The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-02
when you failed to go with the great
majority Of your party, your president

AoVAA6 4oAs u4b dppTON0l W IuAn UA!is
Democratic Inning.
Thunderous applause greeted Mr..
Payne as he took his seat.
The Democrats had their innings
when Champ Clark MOI, their lead
er, arose to present their view of the
bill. The ovation to him was no less
sincere than that accorded Mr.. Payne.
Recalling the story of the Brahmin
who had been fooled into believing
that the dog was a sheep fit for sac
rifice, Mr.. Clark said President Taft
was a "pious Brahmin," who had been
imposed on be being made to believe
that the conference was really re-
vision downward. Mr.. Clark submit
ted table, which he said was ap-
proxtmately correct. showing, accord
tag to Mr.. Clark, that the average
& Sts,the report is LII per cent
te Lttshe average rate of the
=. ~ .stossic ssc,; res Of new items
law. la .ns were aaas ssic,y 70 said aiastss tss
average increase we~ at least
two per cent.
yet the brazen claim is made that
this is a revision downward, which is
a sham, a humbug, a bald and bold
perversion Of the facts" declared Mr..
ClarE
Tho president. he continued, had
been grossly misled as to the nature
of this report. He said that ''if we
reflect upon the fact that he insisted
on lowering the duties upon only half
dozen items, or thereabouts. when
the rates should have been lowered
on hundreds Of items, and that the
conference report still reeks with
largess for the few and extortion of
the many, his glory will experience
greater diminution than have the
rates of the Dingley law"
THAT tho presidents respect for
the square deal and his jealousy of
his own fame impelled him to honest
ly desire a tariff, law which would at
least measurably redeem his own and
his party's ante-election for a down.
ward revision OF the tariff will bs
readily conceded by every candid per-
son." continued Mr.. Clark THAT he
has been deceived by tariff experts
and near-experts as to this conference
being a downward revision in any
reasonable sense of the term can, I
think, be mathematically demonstrate
| ed"
Mr.. Clark said that If the president
could secure reductions on q few art
icles in week he could have accom-
plished far more if he had begun
sooner. because it is much easier to
influence mans opinion upon any
subject before ho has publicly as.
serted it than after.
Payne Scored.
Certainly, Mr.. Chairman, Payne's
statement is one of the most decep-
tive documents ever submitted to the
gaze of men," said Mr.. Clark. II dc
not charge him with intentional de-
ception, but he. too, has been deceiv-
ed by slight Of hand hand performers
in arithmetic
Clearly the statement is intended
to convey the impression tina. the de-
creases In the report when compared
with the increases are as $4,97S, ,122,124
to $S52,512,525. 1t requires most care
full reading of the first page of the
statement to conclude that it is not
intended to convey the impression
that the annual tariff taxes are re-
duced to the extent of $4,978, ,122, ,124,
as against an increase of only $685.
5l2,525. That was SO preposterous
that by careful examination arrived
at what meaning the statement is in
tended to convey and that Is because
there Is some sort of decrease, no
one can tell from the statement how
much or how little, on articles esti-
mated at s4,978, ,122,124, consumed in
this country, and an increase-no one
can tell how much or how little-on
articles consumed of the value of
only $852,512,525. The decreases and
Increases are in that proportion. This
Is most fallacious way Of reasoning,
for the actual increases on dozen
articles may amount in the aggre-
| gate to more than the decreases on q
thousand"
| Mr.. Clark submitted table contain
ing a comparison between the Dingley
revenue for 1907, and the revenue that
would have been derived that year
under the duties Of tho conference
bill. Under the Dingley duties, he
declared. the revenue would have
been $329, 9,109,342 and under the duties
provided by the conference it would
have been $3S4,75S,344. an excess OF
the conference bill over the Dingley
low VI pOsOtS,VU1. 1u0 COuIor6eS, he
said, had increased the chemical
schedule 5.63 per cent; agricultural
6.63 per cent; spirits 26.88 per cent;
cotton 1880 per cent; silk 15.4s per
cent; pulp paper, etc.. 1902 per cent
1t had decreased, he said, the earthen-
ware schedule O.32 per cent; metals
6.65 per cent; wood, ETC., 1853 per
cent; sugar .004 per cent; fax "a per
cent; wool .35 per cent; sundriea
11.41 per cent.
"And yet" said Mr.. Clark, ''this
conference report on the tariff bill is
heralded and headlined in the public
press as a tremendous victory for
President Taft"
Quoting from newspaper reports
telling of a large body of lobbyists
that had been here since tariff legis-
lation was begun, Mr.. Clark declared
that the consumer had been slightly
represented. They had by continuous
entertaining exercised an influence,
he said.
THAT this great army of lobbyists, -
said the Missouri representative,
| "have inf1uonced the achedulos tn fhic