Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — DRASTIC CHANGE IS NEEDED [ARTICLE]

DRASTIC CHANGE IS NEEDED

No Hope of Adequate Tariff, Revision Until the Democratic Party Is in Power. When the bill revising the metal schedules of the Payne-Aldrieh tariv law came to a vote in the. senate 'the Republican members of that body withdrew to the cloakrooms or otherwise ted themselvek They took this acti"n. it is explained, so that the bill might reach the president; be vetoed and thus be disposed of. That s all the Republican senators have learned after four years of widest discussion of the tariff, stimulated by intelligent popular interest. To them tariff legislation is still nothing more than ah occasion for party jockeying. They are unconscious that the fixed and critical gaze of a nation of a hundred million is centered upon them! It is patent to all of us that the Republican senators should have voted for the bill in question; and if it was a bad bill, they should as surely have voted against it. The people are tremendously serious about tariff legislation. They’ think their legislators should be serious. Also the seriousness of the people apparently strikes the Republican senators as provincial. So, jocularly, they withdraw while an important tariff bill is being voted upon and swap anecdotes over indolent cigars. They "put up to Taft" the vetoing of this bill. The people have nothing to look for from Washington until they have driven Taft and his party from the W hite House and the senate, as they have already driven them from the house. That will be attended to in November.