The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-04-09


the literature" sent out daily by press
agents of both Mr.. Taft and MIR. Roose.
Welt reveals that these candidates for
the honor of leading their party are
making lot of noise and kicking up |,
a lot OF dust about everything except |
the one thing that is going to be the
real issue of the Gaming campaign |
namely, the tariff
All the Democratic candidates are |
not only willing, but anxious to tell |
the people where they stand on the
tariff. Look to the opposition head |
quarters for discussion of this vital |
subject, and YOU are greeted with ST.
lence so thick that it could be cut
with knife Mr. Roosevelt is busy
trying to arouse the people with the
recall of judges" issue, and Mr.. Taft
Is trying his best 70 stand pat. The
Democrats, on the other hand, are cit
ing facts and figures to drive home
the one great truth that the cause of
the present high cost of living in this
country is due to the high tariff wall,
and to that alone.
So apparent has 1t become that the
tariff trusts have been using the tariff
all these years as weapon to gouge
profits out of the consumers of the
land, that 1t is next TO pathetic to hear
the protectionists in congress still
shouting, as they occasionally do, that
to remove the tariff, or reduce the
rates of the present law, would take
away the protection for the Ameri-
can working man" Protectionist ora
tors In both Houses of Congress- driy-
en- to desperation by the knowledge
that the people at last understand the
real issue, are making a last frantic
effort to drag out the old tattered Bog
ey man of on-with-the-pau-
per-labor- Europe" In the hope of
making the voters once more swallow
the bait. But the tariff will not down,
and the protectionists' cries are be-
coming weaker and weaker.
The Democratic Investigations,
which were so much derided when
they were first put into operation
taught lessons which are daily sinking
deeper and deeper into the minds of
the people. The light thrown on the
methods of the steel trust by the Stan
ly committee; the exposure of the
rAtf in "A ninip trn Inn f,ft hA
Agriculture department by the Moss
committee; the shameful conditions in
the woOlen Industry as brought out by
the Rules committee investigation; the
petty manipulation OF public moneys
in the State Department, as shown by
the Inquiries of the Hamlin committee.
and the various other revelations by
tia Democrats OF the House, all re-
ves1lng that wherever the light was
thrown, maladministration, ineficiency
' and actual graft lay exposed, all have
served to convince the people that
the Democrats not only have proven
worthy of the trust placed in them a
year ago, but that they are worthy OF
those "graver responsibilities" which
Speaker Champ Clark said the party
would prove itself capable of carrying
The battle of next November is go
ing to center around the tariff, which
is the mother of all the evils that hav,
grown up under the present system
despite the efforts OF the protection
isis to side track that question and
bring less important issues to the
front
No Excuse This Time
The Democratic wool bill of last year
proposed reduction of 30 per cent
ia the tariff rates on wool, and II pass
ed the House by vote OF 22l to 100
The same bill has again passed the
House. this time by vote of lS9 to ~
When he vetoed the bill last yeal
President Taft gave Az his reason tn,
fact that the tariff board had not made
it's report Now In the light of the
taiiff boards report, the Republicans