Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-09-20
STANDARDS OWN
CORRESPONDENT IS
FULL Of FIGURES
Tells Also Interesting Incidents of
National Political
Campaign.
BAILEY-ROOSEVELT DEBATE
Amidst Turmoil, Britain's Pro-
test Saves Cats
Eye.
BAILEY-ROOSEVELT DEBATE
(Dy Austin CGnningham.)


Some people today believe-there used
to be many who so believed-that a
wet nurse transmits to a youngster
through the milk all of her evil traits
and characteristics, if she has them;
that if the nurse is criminally dis
posed, the baby eventually will be- and
so on.
Of course, it might be argued that
every person who drinks the milk of
a vicious COW is NOT necessarily in
clined to hook somebody.
But the thought suggests this, re-
gardless of whether the belief men-
toned has a basis on which to rest;
that ever since the protective tariff
system was established it has been
the ''wet nurse for the Infant in
dustries." This tariff system has a
criminal beat, undoubtedly, for does it
not rob the masses for the benefit of
the classes? And then, bearing in mind
the suspicion or belief just alluded to,
is it not true that infant industries, so
long sucked by this INSCRIPTIONS wet
nurse, have grown to be sOulleSS trusts,
grasping, selfish and unprincipled
creatures?
In the permanent record of the sec
Ond session of the Sixty-second congress
will appear vivid illustration by Maj
ority Leader Underwood of how the
public bears the burden of the Re-
publican tariff, while monopolistic in
terests are fostered by it. The dis
tinguished Southerner takes for ex-
ample a workman and his home as
follows:
law the laboring man returns to his
home from toll at night clad in
woolen suit taxed Is per cent, shoes
taxed II per cent, stockings and under
wear taxed II per cent, cotton shirt
taxed 80 per cent, and wool hat and
wooden gloves taxed 78 per cent. He
carried a dinner pail taxed As per
cent He greeted his wife as she
looked out at him through window
pane taxed 62 per cent and through
curtains taxed 43 per cent.
after scraping his shoes on an
iron scraper taxed rs per cent, he
wipes them on a mat taxed SO per cent.
He lifts the doorlatch taxed 62 per cent,
steps on a carpet taxed 62 per cent,
and kisses his wife in a woOlen dress
taxed IS per cent. She had been en-
gagged in mending an umbrella taxed
80 per cent with a thread taxed 80
per cent.
"The wOrkman's home is made of
brick taxed rs per cent, and lumber
taxed 96 per cent, while the very
plain furniture is taxed 35 per cent.
He hangs his pail on steel pin taxed
As per cent, and then goes and washes
up for supper using soap taxed 20 per
cent. Before a looking glass taxed
As per cent he combs his hair with a
rubber comb taxed IS per cent He
proceeds to eat his supper cooked by
his wife in pots and kettles taxed As
per cent, and on a stove taxed As per
cent. On the table is common crock
cry taxed IS per cent, and cheap tum-
blers taxed As per cent. The sugar he
puts in his tea is taxed 54 per cent,
and he stirs the drink with spoon
taxed As per cent.
His meal is a frugal one, because
the cost Of living is high. He uses a
knife and fork taxed so per cent in
eating salt fish taxed 10 per cent,
bread, 20 per cent; potatoes, % per
cent; salt 80 per cent; butter, "a per
cent, and rice 81 per cent. He then
reads a book taxed rs per cent, and
when wearied, reclines in an iron
framed bed taxed IS per cent, with a
mattress taxed 20 per cent, sheets
taxed 40 per cent, wooden blankets
taxed IS per cent, and cotton spread
taxed As per cent.
| ''The workman falls i'll and his doc
tor prescribes medicine taxed rs per
cent. The medicine being ineffective,
the poor man dies and his body is
placed in a coffin taxed 35 per cent,
which is conveyed to the cemetery in
a wagon taxed 35 per cent; the coffin
is deposited in mother earth, the
grave is filled by the use of spade
taxed As per cent, and over his last
resting place is erected modest
monument taxed SO per cent.
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"To wean or not to wean?" That is
the question over which two great
political parties appear to be fighting.
Whether the overgrown infant indus
tries should be separated from their
wet nurse, since they have "waxed
| fat and kicked" and grown mean,
furthermore, or permitted to continue
thriving nightly on succOr and forage,
too, is the great Interrogation point.
If ranchman riding in his pasture
should come upon big beefy yearling
calf seeking nourishment other than
grass, he would say, "Blab the brute"
And forthwith a spiked wire or tin con-
traption that would permit grazing
only would be attached to the greedy
animals nose.
1t is being observed here that while
the exact location of ArmageddOn Is
not known, 1t certainly isn't in Yer
mont or Maine.
When the Third Term candidate was
on one of his earlier tours Of the West,