The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-08-19
the Wilson bill.

tee. Such a provision was contained
in the Payne bill, but when 1t reach
the Senate was stricken out by the
Finance Committee and was not repor
amendment containing the substance
of the House bill adding some pro-
visions to enable the Government to
trace tobacco sold, and thus prevent
fraud, which after discussion and con-
sultation, eliminated in the passage
of the present law which is a part
and parcel of the tariff bill. And yet
when the Democrats voted against the
tariff bill they voted also against the
tobacco bill. Had they defeated the
tariff bill the farmers of Kentucky
would have been deprived of the bene-
fits of the tobacco bill. In my judg-
ment the passage of the tobacco bill
alone would have justified every Con-
gresham from Kentucky in voting for
the present tariff bill. When we re-
fleet that more than 1000 articles were
dealt with in the tariff bill, and that
our insurgent critics in the Senate
have found less than half a dozen,
which about equals their number, of
which to complain, it certainly shows
they are but little concerned in the
thousands of items which are of bene-
fit to the people. They have not hest
tated to fly into the face of our
great and good President, and to
charge that the body of Republicans
who differed with them have betray-
ed the party.
The more this bill is understood the
more completely the veil of sophistry
and misrepresentation which envelops
it is torn away, the more thoroughly
it will be approved.
This is not the first time Republic
cans have been compelled to deal with
insurgents. In 1872 we had a number
of Senators and Representatives
than We have now-who assumed for
themselves the fair sounding name of
liberal Republicans" They, too were
most seriously impressed with their
Importance. They opposed the reno
mination of Ulysses S. Grant, traduced
and villified the great soldier who had
led our armies to victory and saved
the Union. They made more noise
than the present insurgents, only for
the reason that there were more of
them; for the present immortal few
cannot be surpassed in this respect by
the same number of men anywhere to
be found on this earth. They met in
national convention, for there were
enough of them to hold such a con-
vention, and resolved and re-resolv-
ed then died the same. They nomina-
ted Horace Greeley, a very eminent
Republican for President. The result
was an overwhelming victory for the
Republican party.
Again, in 1896. a number of Republi.
can Senators and Representatives EN-
braced the heresy of tree silver and
sought to force it on the Republican
party, but they were buried in the
pit they dug for others. History will
repeat itself, and these gentlemen will
awake to find themselves standing on
the bank and watching the distant
smokestacks of the old Republican ship
of state as she passes into harbor
with the flag of victory waving over
her.
President Cleveland refused to sign
the Willson-Gorman tariff bill passed
by the Democratic party, and that act
lead to his loss of influence.
The continual cry that the tariff is
responsible for the high prices of food
is but blatant demagogy. Several re-
solutions were introduced during the
last session of Congress asking for
investigation of the causes of the ad-
vance in prices some by Republicans
and some by Democrats. One of these
was passed and a committee headed
by Senator Lodge, upon which a num-
Der of Democrats as we'll as Republic
cans, were appointed undertook the
Investigation. A suggestion was made
to the Senate by Senator Lodge that
the committee was hampered In its
Investigation and could not make 1t
as Il should be made In the differ
ent sections of the country without
necessitating an expenditure of 5000
which 1t did not desire to do without
the authority Of the Senate. Thereup-
on the Democrats refused to agree to
an Appropriation for that amount, say
ing that the committee was not limit
ed In its expenditures and that the In
vestigation would be partisan. II the
investigation would be partisan l d.
gress for a moment to ask. why DID