The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-22
SECTION ONE


The speaker then declared that while
American citizens would prefer to use
American made goods and articles
rather than foreign productions, they
were unwilling to pay exorbitant prices
to American manufacturers.
Taking up the wooden schedule of
the tariff law, Mr.. Clark ridiculed the
idea that the present tariff law was
responsible for the increased impor-
lions OF wool in that, he said, the ia
riff on No 1 and No. wool was the
same in the Payne law as in the Ding
The Dingley and Payne tariff bills"
said Mr.. Clark, have forced another
sort of expectation which grieves every
expectation Of good American citizens
70 the British northwest. Last year
$4,000 Americans. chiefly from the Mis-
sissippi valley, expatriated themselves.
products, including American farm i'm
plements and other articles manufac-
tured in America, more cheaply in the
British possessions than they can pur-
chase them at home. These emigrants
from the United States are among our
best citizens and this departure is
lie, for they are going at the rate Of
nearly 100000 per annum."
Tariff ON Stockings.
Mr.. Clark next took the matter of
the tariff on stockings and said that
the raise in tariff rates on that ar
llC4G was not IOE the purpose OF aid
ing unemployed women, as Mr. Payne
had put it, but for the purpose of Civ
ing the American manufacturers q
monopoly on the stocking trade.
The gentleman from New York." de-
clared 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 in the face if he had not stood
for that increase This sounds well
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 of 8 cents a pair The
Dingley tariff on these 29, 100000 pairs
cent ad valorem. The raise of Is cents
Of the Payne-Aldrich-Sm oot bill will
make these same stockings cost cents
plus AIS cents plus Is cents, or Ass
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 whisky and
wines. Oh, yes. You raised whisky
to 1915 per cent, while you raised the
cheapest stockings. from 67-11 per cent
70 1915 per cent. and the next two
| higher per cent"
Mr.. Clark declared that the Payne
| tariff had not reduced the price of
clothing. but had increased it and re-
suited In a shoulder class of goods.
| The speaker then turned his attention
to President Taft.
Attack on President.
81 will now drop the gentleman from
/ New York, exclaimed Mr.. Clark, and
go after bigger game, to-wit, the Pres
ident of the United States. He is not
/ only the chief traveller, but the chief
! spokesman for his party. He deserves
| to be treated with candor and respect,
| but 1 have perfect right to discuss
/ his utterances as 1 would those of any
| other public man. I wish to call at
/ tentton of all concerned to the fact that
/ the President said on the 9Th of August,
/ 1909, that the bill is not a perfect bill
or complete compliance with the
promises made, strictly Interpreted
submit that that declaration of the
President is q flat contradiction of the
assertion Of the gentleman from New
| York that his bill is a perfect compli-
| the election of 1908. In September,
/ 1909, the President went on an extern
sive 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
the President inflicted upon his own
popularity, for right or wrong, and I
think right, the American people hold
Senator Alrich largely responsible for
the enormity of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill On the 18th of September.
1909, the President said in Winona,
Mimi: On the whole, however, 1 am
DOund TO say InaI L mink the RaXne
tariff bill is the best tariff bill that
the Republican party ever passed.
Some Distortion.
when the American people read
/ that declaration the next morning and
remembered the utterances which
have quoted from the Presidents state
ment of August 3, they wondered what
change had come over the spirit of his
dream. They could not reconcile the
/ two statements. They knew that the
| tariff bill had not changed since Au-
gust 5, 1909, and they marvelled as to
| how a bill, which the President de-
clared on that day to be neither a per
feet 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 of the people They be-
lieve It 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 It. He
! declared that what the people wanted
| IN a revision of the tariff was a reduc-
| ton of prices to a just basis, which is
/ precisely what they did not get"
Makes n Bluff.
Turning to the wooden schedule,
which he said the President admitted