The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-06-28

It's re'auon 10 the people been accer
eo as compass by those charge
with the performance of official d
ties?
The Republican Party and the !,
terests.
"Defying this wholesome doctrin
OF our party. the party in power hs
stood Tor system OF privilea
through q scheme OF taxation that
appalling the world by its hurtfuI col
sequences, First it was argued the
the infant Industries OF this countr
could not stand alone without a tart,
and the people were taxed to hA,
them. Then the plea was made tina
a hisher tariff was necessary to pro
tect the American laborer against hi
pauper brother separated from hin
taree thousand miles of water an,
tSe peoples taxes were made higher
Flna.ly the idea advanced that tn,
tarin should be SO levied as to covel
the difference between American ann
foreign cost of production and guaran
tee a reasonable profit to the manusac
turer, and the peoples taxes were
made still higher. And Presiden,
TAFT says this reasonable profit law
Is the best tariff law ever enacted
Former President Roosevelt SAYS that
at nrst he thought so, too. but tina,
recently his views have changed on
that subject.
But 1t has become apparent that
the infant argument has lost its
force; that the infants are not only
able to stand alone, but able to stand
all around everybody else and every.
thing. They have become lords OF all
they survey and refuse to be weaned
4 heard Q story at indianapolis a
Few weeks ago. told by Hon. Thomas
Helm. OF Alabama. that aptly repre
sents the position OF our protected in
fants-the blatant children Of repub-
iicanism. He said that two gentle
me4 down IN his state, travelling in a
buggy along the public highway, met
a hil~ little woman, almost exhausted.
running her best, az though she were
fleeing from threatened death. Driv-
Ing on about quarter of a mile
farther they met a big over-grown
seventeen-year-old son who was like.
wise running at full speed with his
hair standing on end and his hat I'm
one hand and q rock ~ large as his
nst In the Other. He demanded OF
them to know II they had met a
woman down the road They told him
hey had. Rushing on. he exclaimed.
That is Ma, gol darn her-she thinks
'he's goaag TO wsan me. but she amt,
like sA~ Souble-Asted son OF the frail
mother. the special interests have
rown powerful through the class
egisiatioa Of the republican party
md refrse to be weaned.
Disguise the truth as We may. they
mot the peopls-domina ate this gov
'rAnent. Heretofore when the advo-
'ates of equal and exact Justice to all
men, special privilege to none, made
his charge republicans resented 1t,
tut they can no longer resent It,
Former President Roosevelt says that
resident Taft is but putty in the
amos OF the bosses-the representa-
ives OF the interests-and- President
aft says that when Roosevelt was
resident the representatives OF the
nterests told him what trusts to pros
cute and the ones to let alone and
q obeyed LaFollette correborates
resident Taft by citing the fact that
hen Roosevelt became president the
apital steckAwatsr and aal-of tho
russs was little more than $3,0oo.-
co. 900. and when he weat out OF Of
CO 1t was moro tAaa tl2, 600, 900. .aoe.
Nd ne asks how II that for a trust
~stef who upon taking the oath Of
hce kissed the same Bible that Nn-
ola kisssd.
And Senator Beveridss has no
igher opinion Of President Taft than
aFolfette has OF Roosevelt. In
esech at Chicago last March the SEN
'or' In speaking Of the present repub-
can admfAistration said: so not a
roAs has been righted which these
usts mad practiced. These robber [
arons OF business have been licensed I
stead OF being rAGs1stsd' Com 7
enuns upon the farctoal manner I'm i
hich President Taft has dealt with {
e trust question ehe senator added: e
10 two business men in this republic Q
day can meet at luncheon TO talk Z
'er their mutual business affairs and 8
certain they are act lawbreakers. Il
hen wrongdoers fall out, the truth .
mes out. Mckinley. TaEt's man o
'er, charged In public statement Il
few days ago. that ,Roosevelt's o
ifty policy on the S,sst issue so .
'settied business tAs1 It produced a Ia
mic IN 1907 That II the first ad- c.
lssion 1 ever knew . prominent re- D
oiican TO make that there had ever 4
en- N Ae Aistafy OF this nation a p
publican panic. And Leslie N.
aw says eAat the panic of 1907 was u
70 sevsrest the world has ever Wit. u
ssed.' -
Mckinley reminds his party that l.
resident Tam would reorganize o. r.
lists TO NJ the government but that Y
osevelt would revise the govern III
mt to nt the trusts He says that m
II ssaAes for peace bss that koose- IL