The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-12
RepIy 10 champ cIark.

pine islands will become one of the great
est jewels in the crown Of American
achievement"
Reply 70 Champ Clark.
Mr. Grosvenor declared his intention OF
devOting the remainder Of his remarks 10
the Democratic wall for tariff revision
Particularly did he want to reply TO Mr..
Clark regarding his quotation in q recent
speech from the book Of James G. Blaine,
which he had said was a contradiction OF
the Republican platform Of 1894: that
Democratic tariff has always been fol-
lowed by business adversely; a Repub-
lean tariff by business prosperity"
Mr.. Clark's quotation of Mr.. Blaine he
ccntended had not included the context,
which was needed TO make the statement
CON rlete. Mr.. GrOSVenOr supstantiated
the remarks OF Senator DoIliver that Mr..
Dingley had yielded to the senate on the
amount of differential on sugar, leaving
il high that IT might be used in securing
reciprocity treaties with Spain.
Alleged Prosperity.
Massachusetts was the next subject Of
Mr. GrOsvenOTs remarks. He went on 10
slow that Notwithstanding the cry for
free raw material there was now in Mas
Sachusetts floOd-tide Of prosperity.
Mr. Sullivan Of Massachusetts inter
and glass works which ne said had gone
out of business under the Dfngley ia
riff There were plenty of these works
which had grown Immensely wealthy IN
river, replied Mr.. Grosenor.
Massachusetts, he said, should remem-
Der the adage: Never go back on them
that brought you up by hand"
What hand? interjected Minority
Leader Williams
The hand of God and the Republican
party" was the quick reply. When
the laughter had Quieted Mr.. Williams
said:
II want to recognize the unusual mag
naninity of the gentleman in naming
Zn1 iTrg 4nn ,,
of the firm" Qaughter.)
In answering the reference of Mr..
Clark TO President Roosevelts eulogy of
Thomas H. Benton for his fight to put
salt on the free list, Mr. Grosvenor
claimed that Benton was hitting only
at alum salt. A general colloquy fol
Democrats claimed that New England
fishermen got a rebate on foreign salt
with which they cure their fish. where
as the western meat packer has to use
protected" salt
Speech of Mr.. Williams.
Mr. Williams. the minority leader, fol-
lowed Mr.. Grosvenor. Under the pend
ing bill he welcomed to the Democratic
party the Republican Orestes, Mr..
Payne; its Ulysses, Mr.. Grosvenor. and
the young Achilles, Mr.. Dalzell. Dis
cGsslng our presence in the Philippines,
MI Williams exclaimed:
Curse the hypocrisy of the fellow who
telIs me that God put Us in the Philip
pines! Nobody but a hypocrite would
say 1t, and nobody but a fool would
American greed, American cupidity for
presuge and conquest and to become q
world power went there" he added
Mr. Williams asserted that it did not
need prophet TO see that the Repub-
ncan party was not going TO revise the
tariff.
Republican Party Deeadent.
''The Republican party in its present
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
or representatives at the next election"
he said.
ued. with your absolute contempt for
public sentiment and absolute trust IN
the committee on rules and the commit
tee on ways and means and your lit
Tie eoterie here in Washington-you I'm
aglne 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 bottle of pap
given her early and all that she had
to do was to suck" ~
Asserting ironically t1at he would show
that the Dinghy tariff had produced
record-breaking prosperity in Canada,
Mexico and the Argentina, as we'll as
in the United States, Mr.. Williams re-
viewed the greatly Increased production
and commerce Of these countries,
Democratic Tariff Views.
The Democratic faith upon the tariff,
Mr.. Williams said, could be expressed
second, II is a tax on the consumer;
third, all taxes ought as nearly as Dos
sible TO be equal in proportion to the