Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-29
PEclAL= wAsHlNcToN> COR
REsPoNpENcE.
SPECIAL
By Clyde H. Tayenner.

Why is dt that the price of ar y
icles, on which the tariff was not . .
advanced, has increased since the y
passage of the Payne-Aldrich bill? u
/. put this question to United States y
Senator Moses E. Glapp of Minnesota Y
one of the genuine progressive Re-
publicans of Congress
81 can answer that question:" re-
piled Senator Clapp. 'in less than
Two minutes, and no one will sue
contradict my statement.
'.In the Payne-Aldrich revision of
the tariff the rates on scores upon
scores of articles were advanced.
Those increases have advanced the
price of everything; yes, have in
creased the price OF articles on which
the tariff was not changed.
You can't raise the cost of living
to a man who is producing something
to sell, without forcing that man to
raise correspondingly the price OF
what he has to sell.
Suppose both Of us are in bued-
ness, and that each has ito use WHAT /
the other produces. Suppose the tar
If an the article handle is increas,
ed, while the tariM on the article you
handle is not Increased. BY virtue
Of my Increased Protection, force
you ito pay increased prices. What
are YOU going to do about vt? What
MUST you do about it? Answer: you
MUST increase the price of what you
have to- sell! And that's Just tho
way 1t works out all along the line.
and in the end all OF the Increases
fall upon the broad shoulders of the
consumer
But you will hear it said CON
lstantly With reference to something
! on which price has been advanced.
4 .Oh, that isn't in the tariff at all.
That increase has\nothing to do with
1.-THE tariff. But the fact is tariff re-
vision upward on a few articles
! reaches ali along the line.
& THE new tariff law has cost, and
: lis costing the American people mil.
! lions ON millions Of dollars, i'm in
creased cost of living. And II thu
e Payne-Aldfich bill had been beaten
: those millions would have been saw
~ ad Al, tho N,annIa5,, 5.tf5s tsd II. 9s
Battleships are Expensive.
II Congress has authorized two NOR
= battleships. 1t is estimated eacl
i ship will cost 100000 to build, an.
n Isl. 0OO, 900 a year during its 20-yea
It life1time to maintain The aggregat
n ultimate cost of each ship, as a mat
Q ter OF fact, is, therefore $32.O00,0 900.
3 The cost of each ship would bu,
IT 5000 farms at $4,000 each; 1T woul'
= construct 1000 churches throughor
e the country at 500, 900 each; Ut woul'
+ furnish the means OF edncatio,
Il lthrough a fo,m-year course to 1000
It men or women at $500 per annum: |
d would build and equip SO manua
e training schools with necessary tool
and appliances, giving a trade I
a. Is, 600 young people each year: 4
N would build macadam road betwee
1t Chicago and New York, or build an
n equip 40 Y. M. G. A. buildings Z
I magnificent proportions. each buil'
e ing accommodating the young men in
,e1city OF 100000 people!
!, The Republican Platform. 2
: The eve OF the Congressional can
= paigns Is at hand. 1t looks as IL tn
= Republican party proper will bold
:, attempt to bluff the American PEI
I pile on these propositions:
That AldHichism is a good thin
Y for the country.
" That "Unae Joe. belongs to tn
? Abraham Lincoln type ofsstatesmen
e That the Payne-Aldrich tariff bi
Y was the "best tariff bill ever pas
: ed" and is a God-send to the COZ
~ sumers.
- That the expenditure Of more tha
double the sum used by Cleverar
=, to run the government is really ne
- essary for party solidarity.
q What Democracy offere.
.. Here is the, platform the averai
40 Democratic candidate for Congre
az will present to- the people:
Lower duties on the necessaries
ID life.
'e An income tax that large part
- the burden of the cost of goyernme
" may fall upon those best able /
10 bear 1t.
w. Reciprocity with Canada and o
'uN best customers.
az Repeal Of Section 2 Of the Aldri
l lD act that forces tariff wars and
aa taliation
la' Election Of senator's by direct 70
on Oadltime democratic economy
ne public expenditures.
M Restoration of popular governmt
me i'm House Of Representatives.
Roosevelt and Taft.
4he Gibson Gardner. a newspaper c
~ respondent who Joined the Roosew
nm party in Bgypt and accompanied
~ to Washington, and who had aim,
md daily interviews with the ex-preside
~ stakes his reputation on the p
~ diction that the Taft Administered
~ has been SO thoroughly bad II
an Roosevelt will not endorse it in !.
,ar shape, form or manner. He hecla
a. Taft deserted the Roosevelt polio
. :. cold-bloodedly In connection "
Gardeners statement. it is sfgnifi.,
that Roosevelt should have l,een l
az long on American soil following