The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-01-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Washington Correspond
ent of The Times.
By Clyde II. Tavenner.

Washington, Jan. President Ia
in his New York Reorganization
speech, declared in fine sarcasm tina
those dissatisfied with his administra
ton demanded IAN ideal state il
which the poor and oppressed ar
to acquire property and cease suffer
ing"
This and similar statements of thu
President, indicate why his admins
tration was unpopular. He was pre-
JUDGED against any kind of reform
His is the same view that is held by
Morgan and Rockefeller, and the
other money king who have made
their millions as a result of federal
laws which gave them monopolies of
American markets with power to
charge the people for trust products
any price that their greed dictated.
Morgan and Rockefeller also be-
lieve that all who are not satisfied
with the old conditions, the bribery
of United States Senators by the oil
trust, the failure to send guilty trust
magnates to Jail as the poor are sent
to jail when they violate the law, the
infamous -Payne-Aldrieh tariff laws
which permit the big industrial COM
binations to be ever boosting prices
and increasing the cost of living,
Morgan and Rockefeller and Taft be-
lieve that all who complain of these
things expect and demand "an ideal
state in which the poor and oppressed
are to acquire property and cease
suffering"
This is not true. 1t is ridiculous
to assert that because the people de-
mand tariff revision to reduce the
cost OF living, that they expect or de-
mand can ideal state. -
In asking for an income tax which
will compel the rich to bear a fair
proportion of the burden of taxation,
which they are not now during;
In requesting the election of Unit
ed States Senators by the direct vote
of the people, to prevent their cleo
ton by bribery.
In demanding enforcement of the
criminal provision of the Sherman
law, which is not now be.
ing enforced by an attorney general
who who was formerly sugar trust
lewyer;
In desiring legislation, safeguard
ing legitimate business from the pub
lie evils of Safeguarding;
In expecting effective regulation of
child labor, an employers liability
aw and protection of women wage
In demanding and expecting these
Kings the public is not, as President
Taft says, and as Morgan and Rookie
eller pretend to believe, either de-
or expecting IAN ideal state
n which the poor and oppressed are
o acquire property"
The people are simply asking for a
quare deal at the hands of those
public servants" they have sent to
Washington to represent them.
Filipinos Desire Freedom
Manuel L. Quezon, resident COM
missioner of the Philippine Islands to
he United States, who has just re-
lrned to Washington from Manila,
avs that every town in the archi- :
elago has endorsed the Jones bill,
'hich he hopes will be passed at the
xtra session of Congress.
The bill purposes to establish a 7
government, more liberal S
nd autonomous than at present, for
probationary period of eight years t
eginning July 4, 1918, and that af- S
r July 4, 1921, the United States +
lall relinquish all rights of sover- n
gnty over the Philippines and grant n
its inhabitants full and complete a
dependence. The United States A
ould retain sovereignty over neces- n
~ naval and coaling station sites Al
d terminal points for cables, not N
cluding the bay and harbor of Ma s,
q. ID
The Jones bill would vest the leg g
ative power Of the Philippine Is L
'ds in q Congress ofthe Philippines J,
'enate comprising thir0-eiehf mem N
- and q House of eighty-seven N