The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-02-28
OF Echoes of the French
Revolution.
ROOSEVELT AND THE TARIFF
His Ideas on the Subject We're
Suppressed-A Stand.
patter'S Wall.
FACTS ABOUT CONTRIBUTIONS
BY c. H. Tavenner.D

GARY, mead OF the steel Trust, at
tended a banquet in New York.
The food was good; the lights were
bright; the silver shimmered; the
wine sparkled; the cigars added
final completeness to the happiness
of all present. When 1t came Judge
Gary's turn to speak, his mind was
saturated with benevolence, and
his thoughts turned to the welfare
of the republic, and the sufferings
of working-men. Listen to him:
Things are being said nowadays
that are already akin TO the things
that were said just prior to the
French Revolution. Unless the
great corporations, capitalists, and
men of large wealth and power
take a leading part in the anchor
alton of conditions, there will be
changes made later by the mob"
The newspapers next day told
the story of the banquet, and of
Judge Gary's speech, and the same
newspapers chronicled the testi-
mony of witnesses before the Stan
ley committee. These witnesses
told how the Steel Trust forces men
to work IL hours a day, days a
week, for wages which compels
them to live like swine-a condi-
ton which Judge Gary could anne
Iiorate with a few strokes of the
pen.
The banquet hall is dark. The
diners are gone. The tables are
stripped of their linen and viands.
And somewhere in that deserted
room, shrunken so small that the
servants failed to see it when they
swept out the crumbs. is Judge
Gary's Beautiful Altruism.
Roosevelt and the Tariff.
Just once in his life Theodore
Roosevelt expressed an opinion on
the tariff. That is; he almost eX-
pressed an opinion. In one of his
messages he wrote this sentence.
'Tn a later message shall dis
cuss the tariff"
A preliminary draft of this mes
sage fell into the hands of Senators
Aldrich and Lodge and Speaker
Cannon. Immediately they rushed
TO the White House. Presto! when
the message finally was submitted
to Congress, it contained no refer
ence to the tariff.
Aside from that, no living man
can point to a written or spoken
opinion that Mr.. Roosevelt ever ex-
pressed on the tariff question.
A Stand-Patter's Wall.
The Senate was discussing a bill
for the establishment of q Child
ren's Bureau in the Department of
Congress and Labor. Senator Bo-
rah, author of the bill, had explain
ed how the huge corporations were
exploiting little children, crushing
them, with hard toll, while they
were vet of tender years. He eX-
blamed that the bill contemplated
no interference with the proper re-
lation of parents toward their own
children, and that its purpose was
merely TO provide for the collection
of statistics and information on
which the separate States and MT
N icinalitiea could base SO1u-
tion of the child welfare problem.
I'm the great cities" concluded
Senator Borah, little children fes-
ter and swelter and starve and steal
and die by the thousands. This bill
is designed to aid them"
Then up rose Senator Hepburn.
standpatter, and for two hours the
Senate listened to his complaints
about the unconstitutionality" of
the bill. His final argument was
that Abraham Lincoln was 2 poor
boy.
Some Bald Facts.
The Republican campaiPn IF''rd
in 1908 amounted to $1,665,E ts.-
81. The Democratic fund was
$6220,644.27. The Republicans had
more than a million in excess of the
Democrats.
The number who contributed TO
the Republican fund was 1890,
and to the Democratic fund, IA