The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-07-01
ROOSEVELT ATTACKS
DEMOCRATIC WORKS
Continued from Page H.

tSOHtilueu from rage IL
the line not on size. but on miscon-
duct We should encourage
the big bust ness man who
does we'll and who regards his great
abilities as a trust to be exercised as
much In the interest Of the public as
in his own interests. But we should
check and punish him effcctually and
promptly when he exercises those abil-
tiles to the detriment either of the
smaller business man with whom he
competes, Of the wage workers who
should share with him the benefits of
his and their common efforts or of the
general public whom he serves.
About the Tariff.
GAS regards the tariff, wish spec
tally to call your attention to the
promises made by President Wilson
and his supporters two years ago
They asserted that their method of
tariff reduction would reduce the
cost of living and would thus solve
the trust question because. as they
said. the trusts were the creatures
OF the tariff. We then answered that
their promises were empty words.
that no such results as they stated
could or would follow from the course
they advocated and that only by the
method we propose could either the
trust or the tariff question be dealt
with 80 as to abate the existing evils
| and at the same time increase the
have proved us to be right. Their
promises have not been kept. Their
performance has brought distress up
0v1 IN n ~ fp{n hoo
not been reduced. But the ability of
the average man to gain a living has
been greatly reduced. Not the slight
est progress has been made toward
solving the trust question. But the
business community has been harraus-
ed and harried to no purpose; and the
prosperity OF the business man has
been checked, exactly. as the prosper
! ity OF the farmer and the wage-worker
has been checked. AS for the farmer,
the present tariff, the administration'E
tariff, was so framed as to result In
the sacrifice OF his intel I'sts. Ho
had no spokesman, no friend in h:gi,
quarters and his welfare was contem-
ptuously sacrificed At every Doin.
where his interest 1as concerned ne
was made to suffer. AS for The wage
worker the result Of the tariff was
that he suffered svGn more IL All his
employer, for he Was thrown cut OF
employment and lost tho means to
earn his livelihood.
Loss Of Profits.
AS for the employer, sometimes lie
has been abe to struggle on With the
oss OF profits, sometimes he has had
to close his shop. In Businesses in
which any Of the big trusts were 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
administration has chiefly benefited
foreign 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. orr
people on the farms, our people with
dinner pals, to look toward the fu-
ture with grave concern and ap.rc-
hension.
1T is OF course essential to rebuke
those leaders who by their action
helped to put the present ndnupistrs-
ton In power, and, moreover, 1t IL of
vital consequence to the future we'll
being Of our people, to drive from
public life-all men whose political ac-
tivitfes In state and nation alike, have
been such as those Of Senator Penrose.
This is not only political but moral
issue. mention the name OF Senator
Penrose. merely because. he ,typdfies
q class. / am not concerned witt. him
as an individual; l am concerned with
Id r.
Pennsylvania as MIR. Barnes stands in
New York. When we fight these men
and their activities, we, are fighting
particular, we are fighting the bat
tie of the honest republican rank and
file, whom these men have misrepre-
sented and betrayed
Foreign Policy.
1T Is well to keep in mind that we
now have Mr.. Wilson's administration,
that we now suffer from wretcheo
foreign policy and from home polfcie
in national affairs which have serious
ly impaired the welltbeing OF our
people, primarily because of the ac-
tion of Senator Penrose In associating
with men of the same type like Mr..
Barnes. Messrs. Penrose, Barnes and
their associates at Chicago, taking ad-
vantage Of tho feet that national nom-
mating conventions are not protected
by law. followed. a course of conduct
morally every bit 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 thiz action