The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-22


schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law and ridiculed republican claims
of bcnefiting the people by lowering
the tariff On refined sugar. The
reduction, he said, was 40 small that
every man with common sense knows
that the consumer will never be
benc fitted by it in any way whatso.
ever
The gentlema from New York"
continued Mr.. Clark. seems to argue
that To lower the tariff on an article
the higher will be the price to the
cousmer and vice versa That. Of
course, Is utterly prepsterous and
/ fully answered by asking the simple
question: If the tariff does not put
up the price of an article. what do
the proponents of the tariff want with
! IL" To prove his absurd theory he
cites the fact that. though the tariff
was reduced from 81 per Thousand
| to one dollar and "A quarter thous.
4 and tho price of lumber has gone
! up. II Is true that before the last
OF us get oat of Washington in Au
! gust, 1909, the lumber trust marked
| up the price ol lumber dollar
| thousand. and ii the department OF
| justice had done its duty. 1t would by
! this time, have filled the jails so full
Of lumber trust magnates that their
! arms and legs would stick out of the
Windows and doors. 1t seems to be
a pleasant o ,cupation to convict farm
ers and members of labor unions for
! violating the antitrust law. but that
! law appears to be absolutely dead
! letter when 1t is violated by big
! criminals
In one breath the gentleman from
New York gloriiies his bill because
It shuts out importations. In the
next he glorifles 1t because il mas H.
creased importations. The scntlema1
from New York must take one horn
vr the other
The speaker declared that while
American citizens would prefer to u.s.
American-made goods and articles rath
cr than foreign productions they were
unwilling to pay exorbitant prices TO
American manufactures.
Taking up the wooden schedule of
the tariff law Mr.. Clark ridiculed he
idea that the present tariff law wac
ro ,ponsible for the increased impor-
tations Of wool in tha, he said, the
tariff on number and number wool
was the same in the Payne law as ia
the Dingley law.
The Dingley and Payne tariff
bills said Mr.. Clark. have forced
another sort of expectation which
grieves every lover of our country, and
that is the expectation of good Ameri-
can citizens To the British Northwest.
Last year $4,000 Americans. chiefly
from the Mississippi Valley. expatri-
ated themselves. largely because they
could purchase all products, includ-
ing American farm implements and
lea more cheaply in the British pos.
sessions than they can purchase them
at home These emigrants from the
United States are among our best
citizens and this departure is a great
and serious loss to the Republic. for
they are going at the rate OF nearly
/ 100000 per annum"
Mr.. Clark next took the matter of
the tariff on stockings and said that
the raise in tariff rates on that arti-
Gle was not for the purpose of aiding
unemployed women. as Mr.. Payne had
| put ii, but for the purpose OF giving
| the American manufacturers monop-
oily ON the stocking trade
The gentleman from New York
declared Mr.. Clark, further says that
he only raised these cheaper grades
is cents per pair and that he would
be ashamed 10 look and honest working
woman in the face If he had not stood
for that increase This sounds well
as an excuse. but is very misleading
The book of imports gave the unit
value OF the 29,O0O,OO0 pairs of the
cheapest hose or stockings at ninety.
six cents per dozen pairs or eight
cents pair. The Dinley tariff on
these 29,OOO.00O pairs was 40 cents
per pair. or 67l lper cent ad valorem.
The rase of Is cents OF the Payne
Aldrich-Smoot bill will make these
same stockings cost S cents plus AIS
cents. plus Is cents or li,5S cents
per pair, or GIL per cent ad valorem
tleman from New York boasts that
while raising the tariff on hosiery he
also raised the tariff on whiskey and
vines. Oh yes? You raised whiskey
and other spirits from 7O.69 per cent
To S9l5 per cent while
YOU raised the cheapest stock.