The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-08-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Washington Correspond
ent of The Times.
BY CLYDE II. Tavenner.

Washington, D. C.-Today, on tn
eve of the momentous occasion whe1
President Taft must sign or veto tariff
legislation of vast Importance to tn
people, he is still surrounded "by mel
who know exactly what they want
Just as he was when induced to sigl
the Ubiquitous Payne-Aldrich bill.
The semi-official statement giver
out by the White House publicity
bureau Secretary Hilles, manager
that the President intends to veto al
tariff revision which Congress may
send to him, indicates that the men
"who know exactly what they want, .
ian expression coined BY the late
Senator Dolliver,) also know what
they do not want.
The Presidents advisers are OPP
posed, for instance, to legislation of
any kind that would interfere with the
Payne-Aldrich protection wall, which
gives to the American tariff trusts
immunity from competition by virtue
of which they are free to charge con-
sumers exorbitant prices without out
side interference.
Why Taft Failed.
When the history of Mr.. Taft's adj
ministration is written, his failure to
win the sympathy of the people Will
no doubt be attributed to his selection
as advisers of men who are not in
sympathy with the needs OF the peo-
Pile of the country.
Let us see who the men are, sur
rounding President Taft, who know
exactly what "they' want; and who,
through having practically monopo-
ly of the Presidents ear, have been
able to deceive him into the belief
that he is acting the part of real
statesman if he vetoes legislation of
the very character that he promised
the people before election in order to
secure their votes.
know What They Want
In his cabinet Mr.. Taft has Secre-
tary of State Knox, former steel trust
attorney; Attorney General Wicker
sham, former sugar trust attorney,
and Secretary of Commerce and
Labor Maggie, former attorney for the
Waters-Pierce (StandarD Oil COM
pany.
Then in his immediate family cir
Gle the President has Brother Charles
Taft, who is so constituted temper
mentally and financially that he can
view legislation only from the view
point that "Big Business views it;
and also Brother Henry w. Taft, a
member of the New York law firm Of
Strong e. Cadwallader, which repre-
sents the sugar trust, Wall street and
the great industrial corporations.
For substantiation of any advice the
President may receive from these
sources, he has but to call in Senator
Lippitt, Aldrich's successor from
Rhode Island. Mr.. Lippitt is one of
the millionaire beneficiaries of the |
struggling cotton trust, and knows
exactly what he wants. Others who
know what they want and upon whom
the President relies are Penrose,
Smoot, Gu5genheim, Du Pont and
the balance of the ring of special priv
ilege servers in the Senate.
And here is list of the men whose |
advice is not sought by MIR. Taft: |
LaFollette, Clapp, Cummins, Bristow
and all genuine progressive Repub-
licans.
These facts tell their own story.
There's no chance for the President
to 90 anything for the people as long
as he has his present advisors around,
and from present indications he has
no intention of taking on new set of
advisors.
More About Controller Bay.
The attention of the Graham inves-
tigating committee which is probing
the action of the President in secretly
aiding the Ryan landgrabbers to seize
Controller bay in Alaska, has been
directed to report of the geological
survey which shows that the entire
tract is underlaid with oil. The land
which President Taft threw open for
exploitation, it now develops, is of
far greater value than was at first
dreamed. In his recent attempted
of the Controller bay