Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-04-21
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Capital, an ardent stand pat organ, re
Gently contained this remarkable edi.
torial squib: Champ Clark believes
that when tariff duties. are too high
they ought to be reduced and that
when they are too low they ought to
be raised Champ, old boy, seems to
be well qualified TO write a platform on
progressive Republicanism. !" ! re-
peat that that is a remarkable squib--
in fact, most remarkable. | said no
such thing nothing that by the widest
stretch of Imagination could be so con-
strued. | quoted the sentence, Duties
that are too low should be increased,
and duties that are too high be re-
duced." Where does the gentle reader
suppose that I got that juggling SEN
tence? After reading the foregoing
squib from the Des Moines Capital the
reader will be surprised to learn that
/ quoted it from the Republican plat
form adopted and promulgated by the
Iowa Republicans last year that is, he
will be surprised if he never read that
platform, which the Capital evident
~ has never done, and has never
read my speech of March %, which
the Capital evidently has never done,
and has not read my last letter.
quoted it to show to what woeful
plight the makers of that Iowa plat
form were reduced when they put thai
preposterous sentence in their declara
ton of principles. and / commented on
1t in as vigorous style as l could, not
by way of commencing it, but by way
of ridiculing it. The Des Moines Capt.
tai, never having read the Iowa plat
form and enormously assuming that
I was the author of that amazing SEN
tence, undertakes in the above squib
to be sarcastic at my expense. /
humbly submit that the Capital should
now transfer its sarcasm to the Iowa
Republicans, who placed that idiotic
sentence in their platform in the year
of our Lord and Master 1903. Will it
do so? Not by any manner of means!
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There is always great satisfaction
to a marksman in knowing that he
hits the target at which he aims. The
American Economist, organ of the
tariff league and chief among the
stand patters, has first and last devot-
ed about ten columns of its valuable
space to comments on my speech on
Tariff Reduction and Genuine Reci-
procity," which is a valuable certificate
of character as a Democrat The man
who incurs it's censure has in that fact
alone proof positive that he is per-
soma non grata to the stand patters, a
piece of information on which he may
congratulate himself / am not vain
enough to suppose that my opinions
are of great value. except SO far as
they are fair index of the position of
the Democratic party. The Economist,
which knows its own case thorough
~, in its last issue undertakes to play
the part of the inkfish by darkening
the waters and resurrecting the free
trade bogy. 1t will deceive nobody by
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dullard who wants to be deceived. The
American Economist knows full well
that | stated the exact truth when
declared that there is no free trade
party in tho United States and that
what the Democratic party stands for
are .tariff reduction and genuine reci-
procity." Then why does it howl about
free trade? Because it has bad
cause and must use deception to boil
ster it up. The Economist takes Mr..
Williams Of Mississippi and myself to
task for forcing our 'popgun" tariff
reduction bills to a vote in the ways
and means committee without asking
for "a hearing before that commit
teei No doubt we violated the etiquette
of the stand patters. But what would
have been the sense in asking for IA
hearing?'' We would have been
waiting for "a hearing when Gabriel
blows his horn, even if we had asked
for it, or. If we had obtained "a hear
ing" only the tariff barons would have
been heard. But does the Economist
believe that such illustrious and palpi-
tating stand patters as Hon. Serene e..
Payne, chairman of that committee,
and his ten Republican confreres there
on do not know precisely what the
stand patters want? Surely the Econ.
omist will not assume for one mo-
ment that Messrs. Payne & Co. do
not read the Economist! Perish the
thouqhfl IF fhev do read If fhev
know full well that the party fealty
of any Republican that dares to vote
for any reduction Of the tariff rate on.
any article however monstrous. will
be questioned and his life made miser-
able. So what did they want with "a
hearingg' True that Messrs. Williams
and Clark were not such fools as to
ask for "a hearing" knowing full wen
that they would net get it. They ac-