The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-29

and A1I1ng over the proposed WOOL
schedule of this Democratic congress.
Shall it be such a revision as John G.
Carlisle would have made, or shall it
be such a reaction as Samuel j. Ran
dali would have given US? Shall the
work of the Democratic majority Of
the 62nd congress be Commanded as
was the work of the Democratic ma
jority of the 53rd congress? Shall
We be overwhelmed in another wave of
perfidy and party dishonor?
If there is anything firmly estab-
lished as Democratic policy it is free
wool. for schedule X is the citadel of
protection and the duty on raw wool
the keystone of the tariff arch. AS long
as We have taxed wool we will have
a protective tariff, and the day wool
goes on the free list the tariff wall will
tremble, and soon thereafter ii will
fall. Carlisle said so and Aldrich says
so. Only a few days ago Mr.. Aldrich
said wool is the crux of the protective
policy.
Why have two parties that favor a
tax on wool? If both parties are for
it, what was all that election row
about last year? If the country is for
tax on wool why did the people
turn out the Republicans. who believe
in it, and set up the Democrats. all OF
| whose leaders of any sort of Demo.
cratic character since and including
| James Guthrie have advocated free
wool?
| The issue is plain and simple and
sharp. The Democratic idea is free
| woodland other raw materials he is
| bound to use-for the wooden manufac
turer and then compel him to com
pete with the foreign manufacturer by
placing duty strictly for revenue or
his finished product. In the first place
that would give the people cheaper
clothing, cheaper blankets, cheaper
carpets which would cheaper the cos,
of living enormously. Second it would
force the manufacturer to make wool
ems for the foreign trade, and thai
would enlarge his plant, give employ
ment to more labor. supply larger
market to the wool grower and AFFORD
investment for more capital.
| That is the Democratic idea. The re
raw wool, dye-stuff, machinery, build
ing materials and everything else th<
WOODEN manufacturer has to buy. Their
pile up the protection on his finished
product SO as to give him a complete
monopoly of the American market fol
woolens, such as clothing, hats, car
pets, blankets and everything made O
wool. But" says some fellow, '1'l
never consent to free wool so long a.
the manufacturer has protection" NJ
more will I. We propose to give hin
free raw materials and then take from
every scrap of protection not found il
a tariff on finished products so con
structed as to invite and stimulate i'm
portations of wooden goods. That wal
the position of Cleveland and Carlisle
of Morrison and Mills, of William L
Wilson and Henry G. Turner, and II
say this-it has ever been the position
of William J. Bryan. In my little wa!
/ have discharged as many shafts a
1.-the Matchless" as anybody else.
| was opposed to him when many o
| those now abusing him were in hi
| train shrieking "Noel," and striving tt
touch the hem of his garment; but
always saw in Bryan genuine tariff
reformer of the Cleveland, not the Cor
man, of the Morrison, not the Ran
dali type.
! Strange to say, the manufacture
who buys from abroad 256,606,6 3'
pounds of manufactured wool in
sists on paying tariff duties upon it tt
the amount of $21,12s,72S. Why? Be
cause he knows that as long as Their
is duty on wool, 100000 Ameri
cans, the most prodigal customers il
the world will be forced to buy near
ly everything made of wool from him
and the American people pay fiv
times that $21, 100000 to protect him
That is what is the matter with thi
wool question. 1t is what the lat
Jonathan P. Dolliver said it was,
rascally and wicked conspiracy be
tween the weavers and the shepherd
to rob the American people and max
living higher in price and greater i
hardship.
When we shall succeed in smashin
that cruel and remorseless combine
ton of the shepherds and the weaver
the entire rascally tariff will go to pc
: and not before. And that is what tn
people ordered congress to do last NJ
vember and why all this backing an
: filling is the mystery of it.
Who but must laugh If such a ma
: there be?
Who would not weep if Atticus wer
he? -s...