New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1913-02-22
A BAILY WORTH WHILE,

| Bunco steererS are at work on
Democratic members Of Con
gress. They are trying to get
them to continue the practice OF
taxing the American people Tor
the benefit of a trust fund, to be
placed in the aforesaid bunc0
steerers' charge.
The game is an old one, and IS
commonly known by the mendac-
ious title: Protection to Amer
lean Labor
1t is no compliment to the
Democratic congressman INIT
they should Me suspected of be
ing gullible enough to be fooled
by it.
One method employed in the
game of deception is to order Il
subsidized editor to write up n
"scarce article showing the aW-
fu effects that will follow with
drawal Of zen, bezzllug oportunI-
les from the WOODEN trust and
similar concerns. These articles
are then sent to congressman
supposed to be innocent enough
to believe them,
Approaching n Democratic
: CONGRESSMAN in This way, not
only implies some doubt of his in
tclIigence but of his honesty as
well. for no Democratic congress
| man can vote to sustain protee-
tom, without convicting himself
of obtaining office under false
! pretenses.
This "Bailv Worth While,
resented such an approach by
writing the following letter:
Johnstown, Pa, Jan. ID.
T.. b. Moore, New York City:
Dear Sir beg to acknowledge yours
of Jan. 8, calling my attention to copy
of the Skowhegan Independent Reporter
o: Jan This paper has been received
and its character and purpose noted and /
wish to assure you that | do not in the
least credit the story 1t seeks to tell, The
Democratic party is pledged to the revi-
sion of the tariff to strictly revenue ba-
| sis | was a member of the committee
which drew that platform and mem
Der of the convention which adopted it:
was elected to congress on that platform:
and would consider myself beneath con
tempt if | should even for q moment hest
tate in doing my very utmost to redeem
the promises Conveyed in that platform
to the American people, do not believe
your industry needs protection. Ifit does
need protection, it has no legitimate stand
ing in the country except as pauper.
| If you will come before the country frank
| ly in the guise of pauper, throwing off
the false pretense that you are animated
by phianthropic desire to promote the
! interests of labor and the welfare of hu
mainly in general l will promise as 3
member of congress to consider the matter
of placing you properly on the pension list
as pauper, although should want some
better proof than the unsupported testi-
mony of tariff protects that you are emit
tied 10 such charity.
| You may be able to succeed in frightsn-
ing some of the people by such outrageous
ard utterly indefensble publicity az that
which you have obtained through paper
| which seems freely to have prostituted it
self to our purpose, but do not believe
| for one moment that you will be able to
| frighten the Democrats who have been
placed on the firing line in the Sixtytbird
congress; nor will you brighten that great
governor who is soon to become president
and who has threatened to gibbet as high
| rs Haman those enemies of the republic
who are trying by devious devices as those
to which you have rosorted to bring disas-
ter upon the American people and suffer
! ing into the homes of the weak and de-
fenseless.
Thanking yop for having given me the
opportunity to speak thus plainly and as-
surfing yop that | shall as member OF
the Sixty-third congress try to speak with
like plainness whenever opportunity shall
present in the discussion of tariff matters.