Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
SPECIAL WASHINGTON COR
REsPoNDENcE.
By Clyde H. Tayenner.

The Payne-Aldrich tariff revision
was upward.
1t was upward by approximately
LII per cent.
1t has ALREADY resulted in in
creased prices.
Thus did Champ Clark of Mis-
souri,, leader of the Democrats in
the House of Representatives, thun-
der his reply to the speeches of
President Taft and other Republican
leaders who are attempting to feed
disguised public on the assertion
that the Payne Aldrich bill was "the
best tariff bill" ever passed.
Mr.. Clark's speech had been care
fully prepared. 1t was complete and
effective answer to the many bald
nisrepres sensations that have been
manufactured by the Republicans,
who are desperately in need Of cam
paign, material of any sort. Hun
dreds of thousands of copies of the
minority leaders great speech will be
mailed out by the Democrats. 1t is
practically a handbook on the Payne
Aldrich bill
To start with, the Missourian de-
nounced the proposed appropriation o
$250,000 of the peoples money for the
purpose of enabling the Republicans
to gather data with which to at.
tempt to prove that the new tariff
law is a God-send to the country.
/ He condemned the joker In the
tariff bill. He deplored a condition
which permits the steel trust and
other monopolies to sell their man
ufactured products cheaper to for
eigners than to Americans.
1T is true," Mr.. Clark admitted,
that we reduced the duty on lum-
Der, and that the lumber trust mark
ed up theprice of lumber 81 per
thousand feet before we 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
heir arms and legs would stick out
at the windows and the doors.
Mr.. Payne, the Republican floor
leader, says that he and his cohorts
will meet us in November. Glory bel,
glory be! l never looked forward to
any day with such Joy as 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-
tons, thank God we stand here
shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart,
solid as a stone wall. inspired by the
hopes of coming victory. Democrats
Ire getting together everywhere
while the Republican party presents
TO the astonished gaze of men the
appearance Of la dissolving 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 bloodiest licl
ing you have had since 1892. 'Ul
suards, and at them
Although the colossal sum o
S5.000,300 is being spent annually b
the government for the maintenance
Of soldiers homes, the Republican
are forcing the old soldiers of tn
nation to subsist on from II to /
cents worth of food per day.
An inspector of the war depart
ment reported that the food in tn
soldiers homes was no more in quar-
tity than that supplied the prison
ers in the federal penitentiaries.
An idea of the wasteful method
: employed in conducting the home
may be had from the fact that a
though the cost Of maintenance NOR
than doubled in the 10 years betwee
1898 and 1908, the number of soldier
] cared for had Increased but pc
u cent.
Let your imagination spread tn
y outlay of IA cents over a days foe
= supply" suggested Representa-,
- Cox Of Ohio, "and you have an a
= curate picture of how the nation
y heroes are being fed. Observe IL
= evening meal, and you will apprecia
8, what it was that moved Inspect'
~ Brewster to pity, and inspired h
recommendation that there be
! least a bowl of milk added to Il
? scant evening fare"
q. Frederick M. Kerby, the young i
MS terror department stenographer wi
in was dismissed because he admitt'
p that Oscar Lawler. an appointee
gallinger,. had practically dictat'
ut President Taft's letter exoneratil
:, Ballinger, was the sole support of
10 mother, wife and babe. He hi
a. worked hard and conscientiously 4
,a five years to reach the position he {
no cupied when di. missed.
.t kerby was positive he would
discharged if he told his story. /
though. the matter over carefully
"a several weeks.
90 Il concluded that any allegiance
= owed Mr.. Ballinger," said Kert
was cancelled absolutely when,
his silence, he became party to
attempt to smother the truth"
By making his exposures Ker
m was probably treacherous to Ball
ser and Ballinger's plans for turni