Show I w J BRYANS EL PASO STATEMENT IN REPLY TO SEN BAILEYS INTERVIEW Mr Bryan gave the followIng In Interview at ElPasO Texas an to an from one ui local ocal DS as to whether he l ha a thing tc t s say y III hi regard to ena enior ol Ball cr cs Dallas ho b C Cf 4 I f I 1 r Senator Da as speech on the tho train l ls t tJ J I vat a Into El Paso Il Is an ana a abI li of his able a lion as can be made aud I nm very glad to have his side ot the presented hy bY one who Un con pul the best hest appearance up I OlE Oli It f fi when the tho voters of Texas ha have VP read it the they ill know that I can n h said In defense of n a tn ta on raw material and as he ha nut not answered my mr arguments the tho voters will have a right to assume that no One olle else can His speech does doeR not an answer in del detail all I Imol mol in future speeches refer to par particular fr he advances but all that to be said now noV can bo be said very verr briefly In this interview does docs not attempt to me meet t seI several ral of my arguments and ho he dot net fairly present some of oC the His of his history tor tory is iR surprising lie He says that we WC weere ere defeated In the tho congressional election oi of 1894 because the tho doctrine of raw material was embodied lii In Inthe the Wilson lull He c has not forgotten that the defeat In iSO was due to 10 thu fact that the silver ques divided our parts part at that time ii a majority of f our oil arty op hosed the h taken by the demo democratic cratic crade on the un con of the purchasing I or of the Sherman law And I flirt further her If h ho will examine the elec I lion of oC ISI he will find that about the only districts that we car carried ried nod districts distrIcts In those portions of the coun Q In which he says the people resent the Ibe doctrine of free raw material materia whIle we lost the districts In those portions of the where they ha hinc w practically no raw material to Protect He also the theat tact at thal lii III 1892 wo we elected a demo pr president and secured a largo hargo majority In congress on ona ona a which Indorsed the doc of free raw material maleria and he 1 wIll remember also that we won on that victory tJ riPer Her the house of tives s of the 0 congress had bad passed several free raw ra material materia hills hils for or which both he I voted Is 15 It 1 n c to overlook entirely ana a na victory and to misrepresent a aI defeat in iii order to find I f 1 the senators theory Bailey says that the na naI I Inal platform of f 1896 was Itt In liar har harmon mon the Texas platform of that year ear anel he dt mands the right to rile the tariff lariff plank on the ground that Ito ho wrote Hole It Il That Is the hy by the Aldrich republicans In regard to the last republican na They Ther demand the tho right to construe I the he word revIse b cause they lie Ins te it in the pInt form but bul the western republicans In Insist the they also have havo a right to construe the word revise and they lUO it as a onise of reduction Tho words which ir Bailey Dailer inserted in lh the democratic national platform of 1896 do not appear In the Texas state platform neither do the words ra mw material which were lii In the state fo m appe appear ll In the national plat platform form lIe HI construes the platform as all attack ek on freo fieo raw material but It was not so iO construed in other ports parts or of the h count ry ryAs ryAs As to Platforms As to the binding force of plat piat fa forns ms he does not meet the which I presented He discusses hether he should be bound b by a na national platform made after his eec I Hon and he also discusses I should been heen bound y U a plank of a national platform made alter after my fly nomination for fol plank whIch I r before the eec tion but bill he does not discuss whether an official has a rIght to a upon which he himself was elected and which he himself de defended fended durIng the campaign it If lie he my speech he vill see that presented a sample for fora a district anti and InsIsted that a candidate for congress should I hi belief In the binding I force Of a t orm and then set 1 forth his platform so that his hi constituents could tell whether he I f their sentiments or not The km Presented is 16 I an b a platform pledge Or is Ig lie he fr free eto to act ct as he hc pleases regardless of promises s made ill in the platform I affirm that an official Is hound lound by br hl his but Senator Bane Baley if 1 riad hl lila speech aright does docs not ex cx express press an opinion on this subject iIo Ho attempts to create the slon sion that tire the free fre a raw material trolley i Is Intended to benefit the I While In his speech lie he read I tile tho fr fice wool plank of the I proposed he proceeded to tomake make an argument that Ignored a vital part of oC the plank We TC ask not on only I for free freo Wool but for two other things First the abolition of compensatory compensator I and second a substantial re In the tho ad valorem rate rale This not be b a favor to the for the abolition of the com coin compensator du duties ties would more than off offset I set the benefit whIch he would derive from free freo raw material and a suh reduction In the tho ad rate rato would bring a still greater ad