The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-05-26
Vital Washington News.
By Clyde II Tavenner.

/ 1t was upward by approximate
LII per cent!
Ii 1t has ALREADY resulted in in
creased prices.
II Thus did Champ Clark of Missouri
leader of the Democrats in House o
| Representatives, thunder his reply I
| the speeches of President Taft AM
/ other Republican leaders who are at
tempting to feed disguised publ,
on the assertion that the Payne-Al
drich bill was 'the best tariff bill
ever passed.
| Mr.. Clark'S speech had been care
fully prepared. 1t was complete anC
effective answer TO the many bald
misrepresentation that have beer
manufactured by the Republicans
who are desperately in need of cam
paign material of any sort. Hundreds
of thousands of copies of the minori-
ty leaders, great speech will be mail.
ed out by the Democrats. 1t is practi.
cally a handbook on the Payne-Al-
drich bill.
To start with, the MiSs0urian de-
nounced the proposed appropriation
of s250,0OO of the peoples money
for the purpose of enabling the Re-
publicanS to gather data with which
to attempt to prove that the new
tariff law is God-Send 10 the coun-
try.
\ He condemned the joker in the
tariff bill. He deplored a condition
which permits the steel trust and
other monoplies to sell their manu-
featured products cheaper to foreign
ers than to Americans,
1T is true" Mr.. Clark admitted,
that we reduced the tariff on lumber,
and that the lumber trust marked up
the price of lumber 81 per thousand
feet before we got out of Washing
ton. And il the department Of Justice
had done its duty it would by this
time have filled the iailS so full of
lumber trust magnates that their
arms and legs would stick out at the
windows and 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 wedding
day and to the days on which my
children were born.
"My Democratic brethren, at last,
after hard trials and great tribula-
tons, thank God we stand here
shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart,
solid as stone wall, inspired 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 dissolving view.
ooh, yes, my Republican friends!
you will meet us in November, be-
cause you cannot help yourselves.
And when you do meet us in Novem-
Der you will receive the bloodiest
licking you have had since 1892. Up,
guards, and at them! "
Although the colossal sum of
S., 600, 800 is carried by the sundry
civil appropriation bill for the MAIN
tenance of soldiers homes, the Re-
publicans are forcing the old soldiers
7 of the nation to subsist on from II to
IA cents worth of food per day.
An inspector of the war depart
ment reported that the food in the
soldiers home was no more in guam
tity than that supplied to prisoners in
the federal penitentiaries.
An idea of the wasteful methods
employed in conducting the homes
may be had from the fact that al
though the cost of maintenance more
than doubled in the ten years be-
tween 1893 and 1908, the number OF
soldiers cared for had increased but
: Z per cent.
' LET your imagination spread this
{ outlay of IA cents over days food
: supply" suggested Representative
D Cox of Ohio, "and you have an &C.
I curate picture of how the nation
| heroes are being fed. Observe the