Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-01-13
CHAMP CLARK GIVES MISSOURI
ANS HOPE FOR THE =
FUTURE.
PRONOUNCES PAYNE-ALDRlCH
TARIFF BILL CONFIDENCE
GAME.
THAT INVITES
TRADE WAR WITH EVERY
NATION.

Kansas City, Jan. 9.-Following yes
terdays harmony conference, 600
Missouri democrats enjoyed an elab,
crate Jackson day banquet at the
Baltimore hotel last night.
Representative Champ Clark, min
ority leader of the house, was the
principal speaker, and following the
sentiment of the speakers at the day
meeting, pleaded Tor a united demo
cratic party that would swing Missouri
back into the democratic column. Elk
pressing the purpose of the gathering,
Mr.. Clark said:
This vast conyocation of enthusi-
astic Missouri democrats is the first
gun of the campaign of 1910, which
it is hoped will give us a democratic
house at Washington, the first step
to electipg a democratic president in
1912.
""Fhrice is he armed that hath his
quarrel just and surely no people
ever had juster quarrel than the
American people now have against the
powers that lie.
The republicans won the last cleo
ton under false pretenses. They
promised a revision of the tariff
downward in order to get in, and
when in, revised it upward. The aver
age rate of the Payne-Aldrich-Smoot
tariff bill is III per cent. higher than
the average rate of the Dingley tariff
bill. The people asked for bread, and
the Aldrich-CannOn crowd gave them
a stone. They asked for fish and
are requested to regale themselves
with a serpent.
I'm the congressional campaign of
1910, the oyer-shadowing question will
be whether public men are under any
sort of obligation to tell the truth,
and unless the public conscience is
absolutely dead-which l do not be-
lieve-the republicans will receive the
ldoodiest licking they have had since
1890.
ut will not help them any, when
arraigned at the bar of public opin-
ion, to say that the republican plat
form simply declared for tariff revis-
ion, without indicating whether that
revision was to be up or down, for
their standard bearer, William H.
Taft, everywhere interpreted that plat.
form declaration as meaning a down
ward revision, and on that interpre,
tation, he won the greatest political
Iynpwp ononnu man
Suppose he had interpreted the re-
publican promise of tariff revision to
mean a revision upward, does any ra.
tional being believe that he would
now be president of the United
States?
Also, it must be remembered that
on the 31st day of next March the
Aldrich maximum tariff of 25 per
cent. must lie added against the i'm
ports from any country which does
not grant us its minimum rate
which will make the average increase
of rates on the imports from those
countries about 27 per cent above
the average of the Dingley rates
Surely, since the morning stars first
sang together for joy, such a stipend
Gus confidence game was never played
upon a confding people. This Payne
Aldrich-Smoot mOnstrosity invites Z
trade war with every commercial ma
ton under heaven"
Mr.. Clark referred to Speaker Can
mons Elgin speech in which the lat
ter said the Payne tariff bill was the
best ever passed, and that Represent
ative Mann, of Illinois, was the mos
valuable legislator in congress.
Il am doing Uncle joe a kindness,
said Mr. Clark, "by suggesting that he
might very much improve his owl
speeches by adopting as part of then
Mann's speech against the conference
report on the Payne-Aldrich bill. By
the way, why did not Mr.. Cannon reat
Brother Mann out of the party along
with Senator Cummins, Senator LIE
Toilette, ct id omne genus? Perhaps
he holds that 'fnsurgfng' against the
rules is a more heinOus crime thar
insurging' against the Payne-Aldrich
Smoot tariff bill" Mr.. Clark said
among other things, that a democratic
house should be elected so as to thor
oughly and honestly investigate the
sugar frauds and other frauds which
are a stencil in the nostrils of the
whole people"