Bisbee daily review., 1911-01-27
SCHEDULES
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Payne-Aldrich-Sm law, and works q severe hardship on all who use Soolens, and nearly everyone does. President Taft himself deelafes the Noolen schedule to be 'indefenslbie.
 1t is certain that 105 per cent tax on womenis woolen dress goods will be cut way down. The duty on r'en's clothing will also be reduced. Blan kets. flannels, carpets. mems. wom- ems and children's underwear, shawbs, knit goods and other woolen are now taxed from so to 14O per cent. and the rates on all these articles will be lowered
 The democratic ways and means committee will probably recommend the repeal of the tariff on wooe pulp, print paper, lumber. timber and logs, and lace these articles on the free list The lumber trust has such complete control of the lum- bur business that a downward reyis- ion of the tariff fails to be effective so far as protecting the common man from excessive prices. When the Payne e-Aldrich-Smoot bill wa,s framed. the duty on a certain class of lumber was reduced s1 per thousand feet. and the lumber trust as if to show its contempt for mere downward revision of the tariff raised the price of lumber So that before the mem- bers of congress got away from Washington the price had gone up to g.. The Denver democratic plat form of 1908 pledges the party to place wood pulp and lumber on the free list.
 President Taft is still fighting des- perately to check the progressive movement. probably because he real izes that genuine progressives are liable to bolt the party in case of his re-nomination for the presidency. which is practically certain. The president nominated Guy N. Goff to be United States district attorney at Milwaukee Golf seems to have good record, but that appears not to have been the chief reason for his nomination. President Taft. it is charged by progressive republi- cans. appointed Golf simply because Senator LaFollette had been work ing for more than a year to have a lawyer of high standing of the name of McElroy appointed. Any thing /to discourage LaFo.lette." is the slogan at the. White House. 1t would not be surprising if La Toilette should bolt gFaft in the event Taft should be re-nominated, and the democratic nomines shouId be the right type CT q progressive
 In defending LorimerSsm on the floor of the United States senate, Julius Caesar Burrows of Michigan said: There is absolutely no proof in the case. direct or indirect. from which a legitimate inference could be drawn that a single member of the general assembly of Illinois ~as corruptIy influenced to vote for MT. Lorimer" If the recall was in use in Michigan, and the people of the state would read the testimony in the Lorimer case it Is within the realm of possibilities that the above statement would have cost Senator Julius Caesar Burrows his plaee in congress.
 A report was recently sent out from Washington referring to Sen ator Cummins of Iowa as the rec ognized leader Of the insurgents. but his now-famous declaration that it is better to elect the worst republi- can than the best democrat~ places him at the bottom of the heap. He can never outlive this mistake. Ia Toilette is the real insurgent Ieaderi