The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1921-08-10

equitable protection for the stock
grower. He said
my memory carries me back to
the time when | attended livestock
conventions in the West, and be-
lieved in Schedule X. Resolutions
we're passed with a great deal of
enthusiasm, indorslng Schedule X,
and its ii cents duty on a pound of
grease wool.
'As look back upon those days,
| remember the manufacturer was
always there. He was one Of the
boys; he always had something nice
to say; spoke softly; was well dress
ed, and am sure was well fed.
Later I saw the manufacturer and
Schedule X in their true light, and
therefore / can realize how mistakes
can be made in schedules that are
so hard to understand as the wool
schedules in our tariff laws. So IL
/ shall call law a menace to good
citizenship that permits one industry
to rob another, it is not with the
slightest thought of casting any re-
Elections upon anyone who has had
anything to do with these technical
schedules.
81 desire to show to Senators what
the Fordney bill will do for the
manufacturers IL it is enacted into
law without amendment. / shall
have no trouble in showing that it
is the most vicious and dangerous
measure ever passed in the House
of Representatives by any political
party. Again, I want to say that the
Fordney bill makes the manufactur-
err the master and places power in
his hands that I am sure Schedule
X. if it came back to life, would be
ashamed Of.
Il am sure that the Ways and
Means Committee do not under
stand that they are giving the manu-
facturer an ad valorem duty of from
40 per cent up to 1O7 per cent, and
in some cases, where shoddy is used,
200 per cent.
1.-The Republican Party has not
given the West a square deal i'm the
tariff laws for a number of years.
But unless it does give the West a
square deal in the new tariff law 1t
may just as well be understood first
as last that it will not receive my
support. With me it is going to be a
square deal for the West or fight"
Financial Panics Under Republican
Tariffs
While under discussion in the
House the Fordney Tariff bill was
literally riddled by Democratic
members. One of the most effective
speeches made against it was by
Representative James c. Cantril
(Dem., Ky.) who contracted not on
ly the tariff policies of the two par
ties, but also the results of their
respective tariff acts. The following
are striking extracts from his elo~
quent address:
at has always been the cry of the
Republican party during political
campaigns that the great financial
panics of the country came under
low-tariff Democratic bills. The re-
verse is true, and the impartial
reading of the history of our country
will prove that the greatest financial
panics came under high-tariff laws.
The great panics of 1873 and
1898 came on the country when Re-
publican tariff bills were the law of
the land Our Republican friends
do not in any political campaign fail
to misrepresent the facts if they
think that by so doing they can gain
political victories. The last presi- |
dental campaign is the most open
evidence of this statement in our
political history. In closing this
statement l wish to emphasize futh-
err the fundamental difference be-
tween the Democratic and Republic
can parties on the tariff issue.
"The Democratic party believes
in tariff for the people, while the
Republican party believes in a tariff
for capital only.
''The Democratic party lays a
tariff burden justly and equitably
and falling lightly on the
shoulders of the people, while the
Republican party lays a burden of
taxation heavily on the shoulders of
labor and agriculture and gives the
bounty SO raised into the pockets of
the favored manufacturer.
1.-The Democratic policy of the
tariff shields the people from the ex-