Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-25
KEYNOTE THE PARTY
SPOKEN ON THE TARIFF

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1873 and 1907 were under republican
administrations and under tariff laws
passed by the republican party, while
the soup houses of 1898. through the
outgrOWth of panic caused by a re-
publican tariff bill. sprang up when a
democratic president was in Office. -
The gentlemen declared shey put
Up the tariff on fosiery and as a cor
sequence the price of hosiery has
gone down. He declared they put
up the tariff on wines and as a con
sequence the price OF wines has gone
up. He sees 90 be playing both ends
against the middle. for it must be ap-
parent 10 any sane man that, if putting
up the tariff on hosiery made the
price Of hosiery go down then by the
same logic putting up the tarie IN
vine would have made the price OF
wine so down"
Consistency. thou art a jewel,
Mr.. Clark then attacked the sugar
schedules of the Payne-Aldricb tariff
law and ridiculed republican claims
OF benefitting the people by lowering
the tariff on refined sugar. The re
ductio-. he said. was so small. that
every man with common sense knows
that The consumer will never be ben
Gifted by it in any way whatsoever
The gentleman from New York.
continued Mr.. Clark. seems TO argue
that to lower the tariff on an article
the higher win be the price to the
consumer, and vice versa That, Of
course. is utterly preposterous. and
fully answered by asking the simple
question. If the tariff does not put
mp the price OF any article. what do
the proponents of the tariff want win
ito 70 prove his absurd theory he
cites the fact that though the tariff
ON lumber was reduced from 81 per
thousand 90 one dollar and a quarter
per thousand. the price of lumber has
gone MP. Il is true that before the
last of Us got out Of Washington in
August, 1909. the lumber trust marked
Mp the price OF lumber a dollar a
thousand. and II the Deartment of JUS
tice had done its duty, it would by
this time, have filled the tails so full
of lumber trust magrates that their
arms and legs would stick ont of the
windows and doors. It seems to be
a pleasant occupation to convict
farmers and members of labor unions
for violating the antitrust law, but
that law appears to be absolutely a
dead letter when it is violated BY big
criminals"
In one breath the gentleman from
New York glorifies his bill because it
shuts out importation. in the next
he gIorifies it because it has increased
impSrtations. The gentleman from
New York must take one horn or the
other"
The speaker 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 woolen schedule Of
the tariff law Mr.. Clark ridiculed the
idea that the present tariff law was
responsible for the increased impor-
tation of wool in that. he said. the
tariff o1 No. 1 and No. 2 wool was
the same in the Payne law as in the
Dingiey law
The Dingley and Payne tariff bills.
said Mr. Clark. have forced another
sort OF expectation which grieves every
lover of cur country, and that is the
expectation OF good America1 citizens
to the British Northwest. Last year
$500 Americans. chiefly from the
Mississippi valley. expatriated them
selves, largely because they could pur-
chase an products. including American
farm implements and other articles
manufactured in America more cheap
~ in the British possessions than
they can purchase them at home.
These emigrarts from the United
States are among our best citizens
md this departure is a great and ser
i0us loss 20 the republic. for they are
-0ing at the rate Of nearly 100000
per annum."
Mr. Clark next took the matter OF
the tarin on stockings. ald said thai
fhe raise in tariff rates on that article
was not for TIE purpose Of aiding un-
employed women. as Dir. Payne had
lut H. bit for the purpose Of giving
the American manufacturers mon
opoly ON the stocking trade.
The gentleman from New York.
declared Mr.. Clark farther says that