The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-27

upon ourselves In the last congress.
How faithfully we have kept our
promises to them is but a resume of
our official action"
James reviewed the tariff legisla-
ton of the democratic house and bit. /
terly arraigned President Taft for his
vetoes of the revision bills, declaring |
that the trusts stood behind the re-
publican party to this end.
President Tai" he continued, has
the lone and singular distinction or
being the only president in the life OF
this republic who ever vetoed bills
cheapening clothing to the people.
lumber to the homeless and meat and
bread to hungry Americans and free
farming implements to the toiling far
mer.
| Il believe in the rigid enforcement
OF the Sherman ANTITRUST law
would not proceed against these great
monopolies in equity and II 1 found
them guilty tell them not to do SO
any more or to divide their army OF
pillage into separate marauding bands,
but ! would proceed against them un.
der the criminal statutes and place
upon them the felon's stripes. don't
/ believe that monopoly can be reas-
enable. and would no more give a
trust the right to monopolize reason
ably than would give q thief the
right to steal reasonably. These trusts
must be destroyed.
We are not opposed to big busi-
ness. We recognize that in big coun-
try there must be big business. but
we say with all the emphasis OF our
soul that big business, like little bust
! ness. must obey the law. We would
strike from these trusts every charac-
ter of protection. We would write a
tariff law strictly for revenue only,
and place the tax first upon the luxur
les, and if it did not produce suffi
cisnt revenue, then on the comforts OF
life and lastly we would lay the bur
! den of Taxation upon the necessities
of life. The republican platform adop
ted at Chicago rnon the tariff anc
trust questions is a puzzle absolutel,
! meaningless to the American people
but they may rest assured that to thi'
!. puzzle the trusts hold the key.
President Taft did not take tim.
9 to carry out, but he kicked out thu
q Roosevelt policies. The atonemen
t that Roosevelt offers the American
voters that he succeeded in deceivini
I them by the election Of Taft is in pre-
y senting to them the one who mad
g the mistake, who is himself. TIL,
! American people fear he will be a
q much mistaken in himself as he wa
: in Mr.. Taft. The atonement Is no
sufficient. If he wants to come witt
e a clean hand and clear conscienc
n let him join with us. and do wha
5 ought to have been done four year
n ago, elect democratic president.
e President Taft is joined to hi
&C idols. His administration presents tn
L most melancholy spectacle in all GU
7. national life. Repudiated in the mid
II die of his term by the election of
So democratic congress, his renominatio
ST forced by the wholesale unseating {
Il Roosevelt delegates. he is left-hande
ut in both hands, does everything wron
e and most generally on Friday. Roos
n welt undertakes to achieve the pres
a dency by proclaiming himself the al
o vocate of those policies which he wo
r the presidency by denouncing.
lg .The progressive spirit that sweeT
le the country is now called by some tn
le principles of the progressives, by otl
e. ers the doctrines Of the insurgents
le but back yonder when voice in til
Is western wilderness cried out for then
e they were called the vagaries Of Br.
sy an, the dreamer However much "
d may differ in national convention
90 upon minor questions, all just me
- must admit that the one living Amer
can whose name will shine in histol
go studded by thousand flaming sta
along behind that of Jefferson ar
II Jackson, is that of William Jennint
er Bryan, of Nebraska"