The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1913-08-01
BILL INSPIRED ar ANTAGONIST
Senator Towsend Declares Tariff
Measure Was Conceived
in Darkness.

Senator Towsend Declares Tariff
Measure Was Conceived
in Darkness.
Washington, July 28.-Declaring tha
SAe Democratic tariff bill was INSPIRED
by antagonism to American prosperity
Senator Charles E. Townsend of Michi
gan, in the senate today said thai
"every legitimate industry is subject tc
Democracy's destructive fire and in its
0stensible efforts to injure the bad, il
recklessly and wantonly destroys the
good.
Continuing his attack on the bill now
apder discussion, Senator Townsend
declared:
Industrial, moral and intellectual
progress was never so great as under
she nnhsmpered operation of the Payne
tariff law. IL closed no factory. 1t
aenied to none an opportunity to work
at the greatest wage ever paid in any
tNnd at any time. 1t filed our treasury
10 OVERLOOKING and supplied the, money
for the most extensive internal improve
ments ever undertaken in our national
life
aAs total result of this congress up
10 date it has been Inundated and dis
gxaced before the country by unwar-
csntsd insinuations that Its members
s~s anft to legislste, and by their &C.
a;on they have acknowledged the i'm.
seaehment. The business men, farm
srs. and lsboring men, who had felt
that they were part of this govern
nent and entitled to be heard by their
representatives on matters affecting
their comfort. prosperity and happi-
aess. have been made to feel like tres
assssrs and offenders. The vilest self
,onvicted scoundrels have been per-
ritted to smirch with their own I'M.
~xppcrted statements the characters or
~ least the regulations, of honest,
csnsciar. ious men in and out of public
ate: ~! because of the official publ
,sti,,p these matters decent men
noafJ lave felt compelled to deny
.hargs which no court of justice
soald have admitted to evidence, be-
pause of their total lack of truth and
probability.
1.-THE Democratic party as presently
constituted has had little experience
no affirmative legislation and admins
ayntion. Some of its members have
had, but such are in the hopeless mi
AoaitY. It's mission has been one of OPP
position. For years it has been en-.
msged in the work Of destruction. 1t
Aaa experienced its most exquisite
1aasure in fomenting discord and en-
couraging class strife.
'4Such party is now in full control
se The nation, aud after months of
sssxst work the Democratic senate has
presented the pending bill.
SIT is confidently expressed that this
all now before us will result in better
tsasinsss, greater general prosperity,
saa cheaper living. The Democratic
sarty promised these conditions. The
president before his election and since
see publicly expressed his confidence
aAat they would prevail, and yet recall
how inconsistent has been the admins
sxNAiOns conduct with its promises.
soon after his Inauguration President
Wilson is reported to have made
Ysech in which he proposed to hang
~ high as Haman' any man or con-
:sGr. that precipitated a panic. But
Why talk of panic2 Are business
men, or even spectators. opposed to
greater prosperity Not long after
his threat by the president his secre'
aAzy of commerce is reported as init
mating that If business man failed,
~, il in order to meet the foreign COM
,stion recommended by the president.
no Mad to reduce his force of laborers
M lessen their wsges he would be in
eesigated, aud perhaps prosecuted.
Why suggest such thing at the dawn
NJ she brighter day for business2 Not
hOg after this remarkable statement
w the secretary of commerce the dis
,sDguished and capable secretary of
lhs treasury assures the country that
10 has sJ00,000,00O of public money
which he is ready to distribute among
No banks in case of need. What need
Arc demands for money being made
because of any unusual necessity for it
NJ reason Of moving crops or increase