The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-07-14
BY the Democrats IN Con-
gress with Their Free
Trade Bill.
sLAPPED III &c
And Kicked into the Gutter
4 Declares Senator Nc Cum
Der in Debate.

Senator dnCumber. ofCSorth Dalrota.
opened the Republican assault on
the Democratic tariR revision bin IL
the Senate today. defending the faE-
mers Of the country against the free
listing or great reduction Ia tatl
rates on agricultural produces and
tcharging the Democratic par lth
deliberately kicking the Amet
farmer into the gutter
In this year. 1913, = said sen
tor AIGClm Der, addressing the Dem
Iocrats, you are about to comnIt
greater crime against the Anne
farmer than has ever been peED
trated by any political party again.t
ANY class OF people during any perl
cd of recorded history.
with violent hands you are about
to strip him of every advantage which
the changed conditions OF home sup
ply and demand are about to yieTd
him. You have declared that ae4Ss
an outcast in the land which he has
made, the only one VI all the
classes Of American people who 81
not entitled to any consideration as
your hands. You have insu1ted his
sense OF fairness. slapped MIN in the
face and kicked him into the gtit
ter
The tarif biz, snator Gam
Der declaredl, seemed to have beets
conceived in animosity agaihst ev7
cry American industry that needed
protection with the american far-
mer as the special object OF hls
choler and hate
Vengeance of Defeats.
us 1t because OF his past political
am1iation that you are heaping up-
ON him the vengeance for all your
previous dsfeats2 orfdo you cansid-
er yourself to be the instrument
through which Provfdehce is to works
it's punishment bacahseIi iii the last
political campaign Ede h6fk got the faith
OF his fathers and HwefTfee Chasing Az
ter strang god with eleven hoofs
and branching antlers? II he Is TO
be punished for the heresy. are yo4
the proper person to intiict the puti+
ishment? You. are the beneficiary
of the farmers infdeIity to his own
party last fall. And for you now ~
be his executfoner for the ofEenses
being misled by you strikes me
being one OF the most coId-blooded
propositions I have ever heard off,
1T was the Democrats, Senator
McCumber declared. who told the
farmer that he had been wronged by
Mr.. Taft because the former pres
dent sought to trade OF his pre-
rtection for reciprocal tarfm redncs
tions by Canada" and it was the
Democrats who tried to convince the
farmer that the Republican party
was not to be trusted and that they
Instead. should be entrusted with
his Interests, The reciprocity propo=
sition. the senator argued, had one
virtue, in that it proposed to gep
something for surrendering nothing
while the Democrats proposed to
trade away the farmers interest In
everything for absolutely otn-
ing
World Competition.
''The reciprocity proposition. !" ne
continued, Subjected the farmer to
the free competition of Canada only
You subject him to the competition
OF the whole world-all OF Canadar
Australia, Venezuela, Argentine
Cuba, the Philippines and every
other country on the face OF the
earth that may want to dump it,
products into a market that belongs
by right to the American farmer
Senator Mccumber asserted that
the Democrats admitted the tariR
bill would injure the farmer, con-
tending that he received too much
for his products and must be CONF
PEELED to sell them cheaper. and
charged that the Democrats know
that your claim that yIu are going
to benefit the consumef Is false and
dsmagogic in the extrene-' TIE
senator submitted statistics seeking
to show that the tariff did not Of
feet the price of farm products
the consumer and, again addressing
the Democrats. safds
Ears Are Closed.
'.Your ears are closed to every ats
peal for Justice for the tIler OF tlaa
soil. Yog are reaching = point
here your income Is unable to keep
mace with your extrltya noes, ard
you are asking the farmer % make
tcontlnusd On rage touEs