Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-12
HAVE LOST EFFECT
VOTERS WEARY OF REPUBLICAN
"ARGuMENTs.p
Platitudes and Promises That Are
Ever UnfulfiIled No Longer Have
Power to Draw Support to
Mcribund Party.

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The tariff argument contained in
Vice-President Sherman's st. Louis
speech was a replica of almost innu-
merable arguments that fill a huge
bulk of the Congressional Record.
There was the same old %ponderous
method of approaching the subject,
the same old illustrations from which
much use has worn all the freshness,
the same old effects in word combina-
tions.
1t must be admitted that this type
of argument has been employed with
astonishing success In past years. Its
very profession of an intensely prac-
teal viewpoint, perhaps even its tedi-
BUSINESS, has impressed popular audi
ences as embodying wondrous vol
umes of truth, as exemplyfying re-
search of amazing p%rofundity; for
isn't profundity almost always syn
onymous with the uninteresting?
But it is to noted that this tariff
argument of the archaic model was
presented throughout the length and
breadth of the Fourteenth Massachu-
sets congressional district during re-
cent weeks, and that district, which
only a few months before had re-
turned a Republican majority of A.
600, chose a Democrat by a majority
of $40, IT was repeated ip the Ro-
chester district Of New York a little
later, and that district which had
lately elected a Republican member
of congress by nearly 10000 majority,
elected a nominee of opposite political
faith by a majority approximating
5000.
Dogmatic assertion of the blessings
of high customs taxes isn't being
made with precisely the sameresuts
as formerly.
Anxious thoughts about the almost
ruinous and constantly increasing
cost of maintaining himself and those
dependent upon him are uppermost in
the mind Of the man who is fighting
the battle of life. At a time when a
disastrous frost visitation, threaten.
ing conditions In the agricultural
world that have not been present In
generations, causes those som
Der thoughts to be mingled with
a certain feeling of dismay, Vice,
President Sherman, Congressman
4 J.. Sloat Fassett and ex-Congress
man James e. Watson leave their
appointed stations under the com
pulsion of those who have a burn
ing message to deliver to the people
What is the gracious suggestion they
bring for the relief of the ills where
with the ultimate consumer is af
flicted?
Why, that the ultimate consumer
shall consent to a still higher revision
Of some of the Aldrich schedules ant
that he shall tax himself for the pay
ment Of subsidies to go to the en-
REGIMENT Of powerful navigation inter
ests.
Wce-President Sherman actually
insisted that it may be necessary Is
revise still higher some of the SEIZED
ules. The fact that, after a long pc
Rod Of lessened business a~ctivit,
and Of unsettled conditions due K
tariff uncertainty, importations arr
now showing an increase is worrying
him. 1t may be imperative to hav'
some more Aldriching, he says.
He did not mention the specif,
schedules that will need this heroi,
standpat treatment. What are they
Are they the iniquitous textile sched
ules, the lumber schedules, the stee
schedules. or what?-St. Louis Re
public.