EDITORIALS
Taft in Wisconsin A BEVERLY DISPATCH to the Chicago Tribune says that President Taft is working on his letter for the Republican campaign handbook. It is stated that the President's letter will not...
...Saving Their Bacon Chapter I. MR...
...The money power holds absolute sway over all the nation's affairs...
...He says: "If this man represents the financial power which controls the railroads and other public service corporations...
...Judge Davis was at one time president of the Senate, and was one of the ablest men who ever sat on the Supreme Bench...
...Chapter VI...
...if he is boss of the bosses in Wall Street who boss the business hordes back of the political bosses all over the United States, then J. Pierpont Morgan is boss of the United States...
...He stated that he was there "at President Taft's request...
...Now, as to the price of wocl...
...They decide on a Bump-the-Bumps method...
...Corporations, bound together in a few great combinations, are still enthroned...
...The Crisis of the Sixties was settled by bullets...
...Lincoln Steffens is answering this question for the people of the United States in Everybody's Magazine, beginning with the September number...
...Corrupt!-n—amazing corruption—is found in high places...
...We have not complained that the President and the Vice President are taking part in the campaign in Wisconsin against progressive Republicans...
...Morgan is supreme there...
...He is meeting with serious embarrassments...
...Standpat Congressman sends a frantic C. Q. D. call to headquarters...
...The Crisis of 1910 will be settled by ballots...
...What has happened since the President left Washington for Beverly...
...Steffens' article...
...Let the President stand out in the open...
...This money power, then, which Judge Davis prophesied was to become a menace to the republic is under the thumb of one man...
...That speech was submitted to and approved by Mr...
...He appears to be making progress...
...Taft dispatched Wick-ersham to Chicago to deliver a speech reading progressives out of the party...
...What Davis foresaw has come to puss...
...The jig is up- Cannon is given the shove...
...Chapter IV...
...Chapter II...
...He's the spryest feller of his age on the field and he's not going to the bench yet—not by a jugful...
...Morgan—Boss of the U. S. THIRTY YEARS AGO Judge David Davis, with prophetic foresight, expressed a fear that this country would fall under the control of great combinations of wealth, and that this rule of the Many by the Few would bring about a crisis even greater than that of the Civil War...
...No, sir-ee...
...He said: "The rapid growth of corporate power and the malign influence which it is beginning to exert on the national and stite legislatures, is a well-grounded cause of alarm...
...These are facts...
...This dispatch furnishes the further information that: "As to state fights there is every reason to believe Mr...
...And it is true...
...It is stated that the President's letter will not be controversial and "that there is no desire on his part or on the part of any one closely identified with the administration to read any person out of the party...
...Chapter V. KANSAS goes insurgent...
...the trusts, banks, insurance companies, trust companies, and other special interests, he represents those powers which—even before they were united—supported defended, and controlled political parties, and bosses, and, therefore, rivaled the power of mayors and councils, governors and legislatures, the President and Congress of the United States...
...Such a betrayal of the trust reposed in a congressman by the people would amount to treason...
...No later than June, Mr...
...Standpat Congressman, with the friendly assistance of the corporation press, sets about to make the citizens believe that Cannon is a 42nd decree member of the Down and Out Club...
...Most painful of all, they demand a straightforward answer to the question: "If elected, will you vote again for Cannon for Speaker...
...Chapter VII...
...A clear and convincing answer to this question will help in winning the people's fight...
...And then they insist on knowing his reason for voting for Cannon for Speaker...
...ALL is consternation in the camp of the standpatters...
...Vice President Sherman well understood the purpose of the meeting which he addressed, and the object of the organization thereafter perfected...
...STANDPAT CONGRESSMAN is engaged in patching up his fences...
...It is scarcely four months since Mr...
...They sweat over the problem, How to Keep the Speaker in Cold Storage Until After Elections...
...Ami in the present crisis, no less than in the one cf Lincoln's time, is involved the fate of the republic...
...Cannon is going to step down voluntarily anyhow and anyway...
