| Show BILL KENT ON TOLLS From Harpers Harper's W Weekly A certain con congressman e from California Califor Califon nia has bas his system full of ot yeast he has to in his attic he be talk talks English and ho he makes his brain work several hours hOUTS a da day Says Bays Bill Dill 41 A A nation should make few ow treaties should make them definite and should live up to them Anybody can understand that Kent also says This free irce tolls matter is iso isto to tom o my mind wInd nothing less than thim a s subsidy I a subsidy masquerading under nil all sorts of nonsense miscalled patriotism nonsense non non- sense wrapped in lla flaw nags s and punctuated by y squeals squeals of ot the lion hon in torture torture and aud of tho the lo in squeals eu eagle triumph That also is spoken in En English lish and easy to comprehend I I cannot see where tho the consuming public publio will trill get et any auy benefit whatever from Tom from this remission n of tolls Tho The tolls on most commodities will ill amount to so little that they will bo ho lost in iii the shuf shuf- So flo before over ewer the consumers consumer are reached On On coal and lumber they thoy will amount to a a. great reat deal to consumers but doubtless there thero will m be bo commodity rates to taro care for those items Undoubtedly the tho general economic argument is unanswerable by tho those e who I profess the prevailing principles of the Democratic part party 1 cannot understand how those men who disbelieve Q in thu protective theory the ory cry who disbelieve that the foreigner ncr pays the tax who disbelieve o in su sty dies Says ies of business business l I cannot how any such euch man C can stand for the anti anti- commercial argument involved invoked in in penalizing pen pon and destroying foreign commerce null anti in subsidizing domestic commerce Let us give e subsidies s if at all to sailors sailors sail sail- ail ors and not to corpora corporations We We need coal on the Pacific coast Welsh coal will burn just as well a as Vest Virginia inia coal and Welsh and other othor foreign coal will come to us cheaply if it wo we give w it a chance We want 10 low and equal rates rafe on OD h both hoth th coal and lumber limber and you of the tho Atlantic coast need lumber and BUel 1 I presume can cau uso use foreign lumber r just as well as us Pacific coast lumber Irom from tho the United States Congressman Kent Bent is tho the only member memo mem ber of congress who ho calls himself an nn Independent and his vio views s on tho the tolls question represent the prevailing pre indo indo- t opinion from the tho Atlantic to tois his hia is own Pacific |
