Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1911-09-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
By Clyde H. Tavenner.


On the tenth day of May, 1902, the
government filed a petition for an
Injunction against the beef trust IN
the federal court at Chicago. On
July 9Th, 1911, the packers, after hav-
inc obtained forty-two delays and
postponements in the intervening nine
years. again pleaded not guilty, and
for the forty-third time their trial
was postponed, this time until Noyem-
Der goth of this year.
The status of the beef trust prose-
cution, therefore, is exactly where 1t
was the day the first papers were filed
nearly a decade ago. The much-her-
aided prosecution" of this gigantic
trust-a prosecution which has been
directed by one republican attorney
general after another-has amounted
to less than nothing.
Every man, woman and child in the
country is convinced that the trust
operates in violation of the law, both
statute and moral, and yet nothing
has been accomplished in the alleged
campaign to stop these violations ex-
cept the disbursement of thousands
of dollars in fees for special trust
busting" attorneys.
BIG STICK" IN NEW ROLE
What the people of Arizona really
have to do to obtain statehood is
story that the American people have
never fully heard. Information has
gone out over the wires from Wash
ington that President Taft will permit
Arizona to enter the Union by simply
striking the recall of the judiciary
provision from it's constitution.
But only when these facts are con-
sidered can the full significance of
the Presidents action be grasped:
First, that the people of Arizona
by a vote of three to one declared in
favor of the recall.
Second, that in order to obtain
statehood the people of Arizona must
go to the polls again and vote against
a principal of government thar they
have already voted in favor of, and
which they believe to be right.
By thus coereing the people to vote
against thing which their best judg-
ment tells them to be wise, threaten
ing to withhold from that people, un-
less they vote as the chief executive
dictates, rights to which they are
justly entitled under the constitution,
President Taft has committed himself
to an action which is without pre-
eedent in the history of the Amefi ean
republic.
The President has said to the peo-
pie of Arizona, in effect: No matter
whether the majority believe that the
recall Of judgs is wise or not: unless
that majority goes to the polls and
pretends that it is. against the recall,
| will deprive the people of Arizona
of statehood. Yes, | will deprive the
people of Arizona of statehood wheth-
er they are entitled to it uader The
constitution or not, unless they vote
not the way they may desire, but as
command them to vote. !"
While this method of forcing the
people may be compatible to the men
tai workings of an executive with
judicial temperament" isn't it after
all making a farce out Of representa-
tive governments
PRESIDENT MAKES ANOTHER
MISTAKE.
1t is difficult to see how President
Taft's $4,000 mile swing around the
circle can end in anything but sorry
spectacle for himself.
If he tells the people the truth
about how he vetoed the honest at
tempt of both branches of Congress to
reduce the high cost of living in this
country; how upon taking Office he
filled his cabinet with men connected
with the law breaking trusts, and how
he tried and nearly succeeded in sec
reilly giving Alaska away to the land
grabbers, he will discredit himself.
II Mr. Taft juggles with the facts
In the slightest degree, the insurgents
swinging along in his trail, will
point out his Misrepresentation with
such truth and logic that the Presi-
dent will be more discredited than if
he had remained at home.
The record of the Taft administra-
ton is not one that can be debated
with any credit to the President. The
President has only himself, and men
like Aldrich,> Guggenheim, Penrose
and Lodge, to whose advice he listen
ed exclusively, to blame.
SHODDY WOOLENS.
The wool trusts practice of cheap
ening the quality of its product while
at the same time maintaining prices
at the highest level ever known, is
drawing the fire of the medical jour
nails all over the country. Through
these journals physicians are protest
ing against the lack of warm and en-
during underclothing which causes
the spread of injurious diseases. Wo-
men and children suffer most from
this form of greed. The medical
Journals are demanding a repeal of
the high protective amounting
to 100 per cent. on the commoner
grades of woolens, recognizing in
these high duties the source of the
evil of which they complain