The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-25

and don't you know that the dog will
not bite?' Not wishing to be discourte-
Gus. the neighbor replied: Yes; onou
know he won't bite and | know he
won't bite, but the damned dog he
don't know he won't bite"
so with the accurations OF our
Demociatis colleagues We know that
they are not true andthey know that
they are not true, but there may be
some on in the position of the blank
dog. AS this great country is made up
OF all sorts of people, there may be
somewhere some one sufficiently ig-
norant and gullible to believe what
they say.
ut speaks volumes for the merits of
this bill that it was found necessary
to indulge in such insincere accusa-
lions of dishonesty against honorable
colleagues in order to be able to say
anything derogatory to the bill
One of the number of crimes
charged in the minority views is that
the committee failed to prepare a par
allel-colmn edition of the bill, embody-
ing all the tariff laws enacted for
many years past. Surely this was a
deep, dark, distardly crime and should
not be overlooked. To be sure, the
members Of the committee were con-
cerned with the preparation of bill
to meet present and future needs rath-
er than with making comparisons with
laws that have ceased to exist or that
have outlived their usefulness, but
still they should not be forgiven. When
I was a much younger man than I am
now | went for the first time to New
York on visit, and among other
places I visited the Eden Musee, on
Twenty-third street. As | entered
beheld, among other wonderful things
q number of freaks on exhibition.
Among them was a figure of man
properly dressed, with collar, necktie,
and all In proper position, but the head
of the figure was so adjusted that 1t
could look backward. The insistence
Of our minority colleagues that we
turn back into the past and prepare
tables SO that they may come and
dwell there reminds me of this won
derful work in wax. In fact, the dis
position Of our Democratic friends to
look backward instead of forward
causes me to wonder if'it is not true
that the original prototype of the now
lonely Miss Democracy was not Lots
wife, of Sodom and Gomorrah fame.
What the committee had in mind
in the preparation of this bill was not
what rates were carried in the Payne
bill or the Underwood bill or any other
bill, but what rate are needed to pre-
serve and cause the continuance of the
industries of this country. The ques-
ton to be decided by the committee
was not whether the rates were high
er or lower than what had been found
adequate in the past, but what is nee
essary for the present and immediate
future. One of the important questions
to be decided was: Shall the wages of
our workingmen and our standard Of
living be brought down to those of for
eign workingmen? Another was
whether certain industries are to con-
tinue In this country to furnish en-
ployment for labor and capital or
whether they are to be transferred to
foreign soil.
ITO a subcommittee of which / was
chairmen and the gentleman from Col
orado (Mr. Timberlake) and the gen.
tleman from New York (Mr. Motif
were my associates was assigned the
duty of making a. special study and
preparing a tentative draft Of the