Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-11
CHARGE OF FREE
TRADER" HAS No
BASIS WHATEVER
Taft's Promise of Tariff Reduc-
ton as Ridiculous as Roose-
velt'S Not to Run.
COLONEL BREAKING PARTY.
Foreign Lahorers Give Lie to Re
publican Plea That Protection
Aids Workingman.
by Austin Cunningham.

by Austin Cunningham.
WASHINGTON. d. c., Oct. IL
When a Comanche Indian wants to
convey the idea that he believes some
body is deviating from the truth
cOunterfeiting facts, as it were-he is
likely to do il in sign talk by walking
up in front of that somebody and
breaking a twig before his face. This
performance crudely means that the
tongue of the speaker is broken.
Again, the Indian might hold under
the nose of the Ananias club mem.
bers forked stick, which, being in
terpreted, AYERS that the person so
confronted is the possessor of double
tongue.
The thought merely occurs that if a
Comanche Indian had been following
the Bull Moose candidate for president
around his meandering trail. and had
saved all of the broken sticks and fork
ed sticks-granting that new forked
stick was used every time one was
needed-the bronze brave would have
had enough kindling to build a bon
fire as big as the capitol by the time
he reached Washington to hear the
said Bull Moose candidates testimony
on How little l know about trust con-
tributions."
where are produced raw materials
which are the chief revenue makers,
or would be under revenue tariff
system, the Third Termer has cried
aloud warning that Wilson and the
Democratic bosses" are free traders,
and will undertake to wipe out the pro-
tective tariff with one fell swoop, as a
cyclone will scatter Kansas village
over the prairies. Repeated declara-
tions have been made on this farewell
Roosevelt campaign tour that the DEM
ocratic presidential nominee is an ad-
vocate of immediate havoc-playing
with the tariff, and business men along
the route of the careening, careering
candidate have been told in Roose-
veltian slang, that it will be good
night" for them when that free trade"
comes.
In those places where all of Cover
nor Wilson's utterances probably are
not seen or heard. and where isolated
inhabitants are in such plight they
must take the one candidates word
for it, some harm may have been done
the Democratic nominee, but where the
people are enlightened by the facts,
| the Democratic ticket need fear moth
ling from the despairing and frantic
howl of ''free trade" and bosses"
| Democrats here who know Governor
McGovern, the Wisconsin Pro
gressive, regretted to see him fall into
the same quagmire of misinformation
in which the Bull Moose has been
floundering.
| Governor Wilson is clean, whole
some, gifted and patriotic American
Citizen" said the Wisconsin governor
but he is a free-trade Democrat, who
believes in an Anticipated theory Of
states rights and relies for his election
upon the boss ridden political
machines"
| In this twentieth century, when the
news of a day is flashed around the
world, and is published within a few
hours almost everywhere, one would
think that even
'The poor. benighted Hindoo
| For clothes he makes his skin do
would know better than that Wilson
| ''relies for his election upon the boss
ridden political machines" Roosevelt's
charge along that line, when in the
Wild West and far from the madding
crowd of political wiseacres, can be
understood here, but not Governor
McGovern'S statement.
And as to that free trade business
an accusation which is being hurled
at the Democratic candidates chiefly
by uninformed and irresponsible
strangers to truth, who are. parading
and perambulating about as hired Bull
Moose preachers, or by badly scared
and desperate Old Guard Repub' lean
orators-hearken for moment to a
paragraph or two in Governor Wilson S
speech in New Haven the other day:
almost all the parts of the Payne
Aldrich schedules that most interest
those who have usually replenished
the Golfers of the regular Republican
party lie concealed in phraseology
which you can't understand, and no
man can understand, until an expert
has uncovered their meaning to you.
"This is the part of the country,
like the great state of New Jersey, the
great neighboring state of Pennsyl-
vania and the great imperial state of
New York, where the scarecrow of free
trade is being held up. Who said
free trade? Who proposed free trade?
You can't have free trade in the United
States because the government is sup
ported by the duties collected at the
ports. Some of the duties are prac-
tically prohibitive and there is no
tariff to be got from them. But that
is matter on one side. What | am
trying to point out to you is that this
protective tariff, so-called, has become
means of fostering the growth of
particular groups of industry at the