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Show SENATOR SMOOT BRANDS - DEMOCRATIC TARIFF BILL AS SECTIONAL MEASURE - Will Bring General Financial and Industrial Depression. Democrats Influenced by Foreign Lobby t -.' 'f Washington, July 21. Tho Deimo-crntlc Deimo-crntlc tariff bill was bitterly denounced denoun-ced In a speech which Senator .Smoot began in the senate this afternoon. Tho senator covered the bin Jn general gen-eral and did not confine himso:fr.tp ;tiy pa t cular schedule or schedules. Ho stated that nt some future titne ho would address the senate In detail de-tail on tho sugar, wool and chemlca' schedules. Statistical facts ot tho growth and development of American lndustrlnl life under tho Republlcnn protective policy wero presented by Senh'tor Smoot, ns wero sound arguments which went to show that the country's coun-try's marvelous industrial growth for tho last forty years cannot bo maintained main-tained under the Democratic tariff bill. Senator Smoot called attent on to tho man)' Inconsistencies and Imper fectlons of tho Democratic bill, pointing point-ing out thnt the west and north had, been discriminated against in favir of the products of tho Boutn. He severely se-verely arraigned tho Democrats for putting wool, wheat, flour, meal, potatoes po-tatoes and various farm products of tho west nnd north on tho free list while rice, peanuts, bananas nnd other products of the south nre placed on the dutiable list. Tho senator quoted from tho testimony testi-mony of tho cano sugar refiners to show thnt If they ndmltted free sugar would kill the beet sugar Indus' ry Iff this country. Ho showed tl- was cheaper now thnn It wns when on tho free list, proving thnt the consumer con-sumer would gain nothing from tho grent loss free sugar would inflict upon the fnrmer nnd others engaged In producing sugar. In the same wav stnted the senator, freo wool will make clothing no cheaper, but wli, only increase tho cost of mutton consumed con-sumed by the masses nnd will Inflict an enormous loss on the wool producer. prod-ucer. "Tho farmers," sa.'d the senator, "aro fairly flayed alive by this free 1 trade measure and will suffer more ' than any other class, though all will feel the effects ot tho disastrous !eg 1 islation." As Senator Smoot is acknowledged to bo the best informed roan on tariff tar-iff matters in tho senate close attention atten-tion was paid to what he had o say by a good proportion of the membership member-ship of the senate.. m |