The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-25
How Would Brookhart Have
Voted On the Tariff?

tariff discriminates against the farm
ers en- agricultural implements, thus
building up inonopolies. There Is moth
ing In the complaint but as Mr..
Brookhart is one of the compliments
forced to complain whether he be-
lieves it or not, if he is loyal to Mr..
Cummins) it devolves on him to ex-
plain why he criticizes Mr.. Kennedy
for voting for the reduction.
A great deal has been said by Mr..
Cummins and his adherents about the
high tariff or window glass, yarnishes,
iron and steel. and manufactures
thereof, iron ore. pig iron. etc. The
reduction on these articles for which
Mr.. Kennedy voted and against which
MIR. Brookhart would have voted, are:
Varnishes 20 to As per cent; common
window glass 4 to 20 per cent; bar
iron, rs to so per cent; boiler or other
plate iron or steel 16 2-3 to 40 per
cent. boilers and parts thereof, 25 per
cent; steel rails. so per cent There
has been much misery under the
waistcoats of tariff reformers about
the high duty on steel rails; the
Payne law cuts it in twain; struc.
tural steel 20 to 40 per cent; iron ore,
60 per cent; pig iron, 37la per cent;
tin plates, 20 per cent; beams and
building girders, 20 to 40 per cent;
barDed fence wire, 81 per cent.
The foregoing are all reductions. a
genuine revision downward To the
common citizen they look like pretty
/ heavy cut and as though it might af-
/ feet values and the stability of BUSH
!! ness and our varied industries. 1t was
''hewing close to the line" in many
cases and was as far downward re-
vision as it seemed prudent to go.
I Mr.. Kennedy voted for these cuts.
If we understand Mr. Brookhart he
would have voted against them. And
! yet he criticises the Republican ma
! jority in congress and Mr.. Kennedy
1 for keeping the Republican pledges of
revision
Let US follow Mr. Brookhart's sup
/ posititious career in the extra session
OF congress When Mr.. Kennedy voted
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! forks of Is to 26 per cent; sewing
machines SO Is per cent; typewriters
SO Is per cent; glazed brick, % per
cent; oil cloth and linoleum, 8 to 80
/ per cent; cotton thread. 16 to 20 per
cent; laths, 20 per cent; clapboards,
l6 2-3 FER cent: nails, spikes and
4 lacks (.tsoeking it to the steel trust
again") 20 to so per cent; saws, 16 to
! % per cent; common silks, 10 per
cent (costly silks rich people can at
ford to pay the old customs duesl +;
common gloves, % per cent; hooks
and eyes, Al per cent, cream OF
tartar Ind salaratus, 16 2-3 per
cent starch, other than made oil
potatoes, 33 1-2 per cent; sodas, - tic
33 per cent: crimoline hair cloth, 20
per cent; gunpowder, 33 1-3 to so pei
cent lis this blow at the Pierpont
cent Tin this a blow at the Pierpont
monopoly2); others, 20 to so per cent
manufactures of leather, Is to rs pei
cent. All are reductions in the bill
Mr.. Kennedy voted for and which Mr.
Broolzhart would have opposed. Why
Ask him.
The Hawk-Eye has not the space te
, spare nor the reader the time ant
patience to read the entire list of Cos
cuts in the Din9ley law. Suffice it tt
say they are in the new tariff law ant
, Mr.. Brookhart, upon his own comics
sion, would have voted against these
reductions. What, then, becomes O
the absurd contention that the Payne
} tariff law was not downward revi
/. sion? The stern facts confront it!
. critics.
: Mr.. Kennedy kept the Republican
. party promise. His colleagues in con
gress excepting the insurgents) KEEP
r it. President Taft kept it.
e The people of the First Iowa distric
). will stand by Mr.. Taft. They will VI
hold their faithful representative, Nj
@ Kennpfiy