Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-05-24
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but that law appears to be absolutely
a dead letter when 1t is violated by big
criminals.
In one breath the gentleman from New
York glorifies his bin because it shuts
out importations. In the next he glorificS
1t because it has increased importations.
The gentleman from New York must
take one horn or the other"
The speaker declared that while Ameri-
can citizens would prefer to use Ameri-
can-made goods and articles rather than
foreign productions, they were unwilling
to pay. exorbitant prices to American
! manufacturers.
THE WOODEN SCHEDULE.
Taking up the wooden schedule of the
tariff law, Mr.. Clark ridiculed the idea
that the present tariff law was RESPONSE
bile for the increased importations of
wool in that, he said, the tariff on Nos. 1
and wool was the same in the Payne
law as in the Dingley law.
1.-The Dingley and Payne tariff bills,
said Mr.. Clark, have forced another
sort of expectation, which grieves every
lover of our country, and that is the ex-
portation of good American citizens to
, the British northwest. Last year 5000
americans, chiefly from the Mississippi
valley, expatriated themselves, largely
! because they could purchase all products,
including American farm implements and
other articles manufactured in America,
more cheaply in the British possessions
than they can purchase them at home
, These emigrants from the Unite States
are among our best citizens and this de-
parture is a great and serious loss 10 the
republic, for they are going at the rate
of nearly 100000 per annum."
Mr.. Clark next took the matter of the
tariff on stockings and said that the raise
in tariff rates on that article was not for
the purpose of aiding unemployed women,
as Mr.. Payne had put II. but for the pur-
pose of giving the American manufac-
turers monopoly on the stocking trade.
THE gentleman from New York" de-
I, olared Mr.. Clark, further says that he
only raised these cheaper grades is
cents per pair and that he would be
ashamed to look an honest working
woman nthe face If he had not stood
for that increase This sounds we'll as
an excuse. but is very misleading. The
book of imports gave the unit value for
the 100000 pairs of the cheapest hose
or stockings at Sc cents per dozen pairs
or cents a pair. The Dingley tariff on
these %, C00,0C0 pairs was AIS cents per
pair, or GIL per cent ad valorem The
raise of Is cents OF, the Payne Aldrich-
Smoot bill will make these same stock
ings cost cents plus 4.7s cents, plus Is
cents, or 14.5S cents per pair, or 1915 per
cent The gentleman from New York
boasts that while raising the tariff on
hosiery he also raised the tariff on whis-
ky and wines. oh, yes? You raised
whisky and other spirits from 1859 per
! cent to S9.15 per cent, while YOU raised
the cheapest stockings from GIL per cent
J to 1913 per cent. and the next two grades
! of cheaper stockings to still higher per
cent"
! Mr.. Clark declared that the Payne tar
III had not reduced the price of clothing
but had increased 1t and resulted in a
! shoddier class of goods. The speaker
then turned his attention to President
Taft.
J GOES AFTER PRESIDENT.
"I will now drop the gentleman from
New York" exclaimed Mr.. Clark land
go after bigger game, to-wit, the presi-
dent OF the United States He is not only
the chief traveller, but is the chief
! spokesman for his party. He deserves to
be treated with candor and respect, but
I have a perfect right to discuss his ut
terances as would those of any other
public man. / wish to call attention of
all concerned to the fact that the presi-
dent said on the 5th Of August, 1909, that
the bill is not a perfect bill or q COM
plete compliance with the promises made
strictly interpreted. I submit that that
declaration of the president is a fiat con-
tradiction of the assertion of the gentle
man from New York that his bill is a per-
feet compliance with the promises made
prior to the election of 1908. In Septem-
Der, 1903, the president went on an ex-
tensive speech making tour, beginning
with a speech in Boston, in which he
eulogized Senator Aldrich to the skies.
That was the first serious wound which
! -
ularity, for right or wrong, and I think
right, the American people hold Senator
Aldrich largely responsible for the enor-
nifty of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. On
the 18th of September. 1909, the president
said in Winona, Mimi: ON the whole,
however. 1 am bound to say that I think
the Payne tariff bill is the best tariff bill
that the Republican party ever passed
When the American people read that
declaration the next morning and re-
membered the utterance which I have
quoted from the presidents statement of
August 5, they wondered what change
had come over the spirit of his dream.
They could not reconcile the two state
ments They knew that the tariff bill
had not changed since August 5, 1909, and
they marveled as to how a bill. which
the president declared on that day 10 be
neither a perfect bill nor a complete
compliance with the promises made,
could on the 18th day of September be
the best tariff bill that the Republican
party ever passed. All the perfumes of
'Araby the Blest' cannot sweeten the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill to please the
dainty nostrils CT the people. They be-
lieve il to be the worst tariff bill ever
passed by the American congress- That
speech was the serious wound number
two, which the president inflicted on his
own popularity"
Mr Clark then devoted himself to the.
steel schedule OF the tariff law and
President Taft's Endorsement of 1t. lie
declared that what the people wanted in