The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1912-05-24
WHY HE OPPOSES woLTERs
Son of Senator Mills Holds to Dec
trines of Democratic
Fathers.


Pictorial representative OF Navorro
and Hill counties. He is an avowed
antl-prohibitionist but says he is de-
cidedly opposed to Jake Wolters for
Senator for political reasons and will
not vote for him unless he gets a
majority instruction in his district.
He sizes up his objection to VOL
tiers on the following points:
my reasons for opposing ]. f.
VOTERS are fourfold and are as fox
lows:
/. lie has been known in Texas for
many years as an attorney for the dis
tiIlers
2. He has been known in the same
way as an attorney for the brewers.
His attorneyship for the Pull
man Palace Car Company is well
known.
His views upon the tariff ques-
ton, are in my humble opinion the
same as those entertained by Nelson
w. Aldrich, James G, Blaine, VIM.
Mckinley. Nelson Dingley, Reed
Smoot and others, all Of whom at
one time or another denounced free
raw materials In our manufactures
and have done so because they knew
that when free raw materials had
been secured the mandatory would
be deprived of his compensatory duty
and two of the barriers in the way of
consumers of the United States would
fall. When the Payne-Aldrich bill was
under consideration in the United
States Senate. Reed Smoot said that
free raw materials means the death
knell of protection.
All of the eminent Republican pro-
tectionists whom / have mentioned
have said the same thing in different
words at one time or another in ex-
pressing their views upon the tar
in.
It would seem plain to the most
casual observer that Mr.. Wolters Is
doing his best to prevent the death
knell of protection from being sound
ed in Texas, If one may judge by his
strong fight against free raw mater
ials->
| am firm believer in the princi-
ple Of free raw material | believe the
consumer is more entitled to compe-
tition than the producer is entitled
to protection. would not allow any
man 10 fitch from the pocket of the
tax payers OF the United States that
which is not rightfully his, simply be
cause that man happened to live In
Texas. know that Senator Tillman
has said that the whole tariff system
is stealing and that he intended that
South Carolina should have her part
of the swag ! place my devotion to
Texas on a higher plane than that
and will strenuously object to her
becoming a recipient TO stolen goods
especially those stolen by robber tar
IFS from the poor and the needy
either In her own borders or within
the confines Of her sister states.
/ believe that 10 lay with one hand
the power OF the government upon
the property OF the citizen. and with
the other bestow Il upon favored In
dividuals. 10 aid private enterprises
and 20 build up private fortunes
Is none the less robbery because
Il is done under the form Of law and
Is called taxation.
believe that constitutlonally a
tax can have no other basis than the
raising OF revenue for public pur-
noses and whatever Governmental eX
action has not this basis is tyranical
and unlawful.
! feel that Justice Miller of the SUI
irene Court of the United states
and Cooley's principles Of Constitu-
tional law, both of which ! have Just
quoted. are pretty good authorities
for me to follow.
Coke, MaNey Reagan, Chiffon ana
Mills voted for free raw materials
whenever opportunity offered to do
so and ] have yet TO hear the Demo
cracy OF either enc OF them question
ed. The Democratic party In National
Convention has on more than one
occasion declared for free raw ma
terials. II has never declared against
them.
The voice OF the Texas State de-
mocratic convention Of 1896 which
we hear so much about, does not over
ride the voice OF all the States in Ma
tional Convention assembled and we
should not be expected to obey state
! convention which seeks to override
a National Convention on Federal