The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-09-02

"A Oil requiring puUIClCy VI CdIIlpdSu 1uHuS OC-
fore elections
resolution providing for the election of United
States Senators by direct vote of the people.
resolution authorizing the admission to the
Union of Arizona and New Mexico.
The farmers free list BILL
A wool bill that reduces the average ad valorem
duty on manufactured woolens from 80 per cent to
AZ IL per cent
Preparing bill that will make very decided
reduction on cotton goods.
The foregoing is condensed statement of house
achievements under democratic control
Has any republican congress within your recol-
lection attempted to do so much for the cause of
the whole people?
And yet your republican president vetoed three
of the bills which would lower the cost of living.
Now who is your friend-and to whom should
you be friendly?
'Thepresident has raised an issue which will
rage with unabated fury until the close of the polls
in November 1922
When Speaker Champ Clark threw down this
challenge in what is now regarded as one of the
most brilliant and militant speeches of his entire
career, it meant not only that the democratic fight
for lower cost of living was to be one to finish,
but that Champ Clark himself was the man quail
fled to lead that fight.
Republicans as we'll as democrats apparently
realized this, as was evidenced by the fact that
when the speakers name was mentioned in con-
nection with the presidency, the big Missourian
was cheered to the echo.
1T makes me weary" thundered Speaker
Clark, directly challenging the leaders on the re-
publican side ito hear people talk about some
body wanting to destroy the industries and pros
perity of this land. It is lie. No sane man
wants to injure in the estimation of hair any
legitimate industry in this country. 1t is thing
Incredible That is what have contended for al
ways and especially since we carried the house
and had the responsibility placed upon us. It is
our country as we'll as yours; our children must
live here well as yours; we have great stake
in the prosperity of the republic as you have and,
in the language of Tiny Tim, God bless U.S. every
one'
Another thing, they say that we are playing
politics. Whenever any man stands up and under
takes to do anything for the benefit Of the great
masses of the people he is denounced by the in
terests' as demagogue and is charged with play
ing politics. But to stand up and advocate the
cause of the interests is the highest evidence of
statesmanshp AS far as l am individually con-
cerned, sprang from: the loins of the common
people, God bless them, and am one of them. l
labored with my hands in my youth, and would do
it again tomorrow if had to do so; and unhesit-
atingly take my stand with the consumers of the
land as against the interests.
'These gentlemen supporting the PRESIDENT veto
message have all said that this wool bill is uncon-
sidered. I do not propose to have that kind of
statement go to the country unchallenged, because
it is absolutely untrue. What happened? We
called democratic caucus of the democratic
members-elect of this house on the 10Th day of
January The purpose of that proceeding was to
select the democratic members of the committee
on ways and means that they might go to work
preparing tariff bills. Some of the republican
newspapers said it was my crazy scheme, but it
worked like a charm. We chose the democratic
members and they went to work and spent nearly
three months preparing this wool BILL defy my
friend from New York (Mr. Payne) to state that
he ever spent three months on any one schedule of
tariff bl.''
People throughout the country have been i'm
pressed by the sound common sense of Speaker
Clark His progressiveness has in it nothing of
the headlong frenzy, and his conservation has no
moss upon it's back. He has disappointed those
who thought that his brilliant oratorical qualities
left no room for closet planning and thorough exc
cution of humdrum duty. Republicans who ex-
pected to enjoy the spectacle of victorious foes
quarreling over the spoils, with Champ Clark
utterly unable to control his forces have been
doubly disappointed The course of the house
democrats has been consstant, united, and polite
ally wise However radically any one may differ
from the democratic program, it must be admitted
that Speaker Clark's leadership has been mastery.
Mining men from all over the Northwest will