The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-10-12
SOMETHING ABOUT HEMENwAY.

man who Is it 10 be a member OF
the United States senate should be
both Intelligent and truthful But
there are men in that body who are
both ignorant and mendacious James
A. Hemenway, OF this state. is one
OF these His public speeches would
not be considered as entitled TO the
least attention il IL were not for the
fact that by some strange fatality be
has crswled up into a seat in the sen
ste. Of the United States
Mr. hemenway in the campaign
speech that he is delivering. tries TO
take credit for his party for the pas
cage OF the railroad rate bill. Along
with the other corporation senators
Hemenway would have voted against
any rate bill II he had dared TO do
so. AS il was he voted against
every amendment calculated TO make
the measure better and for amend
ments that made il weaker Senator
Ia Toilette. OF Wisconsin. himself
Republican. read Hemenway's record
in Hemenways presence from pub
lie platform in this safe and offered
proof of the above facts.
And then Mr. Hemenway alludes-
he does not dwell on ito the pare
food bill as another Republican per
formance When that bill was under
consideration in the senate. Hemen-
way. was the special representative OF
a large group Of lobbyists who were
trying to cripple IL in some OF its es-
sential features or defeat 1t II posi-
Bile He was openly charged by lead
ing journals with urging amendments
that would have made deception easy.
and the Congressional Record OF Feb
rusry 20 shows how hard he struggled
10 befriend the lobby
When he comes TO the tariff Mr..
Hemenway is even less regardful OF
the truth of history. Facts with him
count for nothing The point that
he tries 70 make Is that high pro-
tective tarif-in ocher words. high
taxes-are responsible for all the pros
perity the country has ever known.
His exact language is as follows:
This was clearly demonstrated in
1892. when. for the first time since
1860. the Democratic party secured
complete control of the government
and enacted tariff for revenue only.
or a free trade bill. which resulted in
closing the factories and turning an
army Of laborers into an army OF
trsmps and in bringing upon the
country ore OF the most disastrous
panics we ever have known"
II Mr Hemenway knows enough
and is honest enough TO be a United
States senator. he knows and will ad-
NIT that the Mckinley high protect
i've tarih Law was in force from the
first of October. 1890. to the first OF
September. 1894 What he speaks OF
as the free trade bill" Was the Wilson
bill. a moderate tariff measure II
took effect when the Mckinley bill
stopped. that is. on August 27. 1894.
The panic started in November, 1890,
within thirty days after the Mckinley
Law went into force II grew worse
right along during 1891 and 1892
Banks failed. mills shut down. strikes
and lockouts occurred. thousands upon
thousands were thrown out Of work
and the slaughter of strikers at Home
stead took place. During all this
time a Republican president was In
the White House. and the Mckinley
high protective tariff law was in force.
Everything that Hemenway speaks
about in the paragraph quoted fIom
his speech took place while the same
law was in force Hemenway knows
all this to be true, but he has not the
courage to admit H.