Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-20
HEAT AFFECTS
 SPEAKER CANNON.

Spedhel Odnuon tS Eedily diteCtcu DS the heat, for>it is hard to conceive of weaker arguments in favor of the Payne-Aldrich law. As Bristow says
 these arguments hark back almos. to the dark ages. and take in all oi the exploded theories of the past
 The same arguments now advanced by the aged speaker were presented by Senator Deliver when he was a young man. and more enthusiastic than wise, as he now admits. The Iowa senator declared on the public platform recently that if he could wipe from the records many Of the tariff arguments he made in his youth he would be glad to do. He has learned something. yet he claims to be as good a republican now as he ever was But the old man from Illinois apparently has not prog ressed an inch in forty years
 In discussing the rubber trust and the protection it enjoys. Mir Cannon points to the importation of crude rubber in nine months. amounting to over S350 900. and accuses his fellow republican. Bristow with concealing it in his attacks on the combine. If MT. Cannon will point to any considerable importation of finished rubber goods he will have a better answer for Mir Brisrow for almost any school boy knows that there is no crude rubber produced in the United States, and that ali of 1t entering into the manufacture of finished goods has to be brought from the outside.
 Says Mir Cannon: The Payne bill has been in operation since August fifth A hundred thousand freight cars that had been idle are now busy" They may be busy moving the crops. but no tariff ever made the crops grow. and because of our vast agricultural resources there will always be a degree of prosper ity in this country. in spite of the enormous toll levied on the people for the benefit of a few huge com pines and a few multi-millioaires. But the arrangement is not equitable. We want prosperity more generally distributed. We want the wage earn CT to have his neeessaries on a lower basis of taxation, in order that he may enjoy his proportionate share of prosperity. His woolen clothing and his meat are costing him far too much, and in each case the tariff is alone responsible. These are only two articles out of many which he is compelled to buy in order to live, and why should he be comIeIled to pay tribute to monopoly? Does the well being of the whole country depend upon making the few com pines enormously wealthy, at the expense of the millions who earn only modest wage? Why not let the millions keep a greater propor- ton of their wages, thus enabling them to build better homes. better schools. and do away with child labor? Would not that be genuine prosperity? Ga
 But the protectionists like Cannon argue. we must look out for the thousands of mill operatives who manufacture protected goods. There is nothing to the argument, for his tory shows that the mill operatives never get a penny more than the law of supply and demand compels the trusts to pay. All through the high tariff periods, including those Of the Mckinley. Dingley and the present. the mill workers have in- dulged in great and expensive strikes, all generally in vain. claiming that they could hardly keep body and soul together on the wages paid them. Take the wooIen mills for illustration
 We doubt if there is a Iaborer in those mills who gets half the aver age wage paid here in Bisbee. Yet the Bisbee wsge-earner. after he has bought his woolen goods, and his other .amJy supplies controlled by the combines. finds the purchasing value of h.s wages no mcre than Chat Of the mill operatives of Eng. land The tariff fostered combines are getting too great a proportion of the wages earned oyer the country.