The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-05-16
Gifts for the Graduates
AT PELTY'S
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sortment is broken.
Progress and Politics.

Alfred Henry Lewis has an ar
ticlc IN the June Cosmopolitan on
this subject. from which we take the
following excerpt, which is full of
meat and truth:
commonly, the best asset OF the
Republicans has been the stupidity
of the Democrats. Under the leader
ship of Speaker Clark aud Chairman
! Underwood of the Ways and Means,
| the House Democracy has disRp-
pointed expectation, departed from
precedent In that time-honored II
stupid particular. The Democratic
House record includes free sugar
| and a wool tariff cut in two. Also,
as straw showing which way the
! ballot wind will blow in November,
| House Republicans from such states
ms Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota,
kansas, Nebraska, California,
! Washington and Oregon voted in
favor of that wool cut. To compen-
safe the treasury for what loss OF
revenue would ensue, the Demo
Gratis seek to put "A tax on incomes
of 81, 600 and upward.
at is supposed that the senate
Democrats, supported by phalanX
Of Progressive Republicans, will
ratify this action of the House. The
measures will then go TO the White
House, when MIR. Taft-if he have
the courage-will veto them, M he
did the Farmers Free List bill and
those other measures adopted by
Congress for the popular relief. The
income.taX measure IL so strategy
cally, not To say SO delicateiy, drawn
ms to pillow round the Supreme C0ur
as IA farmer plows round viciou'
stump.
There are II, 500 900 breakfast
tables in this tariij-pillaged land
Those tables consume over sever
billions pounds Of sugar year. Al
Aldrich- Payne taritf--"thc best tar
= III the world has ever Scent ac
. cording to the BostOn and Winon'
+ views ot Mr.. Tuft-tHNes each q
. those tables an annual eight dollar
for sugar. To free-list sugar alon,
would mean an average of eiph
dollars saved to the yearly pocket q
: every family. And there is still
that important matter of wool.
1.-The whole business IL step IN
l right, safe, and same direction. III
; poor are taxed. while the rich wal
II free. Should the action proposed u
= Speaker Clark and Chairman Under
wood succeed, ii will So rearrang
affairs that to an income-taN, IRE,
r sugar and.wool extent ut least tn
l. rich will be taxed, while the poo
, walk free. Which Is precisely wha
Heaven meant should be the case.
, Protection? To he sure, an
free listing of sugar, any cut IN woo
would be IA blow to protection. An
why not? Why make fetish
: protection? What has poisonou
l. protection done for yon and ynur'
that you should SO much pamper II
q. Protection, based on lines which 81
able the few to deplete the man!
= has been publicly bloud-suck'
and privately blight 1t has mac
n huddle of millionaires and hort
OF Migrants. 1t has had but OF
beneficiary, the protected manuia
turer. IL took from others, ana
gave TO him. And there the word
Havemeyer IL Overtaken. "Prote
ton Ii the mother of trusts! y III
latter had suggestion from the ot
er Protection struck down comp
tition from abroad. Trusts won
strike down competition at HON
Add trusts to protection, and col
petition completely disappears.