Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-06-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Upwards and by III Per Cent.-The
Truth Crammed Down the Threats Of the
Opposition-Thus Did Champ Clark Meet
the Political Boosters Denounced the
Little Joker" in the Sugar Schedule
Masnanimity of the Lumber Trust Cha!-
lenee Accepted to Meet these Issues in
November-Instanceso of Extravaeance the
20. p. Will Have to Meet.
Staff Washington Correspondent of this Paper.
The Payne-h ldrich- SmOot tariff re-
vision ards upward.
1t was upward by approximately
LII per cent.
1t has resulted in increased prices
already all along the line.
Thus did Champ Clark of Missouri,
leader of the Democrats in the House
of Representatives, thunder his re-
ply to the speeches of President Taft
and other Republican leaders who
have attempted to feed the public on
the assertion that the Payne Aldrich
bill was the best tariff bill ever
passed. "
Mr.. Champs speech had been care
fully prepared. 1t was complete
and effective answer to the countless
bald misrepresentation that have
been manufactured by the Republi-
cans. who are desperately in need of
campaign material of any sort for use
in the approaching Congressional
campaign.
The minority leader denounced the
proposed appropriation of 1920, 600
of the peoples money for the purpose
of enabling the Republicans to gath
data with much to prove that the
new tariff law is GOd-send to the
country.
He denounced the Joker in the
sugar schedule. He deplored a con-
dition which permits the steel trust
and other mOnopolies to sell their
manufactured products cheaper to
foreigners than to Americans. In
short, Mr.. Clark's speech will 60
down as one of the great Democratic
keynOtes of this session of Congress.
1t is true" admitted Mr.. clark,
that we reduce the duty on lumber,
and that the lumber trust 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 it's 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 doors.
Mr.. Payne, the Republican leader.
says that he and his cohorts will meet
us in November. Glory be! glory be!
| never looked forward to any day
with such joy as l do to the first
Tuesday after the first Monday OF
November, except to my wedding day
and the days ON which my children
were born.
My Democratic brethren, at last,
after hard trials and great tribula.
tiOns, thank God we stand here
shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart,
solid as stone wall, inspired by the
hopes of coming victory. Democrats
are getting together everywhere,
while the Republican party presents
to the astonished gaze of men the ap.
perance of disOlvlng view.
"Oh, yes, my Republican friends,
you will meet us in November, be.
cause you can not help yourselves.
And when you do meet us in Novem.
Der you will receive the blOOdist lick
ing you have have had since 1892
Up, guards, and at theml
Although The colossal sum of So,
OOO, 900 is carried by the sundry civil
appropriation bill for the mainten
ance of soldiers homes, the Republi.
cans are forcing the old soldiers oil
the nation TO subsist on from ii to II
cents worth of food per day.
An inspector of the war depart.
ment reported that the food in the
Soldiers Home was no more in guam.
tity than that supplied to prisoners
in the federal penltentiaries.
An idea of the waSteful methods EN-.
ployed in conducting the Home may
be had from the fact that although
the cost OF maintenance more than
doubled in the ten years between 1895
and 1908, the number OF soldiers
cared for had increased but Z pei
cent.
Let your imagination spread
this outlay of IA cents over o day {
food supply suggested Representa-
tive Cox of Ohio, and you have ar
accurate picture of how the nations
heroes are being fed. Observe the
evening meal, and you will appreciate
what it was that moved Inspector
Brewster to pity, and inspired hi.
recommendation that there be at least
u bowl of milk added to the scan,
evening fair"
Frederick NJ. Kerby, the young in
terror department stenOgrapher who
was dismissed because he admitted
that Oscar Lawler. an appointee oil
Ballinger, had practically dictated
President Taft's letter generating
Ballinger. was the sole support OF a
mother. wife and babe. He had
worked hard and conscien tiously fol-
five years to reach the position he &C.
cupied when dismissed.
kerby was positive he would be dis.
charged if be told his story. He
thought the matter over carefully fOl
several weeks.
concluded that any allegiance
may have owed MIR. Ballinger,". said
kerby. was cancelled absolutely
when. by his silence, he became Q
party to an attempt to smother the
truth"
BY making his exposures Kerby
probably treacherous to Ballinger
and Ballinger's plans for turning
over Alaska coal lands to the Morgan.
Guggenheim syndicate. But it is
difficult to see how he was treacher.
Gus to the public in whose service be
was employed.
The new tariff classifications in the
cotton schedule" says Senator Dolli.
YER, Republican. Operate to increase
duties very materially on some cotton
cloths used for women's and child.