The course of the standpatters in the Sen
ate on the metal schedule dooms tariff revi
sion for this session, and it also makes it plain
that Mr. Taft is willing to continue his policy
of paying no heed to the people’s demands.
Through another winter the poor man will
be forced to wear insufficient clothing because
of the tariff—through another winter he will
be forced to sleep without the covering of a
warm blanket because of the infamous Sched
ule “K.” -
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It has recently come to light that last year
the White Star Steamship line, the line to
which belonged the ill fated Titanic, paid
dividends amounting to 60 per cent, and car
ried over as a surplus an amount equivalent
to another 20 per cent, making a total of 80
per cent in dividends that this one line of the
Morgan Steamship Trust paid in 1911.
One tenth of this 80 per cent dividend
would have equipped the Titanic with enough
life boats and life rafts to have saved every
person who went to a w T atery grave on the
night of April 15.
But whoever heard of a Morgan Trust
sacrificing dividends to save human life?
The Morgan policy on the seas is the Mor
gan policy on land —the Morgan steamships
are provided with no more safety for passen
gers than are the Morgan railroads.
With Morgan, dividends come first, even if
a thousand lives must be sacrificed to get the
dividends..
