Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1908 — THE TAFT CAMPAIGN FUND. [ARTICLE]

THE TAFT CAMPAIGN FUND.

Charles P. Taft... $160,000 Andrew Carnegie... 25,000 J. Pierpont Morgan...... 25,000 William N. Cromwell 25,000 Whitelaw Reid 25,000 These are the notable contributors to the Taft campaign fund, of which Mr. Sheldon reports as sl,700,000. President Roosevelt gave SI,OOO. Charles Taft’s total campaign expenditure for his brother Is 'said to have been more than $250,000. ‘ ‘ . ; ' The remainder of the fund came from scores of bankers, railroad officials, and directors of corporations of all kinds. The lesson is plain to the farmer and the workinman. The money

interests were lined up behind Judge Taft. They will expect their reward. And that reward will take the form of special privileges to certain individuals and corporations, and preservation of the iniquitous high protective tarifT to reimburse the contributors many times their outlay. Mr. Carnegie's $25,000 comes from the steel trust, which, more than any other one concern, is to blame for the continuance of business depression. It sells its products for less in Mexico than in Pittsburg, and its unjust protection by high tariff has enabled Mr. Carnegie personally to take $600,000,000 out of American pockets for his own use. Pierpont Morgan is the world’s greatest trust organizer, and the richest and most powerful rival of the Rothschild’s in international finance. He controls more than $4,000,000,000 worth of American railroad securities, and more than $3,000,000,000 worth of industrial securities.

William Nelson Cromwell is the gentleman who sold us the Panama canal. He has bee£ accused of sharing In the $28,000,000 grait obtained by the coterie who flnancied that mysterous deal. And he has not denied the truth of the accusation. He Is the ablest corporation lawyer in New York, and high in the counsels of the trusts. Whitelaw Reid is an eastern aristocrat. He represents this country in London, where the regal splendor of hi*, entertainments are the talk of society. He is vastly rich, and he and hiß family very much prefer European society life to residence in New York. , * . There seems' to have been a

very good treason why Mr. Sheldon refused to give out his l*st of contributors before the election. Judge Taft posed as the friend oi the workingman. But his financial backers are pretty poor proof of the sincerity of that friendship. —Chicago Journal.