Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1910-05-27
Vital Washington News.
BY TAvENNER,
Special Correspondent of The Sentinel.
Washington, D. C., May %, 1910.

Washington, D. C., May %, 1910.
The Payne-Aldrich tariff revision wa.
upward
1t was upward by approximately LII pei
cent
1t has already resulted in increased
prices.
Thus did Champ Clark. of Missouri. lead
er of the Democrats in the House of Rep.
resentatives, thunder his reply to the
speeches of President Taft and other Re.
publican leaders who are attempting &c
feed disguised public on the assertion
that the Payne-Aldrich bill was "the best
tariff bill ever passed"
Mr.. Clark's speech had been carefully
prepared. II was complete and effective
answer to the many bald misrepresenta-
tons that have been manufactured by the
Republicans, who are desperately in need
of campaign material of any sort. Hun
dreds Of thousands of copies of the mi
nority leaders great speech will be mailed
out by the Democrats. II is practically a
handbook on the Payne Aldrich bill.
To start with, the Missourian denounced
the proposed appropriation of $3.50, 900 OF
the peoples money for the purpose of en-
abling the Republicans to gather data with
which TO attempt to prove that the new
tariff law is God-send to the country.
He condemned the joker in the tariff
bill. He deplored a condition which per-
mits the steel trust and other mOnopolies
to sell their manufactured products cheaper
to foreigners than to Americans
ut is true" Mr. Clark admitted, that we
reduced the duty on lumber, and that the
lumber trust marked up the price of lum-
Der 81 per thousand feet before we got out
of Washington. And II the department OF
justice had done its duty il would by this
time have filled the jails so full of lumber
trust magnates that their arms and legs
would stick out at the windows and the
doors.
"Mr. Payne, the Republican floor leader,
says that he and his cohorts will meet us
in November. Glory be glory be never
looked forward to any day with such joy
as do to the first Tuesday after the first
Monday of November except to my we'd
ding day and the days on which my chill
dren were born.
MY Democratic brethren, at last, after
hard trials and great fluctuations, thank
God we stand here shoulder to shoulder,
heart to heart. solid as stone wall, in
spired by the hopes of coming victory.
Democrats are getting together everywhere,
while the Republican party presents to the
astonished gaze of men the appearance of
a dissolving view.
"0h, yes, my Republican friends You
will meet US in November because you
can not help yourselves. And when you
do meet us in November you will receive the
bloodiest licking you have had since 1892
up. guards, and at them ;"
III-FED SOLDIERS
Although the colossal sum of $4,000
900 is being spent annually by the gov
eminent for the maintenance of soldiers
homes, the Republicans are forcing the old
soldiers of the nation to subsist on from II
to IA cents worth Of food per day.
An inspector of the War Department re-
ported that the food in the soldiers homes
was no more in quantity than that supplied
the prisoners in the federal penitentiaries
An idea Of the wasteful methods EN-
plOyed in conducting the homes may be
had from the fact that although the cost
Of maintenance more than doubled in the
10 years between 1898 and 1908 the mum.
Der Of soldiers cared for had increased but
per cent.
Let your Imagination spread this out
lay Of Ia cents over days food supply,
suggested Representative Cox, of Ohio,
land you have an accurate picture Of how
the nations heroes are being fed Observe
the evening meal, and you will appreciate
what ii was that moved Inspector Brewster
to pity and inspired his recommendation
that there be at least bowl Of milk added
to the scant evening fare"
The WIDows MITE TAKEN FROM HER.
Frederick M. Kerby. the young interior
Department stenOgrapher who was dis
missed because he admitted that Oscar
Lawler. an appOintee of Ballinger had
practically dictated President Taft's letter
exonerating Ballinger. was the sole support
of mother, wife and babe He had worked
hard and conscientously for five years to
reach the position he occupied when dis
missed.
Kerby was positive that he would be dis
charged IL he told his story. He thought
the matter over carefully for several weeks.
II concluded that any allegiance owed
Mr. Ballinger." said Kerby was cancelled
absolutely when, by his silence he became
party TO an attempt to smother the
truth"
By making his exposures kerby was pro-
badly treacherOus TO Ballinger and Balm
gers plans for turning over Alaska coal
lands to the Morgan uggenheim syndi-
cate. But il is difficult to see how he was
treacherOus TO the public. In whose service
he was employed.
DARNGLY UBIQUITOUS.
THE new rates and cassfcations in the
cotton schedule, says Senator DOlliver, Re-
publican. Operate to increase duties very
materially on most cotton cloths used for
women's and children's summer wear and
on mercerized cottons. In fact. the Al
drich revision Of this schedule was one of
the most daringly iniquitous features Of
the new tariff. The production of Agri-
cultural implements is largely In the hands
Of trust. and the trifiing reduction Of s
per cent. on these products was merely for
the purpose of attempting to fool the farm
ing community"
A LOST OPPORTUNITY
In his speech on the tariff Champ Clark
declared that II President Taft had vetoed
the Payne-Aldrich-SmO tariff bill. he
could have written his name among the
country's greatest benefactOrs But he
let the golden opportunity 90 by unim-
proved" added the minority leader. "and
1t will never return TO him as long as the
grass grows or water runs
Commander julius A. Pratt, Post
No. 143, Dept, ILL.,, q. A. r.