The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-05

IF member of the Sixteth Congress
| had gone to sleep March 4. l9u9, and
after the manner of Rip Van Wrinkle
| had slumbered till the evening of June
II. 1910. and had then looked into the
| House and seen it pass a rule by the
enormous majority of POI to l to prevent
| committees from pigeon-holing or smoth-
ering bills, which resolution | introduced,
he would have pinched himself to see II
he were awake. Had any man been bold
enough in the early days of this Congress
to predict that such thing would come
to pass before the summer solstice OF
1910, he would have been in imminent
danger of being clapped into straight
jacket and padded cell.
In Spite of Regulars
'sThe regular republicans gave in their
adhesion because they knew full well that
IL they did not do so we would force 1t
through without their help and in spite
of their opposition.
Most assuredly that was a pitiful con-
clusion for that vast array of republican
pie-hunters which, drunk with victory
and power, paraded the streets of Wash
lngton March 4, 1909, with flags flying,
drums beating and buges blowing.
II submit a candid word that the DEM
ocrats of the House of Representatives
have set a fine example to democrats
everywhere and deserve well of the coun-
try Our unity of purpose and unity
of action should become contagious TO the
end that we may sweep the land from
sea to sea and hurl from power those
who have abused the sacred trust which
the people committed to their hands.
THE signs of the times indicate that
the people whom they have betrayed
have made up their minds to cast them
into outer darkness, where there Is weep
ing crashing of teeth and much pro
fame swearing
Mr.. Clark then lauded Thomas JEFFERSON
and other opponents OF old-time democ-
racy, and said that if there were saints
In the political calendar, as there are
in the religious calendar, the Fourth or
July would be universally called st.
Jefferson's Day"
In speaking of the tariff he referred to
1t as the tariff graft" and said that the
republican party, despite their promises
for downward revision, had revised 1t up
about LII per cent on the average.
WOODEN Schedule
He singled out the wooden schedule as
an indication of what the republican
party had done to the tariff, and said that
President Taft had himself admitted that
this schedule was too high.
He then referred to the proposition he
had made at the last session OF congress
to have the wooden schedule changed. IN
which he declared that IL the President
would send message on this subject, no
democrat would offer any amendment,
thereby opening the whole tariff question
again.
Every newspaper in the land that COM
mented on my offer to the President SAID
that 1t was fair proposition and should
be accepted" he continued. BY reason OF
republican refusal to cure that great out
rage hundreds of thousands of people
must SILVER and freeze through the en-
suing winter. Doctors and philahtnhro-
pists are waging war against the great
white plague, which the WOODEN goods
schedule of the Payne-Aldrich-S moot tar
if bill does so much to foster. Shame
upon men who will not remedy such
gross outrage an outrage whose exist
ence they admit, an outrage which causes
incalcuclable sickness, suffering and
death, an outrage which they have abund-
ant power to stop When araigned at the
bar of public opinion, they cannot set up
the poor plea that they could not stop II
and they will be punished because they
would not stop it.
High Tariff Wall
1.-The men who framed the Payne-Al-
drich-Smoot bill knew perfectly well that
behind our high tariff wall our manufac-
| turers sell their products to us at their
| own prices and then sell the like products
| at much lower prices In foreign countries
| This is true of nearly every article manu-
| featured In America, and is one reason
why our good citizens are expatria.llis
themselves and settling in British North
! America at the rate of about 100000 per
| annum. AS 1t is estimated that each Of
| them carried $1,000. the sum total OF our
money by that emigration Is $1OO,0oO,VO
year. And who can estimate the money
value of q good citizen himself? The re-
publican party has attained 1.-THE bad emf
| l-t,r oft
| to foreign parts Instead of being party
of patriotism, it is the party OF expatr1a-
ton.
whenever reduction Of the outrag-
eous tariff rates is suggested 1t ls
claimed that If the tariff Is reduced we
cannot raise revenue enough to run the
government, which is both untrue and abb
surd The truth is that If the tariff were
reduced to a revenue basis or to COM
petitive basis there would be at the
same time a reduction Of prices and an
increase Of the government revenues.
EVERY man of reasonable intelligence on
the subject Of the tariff knows that that
is true
preparation bills are growing the tariff
rates must be reduced to a revenue basis
so as to raise more revenue or an In
come tax must be resorted to. Other
wise there will be frequent issues OF
bonds The reduction Of the tarih will
at the same time increase revenues and
reduce the cost Of living: but the re-
publican standpatters are against tarin
reduction on manufactured articles and
therefore against reducing the cost OF
living to the ultimate consumer" which
that pre-eminent standpatter, Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,,
declared to be a myth. That was before
| Eugene Foss-may his tribe increased
| converted a republican majority of over
| 1000 into a democratic majority of over
COCO in the Fourteenth district Of Massa-
| chusetts What Henry Cabot thinks
| touching the mythical character of the
ultimate consumer by this time this de-
ponent saith not"
Extravngant Party
! Mr.. Clark then plunged into the guess
ton of the country's finances. and charged
the republican party with being the most
| extravagant the sun ever looked down
| upon
"Their annual congressional appropria-
tions," he said, mounting up and for
ever up, have passed the $1,000, 000. 900
mark, which is wicked and wanton wa ste
THAT economy is necessary Is admit
ted even by republicans. That great
republican boss Senator Aldrich. of
Rhode Island, recently declared that a
good business man could run the gov
eminent as we'll as 1t is run for $780,
100000 less per annum than 1t now
costs. President Taft has fixed the
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