Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-12
A Question Of salt

A Question Of salt
Tn answering the reference of Mr..
clark to President Roosevelts eulogy
of Thomas II. Benton for his hght TO
mt salt on the free list Mr. Gros-
venor claimed that Benton was hit
ting only at alum salt. A general col
ion1v followed. i'm which Mr. Clark and
other Democrats claimed that New
England fishermen got a rebate on for
eipn salt. which they cure their ttsh
with. whereas the western meat packer
has to use protected" salt.
Mr. williams, the minority leader,
followed Mr.. Grosvenor Under the
pending bill he welcomed to the Demo-
cratic party the Republican Orestes,
Mr.. Payne: it's Ulysses, Mr.. Grosvenor,
and the young Achilles, Mr.. Dalzell.
Discussing our presence in the Phllip-
mines. Mr.. Williams exclaimed: Course
the hypocrisy of the fellow who tells
me that God put us in the Philippines.
Nobody but "a hypocrite would say it,
and nobody but a fool would believe it.
American greed. American cupidity for
prestige and conquest and to become
q world power went there"
Mr. Williams asserted that it did
not need a prophet to see that the
Republican party was not going to
revise the tariff.
"The Republican party in its pres
ent decadent condition has neither the
brains nor the courage to remedy the
tariff, and that is the reason why You
are going to have a Democratic house
of representatives at the next cleo
ton" he said.
"Oh. you stand-patters. he con-
tinued, with your absolute contempt
for public sentiment aud absolute
trust in the committee on rules and
the committee on ways and means
and your little coterie here in Wash
ington--you imagine that there is no
outside world. but there Is an outside
world. Even in Massachusetts, which
the gentleman from Ohio said was
brought up by hand on the tariff
there was a bottle of pap given her
early and all that she had to do was
to suck
Asserting ironically that he would
show that the Dingley tariff had pro-
duced record breaking prosperity in
Canada, Mexico and the Argentine
republic. as we'll as the United States,
Mr.. Williams reviewed the greatly in
creased production and commerce Of
those countries.
Democratic View of Tariff
Democratic faith in the tariff Mr..
Williams said, could be expressed in
d few words: First, tariff is a tax;
second it is a tax on the consumer;
third, all taxes ought as nearly as
possible to be equal in proportion to
the burden bearing capacity of the
taxing power.
"The genuinely ideal Democratic
tariff would put all sorts of imports
into about three general classes
necessaries, comforts and luxuries. on
'necessaries Il very low tariff would be
levied, perhaps some of the prime
necessities of life would be on the free
list. LuXuries, diamonds, wines and
the like, would be taxed to the SNUG
CLING point; upon comforts an inter-
mediate tax would be levied
1T is necessary first to find out how
much money is necessary to run the
government honestly and economical
ly and levy the tax to meet that sum.
Then you will have this question set
tied right, and until it is settled right
it will still be agitated."
Just before Mr.. Williams concluded
he poured out thunder Storm" as
Mr.. Grosvenor put it in paraIleling
the panic of 1893 in this country,
which Republicans had laid to free
trade, to similar conditions in Canada
and the countries of Europe, all of
which, he said, must be due to IAN
ticipated Democratic victory in the
election or MI. Cleveland"
Scoring the Democratic tariff doc
trine, all of which, he said, was old
and worn out, Mr.. Adams Of wiscon-
sin followed Mr.. Williams. He said
the Republicans of his state. while
protectionists, believed revision and
readjustment of existing tariff condi-
tions should be made at this time.
Mr. Mckinlay, a new member from
California, who was with the Taft eX-
pedition to the Philippines, favored the
bill. The only criticism of the Ameri-
can administration in the Philippines
that could be made, he declared, was
that we had gone ahead a little fast
er than the people Of the islands
We're capable of going.
Mr. McKinlay pictured Japan on the
verge of a general industrial career,
and predicted that their victories in
trade would be as astonishing as their
victories on the battlefelds of Man
churia. All of her manufactures, he
said We're being equipped with the
latest American and European ma
chinery. However, only one machine
of kind is bought the Japanese
themselves making others from these