The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-03-21

Democrats Continue to Intro
duce Bills Which They Know
Can't Pass and Don't Want
TO Pass

TO Pass


Fraud on the People-What q
Western Roosevelt Man Thinks
Situation i'm Republican Camp Has
Changed Very Little in the Past
Week-Great Unrest and Lawiess-
ness in China-The Revolution In
Mexico Is Subsiding-Resignat
of DIR. Wiley Regretted by Whole
Country. Except violators of the
Law.
Especial to The Caucasian.)
Washington, D. c., March 10, 1912.
The many tariff bills which the
Democratic House is preparing and
passing up to the Republican Senate
are so radical in nature and crudely
prepared that they have ceased to at
tract any attention or comment ex-
cept that of ridicule or Indifference.
All of the Washington papers have
for some time been commenting up
on these bills to the effect that they
are clearly drawn for campaign bun
combe, with no idea of their becon-
ing law.
1t is pointed out that, in the first
place, the Democrats would not be
harmonious among themselves over
these bills, if every one was not sure
that the bills would promptly be re-
jected by the Senate and by the
President. Everybody knows that if
the Democratic House was sincere in
wanting to make substantial reduc-
tions on the leading tariff schedules,
and would prepare bills based on the
difference in the cost OF production
here and abroad, that every such
bill would receive enough votes in
the Senate to pass it, and that the
President would sign every such bin.
He has declared time and again that
he would do this.
Therefore, the Democratic House
has put itself in the position of not
desiring such reasonable and effec-
tive reductions of the tariff, but has
determined to so act as to have no
reductions, but to simply offer sham
bills for campaign buncombe. The
belief is growing that the average
voter is too intelligent to be fooled
by such cheap partisan clap-trap. In
deed, the sentiment is fast growing
over the country that the people have
had enough already of Democratic
incompetency and that the voters will
not risk the calamity of another
Democratic National administration.
Don't Want to Know the Facts.
One of the latest moves made by
the Democratic House is to try to
kill the appropriation made by a pre-
vious Congress for the expenses of
the Tariff Board, which was author
lied to gather the facts to show the
difference in the cost of production
here and abroad
The Tariff Board has already made
report on this difference in the
cost of production on wooden goods.
but the Democratic House has re-
fused to consider the facts or to Of
fer a bill based on the facts The
Tariff Board has also made a report
on the cotton industry, showing that
slight reductions could be made in
certain schedules based on the diff
ference in the cost of production
here and abroad. The Democratic
House has ignored these facts and
has refused to prepare a bill based
upon them.
In short, the Democratic House
seems to be irritated every time facts
are presented in any Official form to
them, and they are now determined
to try to abolish the Tariff Board so
that no more facts can be furnished
II the facts furnished by this Tariff
Board on the wool and cotton
schedules were inaccurate every
body knows that every Democratic
Congressman would be pointing out
the inaccuracies and making speech
es riddling the report of the Tariff
Board. This they have not done, and
it is believed they cannot do.
A Buncombe Free Sugar Bill.
One of the latest bills reported by
the Democratic House is for free su-
gar This is intended to be one Of
the star Democratic campaign slo-
gans in the next campaign. The
Democrats know that this bill can
not pass and ought not to pass. In
deed, they would not have reported
this bill il they thought it could pass.
The fact is, this bill would give
the Sugar Trust free raw sugar. and
il they can get that from the cheap
labor countries In the world then
they would pay less for raw sugar
than they now pay, and having q