Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1909 — GOVERNOR MARSHALL'S NEW YORK SPEECH. [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR MARSHALL'S NEW YORK SPEECH.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has again discovered that a “prosperity wave” has arrived. It is the same old wave, however, that the Enquirer discovered about a year ago and several other times Since. Unfortunately, it Is largely Imaginary. Wages are being cut by all the large corporations while the prices of living keepß going up, especially “the staff of life.” Striking has again commenced, and It seems £ow that President Taft'B first year of administration may be a trifle rocky.—Lake County Star (Rep.) Well, didn't they vote for Taft and prosperity? Lieutenant Governor Frank J. Hall refused to accept mileage because the law /lid not authorize It, though some of his predecessors had taken It. Governor Marshall refused to accept an appropriation for house rent because it was contrary to the constitution, though his immediate predecessors had taken It. The people will always know where these men stand.

Governor Marshall, who is to speak at the banquet of the National Democratic Club in New York April 17, will discuss the tariff with some reference to the bill now being debated in congress. The Indianapolis News quotes the governor as' saying that he suspects that some of the things he intends to say in his speech will be coldly received in New York, but he declares that he will nevertheless say them because they are right. Governor Marshall says further: “The time is approaching when the people are going to get what they demand in the matter of a tariff. Pour times the Republicans have promised to revise and better tariff conditions, and as many times they have failed to keep their promises. This time they seem destined to fail worse than ever. When the tariff is revised, or destroyed, it must be done by the Democrats, and in order to meet the demands of the people the Democrats must get down to the basic principles. Those basic principles are what I Intend to discuss in my speech.” The governor Js entirely right. The tariff never will be reformed in a manner satisfactory to the people until it is done by Democrats along bedrock Democratic principles. When Governor Marshall speaks in New York the country is going to Bit up and take notice of what he says.