The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-05-26
VITAL WASHINGTON NEWS

Payne-Aldrlch tariff revision Was
upward! =,
1t was upward by approximately III
per cent?
1t has already resulted in increased
prices.
Thus did Champ Clark, of
Missouri, leader of the Democrats
in the House of Representatives,
thunder his reply to the speeches
of President Taft and other Re
publican leaders who are attempt
ing to feed disguised public on
the assertion that the Payne-Al-
drich bill was 1.-The best tariff |
bill" ever passed.
Mr.. Clark's speech had bee. |
carefully prepared. 1t was a
complete and effective answer to
the many bald misrepresentation
that have been manufactured by
the Republicans, who are desper-
ately in need of campaign mate
rial of any sort. Hundreds OF
thousands of copies of the minor
ity leaders, great speech will be
mailed out by the Democrats.
1t is practically a handbook on
the Payne-Aldrich bill
To start with, the Missourian
denounced the proposed appro-
priation of $3.50, 600 of the peo-
pies money, for the purpose OF
enabling the Republicans to gath
er data with which to attempt to
prove that the rev tariff law is a
God-send to the country.
He condemned the joker in the
tariff DILL. He deplored condi-
ito h which permits the steel trust
and other monopolies to sell
THAR manufactured products
cheaper to foreigners than to
Americans.
1T is true" Mr.. Clark admit
ted, that we reduced the duty
on lumber. and that the lumber
trust marked up the price Of
lumber 81 per thousand feet be-
fore we got out of Washington.
And if the department of justice
had done it's duty it would by this
time have filed the jails so full
of lumber trust magnates that
their arms and legs would stick
out at the windows and the
doors.
''Mr. Payne, the Republican
floor leader, says that he and his
cohorts will meet US in Novem'
Der. Glory be! Glory be! I never
looked forward to any, day with
such joy as do to the first Tues
day after the first Monday Of
November, except to my wed
ding day and the days on which
my children were born.
my Democratic brethren, a
. last, after hard trials and grea
tribulations. thank God we stan'
here shoulder to shoulder, hear
to heart, solid as a stone wall, in
spired by the hopes of comm,
victory. Democrats are getting to
~ gether everywhere, while the Re
publican party presents to the as
tonished gaze of men the az
pearance of a dissolving view.
"Oh, yes, my Republica
friends! You will meet us inNo,
ember anu YOU will receive til
bloodiest licking you have ha
since 1892. up, guards, and :;
them"
Although the colossal sum (
$1,000, 800 is being spent annua
ly by the government for Il
maintenance of soldiers home
the Republicans are forcing Il
old soldiers of the nation to su
sist on from II to ia cents wor
of food per day. An inspector
the War Department report
that the food in the soldier
homes was no more in quaint
than that supplied the prisone
in the Federal penitentiaries.
idea of the wasteful methu
employed in conducting t
homes may be had from the f:
that although the cost of ma
tenance more than doubled in I
10 years between 1893 and 19
the number of soldiers cared
had increased but 7 per &c
Let your imagination spre
this outlay Of IA cents over
days food supply" suggest
Representative Cox of Ohio, e
you have an accurate picture
how the nations heroes are
ing fed. Observe the even
meal, and you will appreci
what it was that moved Insr
tor Brewster to pity, and ms
ed his recommendation that tn
be at least a bowl of milk adj
to the scant evening fare"
Frederick M. Kerby. the vol