The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-28

/ declared for the prohibition Of manu-
facture, Importation, expectation, trans
portation and sale of alcoholic bever-
ages. 1t should have added deportation
of all but one ideaed persons
Among multifarious things we find It
favored woman suffrage upon the
same terms as men,"
And in the tariff question 1t declares
for solution by a nonpartisan tariff
commission-wet on this, If dry on the
one ideaed
This party against states rights with
| a presidential ticket polled 206, 900 votes
In the election in 1912.
Old Enemy-New Name
THE gauge of battle on the tariff hav-
ing clearly turned towards the dem
ocratic party in the election of a DEM
ocratic House of Representatives in 1910.
and Taft having seen the handwriting
| on the wall, and Roosevelt having
wisely interpreted it. the republican
| lion put on the ass skin, Chat is the
| brains of 1.-THE forepart) and behold
| the ancient enemy of democracy broken
! in twain like a crippled snake, raised
| its voice at Chicago-the second time
! during 1912--and wrote what was the
platform of the progressive party. First
| this, confession, after prayer by a
| great big, black Alabama negro parson:
1.-THE deliberate betrayal of its
trust by the republican party, the
fatal incapacity of the democratic
| party to deal with the new issues
| of the new time, have compelled
| the people to forge a new instru
ment of government by which to
give effect to their will in laws and
institutions; and
The extreme insistence on
| states rights by the democratic
, party in the Baltimore platform
demon Gtr1tpQ ifa ms bi1itxr fn
understand the world into which 1t
| has survived or to administer the
| affairs of a union OF states which
| have, in all essential respects, be-
come one people"
| And. thus it will be seen that those
whose ambition is jaded by the ancient
and honorable stole of democracy.
hampered by its creed states rights,
defiant of It's traditions, individual lib
Hrty; negligent of its cardinal tenets,
tariff for revenue, all these one ideaed
or Cerberus headed, may find con-
genial company in either the prohibit
ton or the progressive party. Either
or both, have the order of nymphs
and satrys that may be taken-goat
footed politians who have been dragged
by nymphs into the waters that lave
the isles of the suffragettes, a new
race of men-women. Even the Ulysses
of Merrimac fame failed to stop his
ears WIN WAX, LOT DTancneS lIlty pore
of that enchanted STEM" and to kiss is
to surrender
Why We Are Democrats
All true democrats are followers of the
faith propounded by Thomas Jefferson,
whose lamp was cleaned and trimmed by
Andrew Jackson, whose Pickering rays
in reconstruction days were kept burning
on our affairs here in Alabama, by Nor
gan, Pettus and Johnston. whom Senates
have listened to and honored; of Grover
Cleveland, who. honestly strove to keep
faith on the tariff, but who was defeated
by the emasculating treachery of Arthur
z. German ct omne genus, with the VIII
son bill; of the greatest construction
statesman the democratic party has had
on the floor of the House of Representa-
tives, all things considered, since the
foundation of the party; one who not only
with a prudent hand showed the mastery
of men-master of himself under calling
provocation-but who has won the com
mendations of friend. and foeman worthy
of his blade (save only oneO in all that
great body of constructive statesman; he
who wrote and put into law the only hon
est democratic tariff bill since the Wal
ker BILL of 1856. And, James L. Walker
himself was not member of Congress,
but Secretary of the Treasury, and was
Mississppian
lIOIi SOHS IcSSiOHdl IttCOIu
The Underwood bill carries an average
tax of &c per cent, almost as low as the
Walker bill, which carried low tax on
liquor and tobacco.
The Wilson bill carried a tax of 1895
per cent.
The Payne-Aldrich bill carried an aver
age of 4012 per cent.
The average of the Underwood bill is
higher than it might have been, but for
the Injuries a AGAINST nj
the necessities in the free list, and high
tax on tobacco and liquors.
The Underwood bill inyokes the law of
compensation (some of the hair of the
dog protection, for the bite of excessive
robbery all these years., the corporation
tax estimated at 100000, and the in
come tax estimated at $685. 600
Not only did the Achilles of democracy
meet the Hector of republication and
tear down his walls CT protection but by
a conjuncture it would seem, he endorsed
him on the Aldrich currency bill. An
drew jackson destroyed the centralized
Federal bank. Oscar Underwood repre-
sented President woodrow Wilson in
marshalling the democratic hosts of the
House against Aldrlch's central bank
idea, and today the bill for eight regional
banks Is law.
The Hour Had Struck
of September 80 that the final seal of
democratic faith kept on the tariff was
affixed. The gentleman from Alabama,
(Mr. Underwood) in concluding the debate
on the conference report of the Senate
and House committee, said:
In conclusion I wish to say that
after nearly three years of battle
because the battle started two years
before a republican President left the
White House-the democratic party
today is prepared to keep it's pledge to
the American people applause on the
democratic side, and no matter what
criticism our adversaries may make
of this bill, no matter whether they
believe it is wise or wSxkable, there
is no man who can stand on the floor
of this House or elsewhere and deny
the fact that in the passage of this
bill the representative of the Ameri-
can people, constituting the demo-
cratic party in the two branches of
Congress of the United States, have
kept their pledge in reference to a re-
duction of taxation which they made
to the American people four years
and two years ago. applause ON the
democratic side)
81 do not believe there is any
danger of this bill working any in
jury to the great producing in
terest of the United States. 1 be-
lieve that in the past they have
built their business on a scaffold.
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