...California goes insurgent...
...Who ever had the idea, anyway, that Cannon ought to sit in the speaker's chair...
...Cannon is a dead one...
...What is this money power of which Davis spoke...
...He emerges from the conference of political generals to give the country a declaration...
...POLITICAL generals abandon the Cold Storage plan of suppressing the Speaker...
...Iowa goes Insurgent...
...Standpat Congressman grow more insistent...
...Those in attendance upon this meeting appointed a committee which is now engaged in placing the funds—with which it is abundantly supplied—to defeat all progressive Republicans in the state...
...In his splendid article "IT," Stef-fens points to J. Piekpont Morgan as the personal sovereign of the United States...
...if Mr...
...His constituents are not as tractable as of old...
...He says he'll be dummed if he quits the Speakership...
...It will be watched by every patriot with intense anxiety...
...They poster him with questions...
...He takes his waiting constituents into his confidence...
...In other words, if this Wall Street rumor is true...
...THE constituents of Mr...
...We have made no protest against the pot-home politics played by the Administration with the federal patronage since the vote on the tariff bill...
...Read Mr...
...And notice is hereby and herewith served that he is still in the race for speaker of the House of Representatives...
...The administration HAS presumed to read Republicans out of the party for voting their honest convictions on legislation...
...By doing so you will arm yourself for more effective fighting in your war on the money power...
...Taft's interest was still further shown by his sending a telegram of congratulation which was read at the meeting by its presiding officer...
...They seem obsessed with Cannonitis...
...They want to know, for instance, why he voted for the System tariff schedules...
...Has it grown powerful enough to menace our free institutions...
...It is the People's war against the Money Power...
...We are ruled by a business czar just as Russia is ruled by a hereditary czar...
...Vote for Cannon for speaker...
...The populace persists in thinking that there is some doubt about Cannon's retiring from the speakership...
...The President IS directly taking part in state fights involving the election of republican senators and congressmen...
...If a majority in the Republican caucus want him to be the next speaker, they can have him, by hek...
...He says—on his own authority—that he likes Uncle Joe immensely, but as for voting for him for speaker, never again...
...Taft will restate what he has said here many times of late,—that he does not believe it to be the province of the chief executive to interfere in state fights...
...Well Known Standpatter is selected to do the deed...
...James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President by grace of Cannon who jammed his nomina-nation through the Chicago convention, left his place as presiding officer of the Senate and journeyed to Milwaukee to address a Tory assemblage convened for the sole purpose of perfecting an organization to defeat the progressive Wisconsin Senator and Representatives...
...SPEAKER CANNON sets off a charge of political dynamite in Kansas...
...The struggle is at hand...
...As for being a member of the Down and Out Club— shucks...
...Absurd...
...The bomb set off by Cannon in Kansas reverberated throughout the nation...
...Chapter III...
...This condition of things is truly alarming, for unless it be changed free institutions are doomed to be subverted by an oligarchy resting upon a basis of money and of corporate power...
...Atrocious...
...STANDPAT CONGRESSMAN renews his fence-building...
...A struggle is coming in the future between this over-grown power on the one hand and the people, in an unorganized condition, on the other, for the control of the government...
...Political generals hurriedly gather at the summer capital...
...La Follette's does protest against the dishonesty and the cowardice back of such dispatches as the one above quoted fror- Beverly...
...At that time Republican Senators and Representatives were denounced as "pirates" at the White House because they had voted against the Aldrich tariff revision upward, and refused to swallow a bad railway bill on the recommendation of the President that it was good...
...For the seen enemy is more easily vanquished than, the unseen...
...Let the truth be plainly stated...
...The situation demands more drastic action...
...Reports from the front indicate heavy losses to the reelection hopes of reactionary congressmen...
...He is "on...
...So Mr...
...They obstinately refuse to accept as a reason for abandoning the against-CANNON-for-speaker pledge the "well known fact which everybody knows that Mr...
Vol. 2 • August 1910 • No. 34
