Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-05-16
LEGITIMATE INDUSTRIES"
ARGUMENT OCCURS WITH RAMS
DELL REGARDING TARIFF ON
CERTAIN ARTICLES
SECRET TOLD
ORATORS IN THE WEST m
sTRUcTED TO FORGET TO
MENTION FREE PRODUCTS


of Kentucky, accredited with speak
ing for President Wilson and the ad
mfnistration, interpreted the Balti-
more platform in a speech in the sen
ate today, as committing the presi-
dent and the democratic party to
free sugar. His remarks were in re-
ply to the declarations by Senator
Ransdell and senator-elect Broussard
o3 Louisiana that it did not.
In the gallery, listening closely, was
Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to the
president, who went to the capitol to
hear the reply to the anti-free sugar
demands, which for two days have
been assisting the sugar schedule
which President Wilson has declared
will not be compromised if he can
help it.
! Senator James declared that the
platform adopted at the Baltimore
convention approved the course of the
democratic house in the last session
Of consress and that # Included api
proval Of the Underwood free sugar
bill. He read a paragraph from the
( democratic campaign text book ap-
proving the excellent record Of the
house in placing sugar on the fres
list"
Senator Ransdell asked If President
\ Wilson had not declared in speech
al Pittsburgh that he did not stand
Ter free trade.
Senator James returned that the
4 president was not a free trader and
ItAat the proposed bill, calculated to
raise 100000, 900 in revenue, was not
a free trade bill.
IF you say President Wilson is g
free trader because he favors free su-
gar demanded Senator James, did
you call yourself free trader when
you voted for free bread and free
shoes?"
Senator Ransdell denied he was
< tree trader, and asked if the demo
cratic national committee had not in
structed its orators in the west to no
discuss free sugar and also if the
party would not have been defeated
If they had discussed it there"
u know the Chicago headquarter;
- n-aucted Representative Aswel
Of Louisiana, ne declared
Senator James referred to the poin
made by the Louisiana leade tina
President Wilson and the administra
ton had declared against tariff re
ductions which would iniure any legi
innate industry.
"By Legitimate industry in tho
platform said the Kentucky senator
lis meant industrially legitimate an
commercially legitimate industry.
does not refer to an industry whicl
has had 125 years of government an
protection and is yet unable to tak,
care Of itself"
Senator James eloquently praise'
President Wilson's stand for FIRE
sugar.
If William H. Taft had had hal
the courage Of woodrow Wilson h
would have vetoed the Payne-Aldric
bill and bonfires would have peel
burned on every hillside in his honol
and in my opinion he would hay
been reelected. President Wilso
says he is in favor Of free sugar an
I free wool. and wants no compromis
At Pittsburgh he merely said he d
not want to destroy any legitimat
industry. l challenge you to fin
anybody to whom Woodrow Wilso
eyre said he was not in favor Of fire
sugar"
Senator Ransdell inquired if h
considered the sugar business Of tn
south and west Legitimate.
Legally but not ecoRomicalIy," n
piled Senator James.