Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-04

conceanng the man who holds the
lantern.
But we have applied the pure food
law now to our newspaper diet. and
when predatory interest buys
newspaper, it must put the poison la
bel on the outside OF the can for the
protection Of the public. (Applause.)
We have done this, and we have
done 1t without the aid OF Mr.. Taft,
for. while he had to sign the bills that
went to him, he never asked for them.
he never used any influence In their
behalf.
NOW THE INCOME TAX
THAT TAFT DID NOT WANT
And then on the income tax: We
have. got 1t. -Four years ago lie said
We did not need it. And although he
took this plank out OF our platform
and recommended this amendment to
the constitution. he afterwards said
that he did 1t in order to defeat a
Statutory Income tax. And In his
speech Of acceptance, he does not mem
ton the Income tax as reform Sc
cured during his administration, al
though one Of the greatest things
that has come in the quarter Of u
century, The people got these things
and he did not want them, and he
cannot claim credit for them.
On the tariff question he did not
take the peoples side. When he was
first q candidate. he said he was In
favor of tariff reduction. And in his
platform he promised a revision, and
hedged 1t about with words that made
1t seem like reduction. He said they
promised unequivocally to call con-
gress together, Immediately to revise
the tariff. They fooled the people
with the word revise" But they will:
never do 1t again, and never think
of how they did 1t then without think
ing Of the man whose wife called him
model husband. He felt SO stuck
up about 1t that he quit work and
for several days went around and told
his neighbors what his wife had said.
But finally one Of the neighbors said
to him, did you ever look the word
UP In the dictionary" He said no.
And when he went to the dictionary,
he was surprised to find that the word
model" was defined as 'a small imi-
tation of the real thing" daughter
and applause.)
DID NOT HAVE FAITH In THE
MEN HE PUT ON TARIFF BOARD
He allowed republican congress
to- betray the people, and then when
that congress was driven out and q
democratic congress elected, and
when that democratic congress, fresh
from the people, following the man
date given 1t, sent bills to the senate
so moderate and SO reasonable that
even a republican senate could not
defeat them, and sent them on to the
White House, then Mr.. Taft put his
judgment against the judgment Of
both houses Of congress. He gave
the benefit OF the doubt to the people
exploiting the people. and not to the
taxpayers Of the country. And he
had moro faith in the judgment Of
five men whom he himself had APP
pointed on tariff board than he had
in nearly 500 members Of congress
and of the senate whom the people
had elected to act upon the subject
OF taxation.
And on the. trust question he took
the side against the people. He says
he dissolved two trusts, but howa In
such a way as to leave the ownership
unchaN and to make the stock
rise in value. And our candidate for
vice president has wittily said that
the fayorite song OF the trust mag
mates today is, dissolve us again.
Dissolve us again" (Laughter.)
He has made farce OF the DISCO
luton. He has made farce Of the
criminal law on this subject, and not
only that, but he has endorsed the
action OF the supreme court, writing
the word unreasonable" into this law
and thus destroying its force a. a
criminal statute.
HOW no TEST OUT THE
"UNREAsoNABLE" SIDE
II you want to know what It means
to put the word unreasonable" In q
criminal law. / will tell you how to
hnd out. Whom you go home tonight,
you take your Bible and turn to the
Ten Commandments and write each
one on separately. and then you put
the word unreasonable" and unreal
sonably" into each one OF these Ten
Commandments, and see how much
you will havo left: Thou shalt not
steal, unreasonably." Thou shalt
not kill, unreasonably."
But possibly can bring the ABB
surdity before you in thiSsway, II
the time ever comes when petit lar