The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-25

ed wat change had come over the
spirit Of his dream. They could not
reconcile the two statements. They
knew that the tariff bill had not chang
ed since August 5, 1909. and tsaey
marveled as to how a bin, which the
President declared on that day TO be
neither a perfect bill nor q complete
compliance with the promises made,
could on the l7th day II September
be the best tariff hill that the Repab-
lican party ever passed. All the per-
fumes of 'Araby the Blest' cannot
sweet-n the Pavne-Aldrich tariff bill
to please the dainty nostrils OF the
people. They believe it to be the
worst tariff hill yer passed by the A.
mcricaa congress-. That speech was
ths serious wound number two, which
The President inflicted en- his own po-
pularity.'
str. Clark then devoted himself q
the steel schedule of the tariff law
and President Taft's endorsement Of
it. He declared that what the people
wanted in a revision of TIE tariff was
a reduction of prices to g ilst basis.
which is precisely what they did not
get"
Turning to the wooden schedule,
which he said thu President admitted
was too high ami facing the Republic
can side Of the House. Mr.. Clark ex-
clai-red.
Il have a fair proposition to make
TO the President and to NV Repubii-
can friends which will promote har-
mony and which viii bring untold
blessings To the consumers In the
land. That the President send 1 mes
sage 10 Congress, snort and vigorous,
which Slows taat ne means business,
proposing substantial reductions in
The wooden goods schedule: let Mr..
Chairman Payne report that bill from
his ccmr,ittee and put II on its pas
sage. and withou, having consulted a
single Democrat in the House will
give bond for b proposition that ev.
cry Democrat will line up and vote for
it. II he would recommend 1t, II viii
20 through the House and Senate
with a WIN Up AMI the people would
rise up aud call him blessed. 1t is
coatended that the reasons thai no
change in the tariff in any manner
Whatsoever. however meritorious. can
De Onered Is me fear ulat. II tie TAR
III question be- opened mp at all, we
wicked democrats will let slip The
dogs Of WEI and open up the whole
tariff qucstion-to the disarrangement
Of all business in Il e lard. San so
mach interested in seeing the Amer
lean people have cheaper wooden
clothes that without having consulted
a single Democrat, ] aTn certain that
everyone of them agrees that, IL the
President will send in a message rec
ommending the bill which ! have in
Dictated and Chairman Payne will re-
port it and put it on its passage. we
will not offer an amendment OF any
sort IL it. The while transaction
could he conshnnated in less Ian a
week ard q shout of rejoicing would
ascend from the Atlantic to the Paci-
fic and from the Great Lakes to the
seetaing waters of he sunlit Gulf.
IL matters not that the President
| would receive the lions share Of the
| glory"
In closing. Mr. Clark commented
upon Democratic unity and republican
aiscor1ance. and prophesied a victory
for his party in November. He said
tlat he never looked forward to a
day with such joy as ,he did to the
first Tuesday after the first Monday of
November, except to NV wedding day
and tle days on which my children
were born"