The Adair County news., 1911-09-13

ln9er the highest tariff schedule ever
nown in the world.
Republicans promised N the last
atlonal contest for President to re-
is the tariff downward in the inter
ct of the consumers. They revised
It upward in the interest OF i4onOIO-
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 hiss no
right in equity or in law 10 collect a
dollar of taxation except for its own
support, and that Republican doctrine
is that taxes may be 1<Tied for the
benefit and projection - favored indi-
viduals and preferred classes, which
is legalized robbery.
Look for a moment at few of the
inequalities of the existing tariff
rates. On clothing worn by the labor
ing man it levies a duty of Sc per cent
On champagne the duty is 65 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 in
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 it 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 $779 900 600, on which a 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 il This speech al
Cincinnati when a candidate for Pres
ident, on September %, 1908: IF
am elected President l promise the
nation l 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: at is my
judgment that the revision of the tar.
iff 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 it. and called it 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 Injuries
The enormous tax provided for in the
schedules of the Payne-Aldrich bill
increased the price on every article
on which it is levied, and helped to
make the cost of living so 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.
There are four things every man
wishes to obtain as cheaply as pos
sible:
A home for himself, wife and chill
dren.
Clothing to protect them from the
cold.
Edibles to support life.
Farming implements and mechan
les tools with which to labor.
Republicans In the existing tariff
law put a tax on lumber, with which
the home is built. and heavy tax or
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 have done all they could t.
make these articles free or as nearly
free as possible, but President Taft
as l have already stated, vetoed thu
( 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
great remedy-change of administra
tion-elect a Democratic President O
the United States and turn Repub
licans out of Office.
The conditions are favorable In va
rious respects for change of admins
tration, and especially because tn
Republican party is divided into tw,
factions. the Insurgents and tn
Standpatters. A distinguished Demo
cratic Congressman said not Ion;
ago: 1.-THE difference between them il
as to the amount Of the loot" Insur
gents say, Rob by the protectiv
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, Tho,
shalt not steal"
Farmers and Laboring Men.
l know / am addressing today al
audience composed largely of farmer
and laboring men, and l confess
have strong feelings and sentiment
for everything that concerns them.
was reared on farm, and although
practiced law many years I have ais
owned farms many years, and have
farm now. All classes and all kind
OF business depend upon the prosper
ity and success of farmers and labor
ing men. When farm crops fail O
! diminish, business of all kinds Ian