Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-05
STANDS FOR POLICIES OF
PRESENT ADMINISTRATION
Democratic Candidate for u S. Senate Takes Stand on Prohibition and
Wmens Suffrage; Approves Presidents Constructive Legislation and
the Underwood Tariff Law.

| demands It's repeal and the substi-
tuition in place of it of measure
| which will return the country to the
era of high protection.
Mr.. Hughes, the distinguished can
didate of the Republican party, is
also insisting, in his speeches, on the
same thing. l am relieved OF the
! necessity Of making any very seri-
GUS or extended argument on the
subject, by the speech of my distin-
guished friend, Senator Poindexter
delivered in the senate of the United
States on the Underwood tariff law
followed by his vote as a senator
in favor of the enactment of that
law.
The remarks of Senator Poindexter
will be found commencing at page
1894 Of VOL so OF the Congressional
Record. He said there, among other
! things:
Poindexter's First Ideas.
Taking the bill as whole, how
ever, and especially regarding its
effects upon the country as a whole
rather than upon any particular To-
cality in this country, my opinion is
that it will not in any way impair
business activity or prosperity, so
far as the rates OF the bill itself
are concerned
Measuring the pending bill by the
American rule and the accepted plat
form declarations, in my judgment
the rates upon manufactures are,
with very few exceptions, sufficiently
high and in some cases are still en-
tirely too high"
Turning then to the boasted pro-
lection theories of his Republican
friends, the Senator had this to say:
"The time has long gone by when
campaigns can either be won or lost
upon rhetorical clap-trap and cam
paign eloquence about good times and
| hard times, which, in many instances,
are due to causes quite remote from
tariffs.
High protection has been made
fetch and worshipped as a sacred
principle. The idea was more or less
current that there could not be too
much of this good thing OF course,
under such notion no tariff COM
mission was needed-no scientific
classihcations of articles, no nice es-
| Inmates of rates. 1t was grab for
all that one could get. The notion
was prevalent in certain quarters that
while the special benefciaries might
profit very greatly from extremely
high rates, everyone would profit to
some extent. The propaganda was
put out that high tariffs were a
burden to no one 1t was an en-
chanted lamp in whose magic power
to create wealth there was no limit,
and which suffered no diminution of
it's virtue from the golden prosperity
which it gave out. Of course, such
a notion was the veriest supersti-
ton"
Poindexter the Protectionist.
After this luminous expression of
the protectionist propaganda, Senator
Poindexter turned his attention to
the interests of the west, and of his
own State of Washington, and elo-
quently defended the Underwood law
in these words:
"As between the East and the West,
whatever losses, imaginary or other
wise, the West may possibly suffer
from reduced rates on certain of it's
productions will be compensated a
thousand times over by the relief
which the West will Immediately re-
celve from the reduction to a rea-
sonabte and legitimate point of the
tariff rates upon WOODEN and cotton
goods, iron and steel manufactures,
and a thousand and one articles
which the West buys from the East
"The people OF the State of Wash
ington will be benefited from twenty
, to thirty millions of dollars annually