Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-05-17
Flushed the Covey.

have their Republican colleagues at
considerable disadvantage. As John
Sharp Williams says, they have
flushed the covey" and have the Re-
publican on the run.
The speech Of Representative Rain
ey, 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 Republi-
cans 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 en-
tire satisfaction of every man who Is
unbiased, that the watch trust OF the
country is selling watches to the for
eigners cheaper than it does at home
to American customers. He pro-
duced the facts to the effect that a
man in New York City went to Lon
don and bought American watches
there, brought them back to this couu-
try and sold them cheaper than the
trust prices here and then made mon
ey 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 is a palpable rob-
berry of the American customer for
the benefit of the American trusts and
that the tariff is the mother Of the
trusts. then what the deuce does it
show Some of the Republican big
guns in the House of Representatives
have made an attempt to answer Mr..
Rainey, but they have foundered and
fallen back into the pit dug by their
own bad logic One of them actually
admitted that these watch companies
did sell watches cheaper in the for
eign countries than they did in this
country, and attempted to justify it
by saying hat they were compelled
to do 1t IN order to keep their factor
ies going and keep labor at work.
The truth of the business is that since
the Dingley tariff was enacted there
are seventeen 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 fe-
male and child labor, therefore cheap
er, than it 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 tuem. 1t is going
to make the tariff one of the para
mount issues of the coming Congress
sional campaign. The Issue will be
squarely made. If the people of the
country want to continue to be robbed
for the benefit of foreigners, then let
them continue to vote the Republican
ticket. If not, they will vote the
Democratic ticket and put stop to it.
Just few days ago there was the
sharpest sort of debate in the House
over the Steel Trust. Congressman
Sharp and RaineY made the oft.re-
peated charge that the Steel Trust
had sold steel rails in Canada at $22
a ton, while charging $27 ton for
them in this country. Colonel pete"
Hepburn, one Of the stand-patters
from Iowa, undertook to refute the
allegation, and called upon the Dem
ocrats for proof of their statements.
Williams thereupon declared that
the late Daniel s. Lamont, Of New
York, Secretary ofWar during Cleve-
lands second administration, had in.
formed him in his capacity as direc-
tor of the Northern Pacific Railroad
that rails were sold cheaper In Canada
than in the United States He de-
clared that he could prove that :he
Mexican National Railway paid $40
ton for rails delivered in Mexic o
while it was charged $27 ton for
the same rails delivered in Texas
Rainey replied that he got his infor-
nation from the testimony offered by
James J. Hill, President of the North
ern Pacific, before a Senate commit
tee.
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