Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-06-08 | Page 4 | Persisting in a Deception

IX PERSISTING IN A DECEPTION. HH " The dispatches from "Washington report u heated colloquy bc- Hffl , tween Democratic Leader Undenvood and former Chairman, Payne K of the ways and means committee, over the proposed revision of the H wool tariff. Mr. Undenvood was met at almost every stage of his HL argument by replies from former Chairman Payne and other Rc- Hffl ' publicans, who questioned his statements. Mr. Payne denied the Democratic charge that the Payne law hal not fulfilled Republican Kg promises of tariff revision anl he criticised in detail Mr. Under- Kj - wood's statements that the country's revenue was declining and i the treasury approaching a deficit. I I President Taft,-in a statement made just before the last elec- I I tion, admitted that "the tariff revision had been a disappointment I and in- many features was vicious, and yet Mr. Paynu persists in I I claiming the measure was perfection. I As to revision downward, tho new tariff law was so palpably I a measure of deception, without any evidence of :i reduction in I duties, that the American voters turned on the party in -power and I in the election buried its candidates by a landslide of almost un- I V equalled proportions. & IJ Tho American people are weary of being tricked and. although 1' they are not in love with Democracy, they have registered their pro- "" tests against the tactics of men like Payne Ija voting the Democrats Into power in the lower house of congress. Eventually they will vototout both the old line parties by expressing their confidence in .- vhe "Progressives."