The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-01
COLL LOSAI, FAIL IJRE
IS PRESENT TARIFF

trust question. But the business
community has been harassed and
harrfed to no purpose; and the pros
perity of the business man has been
checked. exactly as the prosperity Of
the farmer and the wage-Worker has
been checked. As for the farmer, the
present tariff, the Administrations
tarih, was so framed as to result in
the sacrifice Of his interests. He had
no spokesman, no friend in high
quarters and his welfare was con-
temptuously sacrificed. At every
point where his interest was con-
cerned he was made to suffer. AS for
the wage-worker the result OF the
tarih was that he suffered even
more than his employer. forihe was
thrown out Of employment and, lost
the means to earn his livelihood.
"Aeafor the employer, sometimes he
has been able to struggle on with the
loss Of profits, sometimes he has had
to close his shop. In businesses in
which many Of the big trusts are con-
cerned, 1t was the small competitors
OF the trusts who were injured and in
many cases ruined. Tariff reduction
as put into practice by the present ad-
mtnistration has chiefly benefited for
eign rivals and competitors. It has
done grave injury to the business
community and the farming commun-
ity and has caused suffering to the
wage-workers and the whole policy
OF the administration has been one to
cause our people in business, our peo-
pie on the farms, our people with din
ner pals, to look toward the future
with grave concern and apprehension.
Assails Penrose.
1T Is OF course essential to rebuke
those leaders who by their action
helped to put the present administra-
tion In power, and, moreover, 1t is OF
vital consequence to the future we'll
being Of our people, to drive from pub
lie life all men whose political activi-
ties In state and nation alike, have
been such as. those Of Senator PEN
rose. This is not only a political but
a moral issue. mention the name of
Senator Penrose, merely because he
typhies a class. am not concerned
with him as an indiyidual; i am con-
cerned with him as q type. Mr.. PEN
rose stands In Pennsylvania as Mr..
Barnes stands In New York ard Mr..
Lorimer in Illinois. When we fight
these men and their activities, we
are fighting the battle Of all decent
men and in particular, we are fight
Ing the battle of the honest Republi-
can rank and flle, whom these men
have misrepresented and betrayed.
ut is well to keep In mind that we
now have Mr.. Wilson'S administration,
that we now suffer a wretched foreign
policy and from home policies In ma
tional affairs which have seriously inn
paired the well-being of our people,
primarily because Of the action Of
Senator Penrose In associating with
men OF the same type like Mr.. Barnes.
Messrs. Penrose, Barnes and their as
sociates at Chicago, taking advantage
OF the fact that national nominating
conventions are not protected by law;
followed course Of conduct morally
every whit as bad as that which at
elections result in wrong-doers Of
humber rank being put in stripes.
They stole from the rank and file Of
the Republican party the right to gov
ern themselves; to nominate their own
candidates and promulgate their own
platform. They took this action with
the deliberate purpose Of electing a
Democratic president because they
infinitely preferred the triumph of
their nominal party foes to seeing the
control Of their own organization
wrested from their hands by the rank
and file OF their own party. They are
foes Of decent citizenship. Their po-
litical lives depend upon their keep
ing politics in such condition that de-
cent men cannot succeed them and
that the ordinary citizens cannot get
control Of their own government.
Drive Bosses Out.
Rather than see this control brok-
en-. Messrs. Penrose, Barnes and their
associates deliberately put the Demo
cratic organization and Mr.. Wilson
into power at Washington.
"of course, our contest must al
ways be primarily one for principles.
1t must always be contest to enact
into law and reduce to the domain OF
executive action those principles. But
1t is impossible to do this effectively
until we. drive from political leader
ship the boss whose very existence In
politics is the legation Of these prin-
ciples. There is no use In endeavor-
ing to put into effect our platform for
social and Industrial justice Of the
legislative and executive officers Of
government are mere sub-ofiicers Of q
boss, whether this boss be Mr.. Pen
rose, Mr.. Barnes or Mr. Murphy.
Much Of our effort is to secure
laws protecting the labor Of women
and prohibiting the labor Of children
In mines and factories, providing for
workmen's compensation and the like,
This effort is bound to come to naught,
II, in its actual working, the forces OF
government are administered by men
whose whole theory Of action is based
on the alliance OF crooked politics
with crooked wealth.
To Help Workers.
much Of our effort Is. to help the
men who live on farms. This effort
will fail IL the government Of state
and nation is controlled by men who
treat with derision the very idea OF
seriously studying the conditions in
the open country that need remedying.
40 L. A. -. A..