Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-01-05

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lished an editorial charging the Cat
tie Raisers' association OF Texas with
the high crime OF lending aid to and
acting as an adjunct to the R,publi-
can party In Texas. Three specific
acts are pointed out TO furnish proof
OF this alleged unholy alliance.
While the Times editorial pays high
tribute to the valuable work Of the
association. 1t unjustly criticises the
work OF the association for the fan
cied reason that Il has dared TO de-
mand :@.r play on the tariff The
Indictment Is In part.
That II had elected Republican
president in the person Of Mr. I'd c.
Lasater. and the editorial goes on To
say: To those who have been
watching the WORKINGS oil the asso.
citation for the past year or two IL
has become apparent that the pur-
poses OF the great organization are
being prostituted TO politica' ends.
and under the direction of the pre-
sent official head. who ENJOYS the dis
tinction OF being wealthy South
Texas Republican. the disposition ap-
pears 10 be pronounced In the direc-
ton OF making the Cattle Raisers'
association of Texas something Of an
adjunct of the dilapidated Republican
machine in Texas.
In every effort that is being made
by the national Democratic pagty To-,
the revision Of the tariff. II Is CON
fronted by the open hostility Of thi
Cattle Raisers' association of Texas.
which through its president and legal
department, is an uncomprcmisins
advocate OF the principles ~ pro-
lection II Is a fact that the puhhc
has generally understood for num-
her Of years that both the cattlemen
and sheepmen of the state were
strongly tinctured with the principles
of protection. but II Is only OF late
Years that the organization has come
into the limelight as an open advo
cate Of this Republican principle
From the advocacy ot Republican
principles 10 the election of Repub-
lican rs president of the organization
was a comparatively ensv step, and
with that even accomplished. further
Republican tendencies are but natdr-
ally to be expected Ii the member
ship makes no effor5 20 curb the an
parent tendency In that direction. .
In the first place let n,c say OF Mr.,
lasater that while he Is Replhli-
can, he Is a progressive with whom
/ Democrats have worked In Congress,
AID believe subscribes 10 no doc
trine or policy held b. standpat Re
publicans but on the contrary stands
I for tariff "a llclion aal far play 70
all In fact he is good Den Z. rat
I but not a Cyan Democ IL.
The position the Times takes ID
wholly without foundation except MS
to Mr.. Lasater's politics. We have
demanded fair trs1tmcn'. that Is al,
Is that n crime The Cate Raiscrs'
association of Texas at all Of It's am
nual meetings Siur" the revision OF
the tariff came before congress pre-
vious 10 the Plyne.Aldrlch taiifi
bill. passed unanimously resolutions
against placing ON the free list live
stock and licestp'k products. mciui-
hides. We fpdsht the placing OF
! hides on the free list and lost bcrai Sc
President Taft mrlc that one de-
mand which he forced the conference
committee to grant. and recently n
an article which he wrote for the
Outlook. referred 20 the fact that la
he made DIS nard fisht t. place
wool on the fee list as he did hides,
he would have sItc ,eded Every
I Texas congressman eXcep- one voted
against putting hides on teh free list
Does that make the cattle raiscrs
Republicans God helo the others.
The Cattle Raiscrs' association also
/ passed resolutions asking for an eq-
uitable and downward revision Of the
tariff and recommended ron-par-
tisan tariff commission and urged
such measures before the Ways and
: Means committee of which Mr. Payne
was chairman. Who defeated a. The
Republicans Who can fairly say We
were wrong?
So 1t is plain from these facts o.
/ record that the Cattle Raisers asso.
citation OF Texas took exactly the OPP
positc position 10 the Republican par.
~ on the only tariff questions on
which II has bv resolution or other
wise expressed itself up to the prop
osition contained In the free list bill
TO place meats on the free list. Wher
that proposition came forth the Cat
tie Raisers association opposed Il foi
the all sufficient reason that It /:
rank discrimination TO place our pro.
ducts on the free list and supply Oh,
American with cheap South American
beef while maintaining a tariff on
manufactured and other products
No political party has ever declared
In its platform for trade en- means
or farm products and never will.
There is no more reason to pu
meats on the free list than cattle