Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-05

by these reductions in all of the long
line of articles of clothing, food,
shelter, and the implements of agri-
culture and the trades; while their
loss, if any, from the reduction in
the tariff upon wheat, wool, and sugar
will be negligible In comparison.
"The farmers in this. country have
grown too intelligent and too we'll in
formed, partly due to the opportuni-
ties afforded by more plentiful liter
allure and it's free distribution by the
rural delivery system, to allow them
selves to be taxed year after year
exorbitantly upon every roll of fenc-
ing wire, upon every ton of COAL up
on every agricultural implement or
machine, upon their saddles and har-
ness, upon every mechanics tools,
upon the cotton and wooden clothing
which they wear, and to pay this ex-
cessive and unnecessary tax con-
tentedly because OF a largely exag-
gerated benefit held up before their
hopes in the shape of a tariff upon
agricultural products"
OF coal the Senator said:
"Coal is placed upon the free list,
and properly So" And of lumber he
said: 81 have statement from
tumberman in the state, of much ex-
perience and as much success as any
lumberman In the state, to the effect
that lumber manufacturers In WASH
ington do not need the protection of
tariff upon lumber. This is prob
ably true, and if true, notwithstand-
ing our apprehensions, the same
thing is possible true to greater
or less extent Of shingIe manufacture
ers, although was opposed to pIac-
ing shingles upon the free list, though
favoring substantial reduction in
this rate"
Poindexter's Opinion of Republicans.
cannot quit Senator Poindexter's
speech without giving you his estim.
ate in that day Of the Republican
party and it's leadership:
-Four years ago." he said, ''they
were in the seats Of power and con-
trolled every branch of the govern
ment Of the United States. They ar
rogantly defied the instructions of
the people and foreswore their own
party platform. They had declared
to the people throughout the cam
paign that il elected they would re-
wise the tariff to rate equal to the
difference In the cost of production
at home and abroad with a reason
able profit to manufacturer. Given
power on this promise, they laughed
at their campaign promises, and in
their greed took two or three times
as much as had been proposed.
"One of them was speaker of the
! House; one was President of the
United States; one was leader of the
Senate and chairman OF it's Finance
Committee; one was chairman of the
Appropriations Committee of the
House; one, while Speaker, controlled
every committee of the House, be-
cause he had the power to appoint
them all. They were all his crea-
lures. These iro n dukes of Ameri-
can politics had behind them a sup
pie and obedient majority. They en-
acted the Payne-Aldrich bill, went be-
fore the country on it, and out of
the ruck and turmoil Of their fight
for 1t they emerged with the cleo
toral votes of Utah and Vermont.
Protesting against the recall, they
were recalled. Their memory is al
ready growing dim in the places that
knew them so long"
Now, fellow citizens, passing by
without comment, Senator Poindex-
ters arraignment of the Republican
party and its leadership, I cannot
take issue with anything said by him
concerning the general tenor and eff
feet of the Underwood tariff law. On
the contrary, 1 say that he is to be
commended for his action with re-
spect to that law, If that action was
founded on broad and statesmanlike