The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28

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profit to its special wards and the
| manufacturers.
Were the Predatory Interests
| 1.-THE tax upon wool goods is the most
| indefensible of all taxes built upon the
| American consumer The bill passed by
| the democratic House and vetoed by
| the President would have saved to the
| consuming American upon the price OF
their clothing s200O0O,00o per annum, but
| the wool trust cried out to the Presi-
dent and he Embossed the clutch that
we had upon the throat of the wool
| monopoly by vetoing this bill and re-
turning 1t to Congress.
when the veto of the wool bill was
being considered four members of the
Presidents cabinet. for the first time
though, In service of 10 years that have
been there. appeared upon the floor as
mighty lobby with the patronage club
In one hand and promises in the other,
to sustain the Presidents veto upon this
bill.
The democratic party next passed a
farmers and laborers' free list bill, CIV
ing free untaxed meat and bread to hum
CRY mouths, giving free farming imple-
menta to the tillers OF the American
farmers. Offering free lumber to the
homeless of the republic.
This bill was SO Just that 1t found its
way through the Senate controlled by
the opposition and was passed on to the
President. Notwithstanding the cost OF
living had increased more than 100 per
cent in the last few years and the
workingman's wages had stood still; not
withstanding demonstrating clubs were
| being formed In various cities of the
| United States as protest against the
beef trust; Notwithstanding the harvester
| trust was reaching it's hand into pockets
| Of every farmer in America notwith-
standing the lumber trust was denying
| to millions of Americans the right to
build a home that they could call their
| own. the President vetoed the bill and
returned 1t to the Congress-.
President Taft's Distinction
1--WE undertook to pass it over the
| Presidents veto. We lacked less than a
dozen OF the sufficient number, and the
harvester trust, the lumber trust and the
beef trust all stand hidden behind Pres
! ideut Taft and a dozen more than one
| third of the representatives in Congress,
| loottng the pockets of the American peo-
pie President Taft has the lone distinc-
| ton of being the only American Presi-
| dent who ever vetoed bills cheapening
clothing to the people. free implements,
! and to the toiling farmer. This bill would
| have saved to the consuming public $3.50,
900 year.
eve next passed a bill reducing the
| tariff on cotton goods. which would have
saved many millions of dollars TO our
people This, too. met with the veto of
| the President
"Then we offered to the American peo-
pie a bill taking the Jax off sugar and
! placing an excise tax~on all incomes In
excess of 5000. This bill is now In the
Senate Enacted on. / believe In free
sugar It will save TO every householder
in this country 2 cents upon every pound
/ of sugar.
II believe in a tax upon incomes |
believe in an excise tax, and deny that
the people who are well-to-do, those who
are rich, those fortunate enough to have
thousands pouring In every year, are UNI
willing to bear their part OF the burden
of taxation TO sustain this mighty gov
eminent
| "The platform adopted by one branch Of
the republican party at Chicago indorses
the veto of President Taft. yet at the
| same time they had to censure and con-
denim the record of from q to 100 repub-
| lioans in the House of Representatives
| who supported us in favor Of the passages
of these measures The American peopl,
are told in the tariff plank recently adopt