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Show of some other section of the country. coun-try. I have taken occasion to go to the representatives of those states that were singled out in other parts of the country and have asked them whether the rates on their products were called call-ed by local Democrats too high. Oh, no; they are not too high, they are not high enough, but the rates on some other products are too high. I have heard they said in some instances that the rates on the products of my own state are too high. "Then this morning one of the leaders of the Democratic party on the floor of this house says we ought not to have a special session ses-sion of congress. Why, we were made to believe, at least many of our people were told, that certain rates in this iniquitous tariff bill were the underlying cause of this depression and we were told that immediately congress would be reconvened in special session and those rates cut down. We now find an entirely different attitude' atti-tude' There are some indications that the Democratic party is suffering from aphasia. The party is able to pronounce but a few words. Chief among the words it has managed to retain is "retrenchment.'' "retrench-ment.'' It would be appropriate for the Democrats to forget their symbol, the mule, and adopt in its stead a picture of a man In a trench. In case a trench is not handy, any old hole will do. Contributed. Colton Tells The Democrats The Honorable Don B. Colton paid his respects to the Democrat- ic party in this language: "Last fall during the campaign in my state, and I am sure it happened in almost every part of; the United States, the present Republican Re-publican tariff bill was criticised and blamed as one of the leading' causes of the financial depression j in this county. We were unable to get any of the speakers during ' that campaign to name any of thej rates that were too high. In the-west the-west the specific questions were ! asked. Is the tariff rate on wool too high? Our Democratic friends t replied. No, it is not. Is the tariff tar-iff rate on beef or mutton or sugar too high? . No; those rates are not too high. Well, then, we asked, ask-ed, what rates in this bill, which was referred to as the infamous tariff bill, are too high? They were always the rates on products |