The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1913-07-18
SAYS DEMOCRATS
ATTACK Farmers
McCumber Opens Assault0n
Tariff Revision Bill.
S moot introduces Substitute For
Wool Schedule Of Under
wood Measure.
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washin gton, July 14.-Senator Me-
Sumber, Of North Dakota, opened the
Republican assault on the Democrat
ic tariff revision bill In the Senate
today, defending the farmers Of the
country against the free listing or
grAat reduction in tariff rates on ag-
ricultural products, and charging the
Democratic party with deliberately
kicking the American farmer into
the gutter"
'In this year, 1873" said Senator
McCumber. addressing the Democrats.
''you 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 during any period of record
ed history.
with violent hands you are about
to strip them. of every advantage
which the changed conditions Of HON
supply and demand were about to
yield to MIN. You have declared that
he Is an outcast In the land which
he has made. the only one of all
the classes Of American people who
is not entitled TO any consideration
at your hands. You have insulted his
sense OF fairness. slapped him in
the face and kicked him into the
gutter"
The tariff bill, Senator McCumber
declared, seemed to have been Con
'ceived IN luminosity against every
American industry that needed pro-
lection" with the American farmer
as the special object of his chOler
and hate"
.~,It was the Democrats. Senator Nc
Cumber declared, who told the farmer
that he had been wronged by Mr..
Taft because the former President
sought to trade off his protection for
reciprocal tariff reductions by Can
ada" and 1t was the Democrats who
tried to convince the farmer that the
Republican party was not to be trust
ed and that they. instead, should be
intrusted with his interests. The reci-
procity proposition. the Senator argu-
ed, had one virtue. In that 1t pro-
posed to get something for surrender
ing nothing, while the Democrats pro-
posed to trade away the farmers in
terest in everything "fOr absolutely
nothing.
1.-THE reciprocity proposition" he
continued, subjected the farmer to
the free competition of Canada only.
You subject him to the competition
Australia, Venezuela, Argentina, Gu
ba. the Philippines and every other
country ON the face Of the earth that
may want to dump its products into
a market that belongs by right to
this American farmer"
Senator McCumber asserted that
the Dem ocrats admitted the tariff
bill would injure the farmer. con-
tending that he received too much
n,r his products and must be COMPEL
ed to sell them cheaper. and charged
that the Democrats "know that your
claim that you are going to benefit
the consumer is false and demagog-
ic in the extreme" The Senator sub
mitted statistics seeking to show
that the tariff did not effect the
price of farm products to the consum'
er and, again addressing the Demo
Gratis. said:
Your ears are closed to every
appeal for justice for the tiller OF
soil. You are reaching a point where
your income Ia 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. IL never occurs to you
that the proper place to begin &C.
onomy il ON the luxuries, the unhec-
essaries OF life. You declare to- him
that the American people are paying
800, 100000 q year for meat. and
you say that IL too much. He answ-
ers. They are also paying $4,000. 900.
OOS q year for LIQUORS. Cut your ltQ'
uor bill half and you will have
enough to buy all your meal You
declare they are paying Sass. oo0. ooQ
a year for flour. He replies, They
an paying ssoo.ooo.ooo for tobacco
Cut your tobacco bill In half and you