The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-06-08

DEMOCRATIC REVENUE Law FAILURE
Washington June Especial Correspondence democrat
&c leaders in Washington much chagned the speech
delivered recently by Senator Furnold Simmons before the
Democratic state committee at Raleigh, North Carolina.
Senator Simmons speech looked forward to with
great deal of confidence by the Democrats because
pected to be the only keynote speech
the party for the 1916 campaign There will socaed
keynote speech delivered at ST. by Gynn
membeng his futile attempt to Ehu Root the Demo
Gratis had pinned small confidence Glynns ST. Louis per-
Grafton With the faint hope stirring in their that
the Democratic party will faten at the public trough for the
next four and realizing the fact that the Hon. Fur
fold Simmons might continue the chairman of the finance
committee the committee which, when it comes to show
down. dictates the fiscal policy this country the Democrats
had faith that Mr. Simmons speech would manipulate
tstcs and language that the country would feel sufficiently
assured to place bet the disciples of Woodrow
Wilson.
Little consolation do they find in the Raleigh speech Sim
mons is uncompromsng free trader The pan
of future trade offers for Furnifod Wilson
has reened to the extent of espousng tariff commission
because OF changing conditions the Democrats generally
believe that revision of the tariff the plea of Traditional
revenue advisable but Simmons having swatted business
with pleads guilty and looks to the country for
dication This incorporating attitude of the chairman of
the finance committee will embarrass Woodrow Wilson in
making concessions to the November voters How the
leader OF the party declare for tariff BILL when the
chairman OF the senate committee who largely responsible
for the present law presents brief in its favorY
One of the breaks Senator Simmons in presenting
his tariff argument to the North Carolina convention
to be found in the following contradictions:
You cannot revise the tariff in the interest of people
unless you lower the wall enough to let the foreigner
unless you write low enough to allow competition from
abroad when the price here above the level of fair
just profit That what aimed to do, and think
done.'
Then flying to the defense of the present law he says:
There was increase in total imports during the
year Immediately preceding the war; Just there had been
constantly continuing increase in imports both under the
Dngey tariff ard the Payne Aldrich tariff but the
increase in total of free imports under the Demo
cratic tariff during that period greater indeed
SO great the annual increase under the
drch tariff during its whole e Indeed imports that
year We're $l2OOOOO less than estimated when chair
man OF the finance COMMITTEES reported the bill the
in 1872
Democrats point out that this is further confession
failure OF the Underwood Simmons law If the bill did not
imports Simmons declares did not then the
Democratic tariff theory to the discard and
use OF giving publicity to its falure The people
the law was failure producer that it did
business depression and Simmons has robbed free
traders of their last favor of the Democratic law
by declaring not encourager of imports asehood
which the party is estopped to deny Altogether Senator
Simmons has got himself in Dutch will probably keep
quiet the rest of the year.