The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-11

ed him to run and he changed his
mind. Eight or ten days afterwards.
lie was out among the people asking
for votes. He was afraid the people
wouldn't know how bad they wanted
him. He had To have some excuse
for running. He decided there was "A
crisis in the land. In this great coun-
try the people were being robbed by
the interests and corporations. This
was the crisis and in his own state
ment he said, 1t seemed he was typ
ical and the embodiment of the oppo-
sition to these interests When you
want 10 see the Moose movement all
you have to do is to look at Teddy.
Talks Of Tariff Situation.
lis there a crisis on that justifies his
running on a third party ticket-that
we have To take this one man.
There is no crisis on. You're mis-
taken, Teddy Its trumped up ex-
cuse. You were seven and one half
years in the White House, when there
were more trusts than ever before. Its
= great deal of gall to tell us you're
the only man capable to meeting this
crisis. Why leave so many things
over for President Taft to do?
THE Progressives make complaint
about the tariff and so do the Demo-
Gratis. It's amusing TO hear. Bryan.
Clark and the rest of them criticizing
the Payne -Aldrich tariff bill. The
Democrats were running things years
ago. and produced the Wilson Cor
strosities ever hatched out. so grossly
wrong that Democratic president
refused TO sign it. 1t i'll becomes them
to criticize our bill after the last bill
they gave us.
During Taft's administration re-
ductions in the schedules were
brought about affecting 624 articles.
while 220 articles principally luxuries
were raised and 1,051 left untouched
an average reduction of ten or eleven
per cent. Our opponents claim we
promised a downward revision of the
tariff four years ago. l say, we never
made that promise. We promised to-
revise the tariff so as to meet the diff
ference in wages paid here and
abroad. We have kept our pledge. We
don't say 1t is a perfect tariff sched-
ule. We have never yet returned a
perfect one
why didn't Roosevelt return per-
feet one, when he was president. Then
cVision. but he said If YOU tear W.
the tariff bill. IT would do far more
harm than by leaving 1t alone. 1t
would hurt business Roosevelt should
should Eave asked for a revision OF
the tariff at least two years before
the expiration of his term. 1t was
Roosevelt who forced through the Re-
publican convention OF four years ago,
"A resolution calling on Taft to call
special session of congress to revise
The tariff. He wanted to shift the
For forty years the laboring men
have asked for a postal savings bank.
Roosevelt didn't give II to them. They
had to wait until Taft became presi-
dent.
Roosevelt also left over the matter
Df creating "A bureau of mines.
Roosevelt tells us the Republicans
stole the nomination from him. Did
he get "A square deal or did he not?
In the first place he tells us Tafts
came from the Democratic
states. while his vote came from the
states. There is some
truth in that. I won't deny IL. But
In those Republican states more Re-
publican voters stayed away from the
polls than there were who voted
Only 23 per cent of the Republican
vote of Illinois was registered. And
four years ago. a proposition was be-
fore the national convention calling
for reduction of the rcpresen-
tation of the Democratic states.
Roosevelt said. not on your life He
insisted the Democratic states should
have full representation and his
friends defeated the resolution. He
simply got dose of his own medicine.
Teddy thou shalt not squeal.
'He came before the convention
with 23s contests, 164 of which were
known fakes and Were thrown ort
by the men who were for him. Was
that honest? He knew they were
fakes. Don't tell me he didn't. Sup
contests. Wouldn't he be open to crit
icism. what right has Roosevelt to
do so any more than Taft. This left
"a contests. which were thrown out by
the national committee and thrown out
by the committee on credentials and
thrown out by the delegates.
ITO believe that Roosevelt lost the