Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-05-27
Washington Letter.
By CLYDE H. Tayenner.

st ltesnan-D Democrat.
Washington Nay 26.-The Payne
Aldrieh-Smoot tariff revision was up
| ward
Ii was upward by approximately
LII per cent!
1t has already resulted In increased
prices all along the line,
thus did Champ Clark Of Missouri,
lssder of the Democrats in the House
misrepresentation, thunder his reply
10 tie speeches OF President Taft and
other Republican leaders who have
att smpted to feed the public en- the
assertion that the Payne. Aldrich bill
was the best tariff biIin ever passed.
Mr.. Clark's speech had been care
fully prepared. 1t was a complete and
effective answer to the countless bald
Interpretations that have been
manufactured by the Republicans
who are desperately In need of CAM
paign material of any sort for use in
the approaching Congressional elect
| ions.
The minority Leader denounced the
proposed appropriation of $3.50, 900 of
the peoples money for the purpose of
enabling the Republicans to gather
data with which to prove that the
new tariff law is God.ssnd to the
couutry.
He denounced the joker in the sugar
schedule. He deplored condition
which permits the steel trust and 9TH
er monopolles to sell their manufac-
tured products cheaper to foreigners
than to Americans. In short, Mr..
CIark's speech will go down as one Of
the great Democratic keynotes of this
session Ct Congress
at is true,n admitted Mr. Clark
shat we reduced the duty on lumber,
and that the lumber trus, marked UP
the price of lumber 81 per thousand
feet before the last of us got out of
Washington. And if 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 at the
windows and the doors.
"Mr. Payne the Republican leader,
says hat he and his cohorts will meet
us in November. Glory be! glory bel
| never looked forward to any day
With such joy as do to the first Tues.
day after the first Monday Of Novem-
Der except to my wedding day and the
| days on which m, children were born.
my Democratic brethren, at last,
after hard trials and great fluctuations,
! thank God we stand here shoulder to
shoulder, heart to heart, solid as a
stone wall, insptted by the hopes Of
coming victory. Democrats are getting
together everywhere, while the Re-
publican party presents to the aston
ished gaze of men the appearance of a
dissolving view.
ooh, yes, my Republican friends F.;
] you will meet us in Novsm Der, because
you cannot help yourselves. And when
you do meet u- in November you will
receive the eloodiest licking you have
had since 1892. up, guards, and at
themp y
Although the colossal sum Of SIS, 900,
300 is carried by the sundry civil APP
preparation bill forthe maintenance of
soldiers homes, the Republicans are
forcing the old soldiers of the nation to
subsist on from II to IA cents worth
Of food per day.
An inspector of the war department
reported that the food In the soldiers
homes was no more in quantity thar
that supplied to prisoners in the fed
eral penitentaIies.
An idea of the wasteful methods
EN- pleyed in conducting the homes
may be had from the fact that al
though The cost of maintenance more
than doubled in the ten years bstweeE
1898 and 1905, the number Of soldiers
| cared for had ir creased but I per cent.
"Let your imagination spread this
outlay Of IA cents over q days food
/ supply" suggested Representative
| Coxof Ohio, and you have an aecu-
rate picture Of how the nations heroes
are being fed. Observe the evening
meal, and you will appreciate what il
was that moved inspector Brewster
to pity, and inspired his recommen-
datiou that there be at least a bowl of
milk added to the scsnt evening fare
| Frederick NJ. kerby, the young in
tsrier department stepographer who
was dismissed because he admitted
that Oscar Lawler, an sppointee Of
Ballinger, had practically dictated
President Tsft's letter generating Bal
lingsr, was the solesupport of moth