The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-04-24

vandals had dlsfgured 1t before, t
be sure, but 1t was when this great
Government desecrated it's altar 4
fell. and now, judged by the
contradictory laws and rulers, Il
was never a jewel at all but a mere
cloak for fools and scoundrels
Take for instance, Taft's touching
solicitude about the high cost OF
living. By what system of morals
can 1t be harmonized with his hear
ty Endorsement of the Payne-Ald.
rich tariff law, when it takes
wrings, from the scant earnings OF
the average family sS7 every year
and turns it over to favored few
whose only claim is their liberal
contribution to a corruption fund
of a party pledged to perpetuate
this legalized robbery
If Protection joins in building up
monopoly by denying the consumer
his natural right to buy wherever
he can buy cheapest abroad, by
what code of ethics, moral or eco
nomic, can the Government prose-
cute an oil, steel, tobacco, beef or
sugar trust, for merely extending
the principle to our home market?
What is the difference? Or are we
20 believe that here We have an ex-
cellent sauce for goose that's HI
on ganders?
Again, by what pretense of con-
sistency can Mr.. Taft explain his
Attorney Generals frightful prose-
cution of the Oil Trust-almost as
terrific as Teddy's battle with the
Harvester Trust-with the howl
ing facts that none OF them are lam
a1,ishing in Jail, that their combin-
ed property is worth to-day, only
a few months after he so triumph
emily pulverized the mass into its
= isiral contemplate atoms, is
worth two hundred and twenty-five
millions of dollars more than when
p" brought the dom plutycrats" to
book, and that their stocks, which
never reached $3.50 before the spec
ocular disintegration. are now
;cius at $1,000? If there's moth /
ng dead in Denmark, whew! what |
N earth is that we smell? What a
-admean victory! A few more such !
'edresscs Of the wrongs of the peo-
pie would fix our clock beautifully |
jerk us right into Paradise. But
lad this been a Farmers Tobacco
Pool or Rockefeller's stable boy
.harged with counterfeiting a few
lickels, ! venture to believe there
would have been quite a different
tory to tell. We should then have
leard nothing Of 'impersonal guilt,
of trade" and all that in
rot that makes Justice
cream-jrst a plain Wickersham
tory of prison bars and laws tri-
lmphant.
But of all the cheap sop cast to
upidity, rotten bait thrown to
uckers. gold bricks handed the
tubes. the imaginary feasts to fiat
er vanity and appease hunger, to
'hich the victims OF rapine were
yer invited. perhaps the raw deal
hat Protection protects labor is the
darkest and baldest. Nearly two
illions of dollars given the trusts
that they may (if they
ant to, but they never do pay
igher wages. What on earth has
lie wealth of the employer to do
18th the wages he pays? With mil
ons would he not go abroad and
nport enough pauper labor to
ammer yours down to starvation?
it promotes business and pro-
cts labor, what about the panic of
BOZ, the worst the country ever
lffered and from which it has
ever recovered? What about the
'nditions of labor now under a
III higher protection? What about
awrence. Mass? Nothing in New
ngland has approached the dread
i condition of those thousands of
Hid men, women and children
Orkers, since the historic draft
OTIS of the Civil War. Does it sig
fY nothing that those wooden
ills were operated under Sched-
q K, the highest protection ever
posed on any civilized people?
'yne, Aldrich. Lodge, Smoot and
! that coterie of Stand-patters,
Taft himself said it was the best
y that ever passed. pictured the
w law as a special gift of Heaven
nt to the toilers of Lawrence.
hat did they get? Not comfort
I'd independence, but increased
ST of living, decreased wages, cold
I'd hunger that made them desper-
e; then bayonets, bloodshed and
reign of terror Instead of an
lis blessing them with horns of
enty, ghosts of famine stalked