Show CHAMP ClARK TALKS TARIff FF Democratic House Ho Leader As Assails Assails Assails sails President Taft Tart Chair Chairman Chairman man mail Payne and Republican Republic n Party in iii His Usual Manner MISSOURIAN DECLARES REVISION DISHONEST Some of the Schedules Taken Up and an Attempt Made to Show That Downward Cut Gut Was Not Made as Promised THINKS HE SEES VICTORY May 21 Denouncing WASHINGTON W ing Ina the tariff I I law ns us 11 n U transparent hum laum humbug humbug i bug attacking the tariff views dew off o its author anthor Representative Screno Sereno Payne Pay e i ew Y rk k and und vigorously assailing President Taft for tor his support of that law laTr Representative Champ i Clark of ot leader of the Demo Democratic Democratic i cratic minority today toda delivered In the i House what hat IK is I regarded as n the Demo Democratic i cratic keynote speech of the coming Ii congressional campaign Mr Clark hud had prepared his hi address addres with great i icare care and spoke at length leD giving facts faeta I and nod figures figureR In support of Ills his conten contention lion tion that the tariff had root Lot been hon bon honestly estly revised and that the Republican majority la iLi Congress had endeavored to 10 trick nick the people I Mr Clark iso paid his respects in incidentally Incidentally to the Item in the sundry aundry civil appropriation bill for the creation of a tariff board He Ee said in I part During this debate we have wit witnessed a 1 spectacle spectacles perhaps without parallel par in the annals of Congress First we heard beard the gentleman from New ew York Mr Payne chairman of ot the ways Was and means me ns committee and the Republican floor leader make a vitriolic vitriolic olic oUe attack on the speech of the Hon Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver a Republican can senator from Iowa recently de delivered livered in the city of Des De Moines both speeches being upon the subject of the tariff a subject which will not down own at any mans bidding and ond which like the poor Door we have with us always No Nobody Nobody Nobody body appointed me to defend Senator Dolliver This much however I will eay say for fo him I have for years regarded him Silra as the greatest orator in hithe the Re He Republican publican party I would travel far tar to hear a debate on the stump s between 4 him and the gentleman from New York Tork When it was over I 1 am certain c that the country for a considerable dis distance dIstance distance tance around would be so eo fairly sat saturated saturated saturated with oil oU that it woud be dan dangerous dangerous gero sto to strike a n match In the neigh neighborhood neighborhood and it would not be oil out of or o Mr tr Champ Quotes Scripture The next day we heard the gentle gentleman gentleman I Iman man from Michigan Mr Fordney who is a Republican of high degree degrees deliver a most bitter and vicious assault upon Senator Beveridge the Republican boss of ot Indiana on account of a speech de delivered livered recently at Indianapolis A stump debate between these two emi eminent emInent em nent Republicans would woud double dis discount discount discount count In interest any vaudeville show ever pulled off ot In America Listening to the attack of the Republican gen gentleman tieman from New York Tork upon the Re Republican Republican publican senator from Iowa and the attack of the Republican gentleman from Michigan upon the Republican senator from Indiana I recall the words of ot the Psalmist Behold how good and how pleasant It Is for brethren to dwell in unity and then comes to tomy tomy tomy my mind the question now ringing through the land What is a Republican can canIn 7 In making a speech In defense of ot his tariff bill Mr Chairman Payne ap appeared appeared appeared to be performing a disagreeable stunt He did not exhibit his usual enthusiasm or his felicity of expression He appeared to be in about as cheerful a frame of mind as a law lawyer lawyer lawyer yer appointed by the court defending without fee a man that he be feels certain 9 will be convicted and hanged Clearly It was to him a repulsive job but it tt had to be gone through with some way He appeared to be In the frame of mind of ot Macbeth when about to mur der Duncan If 1 It vere done when ts done then well It were done quickly Payne Pane Said to o Be lie Forgetful Mr Chairman Payne was evidently in a very fretful state He also seems to be afflicted with a new dis disease diseases ease eases intermittent forgetfulness He remembered with great vividness the Continued on Page Three I CHAMP HAiP CLARK TALKS TARIFF Continued Co From Page One soup houses ot of 1823 and 1894 1394 but when it U came camei to tho soup houses of 1907 1901 a avery avery avery very recent occurrence and the soup houses of 1873 his memory failed him utterly It does not need a psychologist psychologist gist or phrenologist to account tor lor this I state ot oJ mind on his part that reason being that tho the soup houses of 1873 1813 and 1907 1901 were under adminis administration administration administration and under tariff tart laws passed by the Republican party while the soup houses ot of 1893 1 93 through the outgrowth of a panic caused by a Republican tar iff It bill sprang up when a Democratic president was in office The he gentleman