The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
UNDERWOOD'S TRIP
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 an administration that demands you shall protect profits in the interest of monopoly
 Taxes on Cloth 90 Per Cent
 "The taxes on your clothes are 90 per cent on an average-your woolen clothes We reduced that to tax of 42 per cent on an average. The total labor cost was only 21 per cent The tax we placed cn 1t was twice the labor cost-not a radical bill; but you must remember that this wool bill was written 40 years ago Ut the dictation of the wool growers and wool manufacturers of this country. "Now we didn't do anything radical; We left tax of 20 per cent for the wool growers; we put the tax of 42 per 7ent on the average for the woolen goods moro than twice the labor cost. Was there anything radical in. that? Yet we cid not reduce the tax from 90 per cent down 10 42 per cent. Nobody contended that our bill would not raise as much revenue for the government of the United States as the bill that is now on the statute books; they conceded it would, because 1t allowed more importation. and then the importation would not have amounted to 10 per cent of the American consumption
 At the Dividing Road
 My fellow citizens. the democratic party today, and you today, are the divid- ing road. You can talk about the repub- r 1ican party reducing In1S UdflU tax III the interest of the people, but you know they won't do it, that they cannot do it. There may be some republicans that are free enough. that are willing to make on hon est revision of the tariff downward, but when the republican party tried to revise the tariff 1t has so many men ill it's ranks that bear the yoke of the great manu- featuring industries of the country that 1t cannot do business without them, and wi fhair il about to make revision of the tariff they cannot do it.
 'Why, the President of the United States has testified to you as to that fact What did he say in his Winona speech? He said that he regretted that when he had to sign the Payne-Aldrich bill that they had not revised the woolen schedule schedule that levies 160 per cent of the blankets of the poor man. The schedule that fixes tax of 103 per cent on tho dresses of the women of America; and he said that he regretted that he could not reduce 1t. And why couldn't he reduce it :?
 Why He Couldn't Produce It
 ''He told you-he said that when they at tempted to reduce schedule K, the woolen schedule downward that they found there were enough republicans in the House and Senate that would not vote for any bill that revised the wooen schedule down ward, that they could not retain bill at all if they had not surrendered to the men that made their demands on this woolen schedule
 Now this tax In the woolen schedule means that it allowed the great woolen Industries of this country to levy tax on you every time you buy q woolen blanket or wooen suit of clothes The tax amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars annually, because it stands there to guard against competition from abroad and protects the profits of the American manufacturer.
 "The President of the United States said the woolen schedule was inadvisable, and yet he could not change it, and when We gave him the opportunity to change 1t by signing the bill, he refused to do so.
 Republicans Cannot Revise
 The republican party cannot revise the farin In the interest of the people, It is too much chained to the interests shat have grown up under is system of taxa