The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-02-12

appoin,iye federal officers conspiring
State In administering It's election laws
Justly and fairly, such officer or coteris
Of officers will certainly be called on
by every power possible to invoke
through Congressional inquiry TO have
punished or dismissed from office such
usurpers Of the peoples power.
Trusts.
In my Judgment President Roosevelt
was unwarranted in classifying trusts
as good trusts and bad trusts
assert that because one trust contrib
uted TO campaign corruption FUND
that that does not make ii good trust,
that trusts are at war with honest gov
ernment and should be absolutely pro-
hibited. Legitimate business should
have the most complete protection or
both state and federal law and great
business institutions may be in the le-
gitimate class and as such are neCes-
sary TO the conduct of the vast business
of our country. Strike at the very
discrimination and lay aside any fool
ish effort To distinguish between what
may be called reasonable or "unrea-
sonable" for the word reasonable Will
always have its meaning varied by the
opinion of each particular individual
court or other officer, who for the time
being defines the word reasonable
Tariff.
Revise the tariff downward to the
actual necessities Of our government
and set aside any purpose under a
tariff law OF building up few favor
ties by lcNynG assessments on the
multitude OF consumers and in bring
ing about this reduction Of tarih 10
governmental necessities, insist that
il is far more important to first reduce
the duty on sugar rather than on dia-
monds; that it is far more important
to first reduce the duty on wooden
clothing and blankets than II is to re-
duce 1t on silks and satins.
Internal Improvements.
insist that the great waste of money
on trying to civilize an uninhabitable
country on the other side of the globe
and in battleships to rival the nations
OF the world shall be stopped and that
these monies should be turned in large
part into the improvement of the in
terror of the United States to the end
that irrigation and navigation shall be
made on a substantial and efficient
basis instead of being set forth only in
party platform and then only receiving
slight attention in the administration
OF government, and in this connection
let us insist that the fertile fields of
western Oklahoma shall no longer be
robbed of the irrigation funds which
would make them yield bountiful har-
vests and provide homes OF comfort
and plenty and every effort would be
used to compel the return to Okla
homa of every dollar which was con
trbuted TO that fund by our people tc
be used in our state.
Economy
Gross extravaganza in our govern
ment is but an excuse for the main
tenance of robber tariff 1t will be
remembered that Grover Cleveland
conducted the government of the
United States at an annual eNpendl
ture OF about three hundred million
dollars, but a few years later We saw
under President Roosevelt's admins
tration the growth OF such reckless
extravaganza that it cost over ten
hundred million dollars to run the
same government. This extravaganza
equal to twelve dollars-per capita for
every citizen OF our great country and
this indirect levy is Just as much a
burden upon our people as would be
the levy OF direct taxation. How will
We accomplish this reduction of from
five to seven hundred million dollars
in the cost OF government? 1t must
We done by retrenchment in every
direction wherein. useless eXtravS
gance has grown to be the practice
OF the day. In one particular alone
| assert that it is unwarrapted and
outrageous for single Senator tC
[ Apuo' INV 'hi
the postal department where ht
imposes upon that department ar
expense exceeding one hundred ant
/ twelve thousand dollars in single
/ year for the transportation of photo
/ graphs, speeches, and other unOnicia
documents at the expense of the
/ United States Postal Department
Such enormous sum for such an indif
ferent purpose applied to all of th'
five hundred and odd members of the
House and Senate can easily be savee
without embarrassment to the Affairs
Of government or without serious loss
10 the people of his State. | should
oppose every Appropriation OF public
money that tends TO luxury, eXtrava
gance or unnecessary display.
should oppose the United States GOV
ernment entering into any class OF
manufacturing business where at q
great loss TO the government any
commodity, printed envelopes of the
class not used by the mass Of the
people, or otherwise used by less thar