The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-09-12
WHAT DEMOCRATS WOULD DO Ii
THEY HAD CONTROL OF InE
GOVERNMENT.

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marty In control OF the House of Rep
resentatives since the last election.
One OF their great cries was econ
omy. They have effected no economy
hut have increased the expenses OF the
government by more than nine NIL
lion dollars. And they would have
exceeded this by many million dol |
lars II they had not been held in !
check by Republican Senate and a |
Republican President.
1t Is true that they have cut on a |
number of appropriations here and
there, of minor Importance, but 1t
turns out that every one of them have
in some way crippled effective, con-
structive work being done by the
government.
When it came to reducing expenses
by cutting of mileage graft of Con-
gressmen and Senators, they voted
it down.
Immediately following this vote,
they voted to increase the salaries OF
clerks of Congressman from fifteen
hundred to two thousand dollars a
year.
After denouncing the Republican
party for forty years for wasting mil
lions of dollars in buying the votes
of Northern soldiers to vote the Re
publican ticket in the form Of pen
sions, their first act was to approve
the Republican pension roll and to
vote seventy-fve millions dollars
more to be given in pensions to men
who never were in a battle and who
never fred gun. It is known to
everybody that their purpose in doing
80 was to try to buy the Presidency
and to use seventy-five million dollars
of the peoples taxes for this pur-
pose.
The Democratic party has also for
years denounced the Republican par
ty for not making an honest effort to
enforce the antitrust law. They
have further declared that the Sher-
man antitrust law was not effective,
even if enforced, and that if they
were put in power it would then be
enforced.
Senator Cummins offered a propo-
siton to strengthen the antitrust
law, and which also asked the At
torney-General to appeal the recent
decisions in the Standard Oil case
and the Tobacco Trust case back to
the Supreme Court. This bill was
voted down by the Democratic
House.
The Democratic National platform
offers no new remedy, but simply
declares for continuing the policy
that has been pursued by President
Taft to enforce the antitrust law al
he has enforced it, which means tt
dissolve all other trusts in the same
way that the Standard Oil Compan,
and the Tobacco Company were dis
solved. All trusts want to be dis
solved that way.
The Democratic House has ais
voted down an amendment to tariff
bill passed by a Republican Senate t
take from the Sugar Trust it's larg
profits through the sixteen Dutc
standard and the "deferential,
which everyone admits are provis
ions that were desired and written b
the Sugar Trust.
These are only few of the sins {
omission and commission of the la:
Democratic Congress.
The Outlook, in an editorial, refer
to two other acts of the Democrat
House to which it is proper to call a
tention. The editorial in the Outloo
is as follows:
I'm the case of battleships,
the Democratic majority in the
House has shown what it might
do with the general government
if it had a chance. Last week
it also showed what it might do
in the case of the conservation
of natural resources. In this, it
is true, it had the support of
some Republican reactionaries in
the House and of enough in the
Senate to pass a bill authorizing
the construction of dam across
the Cossa River, in Alabama,
without providing any return to
the National Government for the
vaIua hIo conooccion 0ronfad ~