The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-25
Republican Perfidy.

Charging that the Payne tariff bill is
a deliberate betrayal Of the American peo-
pie and that lit is a fresh Illustration
of the perfidy of the Republican party. -
Mr.. Sheppard of Texas bitterly attacked
the measure.
Amusing indeed were the ponderous
assurances of Mr.. Taft that the Repub-
lican party would revise the tariff down.
ward" he said. His volcanic predeces-
sor realized the hopelessness of such a
proposition and evaded it to the last.
Is it possible that the cOmplacent Mr..
Taft will succeed where the bifocal wind
that recently swept from Washington TO
Oyster Bay failed utterly? / say to you
there is more real power in one scent
cigar between the iron lips of Joseph G..
Cannon, the stand-pat leader, than in the
big sticks of a whole regiment of Roose-
velts and Tafts."
Mr. Sheppard said the Payne bill was
in no way a sincere and enactable revi-
sion of the tariff and asserted that it
was a declaration of commercial war with
all the world.
He deplored the failure to remove or
reduce the protection which he claimed
vas afforded to the Standard Oil COM
pany by the Dingley law.
Menace to the People.
AS to the hundreds Of others that
menace the peoples means and liberties. -
he remarked, 1t should be said that the
limited and missionary reductions of the
Payne bill affect them in no material sense.
In marked contrast to the favoritsm
shown to the trusts, to the failure to in
crease charges on alcoholic liquor, are
the new taxes on tea and coffee, which
fall directly on the Masses.
He said that it was true that coffee
was technically on the free list. but ar
gued that the cOunteTvailing provision
made il dutiable.
Mr.. Cole of Ohio charged that it al
ways had been the cry of the Democracy
that American markets should be opened
H-s4Ha 4
now cOntended that to invite a CONNER
cisI war would be disastrous to American
industries. That. he said, was contrary
to the whole history of the nation. Never.
he declared, had its standard been low
cred below that Of any competing ma
ton.
The burden of Mr.. Coles remarks was
plea for better protection for the wool
industry than is provided in the Payne
bill.
Maiden Speech of Texan
In his maiden speech as a member Of
tariff policy of the Republican party
He maintained that the levyiug OF any
tax not FOR the purpose of raising reve-
nue. to maintain the government. or for
temporary enCOura cement of the interests
OF the country. was an exploitation of tax
payers Mr.. Dies in particular attacked
he provisions of the bill relating to farm
implements. He said the people of the
south did not object to d reasonable tax
on such products. but they did object to
placing the proceeds of the TAX in the
pockets of the Interns tional Harvester
company.
Mr. Custerman Of Wisconsin opposed the
countervaiIng duty on OIL which, he ar
gued had enabled the Standard Oil COM
Dany to sell oil in England at from to
cents a gallon less than in the United
States. He declared he had received pos
tive assurance that that feature of the
Dingley bill would be omitted from the
Payne bill.
But" he said. holding up a copy of
the measure. here is the little joker
standing before me in all its wickedness.
ready to take at least $15, coo out of
the pockets Of our people and adding it