The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-10
Sayings Of Statesmen.

United States Senator !, Theodore
Burton. July 81, 1913: THE Demo-
cratic party In its recent platform
adopted at Baltimore, and by the ut
terances Of its advocates on the
stump. have charged that the chief
cause Of the prevailing high cost Of
living is the existing protective tariff
enacted by. the Republican party.
They boosted that they could and
would mediately reduce the cost Of
living by lowering the tariff wall;
that the exorbitant prices OF the nee
essaries, Of life in particular would
Immediately fade away and the poor
mans table would hereafter be fur
nished at fraction Of it, former
cost. This. my Democratic friends,
was your campaign argument; this
was the promise on which you regard
yourselves as delegated to tear to
pieces. the fiscal policy which has
been the sheet anchor OF nearly two
decades Of unprecedented prosperity
and which Is the only guarantee Of its
continuance. You have erected a
tariff policy, blind to every consider
alton except the consumer. You can
benefit him only by reducing the. cost
Of the commodities he consumes with
out degrading their quality or de-
stroying his opportunity to earn the
price Of that which he must buy.
On this result you must stand or fall.
There Is no escape. Unless very
material reduction of prices imme-
diately follows the enactment of this
bill 1t will record one of the most
ill-boding policies ever adopted by a
responsible party in a representative
government"
The Hon. A. B. Cummins. United
States senator from Iowa: THE
miserable failure Of the present ad-
ministration in managing our domes-
tic affairs and its shameful weakness
In dealing with our foreign relations
have so angered the people of the
country that 1t has become not only
the imperative duty. but the deepest
desire OF all good citizens to drive 1t
out OF power and reInstate as speed
lily as the laws OF the land will permit
a government that will restore the
confidence and rekindle the pride
which every patriot ought to feel in
the strength and justice Of his ma
ton. 1t is almost unthinkable that
the overwhelming majority opposed
to the administration will allow their
disagreement upon some things to
permit a continuance or the Demo-
cratic plague which is now rayaglng
the American republic. The one par
amount duty before US is the retire.
ment Of Woodrow Wilson and his
followers in the House and Senate.
When we win, as we will. some of US
may not get all we want; but we are
bound to get something better than
we have now, for the mind cannot
conceive anything worse.
The president and Congress be-
gan their mad assault upon our in
situations by the enactment of tar
III law, which. taking 1t altogether. is
the completest compound of igno-
rance and indifference ever composed
by legislative body. It neither
gives protection to our home mar
kets nor yields revenue for the MAIN
tenance Of the government. II defies
every principle OF economics ever ad-
vanced by the disciples OF any school
Of scientific thought. Had It not been
i AoA tAO 4AACOAp wal WHICH nus UHT-
alyzed the industries OF Europe 1t
would have put tho country into
bankruptcy with no prospect Of a
dividend to creditors. Our Demo
cratic friends must SILVER when they
reflect that the immunity we are re-
ceiying. and the prosperity we are en-
toying, depend wholly upon the mos,
tremendous catastrophe that ever be-
fell the human race; and that their
fatal design was frustrated only by
the destruction Of our competitors in
a cataclysm from which the world
Will not recover in century. II they
can draw any consolation from the
situation. as they look upon the nor.
rors across the sea. and then upon the
empty treasury of their country, lei
them have 1t. for the Lord knows
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