Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
DOCTRINE OF SIMPLE LIFE
Wolverine Says Bi)lzos Protector of
Nations q -ity.
BLOW AT CHEZ III EITICIAN
Says TyPe Sings Differ " >gs in
Various Parts of
NINE MONTHS OF PRO. J
Effect of the Payne Bill on Revenue
and Business is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Life IL the BuIwnrk of
Civilization.
WASHINGTON.

Civilization.
WASHINGTON, May IA tariff
speech, snappy with epigram, bristing
with aphorisms, preaching the doctrine of
the simple life as the buwarll Of cviliza-
tion and Protection as the producer Of
prosperity, was delivered in the house
today by Representative Hamilton of Mich
igan. 1t pictured nine months of incrt as
ing revenues and announcement of Amer
ican industry under the Payne bill 1t
drew on the legitimate spoils Of trade and
the policies and declarations OF foreign
statecraft as the justification of the pro-
lection policy. IL attributed the high cost
of living to Increased gold production, to
demand crowding supply, to extravaganza
of feverish generation and to almost
everything else but the tariff
Mr.. Hamilton is chairman of the terri
tories committee Of the house and his
. speech is likely to figure conspicuously in
the next republican national campaign
propa ganda. He favored the creation of
bureau In the Department of Commerce
and Labor to permanently carry on the
work now being done by the tariff board,
supplementing It with a corps of foreign
speaking experts, the reports Of whose ip
vestigatons Of selling prices and labor
NOSNa at hOlllc anu duiOdh NOuu LdihiNA
a standard of measure of conflicting claims
in the framing of tariff law"
lie contended that the tariff plank in the
republican platform provided both upward
and downward limits and that "by so
much as you raise duties above the diff
ference in the cost of production at home
and abroad, after due allowance for the
foreign custom of selling goods cheaper
abroad than at home. by so much you per-
init domestic monopolles to overcharge do
nestle consumers.
"A few years ago." said Mr. Hamilton,
boys wore out their fathers old clothes
made over according to a neighborhood
pattern; now they have to have store
clothes and socks to match their neck
ties and a college, Eell "A nan was con-
sidered well off II he kept a, horse and
buggy; now he has to have an automobile,
If he has to mortgage the place to get it.
The average business man does business
with a telephone at one ear. stenogra-
pher at each elbow, telegraph office next
door, wireless station within easy reach,
an automobile at the door and before many
years he will want flying machine to
avoid the crush in the streets below.
1--WE now have 100000 factories, employ
ing 100000 people, keeping time to the de-
mands OF 10000, 600 folks. The protection
policy has built up an annual factory out
put of $1,000 OO0, 900 paying out $1,000 100000
in wages and has kept the machinery Of
protection in motion until 1t has developed
a horsepower equivalent to 90OO0,O00 men,
The country never was more prosperous.
Farmer Comes Into His own.
THE farmer has been caricatured by
cheap city humorlsts, preyed on by grass
hoppers, locusts and money sharks and
misled by predatory politicians Now he
has come into his own and l am glad of
It, He is one of the safest, soundest,
ceanest clements in our civilization. The
city would have dried up, rotted or ex-
ploded but for the country that came
into town day before yesterday. Too
much OF the country has been coming into
town, though. The farmer is receiving
only fair price, but the mddemen are
a charging too much for handling and trying
Ni5 attribute the responsibility to the
farmer. The time has gone by, however,
when thrifty gentlen. en- can take toll of
the farmer and out of the consumer and
fool both at the same time"
Mr.. Hamilton charged the cheap poll
ticlan with singing one song in the city
and another of a different tune in the
country. He described the situation as
ftlleu WITH GpulIduiNAltllSi tNtiSbbhy DICK
ering to locate the blame for high prices.
bills, resolutions, Investigations, commits
sions, boycotts, anu-meat societies, anti
egg societies. ant-food trust and vege-
tartan organizations are rampant and In
the midst of 1t the democratic gentlemen.
after time-honored custom, are diligently
trying to convert discomfort into votes.
"we are getting further away fNom the
old fundamental human relations that sus-
tain and console folks. We are always GO
ing somewhere and going very fast and
generally go our ways separately, although
we lostle one another on the sidewalk.
1t Is an age of steam enginism. We run
the machine and the machine runs us. The
talk on the street today becomes the law
tomorrow. Politics means parties, parties
the people and parties have to have lead
ers and chief priests and scribes and
pharisees and camp followers, This is the
golden age OF the spotlight, opera bouffe
whirling dervlsh form OF politician, who
leads for awhile, but the true leader mus
build success on fundamental right"
Discussing the INSCRIPTIONS dealers and
the segregation of food supplies Mr.. Ham
ilton declared the cold storage system mad,
1t possible II not customary, for the frozer
~ remains of ancestor to remain in cold
suspense until its progeny had grown L
middle age and then for them TO meet IL
.frieasstd reunion on some bill OF fare, botl
IS strictly fresh, The unmaternal incu
bator had become the mother of tn,
chicken.
There shall not grow up among us,
concluded Mr.. Hamilton. "a privileged
class above the law This government shal
wisely control men and associations OF men
The government shall not fail Of its mis-
sion among men"