Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-26

Sitting in the gallery of the house
of representatives, an observer
heard the tariff bill debate recently.
The Daily Signal of Crowley, Lou
isiana, to which he writes, sums up
his letter as follows:
Everything farmer produces put
on free list; everything he buys on
protected list"
The writer says:
The writer sat in the gallery of
the house of representatives on April
23rd and listened with rapt atten-
ton and bated breath to Mr.. Under
wood in opening the discussion on
his famous tariff bill, H. r. No. 10.
Mr.. Underwood was at his best; he
took the Democratic side of the
house by storm His announcement
Of the Democratic propaganda to be
the interest and rights OF the great
consuming masses of the American
people was met by thunderous APP
lplause on botn the floor and the
galleries. He raked the Republicans
coming and going, he slashed them
from the front and from behind, fore
and aft. With knitted brow and
clinched fist waved towards the Re
publican side he beloved out, you
raised the price of lemons in every
hospital in the United States; you
raised the price to the poor and the
dying in their beds to satisfy the
GREEDY NAV of the California
fruit producers" ct cetera and ad in
finitum. OF his bill Mr.. Underwood
said: "In this bill we have not been
able at one fell swoop to wipe out
ali the iRiquities, the iniustices, and
favoritism that you have engrafted
on the body polite in five decades,
but so far as this committee and our
party is concerned, we have played
favorites with no man."
1t was great speech, well and
carefully staged and grandly encored.
The writer, a Democrat from far
away Louisiana, like the others pres
ent of like fal,r, Joined in the MAX
ing of applause and felt his blood
Jingle at the thought and hope that
at least the people had come into
their own" But. alas. alack! there
comes to us all a cooling time; a
time when we feel like turning on
fer ourselves the searchlights of
truth and investigation, and Judging
a measure by its own intrinsic merits
and not by what its sponsor says of
it. as TO what it will do and what il
will not permit to be done.
Today | have taken the printed
Hi and read it word for word ard
line for line and page after page;
and while 1t must be admitted that
it seeks to correct some evils, that
it has something OF the good and pre-
vents much that has been bad, as q
whole it is as full OF iniquities, in
justices, cruel and wanton wrongs
as daisies in summer meadow.
When these iniquitieS, injustices,
wanton and cruel, if not premeditat-
ed. wrongs have been pointed out so
that they stand in bold and clear re-
lief, the great and grand effort of
the distinguished ard eloquent son
of Alabama sound like the merest
kind of punk sounding brass and
terrific pounding OF the cymbals.
From the platforln adopted at
Baltimore, ard from the speeches
made by the standard bearers and
other leaders during the campaign,
those who we're Jed. or who by force
of habit followed, had q right 10 eX-
pect that the free list and revision
was to be on the articles
or products controlled by the trusts
and sold cheaper abroad than TO the
at home. No southern
and very few westerners,