The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-19
REPRESENTATIVE HAMILTON
TELLS ABOUT The TARIEE

washington, May ia t1riu
speech, snappy with epigram, bpist-
ling with aphcris.n. preaching the
doctrine of the simple life as the bull
wark OF civilization and protection as
the producer of prosperity. was ieliv-
cred in the House TODAY by Represea-
tative Hamilton, of Michigan. 1t pic
tured nine months of increasing re-
venues and encouragement of Amer
ican industry under tle Payne bill. II
drew or the legitimate spoils of the
trade and the policies and declara-
tions Of foreign statecraft as the jus
tifieation of the protection policy. 1t
attributed the high cost Of living to
increased gold production to demand
clowding supply. to extravaganza OF
feverisA generation and to almost
everything else but the tariff.
Mr.. Hamilton is chairman of the
territories committee of the House
and ais speech is likely to figure con
spicnously in the next republican 1a-
tional campaign propaganda. He fa-
vored tine creation of a bureau in the
Department of Commerce and Labor
20 permanently carry on the work now
being dcne ny the tariff board. sup
plernenting it with corps of foreign
speaking experts the reports of whose
Investigations OF selling prices and la
bon costs at home and abroad would
furnish a standard of measure of con-
nicting claims in the framing of a tar
if.
He contended that the tariff plank
in the republican platform provided
both upward ard downward limits and
that by SO much as you raise duties
above the difference in the cost OF
production ut home and abroad, after
due allowance for the foreign Gust IN
of selling goods cheaper abroad than
at ilome. by SO much you permit do
nestle monopolies to overcharge do
nestle consumers"
"a few years ago." said Mr.. Ha1Djl
ton. boys wore out their fathers old
clothes made over according to q
neiehborhood pattern now they have
to have store clothes and socks to
match their neckties and a college
veil man was considered well off
IL he kept a horse and buggy; now ne
has to have an automobile If he has to
mortgage the place to get it, Tae as
erage business man does business
with a telephone at one ear, a steno-
srapher at each elbow. a telegraph of
fce next door, a wireless station with
in easv reach. an automobile at the
door and before MANY years he will
want a flying machine to avoid the
crush in streets below.
1--WE now have 100000 factories,
employing 100000 people, keeping
time to the demands of 90.o0O00o
folks. The protection policy has built
up an annual factory output of $l3.-
900, ,006, 900. raying out $4,000, 100000
In waFes and has kept the machinery
of protection in motion until il has
developed n horsepower equivalent to
ninety million men. The country new
er was more prosperous.
"Tle farmer has been caricatured
hv cheap city hurnorists. preyed on by
grasshoppers, focusts and money
sharks, and .nisled by predatory poll
ticians. Now he has come into his
own and I am glad of it. He is one
of the safest. sorlndest. cleanest ele-
ments in our civilization. The city
would have dried up. rotted or explod-
ed but for the country that came into
town day before yesterday Too
much of the country has been coming
into town though. The farmer is re
teiving only a fair price but middle
men are charging too much for hand
ling and trying to attribute the re-
sponsibility to the farmer. The time
has gone by however when t1rifty
gentlemen can take toll of the farm
CT out of the consumer and fool both
at the same time
Mr.. Hamilton charged the cheap