declared they put up the tho tariff tar off o hosiery and as a conse consequence consequence quence quenco the price of ot hosiery has baa ha gone down He declared they put up the tar tariff tariff i iff f on wines and as a consequence the tho I price of ot wines has bas gone up He seems to tobe tobe be Jc playing both ends against the mid middle middle middle dle for it must be apparent to any sane man that if putting up the tariff on hosiery made the price of hosiery go down then by the same logic put putting putting putting ting up the tariff tart on wine would have made the price of o wine go down Con Consistency Consistency thou art a Jewel Sugar Schedules Attacked Mr Clark then attacked the sugar schedules of the tariff tad law and ridiculed Republican claims of benefiting the people by b lowering the tariff on refined sugar The re reduction reduction reduction he said was so small that every man with common sense knows know that the consumer will never be bene benefited benefited by it in any way whatsoever The gentleman from New York continued Mr Clark seems to argue that to lower the tariff on an article the higher will be the price to the con consumer consumer consumer sumer and vice versa That of course is utterly preposterous and fully an answered answered answered by asking the simple question If It the tariff tarl does not put up the price of an article what do the tho proponents of the tariff tarl want with It To prove his absurd theory he cites the fact that though the tariff on lumber was reduced from 2 per thousand to a thousand the price of lumber has gone up It Is s true that before the last of us get out of Washington In Au August August August gust 1909 the lumber trust marked up the price of o lumber 1 a thousand and if the department of ot justice had done don donIts Its duty It would by this time have filled the jails so 50 full of ot lumber trust magnates that their arms and legs would stick out of the windows and doors It seems to be a pleasant occupation pation to convict farmers and members of labor unions for violating the anti antl antitrust antitrust trust law but that law lacy appears to be absolutely a dead letter when it Is vio violated vI violated by big criminals Two Horns of ot Dilemma In one breath the gentleman from New York Tork glorifies his bill because it shuts out importations In the next he glorifies it because it has bas Increased importations The gentleman from York must take one horn or the theother theother theother other The speaker then declared that while American citizens would prefer to use goods and ana articles rather than foreign productions they were unwilling to pay exorbitant prices to American manufacturers Taking up the woolen schedule of the tariff tant law Mr Clark ridiculed the idea that the present tariff law was responsible for the Increased of o wool In that he said the ta tariff tariff riff on No 1 and No 2 wool was the same in the Payne law as in the Ding ley le law The DIngley and Payne tariff bills said sal I Mr Clark have forced another sort of o exportation which grieves every lover of o our country and that Is tho the exportation of good American citizens to the British northwest Last year Americans chiefly from the Mis Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi valley alley expatriated themselves largely because they could purchase all products Including American farm implements Im Implements Implements and other articles manufactured manufactured manufactured In America more cheaply in the British possessions than they can pur purchase purchase chase them at home These emigrants from Hie United States are among our best citizens and this departure is a great and serious loss to the republic republic lic for they are going at the rate of nearly per annum Tariff on stockings Mr lIr Clark next took the matter of ot the tariff on stockings and said that the raise in tariff tarl rates on 00 that ar article article article was not for the purpose of ot aid aidIng aidIng aiding Ing unemployed women as Mr Payne had put it but for the purpose of giving givIng giving ing the American manufacturers a monopoly on the stocking trade I The gentleman front from New York de declared declared declared Mr Clark further says that he be only raised these cheaper grades 18 LS cents per pair and that he would be ashamed to look an honest working woman in the face If It he had not stood for that Increase This sounds well as an excuse but Is very misleading The book of o Imports gave the unit value for the tho pairs of the tho cheapest hose or stockings at 96 cents per ser dozen pairs of o 8 cents a pair The DIngley tariff tari on these pairs was cents per pair or per percent percent percent cent ad valorem The raise of ot 18 cents of o the bill will make these same stockings cost 8 cents plus cents plus 18 cents or 1458 1158 cents per pair or per cent The gentleman from New York boasts that while raising the tariff on hosiery he also raised the tariff on whisky and wines Oh yes You raised whisky and other spirits from tram 70 per cent to per cent while you raised the cheapest stockings from per cent to per cent and the next two grades gra es of o cheaper stockings to a still higher hl her per cent Mr Clark declared that the Payne tariff had not reduced the price of I clothing but had