Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-05-28

mately II per cent. 1t has alread.
| resulted in increased prices all aloni
the line.
Thus did Champ Clark of Missouri
leader of the Democrats in thu
; House of Representatives, thunder
d his reply to the speeches of Presiden
: 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.. Clark's speech had been care
fully prepared. 1t was a complete
and effective answer to thecountles;
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 Congression-
al elections.
The Minority Leader denounced
the proposed appropriation of $780,
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 send
to the country.
He denounced the joker in the
sugar schedule. He deplored 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 go
down as one of the great Democratic
keynotes of this session Of Congress.
1T is true" admitted Mr.. Clark
we reduced the duty Of lumber, and
that the lumber trust marked op 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 it would
by this time have filled the iaas 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,
saws that he and his cohorts will get
us in November. Glory be! glory
BEL | never looked forward to any
day with such Joy as | do to the first
Tuesday after the first Monday of
November except my wedding day
and the days on which my children
were born.
NV 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. Demo
Gratis are getting together every
where, while the republican presents
to the astonished gaze of men the
appearance of a dissolying view.
Oh yes, my Republican friends,
YOU will meet US in November, be.
cause you cannot help yourselves.
And when you do meet us in No
vember you Will receive the blood
lest licking you have nd since 1892.
up, guards. and at them"
Although the colossal SUM of So
0OO, 300 is carried by the sundry civil
appropriation bill for the mamten-
ance Of soldiers homes, the Repub-
leans are forcing the cid soldiers OF
the nation to subsist On from II to
"A cents worth of feed per day,
An Inspector Of the war depart
ment reported that the food in the
soldiers homes was no more in GUAM
tity than that supplied to prisoners
in the federal penitentiaries.
An idea of the wasteful methods
employed in conducting the homes
may be had from the fact that altho'
the cost Of maintenance more than
doubled in the 10 years between
| 1898 and 1903. the number of sol
diers cared for had increased bat Z
per cent.
Let your imagination spread this
outlay of Ia cents over days food
supply" suggested Representative
Cox, of Ohio, land you have an &C
curate picture of how the nations
heroas are being fed. Observe the
evening meal, and you will appreci-
!. ate what it was that moved Inspec-
tor Brewster to pity, and inspired
his recommendation that there be al