Show Cummins ns Declares Bill Discriminates Against the lie Farmer I Washington ton July 19 Senator Senator Cummins Cum Cum- nibs mins opening the tariff debate t today 1 0 a declared that the Republican party 1 lost lt the confidence of the p people ople and was Wa n driven from power largely Il because It IN Insisted upon tho the maintenance of ot Import duties many of ot which were unnecessarily and oppressively high The Democratic party he asserted loon oon will be bo overtaken o with like disaster because It Is about to Inflict upon tho the country countr A l tariff law 11 which with respect to man Inan many thinKs things Imposes duties that are dangerously and de- de el low and which from end to end grievously discriminates against t the th west went In favor or n of ot the east that east that Is 18 Isto 10 to II say ny In tn favor or a of the th manufacturers f the farmer The Tim Republican craft went down don In Inthe Inthe the flit whirlpool of ot Scylla In 1912 II end Its Democratic successor I Ji Is steering straight for Cor the rocks rock II of at where It will go to pieces In the stress of ot 1916 There Is a a. passageway to Bat t safety and prosperity Th Progressive Republicans charted It In 1 1909 1009 09 and the they will m hart It again In 1913 Some time tho the American people will teaks make the tho trip under those these pilot pilots but In the m meantime meantime mean mean- an- an time we must suffer another shipwreck hearing bearing lt Its hardships n 1 ts I 1 hope we e will with Ith patriotism and anti fortitude Besides pointing out many things that he ho considered red destructive e and en entirely en- en ly unwarranted In tho the bill Senator Cummins criticized criticized the President for his 1115 Influence exerted upon members of or Congress U concerning the tariff bill as at Influence he ho said laid so pl persistent tont and determined that it became coercive I do not charge nor do I bell believe said Senator Cummins Cummin that the dent In term barters this power for tor legislative subordination but I do say nay thaL that without barter the knowledge of or the U consequences that may follow tono l legislative e Ind independence will 11 bring about all evils of or actual wrongdoing unless the most scrupulous care l Is exercised In communication between the President and members of or Congress It lies with the President to mark out the tho path of ot propriety and to pursue such lIuch a course coune a u as win will enable every eer member of or the legislative brunch branch of or our OUt public affairs to feel teel tr free e and unrestrained in tn ever every vote oto that he casts cast So Su Su long as the President Is fa permitted to set up a standard of ot loyalty to tho the party to which he ma may belong and condemn con very every man who does doe not accept It and BO so long as members of or Congress vote under the apprehension henlon that the they may suffer sutter from Crom rein tho the presidential power con controlled by his hi Judgment t I In Instead Instead In- In n- n stead tend of or their own io o 0 long Congress will incur and will deserve the this contempt contempt contempt con con- tempt of or all true lovers lo of ot free tree and representative government Senator Cummins declared ho be believed be- be cd the bill would be bo mo modified It members of or Congress voted their con con- victims but that It ft would not be ho modified modi modi- fled fied largely because the President of ot tho the United States statu ae to interpret Interpret Inter inter- pret and apply the economic doctrine of his hili party part nan has laid the heavy y hand of at his hili power upon a tL branch of or the government government gov gov- that ought to bo ordinate co-ordinate but which In fact tact has bas become sub Sub- ordinate Attack Secret Attacking n 03 as tyrannical the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic secret caucus on the tho bill tho the Iowa r p declared It was Vas more in indefensible In- In defensible than tho the tactics resorted to tob toby toby b by tho the Republican leaders in preliminary preliminary nar nary consideration of or the Al laYne bill So long the real rent h legislation takes place In a n. C caucus CUcu It cannot b bo ba known what An any man says or ho how any man votes vote h he charged SIt HIt Is In not only In- In but Inaudible government Tariff for tor re revenue nue Senator Cummins said ho he regarded an as obsolete unjust and Intolerable and that the th mom moment nt protection becomes unnecessary ry free treo trade is I. demanded ee by every consideration tion of or Justice and equality lIt I would woul hold myself an fn enemy my of oe mankind tho the senator continued If it through h Import duties I were to ralso the 0 of any commodity which the people generally genera use Ulle and ancl ought to io use uee simply Dimply to put money Into the thid treasury treas trees ury of ot the United States Wo We 0 produce yearly In the tho United States commodities competitive in their character and upon which duties R Rare are l levied In this hill of ot the value of or not less th than If Ir the average rate rato of oe dut duty upon these thue things thinK ii I. 2 5 per pOl and that I 1 believe belle Is the estimate te of oC tho the most distinguished he promoters of ot this bill tho the duties will Increase the price of ot one years year's product product prod prod- in the aggregate It If I those who consume as well as al those who produce these thelle commodities share haro haroth th th benefit of oC tho the increased price the general ROCK Koo good l will 1 be promoted but if it our Democratic friends are aro right In asserting asserting as as- as that those who produce the tho dutiable articles are the tile only beneficiaries beneficiaries benefi benefi- clerics th they y ought to shudder when they contemplate t what hat they are arc doing for tor they are re not anI only taxing the tile peo peo- peo- peo plo pie upon their consumption tho the 50 which Is collected at Kt the custom custom cus cue tom torn houses on Imports but th the they y ar are taxing them th the for tor the sole benefit of ot the domestic producers of or these commodities H. H This Is 18 an ap appalling ap- ap pulling palling conclusion and it will shock the country countr when It Is fairly n. n n The total production ea east t of ot the tho Mla Mla- river in the year 1909 said the senator wa tUI Of or this production Is I. upon the dutiable list being belna- 60 per cent of ot thin the entire production of or the tho en entire tiro part rt of or orthe the country The total production west westor of or the th Mississippi river rl In the year yean named was of ot which was upon tho thin dutiable list lIt 39 per p per cent cent r-cent of ot the whole production production pro pro- of ot that part of ot the country w west welt at of ot the Mississippi river If It the democratic doctrine so often otten announced Is III sound It will be Interesting to hear r the tha for tor th this grievous discrimination discrimination nation A against the people who vho live lu lit luthe tho the Mississippi 1 alloy valloy and beyond bOond The senator declared the Democrats had iad treated the farmer as s ah outlaw In n making up th tb the bill that tuna many of or the products of of ot the farm tarm vore wore entitled to protection and nUd said I 1 am not one tone of or those who believe that general disaster necessarily will tallow follow the enactment nt of at the bill no now before us Unquestionably It will Ill In Increase increase In- In crease creao the Importation and anti diminish the he home production of or a great many things and nd will force torce into Idleness many ny but I earnestly I hope that Its ita effect In that respect will III not reach the proportions of r an Industrial industrial Indus indus- trial revolution It la lit easy casy to see I however that the depression which must mut Inevitably Ine roll follow 0 might be aggravated aggravated ag ag- ag- ag g b by other causes into Ien general rc l ci disaster I sas ster I e r. r I. 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