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Show 1 MAKES ATTACK ON Ti TARIFF Speaker Predicts Defeat of 1 President Taft in Address at Celebration of Jefferson Day at Louisville, Ky. 7 : .Aj governor wi lson ' talks in chicago If . ' Defends Himself Before Audi-f Audi-f ence of Polish-Americans Against the Assertions of ' j His Opponents. I By International cwh Service. T OUISYTLLE, Ky., April 6. Speaker I Champ Clark was I he principal I speaker here tonight at the celc-JJ celc-JJ bratlon of the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, Mr. Clark's remarks were loudly applauded. Tic declared that President Taff exercise of the veto power would rcccivo rebuke at tho hands of the American pcoplo at the coming election. He ald In part: President Tnft vetoed nil onr tnrifC bills, thereby raising mi Issue which will rage with nnabatei! fury nntll the polls Hose In November. Under the constitution he has the ptcrogii-ilvi. ptcrogii-ilvi. of using the veto. So has the king of Great Britain, but no HrlUsh king Una dared to use the veto In two ( centuries, and the tlrst Drltlnh king who does veto an Important bill will lr the last or his llne.Just nn Wil-llmn Wil-llmn Howard Tnft will be the last of the stiindpallen-C' fie made his record: we made ours. On that record rec-ord we I'ontldcntly appeal to the people, peo-ple, the court of hint resort In poli-Deraocracy poli-Deraocracy of Today. We clnlm to be dlsclpleM of Thomas .lofferfion. What do we stand for today? to-day? We are as much against special privilege nnd an much In favor of equnl rights to nil as he was. The high protective tariff systems and the trusts are lvjttomed on special privilege against which Jefferson ron-tended ron-tended till Ids life. It la unjust to use the taxing power to enrich a few men at the expense of the great body of taxpayers. The high piotective tariff Ir, the mother or trusts. . The trusts will never be abolished until the Inrlff Ik cut to a revenue basis or to as closo an approximation thereto as possible. The truth Is thut the tariff question ?ud the trust question aro one and the ?ame. The Republicans promised before the election of 1005 If they wre again entrusted with power Id reduce the tariff. Without that prom-"" Ise they could not have carried the country. On that proml.se lhy did I carry the- country, and Immediately proceeded to revise the tariff upward. up-ward. Kor that stupendous piece of bnd futth the pcoplo trounced them in 1?10 and will trounce them still more thoroughly In l?r'. Says Promise Redeemed. We promised to reduce the tariff. There was nothing equivocal about that, nnd we proposed to redeem that promise at the extra session of congress. con-gress. Wo passed tariff bills which noulri luive saved to the American people about $500,000,000 a. year of tariff burden. It should never bo forgotten that under a high protective tariff system, where $1 goes Into thn coffers of the government, about 55 co Into the pockets of the tariff At this regular session wo have pas.ed tariff hills which in the ag- grcgate would have saved the people peo-ple as much as the tariff bills which we passed at the extra session. In the Item of sugar alono one of our bills eaves the consumers of the land J150.00O.000 a year. Campaign Issue. The impending campaign must be fought out very largely on the record rec-ord made by thn Democrats of the house in the sixty-first congress, which was so splendid as to surorlaa our friends and dumbfound our enemies, ene-mies, and also on tho magnificent record mado by the Democrats in both house and senato In the present session. Onr prospects nre better than Ihcy have been In my recollection. recollec-tion. Jf wo lose this fight It will be through overcon fid ence and by reason of a foolish dependence on tho factional fac-tional fight among tho Republicans, Against tills I warn all my Democratic Demo-cratic friends. In order to win we must hold all tho votes we received Iti 1008 and many thousands more. The only way wo can hop to draw Independent voters to our side Is by continuing on the linos which the Democratic house has been proceeding proceed-ing ever since Its organization. |
