El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-21
CHAMP CLARK ATTACKS THE TARIFF
BILL; WANTS AMENDED BILL At ONCE

certain will be convicted and hanged.
Clearly, it was to him q repulsive Job
but it had to be gone through with
some way. He appeared to be in the
frame of mind of Macbeth when about
to murder Duncon: IF it were done,
when its done then 'twere well it were
done quickly
Mr.. Payne also seems to be afflicted
with new disease, Intermittent forget
fulness.' He remembered with great
vividness the soup houses or 1898 and
1894. but when it came to the souD
houses of 1907, a very recent occur
renee and the soup houses Of 1873, his
memory failed him utterly. The soup
houses Of 1873 and 1907 were under Re
pubiican administration and under tariff
laws passed by the Republican party.
Payne's Logic.
The gentleman declared they put
up the tariff on hosiery and as a con-
seouence the price of hosiery has gone
down He declared they put up the tar
if on wines and as consequence the
price Of wines has gone up He seems
10 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
I'D the tariff on wine would have mace
the price of wine go down consistency
thou art a jewel ="
IF the tariff does not put up the
price of an article, what do the pro-
ponenents OF the tariff want with II Z.
Mr.. Payne cites the fact that, though
the tariff on lumber was reduced from
80 per thousand TO one dollar and a
quarter per thousand, the price OF lum-
Der has gone up. 1t is true. that before
the last OF US get out OF washington
in August, 1909, the lumber trust mark
ed I'D the price of lumber a dollar a
thousand. and If the department OF JUS
tice had done its duty, it would by this
time. have filled the jails so full OF
lumber trust magnateS that their arms
and legs would stick out of the win
dows and doors. It seems to De pleas
ant occupation TO convict farmers and
members of labor unions for violating
the antitrust law. but that law appears
70 be absolutely q dead letter when II
is violated by big criminals.
Wool 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 No
l and No. . wool was the same in the
Payne law as in the Dingley law.
The Dfngley and Payne tarlII DlllS,
said Mr. Clark, have forced another
sort of expectation which grieves+ every
lover of our country, and that is the
expectation Of good American citizens
to the British northwest Last year &c.
600 Americans. chiefly from the Missis-
sippi valley, expatriated themselves.
largely because they could purchase all
products including American farm I'M
pIements and other articles manufac-
tured in America more cheaply in the
British possessions than they can pur-
chase them at home"
Mr. Clark declared that the Payne
tariff had not reduced the price Of
clothing, but had increased it and re-
suited in a shoddier class Of goods The
speaker then turned his attention to
president Taft.
Cites Taft's Words.
Il will now drop the gentleman from