The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-07-02
DEMOCRATS
SOUND KEYNOTE
Ollie James Says House Has Re-
deemed Party's Pledges
To People.

part.
The Democratic party is essentially
a party Of the people because it is
the people. 1t has fought a long,
hard battle, when 1t seemed that
night would never end and that day
would never dawn, but the battle in
the interest of the rights of the peo-
pie we have continued to make until
We see the common enemy, the once
great Republican party divided, dis
tracted and torn asunder, while Dem
ocracy Is united, harmonious and mil
| liant.
The Republicans raised the tariff
higher than ever before until 1t
reached its maximum Of protection,
being AZ per cent. The story of this
base betrayal is known to all me-
The Democratic party appealed OF
its record in the Sixty-first Congress
on the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill to ri,
American people and received from
them a verdict of guilty against the
Republican party and the bestowal OF
! power upon ourselves.
| First. we reduced the tariff upon
wooden cloths 40 per cent. This was
the one schedule that President r
himself had said was too high; that
1t was only made possible by reason
of the strength of the wool trust in
the east and the wool growers In the
west, but he could not veto it be-
cause he would have to veto all the
other fourteen schedules of the tariff
bill. This bill went to the Senate.
and, though it was controlled by the
opposition party, we found sufficient
assistance from the ranks of our OPP
ponents to pass 1t up to the President.
The President returned 1t to the con-
gress of the United States with his
veto, and assigned as his reason that
/ he had no tariff board report and was
therefore uniformed upon the ques.
ton and for this reason returned 1t
| WIN MS uisdppIoNdi'
| We undertook to pass this bill
over his veto. Our contribution re-
ouires two-thirds to accomplish this.
We had more than 100 majority In Ia
vor of the passage of the bill, his We
to to the contrary Notwithstanding.
we lacked only eleven votes of having
the necessary two-thirds to pass 1t
through the House of Representatives
over the Presidents veto. And today
the wool trust stands not behind a
majority of the law makers OF the
republic, but behind the veto of the
President and eleven more than one
third of the representatives of the
American people, picking the pockets
of the poor and ragged people Of
America.
The tax upon wooden goods is the
most indefensible of all taxes laid
ON the American consumer. 1t Is
tax collector at the drug store and by
the undertaking establishments. A
bill was passed by. the Democratic
House and vetoed by the president
which would have saved to the con-
suming Americans upon the price OF
their clothing 5000, 100000 per annum.
but the wool trust cried out to the
President and he Embossed the clutch
that we had upon the throat Of the
wool monopoly by vetoing this bill
and returning 1t to Congress.
When the veto Of the wool bill was
being considered four members of
the Presidents cabinet for the first
time through service of ten years
that I have been there appeared upon
the floor as a mighty lobby with the
patronage club in one hand and prom
ises in the other to sustain the Presi.
: dents veto upon this bill.
DEFENDS FREE LIST BILL.
The Democratic party next passed
farmers and laborers' free list bill
This bill was so just that 1t found its
: way through a Senate controlled by
the. opposition and was passed on to
the President.
We undertook to pass 1t over the
Presidents veto. We lacked less
than dozen votes of the sufficient
number and today the harvester trust
the lumber trust, the beef trust al
stand hidden behind President Taft
: and dozen more than one-third Of
, the American representatives in Con
. gress, looting the pockets of the
/ American consumers.
President Taft has the lone and
singular distinction of being the only
President in the life OF this republic
!. who ever vetoed bills cheapenint
clothing to the people, lumber to thu