The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-05-15


gone up. But you cannot get every,
| thing. If you have trust you may
have cheapness, but you will have
absolute control; but if you do not
have trust you will have competi-
ton, sometimes you will have cheap.
ness and sometimes it will be high.
would rather have competition and
have it high and low instead of be.
| ing in the hands and control and grip
of a soulless monopoly.
Then about the tobacco business.
They say that decree is sham. Well,
what is the effect of it; Don't you
remember out in Kentucky they had
night riders and they tore up tobac-
co plants? They killed people and
drove them off of their farms in or
der to reduce the supply of hurley to-
bacco because they could not get any
price for it, and that was because the
tobacco trust went in there and
bought what they wanted and paid
| the price they wanted. Now, what is
the result of the tobacco decree? Why
hurley tobacco has gone up under the
competitions that have come in there
by the various companies in which
this tobacco trust has been divided.
Burley tobacco has never been so
high. You talk to the Kentucky farm
ers and ask them whether they do
not approve the decree in the tobac-
CO trust"
mir. Roosevelt said I was not only
in favor OF an aristocracy or an oil
garchy, but he said that | was in favor
OF an oligarchy of bosses; that | ap-
proved that kind Of government and
that made the issue, the people
against the bosses and that all the
bosses were for me, and they were all
opposed to him and that is what he
saws today" asserted Mr.. Taft. THAT
is the issue. If he is elected there
won't be a boss in the country and
if he is not, they will just own me
at Washington and run the govern
ment. We'll, am not in favor Of the
machine politics. They are abuses
of our government. We cannot very
well get along without those, but am
just as much opposed to bosses, in the
sense that Mr.. Roosevelt wishes you
to understand that term, as he is.
Boss Issue Vague.
"Now there must be good deal OF
vagueness and misunderstanding
about this business of bosses. The
president has very little to do with
the establishment Of a boss or his
disenthronement He takes at Wash
ington the congressman and senators
that are sent there by the people and
it is the people who are to Olsen,
throne the boss, the president has no
power to refuse to recognize them
when they come with the mandate OF
| the people. Now it is to inject some
thing into a national campaign that
does not exist and to give the impress
sion that the president can, with a
| wave of his hand, abolish all bosses.
1t is not for him to put his nose into
state politics and take up all his en-
ergy which ought to be devoted to
/ o1 n
local community. The people must
do that themselves.
81 am not criticising, but | would
like to know how many bodies OF
dead bosses were strewn along the
path of Theodore Roosevelt when he
was seven years president of the Unit
ed States. l don't want to criticize
him for that. 1t was not within his
function to go about with sword
cutting off the heads of dragons like
that. What he did and what he has
defended himself time and again fol-
doing, was to use those men to gel
good legislation and government il
he could. l have not done any dit
ferently in that respect, and | don't
promise you if elected that all the
bosses will die. l have recommend
ed something that will assist in end
| ing the abuse OF that system, but
have not had approval from anybody
that was so loud that l could hear it
That is, have recommended that al
those offices which are now treated
as political offices be put in the ciassi
| fed civil service and that the con
gressmen and the president be re
lieved from their appointment. | have
done that with three congresses, but
| have not heard any Macedonian cal
either from Mr. Roosevelt or anybody
else about the passage of that bill"
Appeals to Negroes.
In discussing the recall, Mr.. Taft
appealed to the negro voters to think
| ovar what mipht hacOme Of them II