Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-06-16
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16. 1909
A SHAMELESS and In
DEEENSIBLE GRAFT

The cotton schedule of the tariff bill
went through the senate as easily and
comfortably as could be asked by the
most devoted of the Republican disciples
of high tariff graft. The cotton sched-
ule is the most pernicious. ubiquitous
and indefensible of all of the schedules
and it's easy passage through the upper
house can therefore be taken us an indi
cation of what the Republican congress
is going to do with the tariff matter. II
is going to revise it upward, despite the
protests of practically every newspaper
in the country and nine tenths of the
people of the country, and despite the
futile opposition of the little handful of
Republican insurgents.
LaFollette and his followers. indeed,
cut about the same figure in congress
that they did in the Republican conven.
ton ut Chicago. They ae given the op
portlnity to voice their opinions -and
then they are spread out prone, in full
view of the audience, while the steam
roller runs over them. the System"
is going to make the tariff bill, just Us
it made the Republican platform and
chose Sherman to he the running mate
of Taft
Democrats may get som" scant com
fort ont Of the fight over the cotton
schedule in the fact that only two of
their senators betrayed them Foster
and McEnery, both of louisiana. The
rest of the Democrats voted on the side
of the people and against the privileges
pf tn cotton IN lnufactTrarS of New
tingiand as fcalty to their party re-
Iured them to do. only ten Republi-
cans, on the other hand, voted with the
people. FOur-ffths of the Republican
senators stood like Il stone wall foI
special privilege in this lineup prac.
ticGlly as they have in c:cry other.
On the authority of Senator Nelson of
Minnesota. Il Republican. the Aldrich
bill raises the tariff tax on cotton goods
all the way from 20 to 100 per cent or
more. 1t means just that much of an
Increased burden on cv rs housewife,
On every mother with little girls TO
clothr The Republican party is going
INT" every home in the land and levy
ing an increased tax, not to be paid
INTO the federal treasury. but by virtue
u protection, to go into the Golfers of
The New England cotton mill owners.
Yet, as Senator Gore showed the
"th"r day, the cotton mills are already
paying enormous profits. The Dart.
mouth Cotton Company. in 1907. and
l9OH paid dividends OF G6 per cent and
thc Troy Cotton and WOODEN Mann
featuring Company paid % per cent.
Fhc Acushnct Company paid 6; per
cent i'll 1907. The Dartmputh compauy
ID addition, in February Of the present
%ear. declared Il special dividend of 100
per cent, payable either in cash or in
bonds, Senator Gore cited numerous
"thcr instances aim p4t a. hlgrant. and
proved them by the official reports.
why should the D.wthmJutn comp
my he given protection that enables it
ip charge Mrs. Johu Smith, whose hus.
innd earns Sl2 II week, fr.y cents for
u piece Of cotton cloth that, without the
protection, would cost her only thirty
ccnts~ and that could bc sold her at
ihirty cents for Il fair profit? In two
successive years the Dartmuuth comp
any earned 6B per cent OH it's invest.
.hcHt and the next year declared u
special dividend Of 100 per cent. What