Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-30
PASS FROM LIVER TO
PORTERHOUSE STEAK
BLESSINGS OF LAB0RING MEN
ENUMERATED
Congressman oushman Praises Re-
publican Party's Alleged %chieve-
ments-Tarlff Bill Widely
Discussed

WASHINGTON, March 29.-What
probably will be the last week of gen
eral debate on the Payne tariff bill was
begun in the house today.
Declaring the Payne bill goes one
step further in the pilJaging of human
ity." Mr.. James of Kentucky asked
what is a reasonable profit that the
Republicans claim the measure would
allow.
"Who shall decide?" he asked
"Shall it be left to Andrew. Carnegie,
pricked by a conscience that has al
lowed him to loot for many years?"
Mr.. Carnegie, he said commenced to
establish in the various cities and
towns of the country libraries where
hungry, ragged men may read of feasts
they could not attend and of comforts
they could not have.
Mr.. 'Cushman of Washington, the
new Republican member of the COM
mittee on ways and means, plead for
better protection to American lumber
and for a duty on COAL
The Democrats, he said had charac-
terized the bill as ubiquitous, but while
there were some of the features not
entirely to his liking he did not con-
denim it as a whole. 1t would be, he
declared, an interesting contribution to
the political literature in the nation to
have printed lin deadly parallel col
umns" exactlSwhat bill the Democrats
proposed as a substitute for the Payne
bill. Mr. Cushman's declaration that
the conditions were far better today
than they were under Democratic rule
was disputed by Mr. Weisse of Wis.,
consin.
Mr.. Weisse declared that in the
eighteen months 40 per cent of the
laboring men of the country had been
out of work and that there had been
failures to the amount of $6S9, 900 in
the last two years.
Mr.. Cushman replied that laboring
folk were not only getting the benefit
dressed and we'll fed. which he said
was not the case when Democracy was
in power
MIR. Cushman got vociferous applause
when he said:
1.-THE laboring man has travelled a
mighty distance since you and your
party were in" addressing himself to
Mr.. Wilson of Pennsylvania, who had
interrupted him. 1.-The laboring man."
he continued. has travelled all the way
from dimes worth of liver on credit
to dollars worth of porterhouse on
cash, and that represents mighty
unmeasured distance in the chart of
domestic economy and national pros
perity"
1t was, he said, the wage scale and
not the price list that was the barome-
ter of American prosperity.
Mr.. Cushman declared free coal was
not a Republican doctrine. He quoted
from some remarks made by Mr.. Payne
when a bill was, up providing for free
coal and said it did not lie with Mr..
Payne to criticise him, because, he said,
when I raised my voice today for a
tariff on coal am preaching the doc
trine which he himself taught me-"
Mr.. Cushman referred to the increase
in the value of farm and other products
and also or land during recent years,
and said the advance in the price of
lumber had not been an unfair one IN
comparison.
Mr.. Cushman entered a eulogistic de-
Tense of the lumber men when he said
the minds of the public were infamed
against the lumber manufacturers. 81
say to you, beware, you are sowing the
wind and you will some day reap the
whirlwind. Some day a spasm Of popu-
lar reform will attack your important
industry and then the seeds of discord
and malice which you have sown will
spring up like the crop that grew from
the dragons teeth
Mr.. Cushman spoke for two hours