The Alaska citizen., 1913-09-01

cd in the house Of representa- yes by Hon. Robert P. Hill. of Illinois. upon the consideration of the bill to re- duce tariff duties and To provide rev cnue Tor the government. publish ed in the Congressional Record April 2S. 1913:
 Mr. Cha rman. regret very much that the time k so limited that l am not permitted To make some general observations relating to some of the speeches that have been pretcndcd and feicned as arguments against this bill lnasmuch as my time k SD Limited. l Will confine myself to some remarks that l have prepared. l will not he expected in the br If lime allotted to mc to say anything that will change the te of a single Representative on the other side of this House. because they came here wearing peculiarly goggIed glasses. furnished and fitted on them by the sleek. Pampercd. favored few and specially designed so that their vi. sions are always and constantly fa- lcused on the heap n@ hOrdes u. ac- cumulated riches they have been g.y- ling to them hE leeislating to them reasonable profit" OH the business N one on your side of the House. once fitted up in this sHeudidly fashioned visor. can see the other side of a proposition, and never will unless the courageous leader of the second great political party n this ,.;, match. In the event that he doe $. he will get your so-callcd geles. and unless you can muster more pa triolism than you now have you sure ly will he knocked stone bind
 was very much amused the other day when the astufe gentleman from Wyoming tMr. MondelD. who al most lost his voice yelling soup h use, prefaced his remarks by saving:
 Viewing your legisiat on as We do our profound regret with regard to | arises from the fact that while you alone are responsible. the evil effects We anticipate can not be con fined to you or those who agree with you, but will fall as deadly blight uP II the whole body of our people"
 How easily and truthmlly he mieh. well have sad:
 "NieWing our legislation as We do onr profound regret with regard 10 il ar.ses from the fact that while you alone will he resp usible for de Priyins cur spec ally favored indus. tries from a further continuance ot their il!egaliZed reasonable prof [" l ,t-bi i.I t,.is. and can now no longer be confined to our industries or those who agree with Us. but the benefits of the Un- derwood bill will fall as delightful z dsend upon the whole body of our people.
 Your @reasonable-profit" system of legislation has made it possible to- day that you view the horrible spectacle of about 1U individuals III this country owning almost 90 per cent of all the wealth of the whole body of our American people, who have thought they were living under a free flag and in a free country Almost all of the speeches from the other side of the House declare 10 be in favor of a tariff that will be fair to both the manufacturer and the consumer And yet you say 10 enact such a law ylu must tax one class to get q reasonable prof [" for the other The task of doing this is as difficult as it will he to iinG water naturally flowng uphill. Oh but you say the consumer does not feel an indirect tax, and then we pay our employees so much bet | l,, tl; let ns see if this be true
 The cost of living under your system has n the last l0 years in creased about 50 per cent to every consumer and the average increase in wages paid to the laboring man is about 20 per cent. You WOul1 therefore have the wage earner he lieve that you can take 50 cents from him and give him back 20 and by that pr cess make him ultimately rich or well off financially For years you got away with this kind of argument, but now find that iOur false and deceptive theory will no longer win.
 If everybody was so prosperous and the entire country was going Ialong so well with it's equal and fair taxation, as you claim, why did you not return 10 power as formerly? You now realize h. W false the doe tr.nes of your reasonable profit money gods which you espouse and proclaim. have been.
 The protection theory of taxation with a reasonable profit for the manufacturer will be successful when it gives and legislates a like reason liable profit to the men and women and boys and girls who are creating the wealth. If it is fair, as You view it, to legislate a reasonable profit 10 one man or class of men, it is equally as fair to legislate a reason able profit to all other men, women, and children who create this wonder ful profit. Then it would be thai more than 6,000000 wage earners in this country would share in all these fabulous creations of wealth That theory of legislation would be unconstitutional and you know it. Then, any theory of reasonable profit" legislation to any class is un- constitutional.
 On account of this theory of taxa tion you find yourselves the miser able remnant of a once popular party. The few of you who are here today do not agree upon plan Of attack against the great majority on this side of the House. The only proposition you can unite upon is to yell soup houses" and panic" ,l.,