The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-30
Great Ovation for Wilson
in Pennsylvania


(Conrinueo FROM Faoe One)
try. And in our time the leaders of
the Republican party have consciously
or unconsciously adopted his notion.
Those men financed party cam
paigns and were always on the inside
when party policy was to be deter
mined. Tariff schedules, the foreign
policy OF the country, the chief expen-
ditures of the government-everyth thing
went as they suggested, while the rank
and file of us Jared as we might and
were happy If we had any small share
in the prosperity which they organized
for themselves. They were the trus-
tees, we were their wards and took
part in the common life as they
planned and directed. What went on
in the trustee meetings we were very
seldom allowed to learn-learned in
deed only by impertinent inquiry, only
by congressional Investigations or
trials in court which the trustees com
panied sadly interfered with the regu-
lar course of business.
ROOSEVELT A CONVERT.
''Mr. Roosevelt has proclaimed him
self a convert to the protective policy
Il say a convert because he at one
time very frankly avowed a different
opinion-and has said that while he
admitted that, no doubt, some duties
were too high and ought to be low
cred, on the whole, the policy pursued
by Republican administrations had
been the right one; and he thought
the prize money which had been re-
ceived under that system by the
manufacturers of the country was le
Ultimate booty.
The analogy was a very interesting
one. Prize money is generally &C
quired by capture and not by any
process of earning, but Mr.. Roosevelt
is always frank and says that his only
| objection to the system is that too
| much of the prize money remains in
the hands of the officers and too little
of 1t is distributed to the crew. His
own object, he avows to be to see to
it that more Of the prize money gets
into the pay envelopes of those whom
the freebooters employ. The interest
| ing point wish to raise now is VINO
| supplies the plumber; from whom is
the prize money taken?
EQUAL DISTRIBUTION.
THE present Democratic congress
had the old fashioned idea of govern
ment. They supposed that its bene-
| fits and projections were to be dis
| tributed and equally shared. 1t intro
| duced and passed a bill which became
known as the farmers free list bill.
That bill put many indispensable things
1 on the free list. Most prominent
| among them were agricultural imple-
ments, because the American farmer
pays more for his agricultural imple-
ments than any other farmer in the
world. The American manufacturers
| who make agricultural implements sell
them much cheaper on the other side
of the water. 1t was very natural
act on the part Of the Democratic con-
/ gress, therefore, to put agricultural
implements on the free list, to put
fence wire also on the free list and
the bagging and ties which the south
! ern farmer needs and uses for his cot
ton. 1t added lumber and laths and
shingles and leather and shoes and
salt and meats, thinking not of the
farmer alone, but of all Of US who are
struggling to live and pay our bills
But such changes did not eompori
with the ideas and plans of the trus-
tees, and the president vetoed the free
list. dare say he was right from hi:
point of view, for he represented the
trustees and not the people.
1.-THE trustees represent also the bis
bankers in whose hands our banking
system lies to be manipulated, and NJ
Republican administration, no Repub'
ican congress has served the farmel
as he ought to be served in the MATES
of credits.
TT is practically impossible for tn
farmer to borrow money on the KIM
of securities ordinarily demanded a
the banks. It does not serve his pur
pose to borrow it for the short periods