St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-08-19
how it is affecting the question of revenue.

government, We find that 81, 662,162 pounds of cleaned rice were
imported, bearing duty of two cents per pound, and netting
$1,653,24300 revenue, and that 142, 1928 pounds of broken
rice, meal, etc, were imported, bearing duty of q cents per
pound, and netting 1070,537.0O revenue, Adding these two
items, we find that the tariff on rice yields a revenue of 81, 723,-
10000. That part of the import duty on broken rice and rice
meal is largely paid by the breweries of this country, but the
largest part of it-namely, the duty on cleaned rice, amounting
to over 81, 600,O00O0-is paid by aliens, by the japanese, Chi
nese and other Asiatns in this country, who prefer to pay a
higher price for rice grown in Asia rather than eat American
grown and American-mnled rice, claiming that it has not the
quality or favor to suit their taste. This is one instance, and
the only exception that | know of, to the Republican fallacy that
the foreigner pays the tax
For my part, I am heartily in favor of leaving the import
duty on rice. If the aliens among us are too particular and
aesthetic to. eat our American rice, then l approve of the
proposition of giving them an opportunity to help contribute
towards the expense of this government, whose benefits they are
deriving by temporarily living among us,
In this connection, l might add that only last Tuesday Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts, thte Republican leader of the Senate,
made an effort to put rice on the free list, and that this efotr was
defeated by the Democrats.
The Democratic platform declares against a tariff on lumber.
I stand on that platform.
INCOME TAX
| favor an income tax, and expressed myself fully on this
matter at Ruston. ..
Mr.. Pujo proclaims a new and startling doctrine when he
informs the cotton growers of the State that a tariff on cotton
manufactured goods will aid the cotton planters. The cotton
planter sells his product in the free trade markets of the world
and then buys everything in the world that he uses in the most
highly protected market on earth.
Mr.. Pujo is quoted in the press of July 26th as having stated,
in an interview: 'Governor Sanders cannot hope to be a free
trader in north Louisiana, a tariff for revenue man in middle
Louisiana, and a protecionist in south Louisiana"
No, Mr.. Pujo, Governor Sanders does not hope to occupy
any such outrageous position as this. Governor Sanders is a
arfffor-revenue Democrat, standing on the Democratic plat
form in every parish in Louisiana. Governor Sanders occupies
the same position in every portion of Louisiana on every public
question. And now, MI. Pujo, you cannot hope to occupy the
position of a Democrat in Louisiana and a Republican in Wash
ington; you cannot expect to receive Democratic votes IN this
State and then vote for Republican measures in Washington
without having that matter brought to the attention Of all the
people of this State. Neither can you, Mr.. Pujo, expect to
have the fact of your dual capacity as a representative Of corpo-
rations and a representative of the people go unnotced in this
campaign. I charge that you have an income Of many thousands
of dollars a year as the paid attorney of various corporations.
I charge that in the matters that come before Congress, the
corporate interests which you represent as attorney, often con.
fct with the interests of the people which you are supposed to
represent in the House of Representatives. We all know what
your salary is as a member of Congress; We do not know how
much you receive as the representative of the corporate interests,
which you represent as attorney, and now ask that you take
the people of this State into your confidence and tell them
how many corporations you represent and how much you receive
per annum therefor, so that they may intellgenty determine
the question as to whether or not you would make a desirable
representative of the people in the Senate of these United States.
In his speech at Ruston, on July 4th, Mr.. Broussard stated
that he was neither a protectionist, nor a free trader. he
stated that he believed in a tariff for revenue. This is good
Democratic doctrine, and | only wish that Nh. Broussard would
vote that way in Washington, as well as talk that way IN huston.
How he can claim to be a tarif-forrevenue Democrat, when 1t
is we'll known that he voted for the Dingley bill, a Republican
measure of protection that exceeded the Mckinley bill, and then
voted for the Payne bill, which is a worse protection measure
than the Dingley bill, cannot be understood, unless you read Mr..
Broussards speech delivered at Sunset, Louisiana, and reported
in the daily papers of July 22nd. Then you understand at
once, that he knows so little of the true difference between a
tariff for protection and a tariff for revenue that he can be
pardoned for his statement at Ruston.
In the same speech delivered at Sunset on July End, Mr..
Broussard is quoted in the public press as saying:
There is, however, a suggestion in the letter of the Governor to
Mr. Martel that it may be well for my good friend, Marteh to LOOK
into. The suggestion is misleading, or at least s not borne u o TN
facts as they appear from the Congressional Record, the verify OF when
For instance, I find these words in the Governors letter: Just a few
weeks ago, in Congress, an attempt was made by the Republicans IN
the House to amend the farmers free list by putting sugar OF tn
free list. This amendment wa supported by the RepupLcans In
opposed by the Democrats. This incident is full OF meaning o oF
people,
Now, the fact of the matter is that was present o he castor
to which the Governor refers, and it occurred to me a once upon read
ing his letter. that he is evidently misinformed on the subject LOOK
ing yer the Congressional Record Of May 9Th, 1911, or page tzo' l
find that Congressman Hanna, a Republican, from the state o. NoFth
Dakota, offered an amendment which proposed a horizontal ct o