Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-05-19

sponus 70 the spirit and purpose OF the
credentials by Which it holds it's author
lty. L undertake to say that those in the
congress OF the United States, in the eN-
t!raordlnary session of last summer and
IN tne present session, who have not
found it possible to walk comfortably in
the procession of the managers of those
TWO great legislative chambers, are in no
the majority, because both houses of
congress- SO far as the republican party
is concerned, act under a delegated au-
form statements of the principles and
purposes of the party. 1 undertake to
say that the extraordinary session of the
present congress. has created no laws
winch the republican party is under any
moral obligation to assimilate as a part
of the articles of it's faith and of it's
creed | undertake to say here that if
the republican party of the United States,
blindly. following the leadership in the
present congress, undertakes to make the
work OF the extraordinary session a part
fatally injurious, but certainly damaging
to every party interest in every section
of the United States.
Cause of all Trouble.
great many people say, it is what
you folks have been saying that has
brought these troubles on the republican
party a. So If far AS, as am am concerned deny
not accord to anybody else the power to
say anything that would create a uni
versal spirit of rebellion and insurgency
in every state of the Union from Maine
to California. Our troubles have come,
not from what anybody has said but
from what has been done. Our troubles
will not be over until the thing which was
done. is left to stand on its merits with
out being forced on the republican party
as a part of it's platform and part Of
has been said that he tariff act passed
by the extraordinary session, was a fairly
good law. Indeed we had it on the high
est authority that it is the best tariff law
TnSS In bn Init Ctota
(Laughter2 And that was proved by
the fact that statistics indicate that it
was a perfect compliance with the plat
these statistics to the American people
and they are now being distributed by
our Congressional campaign committee as
approaching campaign: The President
said that the figures had been prepared
by Mr.. Payne who was very good man.
The trouble .7' was Mr. ~ Payne did not pre-,
by the clerks of the finance committee of
the Senate assisted by a paymaster in
the army and put into Mr.. Aldrich's book
had been done. This table of statistics
which the President attributed to the
midnight researches of Mr.. Payne is a
1t did not prove the republican cause,
it did not prove the republican cause.
The republican party had no platform
pledge to the American people to reduce
the tariff here and there, in fact it had
no pledge to the American people to re-
duce the tariff at all. The pledge of the
party was to revise the tariff with refer
ence to a definite standard of justice and
fair dealing which was stated in the plat
form, namely, the difference in the cost
of the production of articles in the United
States and in those countries that COM
pete with us. That was the platform and
that was the promise of the party so that
even III If it We're i true that an examination
large number of reductions it would be
only very slight evidence that the
pledge and promise of the party had been
upon which the President relied and upon
which the republican party in the fight
which we are about to make is expected
to rely are valueless for that or for any
they were referred to on Lincolns birth
day by the chief magistrate in New York
the newspapers report that his, words
were received with derisive laughter. q
most significance. arising from the fact
that he was telling an audience which
had just been paying increased duties
This curious table says that decreases
were made on 654 articles or items while
the increases numbered only $50, but a
very slight inspection of the tables indi-
auctions itemiZed consisted of insignifi-
cant reductions on cotton threads, on
linen threads on flax on jute and silk
tions made not for the benefit of the pub
lie but for the benefit of the textile man
ufacturers of the United States No
the President began the recitation OF his
tables because he had 500 million of dol
lars in home consumption charged up to
the sugar schedule. The tables indicated
that reductions had affected five billion
dollars worth of merchandise. Nearly a
half billion of it was sugar upon which
cents on a hundred pounds, which would
require a man in order to make a dollar
out of it even if the trusts gave it to
him, to eat exactly one ton of sugar.
Ignored the Party Promise.
Not only did we fail to make reduc-
tfons in the schedules but we ignored
altogether the doctrine and principles
of the party. If We had simply failed
had had great fight as to how much
reduction there ought to be made. my
colleague and would have had no
difficulty In voting for the tariff bill on
its final passage.
Now it Is hard thing for me to
say, but I did not hesitate to say it on
the floor of the Senate and know of no
n why t shoH hd hesitate to say it
trying to serve. This tariff law is not
the product of the wisdom of congress.
have already intimated that it is not
the product of the wisdom of a majority
in either house. 1 will go a step farther
and say that it is not the product of any
mans wisdom now in the congress of the
this situation squarely in the face. That
portion of the tariff law which we have
inherited was made outside of congress
when it began it's long and interesting
career. The tariff on wool and woolens
was made in 1867 by gentlemen interested
jointly in the production of wool and in
the weaving of cloth. They wrote the
schedule, they punctuated it. they handed
it in and the speech of Senator Sherman
on the floor of the Senator exorted that
distinguished body to take it just as it
had been written, not because it was
right not because anybody knew what it
meant, not because anybody knew how
it would operate, but he said they ought
to take it without dotting an i or cross
ing a because it would save trouble In
the future, the fellows who made 1t
would not have the nerve to complain
about it IL it did not work we'll. / am
not here to say word of dsparagement
of Senator Sherman, he was typical of
those times, but If man should stand
up in the Senate of the United States now
and say, here is proposition, it was
written outside of congress by the peo-
pie interested in legislation, take it and
put it through, asking no questions, in
order to save these people the trouble of
complaining about it in the future, 1 am
inclined to think you would expect re-
preventative of yours to stand up and
say, let us examine this matter a little,
where does the public come in on this.
And that is the exact attitude of your
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