Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-14
SAYS TARIFF BILL
KICKSU. ARMER
Senator McCumber Bitterly Ar
raigns Democrats in First
Gun Fired at Measure.

WASHINGTON, July Ex-senator
McCumber, of North Dakota, opened
the Republican assault on the Demo-
cratic tariff revision bill in the Senate
today, defending the farmers of the
country against the free listing or
great reduction in tariff rates on
agricultural products, and charging
the Democratic party with deliberate
ly kicking the American farmer into
the gutter"
''In this year 1913" said Senator
McCumber, addressing the. Demo-
Gratis, you are about to commit
greater crime against the American
farmer than has ever been perpe-
trated by any political party against
any class of people during any period
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 were about to yield to
him. You have declared that he is an
outeast in the land which he has
made, the only one of all the classes
of American people who is hot en-
titled to any consideration at your
hands. You have insulted his sense
of fairness, slapped him in the face
and kicked him into the gutter"
Conceived in Animosity."
The tariff bill. Senator McCumber
declared. seemed to have been con
celved In animosity against every
American industry that needed pro-
lection" with the American farmer as
the special object of its choler and
hate"
rs 1t because of his past political
utilization that you are heaping upon
him the vengeance for all your pre-
vious DEFEATS? Or do you consider
yourself to be the instrument through
which Providence is to work it's pun
ishment because in the last political
campaign he forgot the faith of his
fathers and went chasing after a
strange god, with cIoven hoofs and
branching antlers? If he is to be
punished for his heresy, are you the
proper person to infiict the punish
ment? You are the beneficiary of the
farmers intidelity to his own party
last fall. And for you now to be his
executioner for the offense of being
misled by you strikes me as being
one of the most cold-blooded PROPOSE
tions have ever heard of.
"Your Ears Are Closed"
Your ears are closed to every ap-
peal for justice for the tiller of the
soil. You are reaching a point where
your income is unable to keep pace
with your extravagances, and you are
asking the farmer to make good the
deficit by reducing the price of his
products. 1t never occurs to you that
the proper place to begin economy is
on the luxuries, the unnecessaries of
life. You declare to him that the
American people are paying $1,500,000,-
600 year for meat. and you say that
is too much. He answers. They are
also paying $4,000 100000 year for
liquors. Cut your liquor bill half and
you will save enough to buy all your
meat You declare they are paying
$435, 100000 a year for flour. He re-
plies, They are paying $S00,000,000 for
tobacco. Cut your tobacco bill half
and your -four is free You declare
they are paying $225. 1000, 900 year for
ing s500.000,000 for theatres and
amusements. Cut your amusements
half and your potatoes are free You
declare, they are paying $S0o,000,000
year for butter and eggs. He replies,
They are spending s50O,OoQ,OoO a year
for confectionery His replies are
unanswerable. They are SO many
monuments reading in clear black let
tiers into your eyes an Indictment of
your own criminal extrayagances and
high living"
prices win BE Loweri But"
The North Dakota Senator asserted
that prices would be lower after the
tariff bill becomes law, but that it
would be because of the inability of
the public to pay higher prices and
because of the general stagnation of
business brought about by the tariff
bill.
JUDGE ADAMS SITS JULY ss
Judge Frederic C. Adams, of the
Circuit Court, will preside here on
Tuesday, July %, to hear any motions