advantage vantage to the consumer Our plan would le to the lie Texas of goods from five to ten times as 9 much In reduced prices as it II would Woul give to the eastern purchasers ers of Wool In iii a reduction In the tho price of wool while his plan the Texas 1 consumer of woolens to par ha the east cast tern era many dolls dollars for oer dollar that a tariff on wool cot col collects leets from the tho eastern manufacturers ers elS No ono one bitt a wool grower will 1 accept his argument on this subject I when Ihen It is not all or of them Means Higher Tax The Tue main portion of Senator Baileys speech Is devoted to an at attempt tempt to answer the argument that thal thata thala a dill hilly on raw material is always transferred to the consumer Ho recognizes that lie he must overcome that Or confess that his policy would pilL pul a higher la tax lIpon I the than the would have hae t to pity par under our policy polle H He labors to prove proe that a tax lax on raw material would riot he tin del dei hi his policy hut he inadvertently uses useR one that establishes m my position He sas It If the manufacturer transfers the tax on his bis raw to lo his consumer then I will tell cli you how to pr prevent ent him from rio do doIng lag Ing so It Is as simple as the alpha alphabet alphabet bet Let liS take the tax off the tho product an and then he can not transfer his tax on his raw material Yes that is more than simple It Is His plan Is to put lut a tax lax of 40 per Ier cent on woo wool for the benefit of the sheep owners that thai is the dut to 10 today day clar and ancl by so doing increase to that thal extent the lie cost of the tur rs raw material but If the manu manit attempts to add acid that In Increased increased creased cost to the price o of tho th pro duct his product Is to be put on the free list See ho how cas easy It Is That ThatIs Is the the on only pre tent the transfer of the tax but as that method never neer has been employed and never would be employed my proposition stands namely that a tax on on raw material Is transferred to 10 the finished product anti and paid by b blie lie consumer Thit Th nina man who ho favors a tax upon raw material list know this II If he understands the tho tariff Cues ques question tion and ancl lie he must intend intond It when hen lie hu favors the tho tax A tax on raw material therefore means menns the tue protection of a afew afew few of raw material at the expense of a large of consumers ers and as the tax grows as pro productions productions pass through hands a small tax levied on raw ma materIal general moans a hea tax on the consumer of tho ho finished pro product duct The best way to relieve rollee the tho consumer Is to remove the tax on raw materIal find arid at the same time mao make a still greater reduction In the tax on the manufactured article In Inthis Inthis this way ta YOU will help hell the consumer helping the manufacturer 1 here are ninny mum cases In which the finished product should be put on the free reo list lIat as In the case caso of leather leathor harness boots and shoes hut but It Is no not logical to say lint thal there must i be no tax taC upon a finished product I unless there Is also a tax upon tho raw material materia used In the manufacture ture of that product Senator speech proves what I said in m my speech In Dallas namely that taxation of raw ia m teral could not bo be defended as a na national national hut but must be defended if at nil as a sectional doe doc doctrine trine It can not he advanced fot the benefit of the whole people but must be advanced if IC advanced at al nil all for the benefit of a few special In Interests interests and It must be defended If defended at nil hi upon the tho same gro ground that other othel protective duties arc do dc fended Protective Argument No matter how patriotic the lie pur purpose pose with which the tho tax on oh raw ra ma flit tonal Is 19 proposed It cnn can not he be tic de fended without resort to arguments that are employed ed h by the lie protected interests nod and a protective can cannot cannot not be adopted without throe three results which follow ollow fig as a matter mattei of First th the man mans are taxed for the the benefit of lie tho few second the lie men who get the benefit will attempt to corrupt politics lii In order oder to retain that 1 and third the th greater nuin her of those who believe that the they are arc benefited hy by protection the tho more mor difficult will ihl wo we find It to lo secure tariff for tho protective 0 In interests to rests will vili stand together arid and a few ow people and litter Inter lii In a bad system arc nic often more I than match for Cor a larger number I and hearing bearing each one but buta a portion of the burien I need not discuss the application of the he principle of free laW ra materIal to the questions which were congress I can safely leave Send her lor Culberson to 10 defend free iron ore and I cart can leave leavo hint him and nearl nearly all hr It from Texas to tie cle f fond nd tH tulle of free lumber I devoted m my LImo Into largely to ool Ch II in the 0 arch and because the was waR not before Congress In such l a form as to the 1101 tl n of senators and members of con gross grOBs on tuo |