The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-06-25
VS.. ALDRICH.
BY sAVOYARD.

lheprOuuceu from tne NdSHVllle Ddll-
ner.-
Washington, D. c., June 19.-Never
was Ed. Carmack so missed by real
Democrats as now. What reinforce
ment he would be to them in this tariff
debate in the United States Senate! This
is general remark at this Capitol, where
he made a name unsurpassed for elo-
quence in delivery and power in argu-
ment. What a thorn he would be in
the side of the Lodge, and what with
ering sarcasm he would have for the
protection of Democrats, who have re-
iected an opportunity as propitious as
that which came to the old party after
the passage of the Mckinley tariff of
1890.
The cotton schedule has been before
the Senate for some days, and it was
the work of Republicans-Nelson, Dol
liver and LaFollette-that has laid bare
the infamies Of a taxation of 52.32 per
cent. on an article of universal con-
sumption. Indeed 80 per cent. of the
items of the bill enjoy an absolutely
prohibitive tariff, and the other 10 per
cent will be further protected in the
bill they are Matching. Just think of
| annual Ivy
turn out product over 81 900, 900, 900
in value, and the imported stuff is
worth only a beggarly 500, 200, 600
That is not protection; that is a prohibi-
! ton that amounts to an absolute mo-
nopoly. No wonder New EnA and cot
ton mills declare dividends of &C per
cent In this connection, everyone
should read Cores reply to Lodge.
There is not man wearing a billed
shirt" in the United States, or wo-
man with a pair of cotton stockings on
her shanks, who was not forced to pay
exorbitaut prices for them to pro-
tect" the cotton spinners of New Eng
land, who discharged their American
labor for French Canadians, and then
discharged the Canadians for Greeks, if
opportunity came; they would dis
charge the Greeks for Japs, and later,
the Japs for Chinese, and that, too,
when more than 90 per cent. of their
present labor is machinery-steam or
electric-that is as much of pauper
in this country as it is in Europe, or in
Asia.
When Aldrich championed the
Mckinley bill, nineteen years ago, he
found in John G. Carlisle formidable
adversary, who opposed the textile
schedules of that monstrous measure,
and on the debate of the Dingley bill,
another kentucky Senator, William
Lindsay, grappled with him in a dis
cussion of the double and cumulative
taxes levied. Carlisle and Linsay both
utterly overthrew their adversary, but
they did it like lawyers in the court
room. Every word was dignity in
carnate, and there was no excitement.
Nelson, Dolliver, LaFollette and Gore
proceed in different way. There is
sting in their arguments that tortures
the too powerful Senator from Rhode
Island, and in all his long service in
this Capitol he was never initiated, or
initiable, until now, and he has got it
mighty bad.
Why did he not bring in a report
with his bill? There is but one answer.
There are things in it he does not in
tend the Senate shall understand. Never
were two statesmen better fashioned to
plague each other than Nelson w. Aid
rich and Robert NJ. LaFollette. They
have one attribute in common and de-
gree sufficient to make the fortune of
soldier on the field of tenacity
of purpose LaFollette looks on Aid
rich as monstrosity of depraved gov
ernment. Aldrich looks on LaFollette
as the quintessence of nuisance in de-
bate. The Rhode Island man never
speaks until he is forced to it to save
his bacon. The Wisconsin man is
never so happy as when on his legs ex-
pounding reform. Aldrich is an
aristoerat and believes it is best for the
poor as well as for the rich for men Of
intellect and men OF property to CON
duct the Government. LaFollette is a