The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-21
PRESENT TARIFF LAW IS
TRANSPARENT AUMDUG"
Minority Leader Vigorously As.
sails President Taft
and Payne
(By Associated loress)

Washington, d, c., May 2i~-De.
nouncing the Payne.Aldrich tariff
law as transparent humbug.' at
'acldng the tariff views of ts author
Representative Serene Payne Repub.
llcan, New York, and vigorously AZ.
sailing President Taft for his support
Of that law, Representative Champ
clark, OF Missouri, leader Of the Dem,
ocratlc minority today delivered In
the house what is regarded as the
Democratic Keynote speech OF the
coming congressional campaign. Mr.
Clark had prepared his address with
great care aud spoke at length, giving
facts and figures In support Of his
contention that the tariff had not
becn honestly revised and that the
Republican majority In congress had
cndeayored TO trick the people. Mr.
Clark also paid bis respects Incident,
ally to the $250,000 item in the suns
dry Civil appropriation bill for the
creation of a tariff board. He said
In part:
During this debate we have wit.
messed spectacle perhaps without
parallel In the annals Of congress,
First, we heard the gentleman from
New York (Mr payne) chairman OF
the Ways and Means committee and
he Republican floor leader make a
yitrolic attack on the speech Of the
Hon Jonathan prentss Dolllyer, q
Republican senator from Iowa. recent.
ly delivered in the city of Des Moines,
both speeches being upon the subject
OF the tariff, subject which viii not
Gcwn at any mans bidding, and which
ike the poor, we have with us always
Nobody appointed me to defend Sen.
ator Dolliver. This much, however,
win say for him. | have for years
regarded him as the greatest orator
in the Republican party i would
travel far to hear Il debate ON the
stump between him and the gentle
nan from New York. When IL was
over, am certain that the country.
Tor a considerable distance around
would be fairly saturated with Oft
lhat 1t would be dangerous to strike
a match in the neighborhood, and II
would not be oil out Of Mr.. Delivers
corporosity. ~
Also The Gentleman From Michigan
The next day we heard The gentle
man from Michigan (Mr Fordney)
who Is a Republican of high degree,
deliver most bitter and vicious as.
sault uDon Senator Beyerldge, the Re.
publican boss of Indiana, on account
OF q speech delivered recently al In
dianapolis. A stump debate between
;hese two eminent Republicans would
double discount In interest any Vaude-
Vile show ever pulled off In America.
Listening TO the attack OF the Rcpub-
lcan gentleman from New York upon
the Republican senator from Iowa,
and the attack Of the Republican gen.
tleman from Michigan upon that Re
publican senator from Indiana re.
call the words of the Psalmist: Be
hold how good and how pleasant 1t is
for brethren tc dwell In unity and
then comes to my mind the question
now ringing through the land what
Is Republican,?
In making speech IN defense OF
his tariff bill Mr.. Chairman Payne
appeared TO be performing disagree
able stunt. He did not exhibit his
usual enthusiasm or his old-time fell
city Of expression. He appeared to
be in about as cheerful frame Of
mind as a. lawyer appointed by the
court defending without fee man
that he feels certain will be convicted
and hanged. Clearly. II was TO him
q repulsiye job but 1t had to be gone
through with some way. He appeared
TO be in the frame of mind OF Mac
beth when about TO murder Duncan
af IL were done when tis done then
'twere well It were done quickly.
Soup Houses Compared
"Mr Chairman Payne was evident
I " in very fretful state. He also
seems to be afflicted with new dis
case Intermittent foTKetfulness. III
Remembered with great yiyldness the
soup houses Of 1893 and 1894. but
when IL came to the soup houses oil
1907, very recent occurrence and
The soup houses OF 1873 his memory
/ failed him utterly IL Dies not need q
psychologist or phrenologlst to ac
count for this state OF mind on his
part, the reason being that the souf
houses Of 1873 and 1907 were undei
Republican administration and undeI
tariff iaws passed hy the Republican
party. while the soup houses of 1893
/ through the ontgrowth Of panic
4 caused by Republican tariff Dill
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