The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-04-11

ious other revelations BY the Dem,
;. Gratis Of the House, all revealing th,
n whenever the light was thrown, ma
n administration, inefficiency and actu
Y graft lay exposed, all have served
e convince the people that the Dem,
Y Gratis not only have proven worthy {
: the trust placed in them a year agt
j, but that they are worthy of thos
4 "graver responsibilities" whici
Speaker Champ Clark said the part
would prove itself capable of carry
t ing.
, The battle of next November j
going to center around the tariff
which is the mother of all the evil
! that have grown up under the pres
ent system, depite the efforts of til,
protectionists to side track that ques
ton and bring less important issue.
to the 'front.'
No Excuse This Time.
The Democratic wool bill of last
year proposed reduction of so per
cent in the tariff rates on wool, and il
passed the House by a vote of 22l to
100. The same bill has again passed
the House, this time by vote of
1879 TO 90.
When he vetoed the bill last year
President Taft gave as his reason the
fact that the tariff board had not
made its report. Now in the light of
the tariff boards report, the Republic
cans of the House propose wool bill
calling for a reduction of 40 per cent
in Schedule X, or just two per cent
less than the bill which the President
vetoed.
The tariff board, therefore, vindi-
Gates the Democratic position on
wool, if such vindication were neces-
sary. The Democrats knew, long
before the tariff board was created,
that the wool rates were too high,
and the President knew it also, for in
his speech at Winona, Mimi, he
characterized the Payne-Aldrich wool
tariff rate as .indefensible.
AS things now stand, neither the
President nor the high protectionists
will have any excuse for opposing the
present bill, and if any of them do
stand in the way of its final passage,
they will convict themselves of trying
to grant special privilege, namely,
the privilege of robbing the consumer
to pay the trust millionaires.
The Busted Oil Trust.
The Standard Oil Company, which
the Supreme Court of the United
States solemnly "dissolved" some
few weeks ago, has declared divi-
lend of 2, 900 per cent. This action
vas taken by the Standard Oil Com
oany of Indiana, and was made for
he purpose of concealing the enor-
nous profits of company. 1t was
what is called stock dividend, that
S, for every share of stock owned by
stakeholder, he was given % adj
litional shares. To do this it was
necessary to increase the capital stock
# the concern from one million to
hirty million dollars. No new capt.
al was added, however. The in
rease was declared out Of the surplus.
Since the dissolution" Of the trust,
everal melons of this sort have
,een cut. The Vacuum Oil Com
ANY, another subsidiary, recently in
reased its capital stock from 81, $780,
90 to SIS, 600, 600, and is reported the
standard of Kentucky will declare a
took dividend of $500 per cent.
Naturally" says the Wall Street
ournal, the official mouth piece of
re big business, ''the old Standard
Ill stock holders are elated over the
upreme Courts decree.
Yes, quite naturally!
"Allowing'' them to Vote.
President Taft, in a recent letter to
hartman Koening, of the Maryland
late Republican committee, used this
nguage:
II hope you will see to it that all
oters are allowed to cast their BAL
is at the coming primaries. H.
Apparently, it does not occur to the
resident that as free born American
tizens they have the perfect and in.
ienable right to cast their votes,
ithout waiting for Mr.. Koening or
lybody else to "allow" them that
'ivilege.
Card of Thanks.
We, the undersigned members of
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