increased Increase it and resulted re resulted resulted in a shoddier class of goods The speaker then turned his hla attention to President Taft At nek on President I 1 will now drop the gentleman from New York exclaimed Mr Clark and go after bigger game the Pres President PresIdent President ident of the United States He is not only the he chief traveller but the chief spokesman for tor his party He deserves to be treated with candor and respect but I have a perfect right to discuss his utterances as I would those of any oti otier er public man I wish to call at attention attention attention of all concerned to the fact that the President said on the of August 1909 that the bill Is not a perfect bill billor billor billor or a complete compliance with the promises made strictly interpreted I submit that that declaration of o the President Is a flat contradiction of ot the assertion of the tJ e gentleman from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York that his bill Is a perfect compliance ance with the promises made prior to the election of 1908 In September 1909 the President went on an exten extensive extensive extensive sive speechmaking tour beginning with a speech in Boston In which he eulogized eulo Senator AldrIch to the skies That was the first serious wound which the President P inflicted upon his own popularity for right or wrong and I think right the American people hold Senator Alrich largely responsible for forthe forthe forthe the enormity of o the tariff bill On the of o September 1909 the President said in Winona Minn On the whole however I am bound to say that I think the Payne tariff bill Is the best tariff bill that the Republican party ever passed passes Some Distortion When the tho American people rea read that declaration the next morning and remembered the utterances which I have quoted from the Presidents state statement statement statement ment of August 5 they wondered what change had come over the spirit of his dream They could not reconcile the two statements They knew that the tariff bill had not changed since Au August August August gust 5 1909 and they marvelled as to how a bill which the President de declared declared declared on that day to be neither a per perfect perfect perfect bill nor a complete compliance with the promises made could on the day of September be the best tariff tarl bill that the Republican party part ever passed passes All AU the perfumes o of Araby the Blest cannot sweeten the tariff bill to please the dainty nostrils of the people They be believe believe lieve it to be the worst tariff bill ever passed by the American Congress That speech was the serious wound number two which the President inflicted on his own popularity Mr Clark then devoted himself to the steel schedule of o the tariff law and President Tafts endorsement of it He declared that what the people wanted In a revision of the tariff was a reduction reduction reduction tion of prices to a Just basis which Is precisely what they did not get Makes Make a fluff Bluff Turning to the woolen schedule which he said the President admitted was too high and facing the Republican can c n side of the House Mr Clark exclaimed ex exclaimed exclaimed claimed I have a 0 fair fall proposition to mako makoto to the President and to my Republican lican lI an friends which will promote har harmony harmany harmony mony many and which will bring untold blessings to the consumers In the theland theland theland land That the President send a message mes message message sage to Congress short and vigorous which shows that he means business proposing substantial l reductions r in the woolen goods schedule let Mr Chair Chairman Chairman Chairman man Payne report that bill from his committee and put it on Its passage and without having consulted a single Democrat in the House I 1 will give bond for the proposition that every Demo Democrat Democrat Democrat crat will line up and vote for it If he would recommend it it will go through the House and Senate with a whoop and the people would rise up and call him blessed It is contended that the reasons that no DO change In the tariff In any manner whatsoever however meritorious meri meritorious meritorIous can be offered is the fear that if H the tariff question be opened at all we wicked Democrats will let slip the dogs of ot war and open up the whole tariff question to tho disarrangement of all ll the business in the land I am amso amsa amso so sa much Interested in seeing the American Amer American AmerIcan ican people have cheaper woolen clothes that without having consulted a single Democrat I am certain that every one of them agrees that if the President will send In a message rec recommending recommending ommen ding the bill which I have In Indicated Indicated indicated and Mr Chairman Payne will report it and put it on Its passage we will not offer an amendment of any sort to it The whole whale transaction could be consummated in less than a week and a shout of rejoicing would ascend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes to the sunlit gulf It matters not that the President would receive the lions share of the glory Pretense of ot Joyfulness In closing Mr lIr Clark commented upon Democratic unity and Republican discordance and prophesied a victory for his party in November He said that he |