The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-25
RUINED BY TAFT,
OWNED BY TRUSTS
VIII Be Fate Of Government Il |
Am Not Elected, Says T.R
NE CAN'T REpUDIATE PERKINS
otf1cIaI Report Admits That Harvester
Trust and Morgan Interests Are
Financing RooseVelt-What Roose'
welt Policy Has Taft Failed to
Support


Financing RooseVelt-What Roose'
welt Policy Has Taft Failed to
Support
Colonel Roosevelt urges again and
again the necessity for his reelection
now to save the United States gov
ernment from being wrecked by Pres
ident Taft, and its people from en-
slavement by the trusts. This makes
pertinent several questions:
What reform now is necessary to
our salvation which the colonel could
not have introduced during his own
seven years OF power which ended
three years ago?
Which Of the Roosevelt policies for
the righting of the wrongs to which
he so powerfully called attention, and
left it to his successor to correct, has
President Taft failed to carry on?
One of my policies" was the cor
rection of the inhumanity OF child
labor. The colonel has charged since
he threw his hat in the ring as a
priZefighter, that the president has
neglected it. The fact is that Mr..
Taft, by message and personal effort,
promoted the enactment Of the child
labor law. Mr.. Roosevelt made the
same charge ten days ago on the day
after the law was given the presi-
dents signature.
Would he do more than the presi-
fn no
for our children's children?
Mr.. Taft, by a careful and business
like procedure, of which the colonel
has not yet shown himself capable,
made reservations Of areas and
depths beyond those advocated by his
that Pinchot again be head forester?
Mr. Pinchot, while in that office
under Mr.. Ballinger, insisted upon
violating the laws governing control
Of the national domain, and when
curbed by the head O. the interior
department and by the president, ad.
dressed an appeal to congress which
reflected upon the honesty Of both.
This made necessary his removal
for insubordination. He then joined
with others who had not been re-
tanned in office by Taft to feed to the
Democratic press charges against
Secretary Ballinger intended to Grip
pie and discredit Taft's administra-
tion-charges so false that even a
prejudiced Democratic congressional
committee exonerated Ballinger
after an extended investigation. Mr..
Pinchot was the representative of the
conspirators to discredit Taft and re-
install Roosevelt, who went to the
Soudan to report progress to the col
onel the day he came out Of the Afri-
can jungle.
Which of the Roosevelt policies
that Mr. Taft has carried out does
the colonel now repudiate?
We know but ore-international
peace. Five years ago the colonel
was given the Nobel prize-$40 OOO--
as the worlds greatest advocate OF
world peace. President Taft, by the
most exalted achievement of interna
tional craftsmanship known to his
tory, was able to submit to the senate
peace treaties with two of the -four
powerful nations with which we are
liable to come in conflict, and the
other two stood ready to negotiate
on the same terms. Then Colone
Roosevelt attacked the treaties in his
magazine and in speeches, and his
campaign manager, Senator Dickson
attacked them in the senate, defeat
ing them
Was this necessary to the SAVING
Of the United States government?
How many Of the postmasters anC
other federal officehclders now de
nounced by the ex-president as Grim
inals, stealing the rights of the peo
pie b. electing Taft delegates, were
equally active in the work-ther
thought laudable-of aiding the elec
tion OF the delegates which renomi
mated the colonel in 1904?
More than half of the postmaster!
now in Office are Roosevelt's ap
pointees. Has criminality suddenl,
become contagious among them
Four years ago he urged them t.
support Mr. Taft. Was he then tn,
source of contagious crime?
Is the substitution of Roosevelt To-
Taft necessary to the emancipation
Of the people from slavery to trusts
Here is a news item: Albany
April 1.-THE expense of Colone
Roosevelt's losing campaign in New
York city for delegates to the ma
tional convention was $59,12575, ac
cording to the report of the Roose
welt league, filed with the secretar!
of state today. George w. Perkins
Frank A. Munsey ard Alexander s
Cochran each contributed $4,000 to
ward the expenses"
Taft's managers had $4,000.
Repeatedly 1t has been charged anC
as often denied by the colonel's man
ager at Washington, that George W
Perkins, chairman of the fnanc
committee of the Harvester trust
which Mr.. Taft has now in court, AM
until recently managing partner of J
P. Morgan & Co., was raising tn,
money which is being spent so lavish
ly in the interest Of Roosevel's nomi
nation.
Are the trusts trying to secure al
executioner to cut off their own head
in order that the American peopl
may be saved from slavery to trusts
The Explanation.