Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-24
FORMULATION OF TARIFF MEAS.
URE REMINDS DoLLlvER OF
A POKER GAME.
WANT PROTECTION
ON GOODS THEY HAVE TO SELL
Then Demand Low Rates on Articles
They Have to Buy-Brewer Draws
Animated Compliments from Senator
Brown Because of Justices Speech
Opposing an Income Tax.
Especial Correspondence.)

Especial Correspondence.)
Washington, July PA delegation of
cotton manufacturers We're calling on
Senator Dolliver, telling him all about
how the Aldrich rates raise the du-
ties, while the Aldrich committee in
sists that they don't do anything of
the kind
Now, demanded the head of the del
have the nerve to tell us and to tell
the president that those rates are not
being advanced, when it's as plain as
the nose on your face, and the very
experts they have once quoted as say
| ing there is no raise, are now signing
statements that there are general in
creases?"
We'll" replied Mr.. Dolliver, chat
reminds me of the story about the
Dealer was very deity shuffling and
dealing 'em up, and a spectator who
stood behind him saw that he dealt
himself four aces. Being an unsophis-
ticated person, not acquainted with the
rules of the game as 1t was played in
that town, he didn't like to see the
patrons robbed. He edged around to
a big Dutchman who was sitting in
the game, and leaning over him said in
a low tone:
Look out this hand; he dealt himself
four aces"
"vot peesness iss id Of yours. mine
vrendt, about desc game?" demanded
the Dutchman.
But I'm trying to tell you, because
you ought to know it, that saw him
deal himself four aces"
Say. meester,' said the Dutchman.
beginning to get mad, you'd better ged
oudt Of here; you dond unnerstan desc
game. vot Of he didt deal himself four
aces? Aind i'd his deal?'
And that's all there is to IT," con-
cluded Mr.. Dolliver. Its their deal,
and guess anybody who interferes is
liable to get thrown out"
There is a juicy story about Repre-
sentative Gardner, OF Massachusetts,
which is being circulated apropos of
some aspect of the tariff debate Mr..
Gardner, as everybody knows, Is the
scion Of the most blue blooded strain
of New England aristrocracy; a de-
scendant OF the Mayf1ower, and all
that sort Of thing. Being New Eng
land manufacturer himself, he is for
high protection; but he can see some
excuse for reduction of duties in some
cases: in fact he is an ardent advocate
of reduction-in the case of hides,
which Massachusetts, wants free. Mr..
Gardner makes a fine case for high
rates on what his state sells, and an
excellent argument for low rates on
what his state buys. If there is any
| consistency about being on both
sides, it doesn't worry Mr.. Gardner in
the least. Hence the application of this
story, told by another house mem
Der:
When Gussie Gardner was a little
boy an uncle was telling him Of how
great great grandfather, who was
great merchant in his day, traded in
his own ships to the East Indies. and
one time pirates captured one of his
ships It was a fine and bloodthirsty
story, and little Gussie was deeply in
terested.
"'But, uncle he asked after the mar
rative had been finished, how much
did great eat-grandfather lose by the
pirate capturing that ship?" :.
| Uncle stopped a moment, and then
replied:
"T don't kow, Gussie; 1t depends on
how much interest he had in the pirate
ship that made the capture
Mr.. Justice Brewer of the supreme
compliments from Senator Norris
| learned justices income tax speech az
Milwaukee Wednesday night. The
Jurist has been quoted as saying that
| 'if the power to tax incomes is given
the government, we will see the states
taxed, not out of existence. but out Of
their vitality" To which Senator
Brown retorts, in a statement handed
out from his office:
"Of course, such a statement is ut
| terly ridiculous. absurd and senile."
4 Senator Brown is the author Of the
constitutional amendment to confer
upon the federal government the power
to levy income taxes without appor-
tioning them among the states He
looks upon the Brewer statement, nat
urally, as an attack on his pet meas
| ure.
In no way and under no circum-
stances" continues Senator Brown,
would the proposed amendment give
the federal government power to tax
any state out of either existence or
vitality The tax would be iaid on the
incomes of the citizens of all states for
federal purposes alone and the amend
ment would in no way withdraw the
power the states already have to tax
incomes for state and municipal pur-
poses. think there must have been