the people for
their own personal gam, and they have
accumulated vast and unheard of fort
uneS by this system This was not done
in the dark or in corner, but in the
light Of dav in this enlightened age, and
it was known OF an men,
The Republican party could have put
an end 10 this system Of robbery and
extor;ion a; any period during the past
fifty years. but they did not want to put
al end TO t. because It was their system.
and year in and year out they told the
people that II was not only a good sys-
TEN. but that j, was the bes; system of
government ior them.
Mr.. Blaine. = very able Republican.
plainly repudiated high protective tariff
before his death, in his protest against
the Mckinley Tariff Bill hut they re-
fused 10 listen to his warning. President
Mckinley repudiaied the protective tsrif
in the last speech Of his life and Jus; be-
tore his assassination, but the RepubH-
can party paid no heed 10 the warning
and continued The same unjust system.
The Republican convention that n0mi-
mated Mr.. Taft, told the people that they
would reduce the ,ari7, and instead OF
reducing II they increased It under the
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill. They could
have changed the system al any time and
prohted By the warning Of two OF
their bes, men, but they did not want
to change il. In other words. the Re
publican party have consistently con-
Quoted this government. not in the inter
est of the mass Of the people, but in the
interests OF the capitalists. who we're
roboing the people. because the oapi-
ialists gave 10 the Republican campaign
fund the money 10 buy the elections.
The system has brought in lis train
long list Of evils upon the people. The
trusts, corporations. combines Of rail-
roads and other large moneyed interests.
which so enhanced The cost Of almos,
everything, until under the Payne-Ald-
rich Tariff Bill the prices Of the neces-
sarieS Of life became SO exorbitant that
the people could not pay for the bare
neeeSSaries Of life, and had to do with
ont meat and proper clothing.
Not until then did the people get their
eyes open. and last fall elected an over
whelming amount of Democrats TO Con-
greSs Last fall also brought about or
indicated great split or an apparent
split in the Republican party. Many Re
publicsns in Congress from the West and
a few in the East, repudiaied the Payne
Aldrich Tariff and many other things
also. But it is doubtful if the Insur-
gents viii be able to hold their position
OF opposition. They all have been
rank pro,ectionisis, and still proclaim
that they are still proiectionists-
If they are still proiectionists the peo-
pie can not hope for much from them.
because that Is the fundamental vice in
the whole Republican policy Of govern
men,. and while that continues TO be the