The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-28
Scores President Taft's Ac-
tion in Vetoing Tariff
Measures Sent Up
by the House
IF COL. ROOSEVELT
is SINCERE HE WILL
JOIN DEMOCRATS.
The Country Is Afraid That the Col
onel Might Be as Much Mistaken
in Himself as He Was in
Mr.. Taft-The President
Moves on Friday

Baltimore. June s7.-Mr James address
as permanent chairman was in part:
Z congratulate the democrats of tho
nation upon the fortunate auspices under
which we have assembled. No charge Of
bribery hovers above this hall. no cry
Of thief and robher is hurled by one fell
lev democrat at another No soldiers
stand IN reserve to keep us from each
others throats.
when the nominees are named by this
convention they will have back of them
every loyal democrat IN the republic as
well the hearty support of progress
! sives everywhere. There are two records
that will be presented to the American
people IN the coming campaign for their
consideration one Is the record of the
republican party with promises defianty
betrayed The other that OF the demo-
Gratis.
The Other That OF the Democrats
THE republican party Itself recognizing
that President Taft had been unfaithful
refused by an honest majority of the con-
ventlon to renomina1e him, and it was only
/ brought about by the most wholesale
and eonscienceless and deliberate unseat-
ing Of delegates honestly elected that was
ever petpetated IN American politics. The
republIoan party flushed with many VIC
! tories. mperious as a tyrant took the
relns of the government In 1905 under tho
solemn promise that they would revise
the tariff In the interest of the consumer
Instead of keeping this prediction prom
/ iaa hafr aH al a
tariff higher than ever before until it
reached its maximum Of protection. be-
ing AZ per cent.
The democratic party appealed on it's
record In the slxty-first Congress upon
the Payne-Aldrieh tariff bill to the Ameri-
can people and 1t received from them a
verdict of guilty against the republican
party and the bestowal of power upon
ourselves How faithfully we have kept
our promises is but resume of our of
flclal action.
Having control of only one branch of
the lawmaking power, we undertook to
reform the tariff In the interest of the
consuming public. believing that II Is q
tax that is paid by the consumer most
| generally to the trust or monopoly that
is sheltered by IT, sometimes 10 the gov-
ernment, believing that the right of taxa
tion Is governmental right; that 1t cam
not be delegated to individuals, trusts,
corporations OF monopolies; believing that
the right to levy a tariff exists only for
the purpose of running the government
economically and efficiently, we presented
| the tariff question to the people In segre-
gated form. First we reduced the tariff
upon woolen clothes 40 per cent This
was the one schedule that President Taft
himself had said was too high; that 1t
Nm An1tt do txFs
strenfth of the wool trust in the east
and the woolgrowers in the west But
he could not veto 1t because ne would have
10 veto all the other IA schedules OF the
tariff measure.
Taft Vetoed Measure
This bill went to the Senate and
though II was controlled by the opposi-
tion party we found sufficient assistance
from the ranks of our opponents TO pass
1t up TO the President as a measure.
Then the President returned il to the Con-
gress of the United States with his veto
and assigned as his reason that he had
no tariff board report, and was there
fore not Informed upon the question. For
this reason he returned it with his dis
approval
I'VE undertook to pass this bill over
his veto. Our constitution requires two-
thirds to accomplish this
We had more than 100 majority in favor
Of the passage of the bill this veto to
the contrary Notwithstanding. We lacked
only II votes of having the necessary
two-thirds to pass II through the House OF
Representatives over the Presidents veto,
and. today the wool trust not behind q
majority of the lawmakers Of the repub-
lie. but behind the veto Of the President
and the II more than one-third of the
representative of the American people is
picking the pockets of the shiyering poor
The republican party became so arrogant
and confident that this character OF rob-
berry would continue TO meet the favor
of the American people that they boldly
wrote into their platform of 1908 a declara-
| tion that the tariff should not only equal
the difference In the cost of production
at home and abroad, but should be high
enough in addition to this TO give a profit
10 the manufacturer here. In all the his
tory OF civilized governments no party
ever became so defiant of the public viii
or went 50 far as TO say that all the
rest OF the people should be taxed and
from their pockets taken a sufficient
amount TO give profit TO another class
of people
No Profit TO Farmers
They offered no profit TO the farmer.
though the drouth might come and failure
meet his efforts The ianorer was mr.
fered no profit. He might toll from early
morn TO late at night and sleep In an
humble tenement. He was guaranteed no
profit by tho republican platform The
only class who were considered so necu
liarly the favorites Of the republican
party as to warrant II In declaring that
government taxing power could be used
to take from the pockets of men In other
| pursuits of life money sufficient TO give
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