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Show PROTECTION h I I M Mrll n H I I Aljfy EI u ru iriviiLB Democrat Says It Allows Al-lows Favored Interests Inter-ests to Overcharge Washington, May 4. Au attack on the Republican policy of protection marked the continuation of the debate oh the free list bill in the house to-!-day. Representative Clayton of Ala-rbama Ala-rbama denounced the Imposition of what he declared were "prohibitive duties." 'The Republican party," he said, "makes a tariff to restrain the American Ameri-can market, to give unnatural and unequal benefits to the favored interests in-terests that have been fostered by the protective system, ' nnd to allow them to exploit the American son-burners son-burners by charging them excessive prices." He declared that Governor Wood-row Wood-row Wilson had given most timely ex-?presslon ex-?presslon to tho Democratic policy ;when he said that "programs have "taken the place of phllllplcs." J The program that the Democrats are putting through In the house was pointed to by Mr Clayton as proof of that assertion. |