The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-10-28
TARIFF LOWER
ON FOOD.
Cost of Living Not Due to
Payne Law.
Able Speech Of Congressman
Nicholas Longworth
of Ohio.

Il
Christmas an editorial in a Demo.
cratic newspaper to the effect that
every American citizen had to pay
more yesterday for his Christmas din
n.r than he had ever done before
ard that was because of the enact
ment Of the Payne law.
can imagine my genial friend
from Missouri (Mr. Clark sitting
down to his Christmas dinner and
knowing that his bills would be
higher than they were last year, say
ing, Now is good chance to say
that it is due to the Payne law
Nav, let us go through the bill oil
fare. OF course, have not been in
the gentlemans confidence, but
assume that he had vegetables and
meats, sugar and salt,tea and coffee.
If beef was his staple. the situation
simply was that We put hides on
the free list. Although the cattle
growers told us that the duty on hides
was an important element in the value
of cattle, we reduced the duty on
dressed meats Is per cent, and yet
the price was higher. Was the Payne
law responsible for this increase in
price? Perhaps the gentleman had
ham, and understand they have
very good ham in Missouri.
Mr.. Clark of Missouri The best
in the world.
Mr.. Langworth. The best in the
world. The price of hams has gone
up, and yet the Payne law reduced
the duty on ham 20 per cent II he
had any kind of fowl, the duty has
not been lowered ON tn sm, but has
remained just the same as 1t has
been for years. How about the Ne
gctables? If he had peas or cabbage
or beans, and they went up in price
he knew perfectly we'll that the Payne
law had reduced the duty on them %
or 80 per cent. and he knew, too,
tia: not a single vegetable duty had
b,an increased If he had sugar and
salt. and they had gone up in price
he know that the duty on sugar ana
salt had both bUsn reduced. II any
thing he had was cooked in lard, he
knew the most remarkable increase
this year in the Washington market
was in the price OF lard, which went
I'D. / think, from II cents to q cents
in a few months. nearly double, and
yet the Payne law reduced the duty
on lard 80 per cont.
Is the Payne law responsible Tor
tie increased cost of the Christmas
dinner of the gentleman from Mis-
so9ri, when it reduced the duties on
most of the things he ate and drank
and increased none? There is just
one bill of fare that the gentleman
frocn Missouri could have had for
his Christmas diunar for the increas-
I'd price of which he might have
been justified in blaming thu Payne
law. will start out with lemons.
lie might have begun his Christmas
dinner with gin fizz, but II is
hardly fair for ma to go through this
bill Of fare as that possibly consum-
I'd by the gentleman from Missouri
because / know he is an abstainer'
and the things I am about to mention
could not have had a place upon his
table. If the gentleman from Ala
bama were here, | might perhaps ac-
cuse him of having partaken of this
repast as ! am told that h. is great
Judge of the good things of life.
That bill of far would have had to
be composed of lemons, figs, pineap-
pies and sailed almonds washed down
with champagne. ending up with
cup of coffee made out of chickory
root, and then topped off with a
glass of brandy and cigarette. ZAP
plause and laughter en- the Republican
side.) Those are literally the only
things any American citizen could
have eaten or drunk on Christmas
day or at any other time the cost
of which might have been in
creased by tthe Pyane law ! might
even go further and assume that SOME
gentleman-of course, no gentleman
in this house-after having partak-
en- OF this savory repast had felt In
clined to go into some opium don
and hit the pipe" He could then
have said that the cost OF his hv-
ing had been increased, because we
as remember 1t, the
duty on opium.
And If his nerves had beensome-
what shaken the next May and his
family physician had advised a dose
of course he could have also claim
ed that the Payne law was RESPONSE
BILE for an increase IL his cost oil Nv