Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1906-05-09
FROM WASHINGTON.

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Uouse have flushed the covey"
and have the republicans on the
run. The speech of Representa-
tive Rainey, of Illinois, in the
House not long ago has been the
fire that has smoked them out.
His speech was an object lesson,
not only To the people of the entire
country. but,to lots of republicans
ON the floor, of the House who were
totally ignorant of the facts he
produced with such telling effect.
He proved absolutely and to the
entire satisfaction Of every man
who is unbiased, that the watch
trust of the country is selling
watches to the foreigners cheaper
than they are at home to American
consumers. He produced the facts
70 the effect that a man in New
York City went to London and
bought American watches there,
brought them back To this country
and sold them cheaper than the
trust prices here and then made
money on them, because there is no
duty on American goods shipped
back into this country after being
sold abroad. If that doesn't show
up the fact that the present tariff
isa palpable robbery of the Ameri-
can consumer for the benefit of the
American trusts and that the tariff
is the mother of the trusts, then
what the devil does it showl Some
of the republican big guns in the
House of Representatives have
made an attempt to answer MIR.
Rainey, but they have fioundered
and fallen back into the pit dug by
their own bad logic. One of them
actually admitted that hese watch
companies did sell watches cheaper
in the foreign counties than they
did in this country, and attempted
to Justify it by saying that they
we're compelled to do il in order to
keep their factories going and keep
labor at work. The truth of the
business is that since the Dingley
tariff was enacted there are seven
teen less watch factories at work
in this country than before, all
put out of business by the trust,
and that the trust now employs
more female and child labor, there
fore cheaper, than il had before in
the history of the watch business
in this country. This is only one
illustration of the workings of the
Dingley tariff in the interests of
the trusts. There are hundreds of
other instances and the democrats
will show them up as fast as they
can get to them. 1t is going to
make the tariff one of the para
mount issues of the coming Con-
gressional campaign. The issue
will be squarely made. If the
people of the country want to
continue tn be robbed for the bene-
fit of foreigners, then let them
continue to vote the republican
ticket. If not they will vote the
democratic ticket and put stop
to it.
Nearly everybody In the Nation
al Capital is holding his breath
and wondering what Teddy the
the Terrible is going to do next.
His latest stunts, including bis
muck rake speech and his attack
on Judge Humphrey, of Chicago,
have caused even his best friends
and well-wishers TO gasp and hold
their breath. They are paralyzed
withastonishment. Well, I'm not.
After you have been studying
Teddy at close range for long
time you will not be astOpished al
any thing that breaks loose in his
vicinity. He is a human buzz-saw
In action, a rough-rider rampant
an intellect perpetual motion anC
wild asses colt running amucb
with the cockle-burr of cOncei
under his tail. His muck rake
speech was a notice TO all the
grafters in public offices that he i.
dlSpleased with the assaults on then
and that they may just as well gC
ahead with their nastiness anC
their graft and that he will see t.
It they are not disturbed in tn,
possession of tleir soft snap. Tha
It any comman scrub newspapei
man or magazine writer comes
noslng around their pastures anC
dlstprbs them in their pastime o
Fobhing the ncople, by letting tn
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