Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-10-31

place for young, inefficient partisans.
You endorse his prodigality; his cut
ting out of appropriations for Con-
federate widows, and the running of
the Legislature from the State and
consequent confusion and wasteful ex-
pense. Then you endorse Newell San
ders' rotten record.
When he appointed Newell Sanders
to the Senate-a defender of Force
bills and high oppressive tariffs-he
manifested rank partisanship. There
by he justified all the tariffs that rob
you, and all the trusts that Cypress,
for Sanders stood by and for them.
You approve all these things when
you support Hooper To illustrate:
The Democrats passed a bill to put
agricultural implements and machines
on the free list. They are manufac-
tured by the trust and sold cheaper in
Europe than here. Also to make cot
ton ties, cotton bagging and grain
bags free. A greater boon to agri-
culture could not be given or imagined
than this. 1t is a burden under
which the farmer has groaned all his
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to Taft they were vetoed by him, and
you left to groan. Hooper and his
platform and Sanders approved this,
and ask you to approve it and retain
them in power. They have smitten
your left cheek, and invite you to turn
the right also to their itching palms.
Hear more of Gov. Hooper and Pres
ident Taft, whose platforms you en-
dorse when you support Hooper. The
keystone in the arch of protection is
the tariff on wool and woolens. 1t is
the most cruel and outrageous of all
of tariffs robberies. The duties on
some of the coarser grades go as high
as $50 per cent, or $50 duty on every
$40 worth of goods. To mention this
rate of duty is to remind us of the
old piratical hordes that infested
| Tariffa, and first laid an embargo on
commerce. Our party did not pro-
pose to remove all these duties, but
only to reduce them from prohibitive
to a reasonable revenue basis. 1t was
work for the poor and toiling. Here
again President Taft INTERVIEWED, by
his veto stayed the hand of justice
and stopped relief, where he and all
others admit there should be relief.
Yet, you are called upon to approve
Hooper when he stands for and de-
tends this.
The Democratic House, with the
Democrats and Insurgents in the Sen
ate, revised the iron and steel sched
ule. 1t is the homestead of the great
est trust ever organized in the his
tory of the human race. Within and
about the iron and steel schedules
more trusts and monopolies cluster
than anywhere else on earth. Here,
as in the wooden schedule, the rates of
duty are Internationally high. These
commodities are also sold higher to
our own people than to foreigners.
These duties, too, were shielded and
saved by President Taft from the big
reduction which would greatly benefit
the people and not destroy legitimate
industry. And now they ask you to
praise him for it.
The Republican party promised a
revision downward and gave a re-
vision upward. So did President Taft.
Yet, when the people have been be-
trayed, he went forth and praised the
tariff bill that did it as the greatest
of all tariff measures. This betrayal
of the peoples trust, this surrender
to selfshness and greed, by their rep
resentatives, is one potent cause of
the great division and fall of the Re-
publican party which is now going on.
From Maine to California the cry
for relief has gone up in vain, till, at
last, the hour for redemption is at |
hand. Justice has had to trGveL aUith
q ledden heel, but is ready to strike
with an iron hand; and when she does,
nothing will be left of those aOho haze
betrayed or robbed the people bat
scattered fragments.
WIDOWS PENSION; INCREASED SAL
ARIES.
In the appropriation bill passed by
the Legislature was an item of $780,
900 to pay pensions to deserving wild
ows of ex-Confederate soldiers. The
Governor objected to the bill, and, this
and certain other items were elimina5-
ed to meet the objections of the Gov
ernor and make it so he would approve
it. Many Of the Governors apologists
have tried in vain to free him from
the responsibility of causing this APP
to be left out. Vain will
be the effort in the future. The SEN
ate and House proved that they both
favored it by placing and keeping it
in the bill. Only when it fell under
the Governors "eagle eye" did it en-
counter trouble.
He threatened to veto it. He had
the meeting to consider it held in his
rooms at the Executive mansion where
he could attend. There, under his
eye, the committee cut out what was
to him. Among other
things dropped wasthe widows PEN
sion. But it did not stop here. Fortu-
nate for the Governor as professed
of the treasury if it had.
He had recently come to power; DEM
ocrats had been put out of the Offices
an, Republicans in. Many of the sal
aries of the officers appointed, or to
De appointed by him or his Republican
were largely increased. The
Governor kicked not, complained not
1T this. New Offices were created that !
more of the faithful could have fat
Jobs. The Governor was silent. ]
In this notable conference, made I'M