The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-06-30
CHIPS FROM A REPUBLICAN AXE
Senator Deliver, OF Iowa, Talks Out
in Meeting Excerpts From His
Great Speech.

which he deplOTCd the low estate To
which the trusted leaders Of the Re
publican party had fallen and showed
up the swindle and sham OF the
Payne-Aldrich tariff law. Below
are few statcsmcnts found in the
great speech:
~ was born in the Republican
party-dOwn among the loyal noun
tains of Virginia. | think | know
what the articles Of its faith are.
From my youth / have poured over
the pages Of its history and found
inspirations in all of its high tradi-
tions. have followed It's great
leaders and sought direction in the
wisdom of their counsel.
"There is no longer in the Rrpub-
lican party that freedom Of CON
science and Judgment and opinion
that once made the party strong and
mighty In the confidence ut the
American people
"What sort of degeneration has
come to the Republican party that
the speaker Of tn" House of Rep
rcscntntivcs before IA great public
assembling" should refer To- some of
his colleagues as traitors III not to
be shot, but to he hanged "
"What has come over the Rcpub-
lican party that freedom Of debate
and freedom Of opinion have sud
denly become infamous within its
ranks"
The new terms of fellowship in
the Republican party have been pre-
scribed and hereafter members of
Congress are to be given very
narrow choice In the eXercis" of
their representative functiuns-thc
choice Of becoming either under
studies or lshmaclites.
ain common with good citizens
everywhere, | share the universal
disgust which has arisen on seeing
the greatest executive departments,
those departments which touch the
business uf the nation most init
mately, maze headquarters for the
awkward squad of politics, bucket
shops for dealing in political futures
upon margins calculated daily from
the record Of the yeas and nays
"Thc past year witnessed two
events Of unusual intcrest-thr dis
COycry Of the North Pole by DR..
Cook and the revision of the tariff
downward by the senator from
Rhode Island each in its way
unique hoax, and both promptly pre-
scented to the favorable motto" of the
public 10y the highest official con.
"Au analysis % the Payne Aid .
rich tariff, schedule by schedule, |
and item by item, should convince (
anyone that 50 far as the public il f.
concerned the tariff revision In fact I
carries rates as high or higher than |
the Diugley tariff law on most ar |
tlclcs of general use IN their finished |
condition. Most Of the reductions |
were 50 trivial as to be ridiculous. !
In fact, careful scrutiny of the !
items that were changed, 7
and the exact trifling change of rate /
In each case, shows how Cunningly |
the revision was arranged in order
Ia deceive the public and look like |
real revision downward
81 have here little sample Of |
fancy black muslin, and | want to
show just what has been done To IL.
nder the Dingley law the duty was
n per cent plus per cent, which |
equals per square yard go cents.
The Aldrich tariff duty is 81 cents .
per yard, plus > cents, plus ! cent,
EQUALS per square yard 81 cents, or
an equivalent of 81 per cent. Here
s another little black striped muslin
III which the duty has been in
80 per cent over the old law.
The truth is that this cotton schcd-
ale, which came here with n plea to
'Ougrcss not to touch IL, left our
deliberations with increases ranging
all the way from 30 to nearly 100 per
emit
"WhO are the people who hold up
Congress in both houses and ar
range to beat any legislation Mt all,
who threaten to vote against il un-
less skin game cuntriyed v years |
ago Is pcrpctuated world without |
end? Are they insurgents? Is a |
man who holds Congress up by |
threat and wins on II bluff IA patriot |
becadse he represents his own in |
terest, aud is man to be derided |
and despised because he interposes |
in behalf of the public when he has
This ought not to be done and by |
my vote it shall not he done? BY |
what grotesque standard Of morality |
is the group of men that made that
threat, which the presi- |
dent says caused both houses of
Congress to abdicate their functions;
by what alchemy of diseased moral |
ity do they become the nucleus !
around which the solidarity of II
great political party is to be organ
lied for the future, while the men
who stood for public rights and
fought for them, and voted as they
fought, are to be kicked out as in
surgents unworthy Of its fellow
ship"
"What farce to send men around |
about the rule of majorities,
when before the eyes Of all men, and |
with no dispute of the truth of 1t |
possible, the most important bust. |
ness of the American people has |
come down to the bargain counter;
and men authorized to say, This is
the citadel OF protection; If any of