Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-17
DON'T PRACTICE WHAT THEY
PREACH.

That was an amusing discovery
that was made the other day at
Washington where the high priests of
the system of protection have been
holding forth for several weeks
past, denouncing efforts to break
down the tariff wall as treachery 10
the country and predicting all sorts
OF dire calamities TO the EN-
pIoyes in American industries if the
duties on any of ths1r products are
lowered.
The Republican stand pat" leaders
have been Grating on the Necessity of
keeping out foreign pauper made
goods, Grating in the good old fash
toned way that the people have be-
come accustomed to through forty
years OF ceaseless repetition. Judg-
ing from their utterances the most
grievous breach of patriotism lies in
the encouragement of foreign manu-
facturers by the purchase of inn
ported goods The man who favors
the admission of articles made in
other lands is traitor to his fellow
Americans and would reduce them
to the conditions OF the "pauper la
bor7 Of England ana Continental Eu-
rope.
While the debates along this line
have been in progress before the COM
mittee charged with the duty of pre-
pairing a report to the House on a
revision of the tariff. a representative
of the Philadelphia Record has been
quietly making an investigation as
to the immediate surroundings of
the stand patters' in the capitol.
To his amusement, but not to the
edifcation of the stand patters," he
| discovered that the present Republi-
can administration has been grossly
untrue to the workingmen of the Uni
ted States Foreign manufacturers
have been encouraged by the ex-
penditure of Uncle Sans cash for
some of their output, and from the
towels on which the stand patters'
have been wiping their hands to
the chairs in which they have sat at
the committee meetings they have
been guilty of the very crimes they
have been charging against those
who have favored a genuine tariff
revision in the interest of the masses.
Here is the news story of the Rec
ord. 1t beautifully illustrates how
some men, and especially Republican
politicians of the high tariff variety
preach one thing and practice an
other:
The discovery made on Wednesday
that the towels used by the Commit
tee on Ways and Means are imported
| from England was followed today by
the revelation that nearly all the
furnishings in the committee room is
of foreign make Chairman Payne is
reported to have been visibly en-
| barrassed when his attention was
directed to the circumstance that his
committee had Disseminated against
an American industry by purchasing
| foreign towels. Representative Dali
zell, another high priest of protection,
turned red in the face and refused to
make any comment when he was
questioned about the damning for
eign towels. The chances are that
the imported toweling in the Ways
and Means Committee room will give
way to domestic product within a
day or two.
One of the Republican members OF
the committee, whose desire for a
downward revision of the tariff is
well known, chuckled audibly today
when a newspaper clipping contain
ing the above story was shown to
him
'Look at the bottom of the chairs
in which you are sitting" was his
message to the press table i nreturn-
ing the clippings An examination OF
these chairs disclosed that they are
labeled in large printed letters, wi
enna Austria +" AS a matter of fact
many of the furnishings in the Ways
and Means Committees room are inn
ported. When the gypsum men were
making their plea for protection on
their product they called attention to
the fact that the plaster used on the
walls of the committee room was
manufactured from gypsum imported
from Nova Scotia