The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-09-25


the d appointltg feature Wis that #
failed to solve The utter fnc0nslet7l
eney or their claim has been demon
istrated by their own hands and todqy.
the Democratic campaign speaker has.
banished the high cost of living dis
custom from his category The tar
fm duties on our imports have been.
reduced to a minimum and in many
cases entirely removed, and TO what
avail? An empty treasury. stifed In
dustry and idle Workmen.
The Democrats In the campaign
/ of 1912 made much ado OF the fol-
lowing plank, one Of the prominent
features of their platform:
Sugar Industry Ruined.
The high cost of living Is asseri-'
Gus problem in every American home
The Republican party in its platform
attempts TO escape the responsibility
for present conditions by denying
that they are due to a protective tar
III We take issue with them on this
subject and charge that excessive.
prices result In large measure frora
the high tariff laws enacted and
maintained by the Republican party,
and from trusts and commercial con-
spiracies fostered and encouraged BY
such laws. and we assert that no SUD
stantia1 relief can be secured by the
people until import duties on the nee
essaries of life are materially re-.
duced and these criminal conspiracies
broken up
The governor cited sugar as an
example of the effect of the tarin on
the high cost of living, pointing o.
that the removal of the duty from
this article DESTROYED the sugar cane
industry of the South and that sugar
| is now demanding he highest price
IN decades.
"The Democratic tariff bill was en-
acted to provide revenue" he satn.
s'It has failed because it has brought
a deficit in the United States treas
ury-a deficit that can not be laid
at, the door of unsettled conditions
brought about by war. as this was IN
evitable before there was the re-
hottest possibility of war.
That "War Tax"
with this blundering, destructive
land undesirable tariff legislatio we
Fhaye arrived at the period In the
progress of this administration when
we are called upon at time when
we are at peace with the whole world
to r,ovfde additional revenue OF one
hundred million dollars under the
rank misnomer of war tax, 1t is
pheasant to remember with such an
! homogeneous situation as we are now
facing, that the Republican party IN
the half century 1t directed the at
fairs of the nation never found II
necessary to levy war tax upon the
neople during time of peace
1.-THE Democratic leaders in Con-
eress have evidently taken advantage
of the European war to lay special
levy on the people to make up TOT a
deficit in the United States treasury.
which, it had been made certain.
would have resulted from the Gnoer-
wood-Simmons bill long before the
. c1oilfls of war lowered over the Eu-
ropean continent.
! seTo make up this deficit the Dem
ocrats are planning to shuttle an al
1 ditionaI levy on the consumers by
4 tax to be laid on railroad freight bills,
;. checks, notes and the like. The peo-
pie as whole, and not the ra1iroa .a
simmer. will stand the burden OF TINS
; extra tax and it will be taken from
the increased price they will pay Tor
| -four. coal, corn and every other pro
vision handled in railroad shipments
I'VE have staring ,ls in the face the
bold fact that the Democratic tarlI-
I for-revenue only bill has with normas
i conditions given us dencit IN ene
ttreasury-what assurance can we
4 have then that the war tax about to
he levied will not continue during
the life of the present tariff bill re-
igardless of the brevity or longevity
of the European war;?
4 Economy Promise Ridiculous.
The governor stated that the DEM
ocrats in the last campaign charged
i the Republicans with extravaganza
and promised an economic admins
4 tration He brands this promise as
t-.ridfculous" and charges that in.
Estead the Democrats reduced the rev
tenue in the interests OF the foreign
producers and without taking into
consideration the rivers and fharbors
j bills have made appropriations eS-
ceeding those of the last Republican
/ Congress by $10O.o00,000. the
amount of deficit in the public treas
ury caused by the tariff bill. With
1 single exception every bill OF the
present session of Congress is in eX-
4 cess of the similar bill of the last Re.
! publican Congress. 1re declared, ana
that exception is the bill providing
I for payment of pensions to veterans
of the Civil war, which has been re-
duced Sill. 100000 The Democrats
have vindicated-t the acts of Republic
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