The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-06
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Rssisiion of;t rarf islhe First Dsy Of i
Csng,ess and Is
THE HE.PlARAM0NT' issue
~. remiocratsc Governors ,li,,, who At

Ebe Democratic Governors Who: At
,5;s tended The Louisville Conference
last Week, Urges Speedy Relief (
ef the People From the Tariff
Burdens.
The first duty OF: Congress in the
i ogsnion Of every Democratic Govern
a. In attendance at the conference
5las louisville is to revise thu Payne
sAidrich tariff. says a correspondent
as the New York World. writing
cyom Louisville, KY last week while
i .lse Conferences OF Governors Was
I Eeing held In; that city. Sereray Re-
snbllcan Governors concur An this
5;.;ew. The Governors @are :almost"a
/ sast in. declaring that all duties eof
tfoodstuffs should be eliminated.
Gov. Harmon Of Ohio said to The
y5erld correspondent to-day.
I, II slt..''The New York World never did
4 greater~serYice oethe speopleI: than
as is doing now in advocating real
resision OF the tariff. The Congress
ieaeuld revise the Payne-Aldrlch, bill
esasore it does anything else. The
Z, American people by tremendous mai
srkies have shown that the measure
passed by the last Congress is dis
essteful, and the wishes OF the NAL
orsty should prevail. I, There 10 mo
3 aSabt that the high cost of living
7 Is due to a large etxent to the tariff.
( Everything that the American work
,raan needs in maintaining his tfami-
sv, should lie duty free"
Gov. Elect Woodrow Wilson. OF
i New jersey said:
e '.Thei Democratic party won its
oveeping victory in November on
y nsoount Of Rooseveltism and the dis
satisfaction OF the people over the
gayne-Aldrich BILL. It. is the duty oil
6 Congress to obey the wishes Sof the
electorate and revise the present tar
~ law. This is nation Of workers,
7 q nation of homes. The burden OF
!. the extra cost of living should be
4 rafsed from the shoulders OF the man
Who has to support. a family. i be
4 Lsave that the American people may
\: have: hope Of the next Congress. /,
Democratic and is7sltr q Taft can
read the acknowledgements wall,
4 !; 10 will sign any BILL that the Demo
csnt pass In regard to the tariff. !"
Gov. Plaisted of Maine said:
IS s"The Democratic success in my
section of the Uuion isdus entire:
yy to dissatisfaction with the Payne
[ Aiarich tariff law. That measure Is
s bunk pure and simple. It was fran.
i ed for the protection Of the inter
1 ests and the people were not consid-
eyed. They have registered their
I protest. It Is the duty OF Congress
to reform this measure. More espec.
aally should the duty on everything
I taatg goes on the table and In the
house be repealed" ~ j
Gov. Thomas r. Marshall of In
esana said: =
Every public man who has the
Z interests If his country at hear,
should see to it that the tariff laws
are equitable. don't believe in pro-
tecttng one class to the detrimen,
Of another. The great mass Of the
people are staggering under the bur.
. den Of tariff law that makes them
cay too much for everything thai
goes to sustain their lives. The
next Congress or even this Congress
ehould revise the tariff law so as tc
rake the duty off the necessarles OF
Me- =,
= Gov. Neal of Alabama, Shofrotn
Ct Colorado. Brown Of Georgia
Kitchen OF North Carolirfa, Mann .oi
Virginia and Cruce of Oklahoma, ex.
pressed the opinion voiced by the;,
Democratic colleagues, as quoted
above. They all declared that 1t was
'he duty of Mr.. Taft If he wished &c
save the reputation Of his party ta
demand that the tariff be revised
and that he would mark; himself tht
greatest, President the nation ever
had II he demanded that this be
done by the present Republican Con.
gyess. Y
Republican Governors were less
communicative regarding revision o1
the tariff. One OF the exceptions
however, was Gov.-elect Francis E
HcGovern of Wisconsin, who said:
1T seems as II the people are op
posed to the present tariff law. Per
sonally I thing they. are. right. The
burden should be lifted from the
householder, the necessities Of life
should be admitted duty free. |,
takes an expert to formulate a tariff
law, but 1t doesn't take an expert t
know that the real necessities of life
Ehould be, made as cheap as possible