New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16
WATL PAPFR REFORNERS.

The campaign Of humbug and false
pretence conducted by Mr.. Murphy 5
candidate for Governor has been punct-
ured before II got fairly started. Nr,
Dix hoasted in his speech accepting the
Democratic nomination that he had
been trained in business methods. ana
animated that. if elected, he would not
let politics interfere with the public
business. Judging from the disclosure
that as business man he applied in
1905 through his partner Mr. Huppuch,
row chairman Of the Democratic STATE
Committee. for an increase 81 the duties
on wallpaper. Mr.. Dix must make a
specially of not letting politics interfere
with business. either public or private
Like Mr.. Murphy. who nominated MIN,
he does not allow his supposed convlc-
tons on public questions to weaken MS
clear vision Of the main chance. HIS
noIifical right hand. raised in protest
10 high heaven. never knows WhaC
sunpljcations his business left hand,
stretched in the direction of larger
n1,ofits. has thriftily made.
Speaking 10 the Democratic nOtlnca-
ZION committee. Mr. Dix in his polltcal
capacitv thus denounced the supposed
onpressiouS of the present protective
tariff law:
believe that ia order to do away with
the high cost of Irving from which all the
people Of the country now so greatly sui
fer. the governing power must be IN the
hands of the Democratic party. that we
may have an honest and downward re
vision OF the present Ubiquitous tarltt-a
tariff which. while lowering the duties on
essentials. has increased the duties
anon all the neceSsaTles Of life and which,
coupled with fourteen years of RepUbll-
can misrule in the nation. has made the
cost of living for the masses OF the
people higher than ever before in inc
history OF this conlmOalw ealth. and hlSner
than in any commercial country oil the
world.
As politician in search of a job his
breast heaved with Indignation as he
contemplated the ''iniquities" of the
Payne law. Yet as a wide-awake bust
ness man his mind must have Saddened
at the thought that his private attempts
TO pile those ''iniauities" little higher
had been altogether in vain. The Stand
ard Wall Paper Company, Of which Mr.
Il
WIS vice-president. presented an appeal
on November II. 1903 10 the Ways and
Means Committee OF the House of Rep
reseniatives asking that the duties on
WALLPAPER should he raised. and the
comnanv took part in the campaign
made by the wallpaper manufacturers
for an increase OF The Dingley rate of -
per cent on wallpapers TO a minimum
rate Of 80 and q maximum rate of 40
per cent The Ways and Means Com
mittee was not impressed with the Dix
Huppuch argument and let the Dingley
duty stand.
These Wallpaper Twins. Dix and
Huppuch are now trying To- run cam
paicn. denouncing as oppressive i'm their
cauacity as statesmen n measure of pro-
lection which as manufacturers they
found entirely TOO low. Their plight is
characteristic Of the party for which they
speak-half Of whose Representatives
in Congress were busy at the extra ses-
sion Of 1909 voting down rates on ar
iicleS in which their constituencies were
not interested and voting up rates on
articles which their constituencies pro-
,!uced. Dix aud Huppuch are tariff re
formers after the heart Of the Joseph w:
BAILEY incidental protecticHist school.
They would he glad to SEQ the finish Of
the odious protective tariff written in
blazing letters i'm every apartment Of
every oppressed household if they
weren't afraid Of damaging the paper on
the wall