The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-05-26
CLARK N SPEECH
SOUNDS KEYNOTE
Democratic House Leader At
tacks Payne-AIdrich Bill.
SAYS PUBLIC is TRIcKED
Foss Of Massachusetts Also Denounees
Tariff Measure--BoutelI Of I'LL
nois Comes to Its
Defense.

Washington. May 3.-Denouncins
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law as
Transparent humbug" attacking the
tariff views Of Representative Payne
and vigorously assailing President
Taft for his support of that law, Rep
resentative Champ Clark of Missouri
leader OF the Democratic minority, de
livered in the house what is regarded
as the Democratic keynote speech OF
the coming congressional campaign.
Mr.. Clark had prepared his address
with great care and spoke at length
giving facts and figures in support Of
his contention that the tariff had not
been honestly revised and that the Re
publican majority in congress had en-
deavored to trick the people.
Spectacle Without Parallel.
During this tariff debate we wit
messed a spectacle perhaps without
parallel In the annals of congress,
said Mr.. Clark. First we heard the
gentleman from New York (Mr
Payne), chairman of the ways and
means committee and the Republican
floor leader, make vitriolic attack on
the speech of Jonathan Prentiss Dol
liver, a Republican senator from Iowa
recently delivered in the city of Des
Moines, both speeches being upon the
subject of the tariff, a subject 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, l will say for him. I have for
years regarded him as the greatest
orator in the Republican party.
Turns Attention to Taft.
Il will now drop the gentleman
from New York." exclaimed Mr.. Clark
land go after bigger game-to-wit:
the president of the United States. He
is not only the chief traveller but IL
the chief spokesman for his party. He
deserves to be treated with candoI
and respect, but have perfect right
to discuss his utterances as would
iIuOSG VI Gil oNnOt puDlAS. Ahdh. sEa. 81 aa-.
Il wish to call attention of all con
cerned to the fact that the. presiden
said on August 5, 1909, that the bill
is not perfect bill or complete
compliance with the promises made
strictly interpreted t a- ii
Il submit this. declaration of thu
president is a fat contradiction of the
assertion of the gentleman from New
York that his bill is perfect com
pliance with the promises made priol
to the election of 1908. ..-. ......s..
in September, 1909. the presiden
went on an extensive speechmakini
tour, beginning with a speech in Bos
ton, in which he eulogized Senator
Aldrich to the skies. That was thu
first serious wound which the presi
dent inflicted upon his own popularity
for. rightly or wrongly-and l thinl
rightly-the American people hole
Senator Aldrich largely responsible
for the enormity of the Payne-Aldricl
tariff bil:"
Foss Attacks Bill. ...
Representative Foss, the newly
elected Democratic representative
from Massachusetts, also made rad
ical attack upon the Payne-Aldricl
tariff. ... .- .,s 1885, -.
Mr.. Foss denounced the Republican
policy of protection as an unmitigate'
evil; fayed the Republican leaders
h. rnufcfnn of fhI
tariff to be "a deliberate bunko gam
from start to finish" pronounced II
favor of reciprocity, and demanded al
extra session of new congress" a
the earliest opportunity to revise tn
tariff. r'a
The speaker. announced himself a
favoring the creation of tariff com
mission, but he wanted the commits
sion composed of non-pRrtisan me-
whose report would be made direct +
congress rather than to the president
5outeII Defends the Tariff.
Representative Boutell Of Illinois,
member of the ways and means CON
mittee, delivered a speech, In whicl
he defended and described the effect
of the Aldrich tarif law from tn
standpoint OF the ultimate consumer,
as he said. W
Criticising the Democratic tariff a
titude again the producers, Mr.. Boz
tell said Democrats In the past ha'
agonized over the producers, but thei
hearts now were bleeding for the cor
sumers. HstS I,
1.-THE poor old Democratic donkey
was pictured by Mr.. Boutsll as wall
! Ing the slack rope Of diseontent. trj
ing to ,fQpy one ear toward the prt
dncer with !, promise of increase
prices, and the other ear to- the cor
sumer with assurance OF lower prices.
Mr., Boutell compared the differenc
between what given articles cost tn
American manufacturer TO produc
aud what they cost the ultimate cot
sumner, In order TO show the high cos
was not due to the tariif.