Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1910-05-25
CHAMP CLARK ASSAILS THE REPUBLICANS
Asserts That He Looks Forward TO the Next
Election DaY With Joy.

Washington, May 22.-Special
The Payne-Aldrich-Smoot tariff
revision was upwardl
1t was upward by approximate.
ly III per cent!
1t has already resulted in in.
creased prices all along the line!
Thus did Champ CLARK of Mis-
souri,, leader of the Democrats in
the House of representatives,
thunder his reply to the speeches
of President Taft and other Re.
publican leaders who have at
tempted to feed the public on the
assertion that the Payne.Aldrich
bill twas the best tariff billn ever
passed.
Mr.. Clark's speech had been
carefully prepared. It was a
complete and effective answer to
the countless bald misrepresenta-
tions that have been manufactur-
ed by the Republicans, who are
desperately in need of campaign
material of any sort for use in the
approaching Congressional elec-
tions.
The Minority Leader denounced
the proposed appropriation of
$25O,000 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 a
condition which permits the steel
trust and other monopolies to sell
their manufactured products
cheaper to foreigners than to
Americans, IL short, Mr.. Clark g
speech will 60 down as one of the
great Democratic keynotes of this
session Of Congress.
cit Is true," admitted Mr.,
Clark THAT we reduced the duty
On lumber, and that the lumber
trust marked up the price of
lumber 81 per thousand feet be-
fore the last of us got out of
Washington. And if the depart
ment of justice had done it's duty
it would by this time have filled
the jalls so full of lumber trust
magnates that their arms and
legs would stick out at the win
dows and the doors.
"Mr. Payne, the Republican
leader, says that he and his
cohorts will meet us in November.
Glory be! glory be! I never look
ed forward to any day with such
| Joy as do the first Tuesday after
the first Monday of November ex-
cept to my wedding day and the
days on which my children were
born.
my Democratic brethren, at
last, after hard trials and great
trlbulations, thank God we stand
here shoulder to shoulder, heart to
heart, solid as stone wall, inspir.
ed by the hopes Of coming victory.
Democrats are getting together
everywhere, while the Republl, ,an
party presents to the astonished
gaze of men the appearance of a
dissolving view.
| "Oh yes, my Republican friends
you will meet us in November,
because you cannot help your
selves. And when you do meet
us in November you will receive
the bloodest licking you have had
since 1892. "Up, guards, and at
them I"
Although the colossal sum Of
$5, 900, 800 Is being spent annually
by the government for the main,
tenance of soldiers homes, the
Republicans are forcing the ole
soldiers of the nation to subsis,
on from II to II cents worth oil
food per day.
: An inspector Of the war depart
ment reported that the food il
the soldiers homes was no more il
quantity than that supplied tt'
prisoners in the federal peniten
, tiaries.
An idea of the wasteful method
employed in conducting the homer
may be had from the fact thar
> although the cost of maintenance,
more than doubled in the 10 year,
between 1898 and 1908. and mum.
Der of soldiers cared for had in.
creased but Z per cent.
Let your imagination spread