Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-09-01
TIE TARIFF BOARD

Ddflng the discussion of the
cotton schdule in the senate
Senator Reed Of Missouri in speak
ing OF those senators who wanted
to adjourn said:
say that, so far as am co n
ccrned | will vote to stay here
until the peoples wrongs are
rlkhted, even though this extra
session should run into the regular
session of next winter and that
should extend until the law
adjourns us on the 4th of March
1913 Then | will be willing to
quit and welcome the Democratic
President. who shall come bearing
dellvcrancc in his hands.
There is another class of men
who want to adjourn. They are
those who are typifiei by the de.
icndant Of the criminal at the bar
Of justice. There has never been
a lawyer yet who stood to defend
a guilty wretch against the laws
strong hand but awlays applied for
a continuance. So tie defenders
Of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law
are asking for a continuance until
next fall. These assign the fimsy
pretcXt, the ridiculous pretensc,
that they can not possibly vote
with intelligence until the Tariff
Board shall shed upon the dark
and shadowy question of tariff
schedules the light of its womb
rous learning.
How did you vote before? Upon
what information did you base
your action when you plunged
your hands deep into the pockets
of the American people? Where
is the information you then had
tha. you do not now possess?
What wiped out the wonderous
fund Of knowledge that you then
claimed to be master of?
Why can you not do now as you
did when you wrote the Payne
Aldrich bill-call in the protects ed
manufacturers, have secret meet
ing with them permit their experts
to furnish you witk information?
You now admit this is the way the
present tariff law was constructed.
Why must you now wait for the
Tariff Board? The answer is be-
cause postponemcnt of the day of
trial means pnstpOnCment of
sentence, perhaps escape alto
gcther. 1t also means the pro-
lUngatiOn of the present scheme
of lcgaizCd larceny. So you are
asking for Il continuance. And
now they tell us the President,
who denounced the wooden
schedule Of the Payne.Aldrich
! tariff law as an indcfcnsible thing
. insists we shall submit TO being
robbed and plunderCd for months
possibly years longer in order that
wc may lave the advice of a
/ Tariff Board. We must not touch
the robbcr until alleged experts
shall have advised us just how to
take hold of his precious anatomy,
least we, pcradvcnture, handle
him too rudely.
So the President and all stand.
paltCrs in chours cry. Softly,
good friends. be gentle with the
rogue"
Nov. who are this Tariff Board?
would not cast single reflection
upon them. trust and hope that
they will bring to It's some knowl.
edge: and yet. sir, all they are for
is to CLEAN the facts. Not a single
conclusion are they to draw. They
arc to find the cost of production
, here and thc cost Of production
there: they are 10 ascertain th'
amount of goods that are manu-
! featured there; and every single
/ fact that they can CLEAN lies al ou'
B door and all men who have in
, dustry can acquire all this hoar'
] will ever gather. When these five
, men are through with their
I, labors, | venture the prediction
, that they will have found Iittl
1 we did not already know.