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PANIC TALK
ST|RS CLARK.
Repub ican Attack On Tariff
Leads to Bitter Clash
CHICAGO CONDITIONS CITED
Speaker Declares Ut:eranees OF G. o.
p. Leaders Look Like Co .spiraey
Against Progress.

p. Leaders Look Like a Co .spiraey
Against Progress.
Washington, Dec. 10. - Ass ring
that men were starving In IN cago
while President Wilson investigated
he Carabao dinner, Representative
Mann, Republican floor leader, del1v-
cred bitter speech to e house, at
.acking the Denoo ratio tariff revision
nd the administrati n in g nral.
Mann drew a pessim;st.c pi ture Of
the industrial conditions an a d trey
warranted a note of warmth : to the
arty in power.
Speaker Clark, in hot reply,
harged that the utte-ant es Of Mann,
senator Root, former Speaker Can
ION, former Governor Had:ey and G..
}. Hilles, chairman of the Republican
ational committee, looked like Re-
publican conspiracy against the pro-
ress of the republic" and he styled
hc',l Calamity how.ers."
Twenty years aGo," declared Mr..
liam. Eve had to thow open the city
iall in Chirago in order that men out
of work might sleep on Its marble
floors. I hoped never to see such cen
ditions return, but it is again upon us.
More than 1000 men recently stood IN
the bread line in Chicago, churches
have been thrown oVen to the unem-
ployed, the county building is offered
as a place where they may sleep, the
city has opened hotel for men out
of work, thousands are walking the
streets seeking to earn an honest dol
lar, and, while men of family are won
dering If they shall starve, the presi-
dent of the United States is ilvesti.
eating a Carabao dinner"
Mann asserted that he was not an
alarnist, and that he had hestitated to
speak of financial depression through
out the country, but he added, mem
bers of congress could no longer re-
fuse to take cognizance of return OF
hard times.
"In Chicago and in every large
CITY," he said. men are out of work.
What is the party in power doing to
The president could do much to revive
confidence, If he would, and the party
/ in control in this house could do the
same, but instead they are following
the fatuous policy they have talked
about on the stump, regardless of the
effect upon the country"
Mann said he attributed the de-
preston partly to the tariff and partly
to the incapacity of Democratic con-
troll and a lack of confidence on the
part of the people in the party now
In power. He was loudly cheered by
the Republicans.
In his reply Speaker Clark said:
There never was a big city in the
country that did not have idle men
In it. The gentleman lives In one OF
the richest sections on the face of the
earth, and he knows that there was a
severe drought over the middle west
this summer that has caused great loss
to industry in all the cities of that
region.
1.-THE main proposition that runs
through all these speeches Is that u1,-
der the Democratic administration we
have hard times and under the Re-
publican we have good times. There
Is not a particle of truth in 1t and
never was. The panic of 1898 came
under the Mckinley tariff bill. Condi.
lions actually improved from the time
the Wilson bill was passed.
Senator Aldrich, who was the best
informed Republican who has been
here since l have been a member, said
that the panic of 1887 was the worst
that ever swept the country. You
couldn't get your money out of the
bank with jimmy"
"Pve heard it said," continued the
speaker. "if a man starts downtown
and enough fellows tell him he is sick,
he will get sick. They are getting
something in the papers every day
about a calamity, and after a while, II
they keep it up, they will make some
people believe conditions are going to
the dogs"