The Republican journal., 1916-06-01
Political Points.

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Champ Clark berated the House sound
ly the other day for its dllatory tactics.
A week or so before he was taking up
cudgel in defence of that body because
of public criticism of its delay. Mr..
| Speaker, where are we at?
Japan imported nearly billion pounds
of raw cotton lin 1915, compared with
1927, 900, 600 pounds the year before. This
cotton was worked up into cloth and a
considerable portion of it came into this
! country, because of the 40 per cent cut
/ in the tariff on cotton wearing apparel,
enacted by the Democrats. Japan is also
! driving us out of the Chinese market on
| cotton goods. The reason is very plain.
Japanese laborers work II hours day
! in the textile mills. Female spinners
/ receive 16 l-2 cents a day; weavers IA
| cents. Male weavers receive % l-2
| cents. Dyers get Is cents. We may
expect competition with Japan to in
crease so long as the Democratic tariff
law is on the statute books.
The Department of Commerce an
! nounces competitive examination to be
! held for assistant to expert in COM
merce and finance" Whoever the "ex-
pert himself may be, he is certainly in
need of considerable assistance, Judging
from the way the statistics issued by
! the Department are garbled.
The Department of Commerce reports
! 30 foreign built vessels admitted to
American registry since June 80 1915.
These 80 vessels will get from under the
Stars and Stripes just as soon as the
war is over, if the seamen's law is then
! in force.
The -partisanship" which the
White House cries for in order to get its
schemes through Congress is finely dem
onstrated in the Democratic threat to
apply the gag to the House of Repre-
sentatives as a means of accelerating
the passage of the Philippines bill, the
shipping bill, and other measures which
are entirely personal in their origin and
political in their purpose.
1t is announced that Ambassador
Morgenthau has resigned in order to
promote mon partisan league" to aid
in Wilson's campaign. The illuminating
inf ~ f,1r IL IL.
Mr.. Morgenthau consulted with Mr.. Nc
Adoo about the league before the Secre-
| tary sailed for South America. Under
the auspices Of McAdoo and Morgenthau,
who can doubt the real partisan
| ship of any league which they will
promote?
| We have yielded to Germany, we have
yielded to England, and now it is made
known in Washington that we are about
/ to yield to Japan in the matter of some
of the restrictions in the pending immi-
grafton bill. Yielding has become a
| real habit with the Wilson administra-
tion-and presently it will yield to Re-
publican administration.
| Our shortened line of communities
tions" in Mexico will follow closely the
line of the Kansas, Mexico & Orient
Railroad. The practical mind will at
once want to know why we do not use
the railroad itself. The answer is that
CarranZa will not let us. Yet Wilson
made Carranza.
Another straw vote has been taken,
this time in New York by newspaper,
and the dwindling strength of Wilson
from that of four years ago is again
shown. Twenty-Five men are recorded
for Wilson this year, whereas, of the 800
who made reply, no less than seventy
seven confess to having supported him in
1912.
'lt is pretty safe guess that New
England will return to the old time Re-
publican majorities in November, said
| Congressman Edward H. Wason of New
Hampshire. "Our people are tired and
weary of Democracy. The present ad-
ministration has been deaf to the demand
for protection of dyestuffs sufficient to
induce men to 60 into the manufacture
of the same, but notwithstanding all of
the earnest appeals of industry, the Ways
and Means Committee has turned deaf
ear to their entreaties, The workingmen
of New England know this and they real
ize how essential dyestuffs are to their
employment. They will take no chances
with party that temporizes and does
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