The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-09-20
BAILEY SCORES
VIEWS OF BRYAN
Continued from page j.


! pass the tariff act of 1894. ] helped
TO pass that act, but | did not help
to pass it because of its free raw
material features. / helped TO pass
! it in spite OF them. | helped to pass
it because ] knew that bad as it was,
| it was an improvement on the law
which it repealed. | voted against
the law recently passed through con-
gresS | voted against it because /
believed that on the whole 1t was
worse than the law which it repealed
though in some particulars it is a
distinct improvement over if. When
a senator goes to vote on tariff bill
he is compelled to vote on il accord
ing to his judgment of it as whole,
and he cannot be deemed to approve
or disapprove each particular item. ]
voted for the Wilson bill, but ! did
not believe that it was wise or demo-
cratic in placing the manufacturers
raw material on the free list and stiil
levying a duty on the manufactured
article made out of this free raw ma
terial.
But, my countrymen, Mr.. Bryan
is entirely correct in assuming that
= this state platform repudiated the
Wilson bill so far as it sought to APP
ply the doctrine of free raw material.
With that platform which | have
J lust read to you in your minds, and
remembering that Mr.. Bryan himself
!, asserts that it is hostile to the doc
trine of free raw material, | want
now to read you national platform
, upon the tariff question"
, Mr.. Bailey then read from the ma
tional platform.
, I'm 1898 when Gov. Culberson
date for the senate, in discussing the
= tariff question, he quoted this dec
t laration from the national platform
= and then quoted the state platform
which he declared were synomouS
with each other. and on that declar
a alton he was chosen to the senate o
: 1.-THE United States | have never il
imy life heard any intelligent maj
a dispute the correctness of GOV. Cul
t berson's Interpretation OF these tw'
platforms, and never in my life unit
n ! read Mr. Bryan's speech last Wed
0 nesday morning have ! heard an
s man deny that the national platform
iof 1896 repudiated the doctrine o
& free raw material.
I My countrymen, ! drew ina
platform and | ought to know wha
> ii means If the democratic party o
r Texas or the democratic party OF tn
= union made q mistake in 1896
: would be the first man in all thi
commonwealth 10 demand the cor
: Irection of the mistake. II is not wha
|. we said then--it is what We ough
S to say now.
: His fl st reason in favor of TIN
6 doctrine of free raw material-ant
in order that nobody can eve
l
Il and in order to make my answer tt
it an easy one | will state it TO you
> precisely in his words. He says tina
tariff on raw material is an EN-
= barassment to our export trade, y
!. course a tariff on a manufacturer
raw material is an embarrassment t.
him but it is not more so than tn
. tax on the finished product is al
embarrassment to the American con
sumner,
Lets analyze this question. Wit
their free raw material the American
manufacturer can produce his good
so cheaply that he can pay oceal
freights and insurance on them ant
sell them at profit in all the mar
kets OF the world; can sell then
without tariff on them over there
Well, by countrymen, if the Ameri
terial can sell finished products L
the world without tariff on them
he can sell them in the markets o
the United States without tariff
on them. And when did an American
democrat try to make 1t easier TO
an American manufacturer to sci
his goods abroad than it is to sci
them here at home l am willing t.
help the American manufacture
combct. n the markets of the world
but | think the American people arr
entitled to the benefits of competition
in the markets here at home, Ant
let's make this proposition to Mr.
Bryan and to all the advocates o
free raw material: If they will take
the tariff off the finished produc
we will take it off the raw material
and not until then.
Now my countrymen, Mr.. Bryan
further says that compensatory du
ty would enable the manufacturer t.
transfer his tax to the consumer
That's true, and that's the reason
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