The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1911-09-13
under the highest tariff schedule ever


known in the world.
Republicans promised n the last
National contest for President to re-
wise the tariff downward in the inter.
est of the consumers. They revised
it upward in the interest OF monopo-
! lies and manufacturers, but in doing
this they made palmer and clearer to
the people than ever before that the
true Democratic doctrine as to the
| tariff is that the Government has no
right in equity or in law to collect a
dollar Of taxation except for its own
support, and that Republican doctrine
is that taxes may be levied for the
benefit and protection of favored indi-
viduals and preferred classes, which
is legaliZed robbery.
Look for moment at a few of the
inequalities of the existing tariff
rates. On clothing worn by the labor
ing man it levies duty of sc per cent
On champagne the duty is So per cent.
| On wooden or worsted goods worn by
multitudes of women it is 1875 per cent,
and on the fine silk costume of the
rich the tax is so per cent. On the
| plain, coarse blanket of the poor the
tariff is 165 per cent, while on the An
est and costliest blanket 1t is II per
cent. On carpets used by the owners
of fine mansions the tariff is 80 per
cent, while on the cheap carpets used
| In the modest homes of the working
man 1t is 1877 per cent.
The existing tariff law contains
| 2,024 articles, and the report of the
Department of Commerce shows that
the total production In the United
| States of goods protected by the tariff
last year was thirteen billions of dol
lars, and there was imported into the
United States last year goods valued
at $4,000 000 on which tariff tax
of 1929 100000 was collected by the
| United States Government, but the
unparalleled outrage Is that the pro-
| ducers In the United States of the
thirteen billion dollars worth Of
goods were enabled because of the
protective tariff to increase the price
of their goods so that they made
ninety-two millions of consumers pay
them a tribute Of about four billions
of dollars.
President Taft said in his speech at
Cincinnati when a candidate for Pres.
ident, on September %, 1908: IF
nation I will use every fiber of my
being to carry out honestly and de-
Gently the tariff revision promises Of
the Republican platform" Two days
later he said at Milwaukee: ut is my
judgment that the revision of the tar.
If in accordance with the pledge of
the Republican platform will be, on
the whole, a substantial revision
downward" After the Payne-Aldrich
bill was passed which increased taxes
he signed 1t, and called 1t the best
Republican tariff bill ever enacted"
According to Democratic faith in
making all tariff schedules, the tariff
tax should be lowest on the necessa
ries of life, and highest on luxuries
The enormous tax provided for in the
schedules OF the Payne-Aldrich bill
Increased the price on every article
on which 1t Is levied, and helped to
make the cost of living 60 per cent
higher than IT was ten years ago. A
good law is that law which benefits
the greatest number of people, and
the Payne-Aldrich law will not stand
this test. p4ss~
There are four things every man
wishes to obtain as cheaply as pos
sible: --oes,...s~ ~'.'.-
A home for himself, wife and chill
dren." "syg-e.,> ...~-
Clothing to protect them from the
Geld. 90: .,,s;s1ya ...s.a,.
Edibles to support life ~7SaA
Farming Implements and mechan.
les tools with which to labor.
Republicans in the existing tariff
law put tax on lumber, with which
the home is built. and a heavy tax on
wooden and cotton goods with which
clothes are made, and a tax on edi-
bles, and a tax on farming nipple
ments and mechanics tools Demo.
Gratis e,have done all they could 10
make these articles free or as nearly
free as possible. but President Taft.
as | have already stated. vetoed the
bills and was sustained by the Repub-
licans in Congress. as it required two
thirds of the members to pass the bill
over his veto. The people have a
great rene -y-change of administra.
tion-elect a Democratic President of
the United States and turn Repub.
licans out of office.
The conditions are favorable in va
llOuS Respects lot CnanBe or admins
tration, and especially because the
Republican party is divided into two
factions, the Insurgents and the
Standpatters. A distinguished Demo
cratic Congressman said not long
ago: THE difference between them is
as to the amount of the loot" Insur-
gents say. Rob by the protective
tariff, but rob a little" The Stand.
patters say, Take it ALL but Democ-
racy appeals TO the command which
comes from Sinai and says. Thou
shalt not steal"
Farmers and Laboring Men.
| know | am addressing today an
audience composed largely of farmers
and laboring men, and | confess
have strong feelings and sentiments
for everything that concerns them. |
was reared on farm. and although
practiced law many years | have also
owned farms many years, and have a
farm now. All classes and all kinds
OF business depend upon the prosper.
ity and success of farmers and labor
Ing men. When farm crops fail or