Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-25

he orly raised these cheaper grades
IS cents per pair, and that he would
be ashamed to look an honest work
ing woman in the face if he had not
stood for that Increase This sounds
wei as an excuse but is very mis-
leading. The book OF imports gave the
unit value for the 100000 600 pairs OF
the cheapest hose or stockings at
ninety-six cents per dozen pairs or
eight cents a pair The Dingiey tar
III on these 29.00e.000 pairs was 4.Ts
cents per pair. or Gill per cent ad
valorem. The raise of is cents of the
Payne-Aldrich-smoot bill viii make
these same stockings cost s cents
alus AIS cents. plus is cents. or
l4-5S cents per pair or 1915 per cent
The gentleman from New York boasts
that while raising the tariff On hos
iery he also raised the tariff on whis-
key ard wines. Oh yes? You raised
whiskey and other spirits from 1909
per cent to S9I5 per cent while you
raised the cheapest stockings from
Gill per cent to S9.75 per cent. and
the next two grades of cheaper stock
ings TO still higher per cent"
NJ. Clark then declared that the
Payne tariff bill had not reduced the
price of clothing. but had increased
! It and resulted in a shoddier class OF
goods. The speaker then turned his
attention TO President Tart.
Il will now drop the gentleman
from New York. exclaimed Mr.. Clark.
"ald go after bigger game. 10 wit,
the president Of the United States.
He is not only the chief traveller. but
is the chief spokesman for HIS party.
He deserves to be treated with candor
and respect, but / have a right to
discuss his utterances as I would those
Of any other public man. l wish to
call attention of all concerned to
the fact that the president said on
the fifth of August. 1909. that the
bill is not a perfect bill or a complete
compliance with the promises made.
strictly interpreted. | submit that
that declaration OF the president is
a flat contradiction Of the assertion
OF the gentleman from New York that
bis bin is a perfect compliance with
the promises made prior to the cleo
ton of 1908. In September 1909. the
president went on an extensive speech
making tour. beginning with a speech
In Boston in which he eulogized Sen
ator Aldrich TO the skies. That was
the first serious wound which the
president inflicted upon his own pop
ularity, for, right or wrong. and think
right the American people hold Sen
ater Aldrich largely responsible for the
e1ormity of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
bill. On the 18th Of September, 1909
the president said in Winona. MINI.
On the whole. however. l am bound
To say that ! think the Payne tariff
bill is the best tari6 bill that the
republican party ever passed.
When the American people read
that declaration the next morning and
remembered the utterance which ]
have quoted from the presidents state
ment Of August 5. they wondered what
change had come over the spirit of his
dream. They could not reconcile the
two statements. They knew that the
tariff bill had not changed since August
., 1903, and they marveled as 20 how
bill, which the president declared On
mat day to be neither a perfect bill
nor complete compliance with the
promises made, could on the 18th
day Of September be the best tariff
bill that the republican party ever
passed. All the perfumes of 'Araby
the Blest cannot sweeten the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill TO please the dainty
nostriis Of the people. That speech
was the serious wound number two
which the president inflicted on his
own popularity"
Mr.. Clark then devoted himself to-
tie steel schedule Of the tariff law.
and President Tafts endorsement Of
it. lie declared that what the people
wanted in a revision of the tariff was
a reduction Of the tariff was a reduc-
ton Of prices TO a just basis. which
is precisely what they did not get"
Turning to the WOODEN schedule.
which he said the president admitted
was too high, and facing the repub
lican side of the house. Mr.. Clark ex
claimed
4 have fair proposition to make
to the president and to my republican
friends which viii promote harmony
and which will bring untold blessings
to the consumers in the land. That
the president send a message to con.
gress. short and vigorous. which shows
mat he means business. proposing
substantial reductions in the woolel
goods schedule; let Mr.. Chairman
Payne report that bill from his com
mittee and put it on its pasasge. and
without having consulted a single dem.
ocrat in the house will give bond
for the proposition that every democrat
viii line up and vote for it. II he
would recommend it it viii go through
the house and senate with a whoop.
and the people would rise up and call
him blessed. It is contended that the
reasons that no change in the tariff
n any manner whatsoever. however
meritorious. can be offered is the fear
that. II the tariff question be opened
up at all. we wicked democrats viii
let slip the dogs OF war and open up
the whole tariff question. to the dis