Arizona republican., 1910-05-22
Gigantic HumbugS Says Champ
 Clark of Tariff Law MIR. B0uIELL's DEFENSE
He AlludeS to Democratic Donkey Divergent Way ing of Whose Ears Hints At Hope For Both Pro ducer and Consumer

Washington. May 21.-From a forum in front of the speakers stand. Representative Boutel of Illinois. q member of the ways and means com mittee today delivered speech in
 which he defended and described the effect of the A,drich- Payne tariff law.
 from the standpoint of the ultimate iconsumer." as he said
 | He characterized the Payne tariff | law as the best revenue producer the country ever had, and declared that the imposing Of an additional tariff or the increase of an existing tariff does not automatically add to the iprice of imported products
 The poor old democratic donkey" was pictured by Mir Boutell as walking the slack rope of discon- tent. trying to flop one ear toward the producer with a promise of in- creased prices and the other ear to 1 the consumer with an assurance of low prices"
 A transparent humbug," was Champ Clark's definition today of the present tariff law. in set speech devoted to that measure and collater- al matters He attacked vigorously Chairman Payne. the author of the bill. and also President Taft for his support of the measure The speech is regarded as the democratic key note of the coming congressional campaign
 MT Clark had prepared his address with great care and spoke at length. giving facts and figures in support of his contention that the tariff had not been honestly revised and that the republican majority in congress mad endeavprcd to trick the people Mir. Clark also paid his respects in cidentally to the $250.0OO item in the sundry civil appropriation bill for the creation of q tariff board. He said in part;
 During this debate we have wit messed spectacle perhaps without parallel in the annals of congress First. We heard the gentleman from New York (Alr. PayneD chairman of the ways and means committee and the republican floor leader. make a vitriolic attack on the speech of
  a republican senator from Iowa. re- gently delivered in the city of Des Moines. both speeches being upon the subject of the tariff. a subject which will not down at any mans bidding. and which. like the poor we have with us always. Nobody appointed me to defend Senator Dol liver. This much. however. will say for him. I have for years re garded him as the greatest orator in the republican party. I would travel far to hear d debate on the stump between him and the gentle man from New York. When it was over I am certain that the country for a considerable distance around. would be so fairly saturated with oil that it would he dangerous to strike a match in the neighborhood. and it would not be oil out of Mir Delivers corporosity"
 Mir. Clark inveighed against eXecu- tive interference in legislation In discussing the wood pulp and print paper investigation last year which Mir Mann of Illinois, one of the speakers chief lieutenants. dissented from the conference report. Mir. Clark declared that he had often wondered why. while the republicans were read ing the insurgents from the party they had not taken a whack- at Mir. Mann
 You say you would go far to hear a republican debate between Sena- 1 tor Deliver and Representative Payne" said Mir. Scott of Kansas. ! How far would you go to hear a democratic debate between Senator Bailey and w. J. Bryan?''
 T would not travel ten steps" replied Mir Clark T know as much about the tariff as both of these statesmen put together"