Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-09

man of common sense when he at- tends A hearing on the .tariff be- fore a committee of either house of the American congress. The invita- tion goes forth to Tom, Dick and Harry to appear and positively. per tinaciousIy and dogmatically testify to the inferiority of the American people in any contest with anybody in a game of agriculture, manufac ture or commerce. And the witness es come in troops and gravely tell congress that a little dab of free trale with Canada will bring ruin on our people and shame on the republic The mart will be empty and the bay shipless. If the tariff leech shall relax his hold one little bit. even through to scarce per ceptible degree, brazen death will drive out plenty and gaunt famine come over the land. What a sham it is, What an admixture of idiocy and knavery
 | I'll tell you a tale. When Teddy first took captive the popular heart, | he asked a reluctant congress to enact a little scrap of reciprocity with Cuba. whereat and whereupon there was wailing and guashing Of teeth in the household Of the tariff barons But Teddy was in earnest
 and blood was up. All the interests | fiocked and flopped together and
 O save the country from the great
 calamity of a little freer trade with
 Cuba
 | William Alden Smith, then a mem her of the house from Michigan, led the charge against the direful re- 1 iprocity. Now, William Alden Smith lis a orator" and he can scrape the sky beautifully-that is to say. the Hon. Smith has lungs and he comes as near setting the Potomac on fire
 as the next one Tn other words, he is the same as Cicero or a little
 samer. I heard him on Cuba in op-
 position to reciprocity and it was a
 emenrous speech. The cloak rooms lswarmed to him and had there been Ia pit it would have rose to him.
 With fervid manner and burning periods be pictured our infeTiority and how if we relaxed one atom of lthe beneficieut protection accorded Jus by the protective tariff we would
 be ruined by cheap stuff from Cuba Now the Hon. William Alden Smith is one of the tribe of orators never embarrassed by anything. When ir
 was suggested that Cuba might come in as a state of our glorious Union he rather approved that and argued that in such event Cuba would cease to grow sugar aand tobacco and take lup the mining and manufacturins lime Not long before a republican
 senator from my own state of Ken lucky delivered himself of a power ful argument in 8 happy attempt Jc : make it as clear io the minds Oi his fellow senator as it was to his
 own that it was impractical to con struct a ship canal across the con D tinent from New York to San Fran cisco and therefore they must re : sort to Panama and Chauncy De pew said it was a devilish gooC speech II would take a chapter oi
 critics made up oI HaZiitts to de
 termine whether Depew or the ca nal surpassed Smith on reciprocity Among the industries of the United
 States Smith declared reciprocity would extirpate utterly was bee sugar. At that time our production
 of beet sugar was 269 .21i,733 pounds 3 per annun. Less than ten years later !. when reciprocity with Cuba pre- vailed. our production of beet sugar. 5 had grown to S5l, ,76S 900 pounds That was the effect reciprocity witt
 Cuba had on business that scores l of our national sOlons asseveratet - in sepulchral tones and direful warn lings would be utterly destroyed. The 5 Hon William Alden is now swear - ing by all the gods that admired Hec
 tor of Troy that nothing but uttel
 ruin can be expected to follow re 8 eiprocity with Canada. And he il 8 just as confident just as dogmatic
 and just as eloquent now as he wal
 ithen-and just as fallacious-
 Dewitt Clinton was one of tn greatest practical statesmen tn
 lAnglo-Saxon race has produced ant
 his monument is the Erie cana 5 It was a long, a stubborn. a viciou fight he waged. but finally he over
 came all his enemies. and they wer
 numerous, powerful and bitter. On 2 Iof the arguments against the cana was that the farmers Of the Genese
 and Mohawk valleys would starve (
 ldeath when Ohio sent cheap graf
 through the canal. But in truth tn
 lcanal benefited every farmer In th n Empire state commend the arg < ment of the Hon McCumber C D. North Dakota. perhaps the most ST C. per-senatorial fin his matchless roJ T derosity of ali the men now in pull
 lie life. He is convinced that Can;
 da's superiority 10 the United State
 lis so overwhelming that the siightes sl breach in the tariff wall that pT' " tects us from this Arctic giant wi D. altogether desoiate our fair land ,f When Illinois was first opened -e settlement the price of governmer
 lands was greatly reduced and ther
 was much opposition to it on tn
 ground that so much grain would ! Te grown in Illinois that the farmers (
 Kentucky and Ohio vculd be al
 done. And the same argument wa
 made against the homestead act
 that the cheap farms would drive o' rt of commission the fine farms of tf E. folder states. But the farmers of kal