The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-25

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trust marked up the price of lumber
a dollar a thousand, and IL the De
partment of Justice had done it's duty
it would by this time have filled the
jails 50 full of lumber trust magnates
that .hei- arc.s and legs would stick
out Of the windows and doors. II
seems to be a pleasant occupation to
convict farmers and members of Ia
Dor unions for violating the anti
trust law, but that law appears to he
absolutely a dead letter when il Is
violated by big criminals.
"Ia one breath the gentleman from
New York glorifes his bill because il
shuuts out importations. In the next
he gloriies it because it has increas-
ed lmportltions. The gentleman from
New York must lake ore horn OF the
other.
The speaker declared that while
American citizens would prefer To
use Anerican-nsade goods and articles
rather than foreign productions they
were unwilling To pay eXorhitant
prices TO American manufacturers
Taking up the wooden schedule of
the tarif law MIR. Clark ridiculed the
idea that the present tariff law was re
sponsible for the increased inporta-
lions OF wool in that ne said, the tariff
on n'in,her | and number 2 wool was
the same in he Payne law as in he
Dingley aw.
THE Dingley and Payne tariff bills"
said Mr.. Clark. have forced another
SORT OF expectation which grieyes ev.
CRY lover OF our country, n that is
the expectation of good American CT
items to the British Northwest. Last
wear sc. 1000 Americans, c~.,iefly from
the Mississippi Valley. expatTiated
themselv es. largely because they
could purchase all products inciud-
ing American farm supplements and
other articles manufactured in Amer
lea more cneaply in the British pos
sessions than they car purchase tlen
at homo. These epigrants from tae
United Stnas are among our best ci
tizens and this departure is a great
and serious loss to the Republic. for
they are going at the rate of nearly
100000 per a1nun.'-
Mr. Clark next took the matter of
The Tariff on stockings and said that
the raise in tariff rates on tlat artic-
le was not fer the purpose of aiding
unemployed women. rs, Mr.. Payne had
put it. but for TIE purpose of giving
I'll American manufacturers a mono
poly en- the stocking trade.
The gentleman from New York I"
declared MIR. Clark, further says that
re only raised these cheaper grades
Is cents per pair and that he would
be ashamed to look an honest wonan
in the face IL he had not stood for
tlat Increase This sounds well as
an excuse but, is very misleading. Tine
book of imports CAV the unit value
for the %, 900. 900 pairs of the cheap
est hose or stockings at ninety-six
cents per dozen pairs or eight cents
a pair. The Dingley tariff IN these 30
00o 900 pairs was AIS cents per pair.
OF GIL g cent ad valorelm. The
raise of is cents of the Payne-Aldrich
Smoot bill will make these same
stockings cost 9 cents plusl4.7S cents.
plus IS cents or l4.5S cents per pair,
or S9.75 per cent. The gentleman
from New York boasts tlat while rails
ing tn tariff on hosiery he also rails
ed the tariff on xhiskey and wines.
On. Yes. You raised whiskey and
other spirits from 1868 per cent to
f0.lO pei VII VII" NCd IoA'to NA'
cheapest 81 ,ckings from GIL per
cent to 1915 per cent, and the next
two grades of cheaper stockings to a
still higher per cent.
Mr.. Clark declared that the Payne
tariff bad not reduced the price of
clothing, but had increased il and re-
suited in a shoddier class of goods.
be speaker then turned ais atten-
ton to President Taft.
Il will now drop the gentleman
from New York exclaimed Mr.. Clark
and go after bigger game. to+wit the
president of the United States. He is
not only the chief traveller. but is the
chief spokesman for his party. He
deserves to be treated with candor
and respect. but ! have a perfect right
to, discuss his utterances az | would
those of any other public a ] wish
to call attention of all concerned to
the fact that the President said on
the 5tn of August. 1909, that the bill
is not a perfect bill or a complete
compliance with the promises made
strictly Interpreted submit that
that declaration of the President is q
fiat contradiction Of the assertion of
the gentleman from New York nat
his bill is a perfect compliance with
the promises made prior to the cleo
ron of 1905. In September 1909. tae
President went on an extensive speech
making tour. beginning with a speech
IN BOSTON in which ne ~eaIlogized Sen
auor Aldrich to the skies. That was
the first serious wound which the
President inflicted upon his own pop
alarity. for riglt OF wrong. and /
think. the American people hold Sen
ator Aldrich largely responsible for
the enormity Of the Payne-Aldric1
tariff bill. On the nth of September