The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
TARIFF FLAYED
BY CHAMP CLARK
Payne=Aldrich Legislation Is
Transparent Bugaboo' Says
the Minority Leader
Keynote Speech of Democratic
Congressional Campaign Is
Delivered in House

arlH views OF 1tS author, Representa-
i've Payne (RepD of New York. ant
assailing President Taf
'or his support of that law, Represent
ltive Champ Clark of Missouri, leaie
IF the democratic minority, today de
ivered in the house what is regardet
rs the democratic keynote speech o
he coming congressional campaign.
Clark had prepared his address witt
great care and spoke at length, givin,
facts and figures in support of his con
tention that the tariff had not beel
honestly revised and that the repub
ican majority in congress had endeav
0red to trick the people. Clark ais,
paid his respects incidentally to th
S250,000 item in the sundry civil ap
bill for the creation of ;
-ariff board. He said in part:
PAYNE OF NEW YORK GRILLED
During this debate we have wit
messed spectacle perhaps with
out parallel in the annals of con-
gress. First, we heard the gem
tleman from New York (Mr.
Payne), chairman of the ways and
means committee and the repub-
lican floor leader, make a vitriolic
attack on the speech of the Hon.
Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver, a re-
publican senator from Iowa, re-
Moines, both speeches being upon
the subject of the tariff-a sub
Ject which will not down at any
mans bidding, and which, like the
poor, we have with US always
Nobody appointed me to defend
Senator Dolliver. This much. how
ever, vii say for him: / have for
years regarded him as the greatest
orator In the republican party. 1
would travel far to hear a debate
on the stump between him and the
gentleman from New York. When
IL was over | am certain that the
country, for considerable dis
lance around, would be fairly satu-
rated with oil that it would be
dangerous to strike a match in the
ne1ghborhood, and it would not be
oil out of Delivers corporosity.
The next day we heard the gen
lien IIeeman from Michigan (Fordney),
VINO is republican of high degree,
deliver a most bitter and vicious
assault upon Senator Beveridge.
the republican boss of Indiana, on
account OF speech delivered re-
Gently at Indianapolis Listening
10 these attacks, l recalled the
words of the psalmist:
Behold, how good and pleasant it
Is Tor brethren to dwell in unity
question now ringing through the
land, w hat is republican,
IN making a speech in defense of
ms tariff bill Mr.. Chairman Payne
appeared to be performing a dis
agreeable stunt. He did not exhibit
his usual enthusiasm or his old
time felicity of expression. He ap-
peared to be In about as cheerful a
frame or mind as lawyer appoint
ed by the court defending, without
lee, man that he feels certain will
De convicted and hanged.
MI. Chairman Payne was evident
~ In very fretful state. He also
dlsease, intermittent forgetfal-
ness. He. remembered with great
Vlvldness the soup houses of 1893
ana 1894, but when it came to the
soup houses of 1907, very recent
occurrence, and the soup houses of
1873, his memory failed him utterly.
The gentlemen declared they put
up the tariff on hosiery and, as
consequence, the price Of hosiery
has gone down. He declared they
put up the tariff on wines and, as a
consequence. the price of wines has
gone up. He seems to be playing
both ends against the middle, for it
must be apparent to any sane man
that if putting up the tariff on
hosiery made the price of hosiery
go down, then, by the same logic.
putting up the tariff on wine would
have made the price of wine go
down.
Clark attacked the sugar schedul
# the Payne-Aldrich tariff law an
fdfculed republican claims of benefit
ng the people by lowering the tarit
IN refined sugar. The reduction, h
'a1d, was SO small, that every ma
With common sense, knows that th
consumer will never be benefited by i
n any way whatsoever"
INTERFERENCE OPPOSED
Clark declared that the Payne tarit
lad not reduced the price of clothine
'ut had increased it and resulted in
hoddier class of goods.
The speaker turned his attention t
President Taft and contrasted the pres
dents Winona speech with a previou
me in which the president said th
ariff bill was not complete com
,liance with the promises of the re
publican platform
Clark inveighed against executive in
erference in legislation. In discussin,
he wood pulp and print paper investi
cation last year, in which Mann of I'LL
lois, one of the speakers chief lieu
enants, dissented from the conferenc
'eport, Clark declared he had ofte
wondered why, while the republican
we're reading insurgents out of TIL
,arty, they had not taken a whack a
Mann.
Clark then devoted himself to tn
;teel schedule of the tariff law an
President Tafts Endorsement of 1t.
TARIFF REVISION "BUNKO GAME,
Representative Eugene N. Foss, tn
lewly elected democratic Representative
rom Massachusetts, former republi
an, and a leading manufacturer. to
lay signalized the beginning of hi
lctive participation in the house with
adical attack upon the Payne-AI
ariff. He denounced the republical
policy of protection as an unmitigate
vii, fiayed the republican leaders, de
Jared the recent revision of the tarif
O be "a deliberate bunko game from
tart to finish,' pronounced in favor O
and demanded an extra ses
ion of new congress" at the earlies
to revise the tariff.
''The people are indeed demandin,
said Foss, but the protec
ion they are demanding is protection
from the Payne-Aldrich tariff"
The speaker announced himself A
avoring the creation of a tariff com
mission, but he wanted the commissio,
omposed of nonpartisan men whose re
,ort would be made direct to congress
ather than to the president
COURT MARTIAL FACES
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