Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1910 — THE SHIR SUBSIDY GRAB. [ARTICLE]

THE SHIR SUBSIDY GRAB.

Senator Beveridge voted for the ship.subsidy graft. He opposed an income tax. He says that he still, stands for “protection" but is against the "powers of pillage’’ which seek special privilege. In view of this, the following excerpt from Governor Marshall's recent speech is specially applicable:

‘'Support of protective tariff and of the ship subsidy, and opposition to an income tax are equal elements of special privilege. ‘ They betray a trend of mind which indicates that government has a right to assist one man to the detriment of another. These theories championed up to the present time by leaders of the Republican party are so opposed to fair play and the equal rights of man that nothing except the cupidity of the individual interests which are benefited would nait- enabled them to exist. A ship subsidy is as much a pillage of the people as any schedule in the Payne-Aldrich bill. It does not make a mana man Of the people to have voted against one or more particular schedules of that bill.”

Mr. Beveridge has not said whether he classes J. Pierpont M >rgan a? one of the “powers of pillage" but it is known that organ and the Morgan interests favor the subsidy graft for which Mr. Beveridge voted.