The Mena weekly star., 1913-07-17
DEMOCRATIC PARTY ID BE VENTILATED
Senator McCumber, Attacking Tar ilf Bill, Says Farmers Will Treat Democrats Same as They Did
 Republicans in 1912

Washington, July l{.-Senator McCumber of North Dakota opened the Republican assault on the Democratic tariff revision bill in the Senate today, defending the farmers of the country against the free listing or great reductions in tariff rates on agricultural pro- ducts, and charging the Democratic party with deliberately kicking the American farmer into the gut ter"
 He said the Democrats are about to commit a greater crime against the American farmer than has ever been perpetrated by any political party against any class of people"
 The tariff bill, Senator McCum- Der declared, seemed to have been conceived in animosity against ev- cry American industry that needed protection.
 Should Not Punish Farmers.
 He asked if the Democrats con- sidered themselves the instrument through which providence is to work its punishment because in the last political campaign the farmer forgot the faith of his fathers and went chasing after a strange god, with cloven hoof and branch ant lers."
 Senator McCumber declared that he Democrats told the farmer he had been Wronged by Mr. Taft through the enactment of the Ca nadian reciprocity law, yet that law proposed 10 get something for surrendering nothing; while the Democrats proposed to trade away the farmers interest in everything for absolutely nothing"
 Farmers Face Much Competition.
 The reciprocity proposition,' he continued. subjected the farmer to the free competition of Canada only You subject him to the com petition of every country on the face of the earth that may want to dump its products into a market that belongs by right to American farmers"
 Senator McCumber asserted that the Democrats admitted the tariff bill would injure the farmer, con- tending that he received too much for his products, and must be com pelled to sell them cheaper
 Must Cut Out Pleasures.
 You declare to the farmer that the American people are paying St 300 0000.00O a year for meat, and you say that is too much. He an sWers: They are also paying S2,- 0O0,O00,000 a year for liquors Cut your liquor bill half and you will save enough to buy all your meat You declare they are paying Si35,- 000,00O a year for flour. He re- plies: They are paying S800000,- 00O a year for tobacco. Cut your tobacco bill half and your flour is free. You declare they are paying S225. 100000 a year for potatoes. He replied: They are paying S500000,- 0OO for theaters and amusements. Cut your amusements half and your potatoes are free. You de- Nldlt tlitN dlt pay HE 2Ouu,uUO,UuU year for butter and eggs. He re- piled: They are spending S500,000- GOO a year for confectionery His replies are unanswerable and an indictment of your own criminal extravaganza and high living"
 Prices Will Be Lower.
 The North Dakota senator assert ed that prices would be lower after the tariff bill becomes a law, but that it would be because of the in- ability of the public to pay higher prices and because of the general stagnation of business brought about by the tarifr bill
 Pass this bilL and unless this cut-throat policy which annihilated the Republican party in 1912 con- tinues. there will not be a Demo- cratic state in the whole north. It took the farmer l6 years to forget the last Democratic policy Pass this bill and inc generation living will never forget you"