The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-26
crats in Their .ary Held Tuesday MAR!Sy'sS.: :.LL FLAYS
 I AND BEvER|DGE Have Just Discovered the
 Invisible Government TENNESSEE MERGER
Charges Roosevelt Violated Every Precedent of the Republic in Per hitting It-WilI Address the
 Michigan Convention


 Grand Rapids, Mich. September B. Gov. Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana was the principal speaker tonight at dem ocratic rally, preliminary 10 the party's state convention tomorrow. The gov ernor, who reached here tonight after an afternoon speech at Kalamazoo, will remain in Grand Rapids overnight and address the delegates at tomorrow's gathering.
 Governor Marshall charged that Colo mel Roosevelt, when President, Violated every precedent of the republic in the matter of consolidation of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company with the United States Steel corporation. thereby further fastening the power of the invisible gov ernment. upon the people The speak CTS address also eontainee usustic crit icism of former Senator Beveridge of Indiana and the progressive party
 "Tnvisible Government Not New "The invisible government is no new discovery for the democrats" he de- clared That Is the government which the genuine democrat has been fighting TOT more lHdn l0ftt otCddtSs ilc Nos fighting this menace to righteousness and good government during all of the years that Theodore Roosevelt and Albert j.. Beveridge did not know of its exist ence.
 'The democratic party was alert if powerless. during the years that Senator Beveridge was standing in the United States Senate and by vote and voice fastening the power of this invisible government upon the toiling millions of America
 "The democratic party knew that this invisible government existed when Roosevelt violated every precedent of the republic, struck the constitution as though it were an unruly child and by the very force and power of his great office, aid- ed and abetted in the consolidation of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company with the United States Steel corporatio thereby further fastening the power of this invisible government upon the peo- pie. The democratic party knew during all the time of the campaign oratory of both Theodore Roosevelt and Albert J. Beveridge that though the voice might be the voice of Jacob, the hand was the hand of Esau.
 Tt shall reveal an amazing lack of discrimination on the part of the Amer ican people if they choose as their agents to destroy this invisible government these gentlemen who never discovered it's existence until they had been retired from office.
 Worst Feature of Discovery
 But the worst feature the progressive discovery of this invisible government reveals is their pretense that they have laid out campaign whereby they can capture and destroy it. Let us, however, reason together. No government, ,f any kind can endure without the power not only to tax, but also to collect taxes When the constitution of the United states was ratified by the several states the vital spark in it which kept all the rest of 1t and which has maintained 1t in greater or lesser vigor, was the right to tax and it's power to collect taxes.
 "The life of the invisible government, of which the progressive complains Is the invisible tax which it has power to collect This invisible tax has been put upon the people and collected off of them with the direct consent and at the earn est solicitation of Theodore Roosevelt and Albert J. Beveridge. This invisible tax is not paid at the county treas urer's office, but is turned over to this invisible government across every coun- ter and is paid upon every trust manu- factured article made fin America. It averages sieo per year to every average man, woman and child.
 These gentlemen who are now assault ing the invisible government are the gentlemen who gave 1t the power to col lect taxes and they do not now propose that the power of invisible taxation shall cease.
 You cannot destroy a government while you give it power to tax and collect taxes. The democrat is a true progress sve. He proposes to take away this power of invisible taxation and when that has been done the invisible government will very naturally cease to exist