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Show How Much It Now Left of the Baltimore Bal-timore PlatformT Tho President had boldly signed th Pork River and Harbor bill, and his facile pen Is dripping with Ink eager to attach Itself to a Pork Public, Buildings bill. The friendliest apologists of the President's part In the proMgate waste of money wrung from the people peo-ple by oppressive taxation have nothing noth-ing bettor to say for him than that It Is hardly fair to expect a man to say "I forbid!" In this Presidential year when ho Is a candidate. The foregoing words describing the profligate wasto of the people's money with Executive approval aro taken without change from a plank of tho platform on which Woodrow Wilson was elected In 1912: "We denounco the promgaie waste ot money wrung from the people by oppressive taxation through the-lavish the-lavish appropriations of recent Republican Re-publican Congresses, which havo kept taxes high and reduced the purchasing power of the people's toll. We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which befits be-fits a democratic government." How much Is now left of the principles prin-ciples declared and the promises rcg lstered at Baltlmoro as Inducements to cltlrens to vote for Wilson. Possibly It Is because he and his party have been such reckloss, such wholesale repudlators of the pledges of 1912 that few people remember or care to remember what pledges were ' made In his behalf about forty days ago at St. Louls.New York Sun. |