Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-11
WILL SMASH The PARTY
LaFOlIette Warns the Republicans
Against high Rates. '"
WISCONSIN SENATOR MUCH MYSTIFIED

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See that People Will Not Stand tor
Steal, and Suspects Advocates rave
Other Urge than the Protection OF
Their Political Future.
In an attack on the administration
tariff bill, Senator LaFollette, Wiscon-
sin, Republican member OF the hnance
committee, declared Friday in the
senate that passage of the measure
would mean the defeat of the Repuo7
lican party in the election in Novem-
Der, and the presidential elections in
1924. t4.9
II do not understand, said Sena-
tor LaFollette, "how men charged
with duty of upholding and preserv7
ing the principles Of the Republican
party, even if they feel no Responsible
Iity to the people who elected them,
can deliberately force through legisla-
ton which they must know means the
defeat, If not the utter ruin of the
party.
"If the elections of 1910 and, 1914
and 1916 mean nothing to them, then
| let them look to the Republican prt-
maries held in Indiana, in Iowa, in
North Dakota and other states within :
the last few months. Powerful indeed
must be the influence which can
bludgeon through this legislation when
the political leaders responsible for 1t
know that 1t means the defeat of their
party and the end OF the political lives
of most of the leaders responsible for
the hill"
Reviewing the political upsets
which followed passage of the Payne
Aldrlch law, Senator LaFollette de-
clared that had it not been for the
resentment of the people against the
Wilson administration growing out OF
the war and what followed, there is
no doubt that the Republican party
would never have returned to power
unless it reformed its tariff policy and
gave satisfactory guarantee that Its
reformation was permanent.
ut would seem that the men re-
sponsible for this Republican admin
istration, in the light of the history.
would, with the return of the Repub-
lican party to power, frame tariff Dill
with at least some show Of a decent
regard for meeting the undoubted will.
and desire, of the vast majority Of the
people. But it seems that the same
interests which foisted the Gingley
tariff and the even worse Payne
Aldrich tariff upon long suffering
public are strong enough to write into
the statutes OF this country the far
worse tariff provisions contained in
the pending bill.
DO the gentlemen responsible for
this bill imagine that the people have
forgotten? Do you think that the
people will calmly accept the burdens
in 1922 which they so decisively re-
fused to carry in 1910 and 1912? There
is just one way, Mr.. president, In
which to save the Republican party
from defeat in the congressional cleo
ton of 1922 and from disaster in the
presidential election of 1924, and that
is to return this bill to the COMMITTEES
and rewrite all the schedules of II so
that they conform to the Republican
principle of protection by merely
equalizing the cost of productions at
home and abroad, and If they are un-
able to so do, then to abandon general
tariff legislation at this time"
Discussing specifically the cotton
schedule in the pending mill, Senator
LaFollette declared the rates as. re-
ported to the senate averaged gener-
ally from II to 80 per cent. higher
than those in the Infamous" Payne
Aldrich act and in a majority OF In
stances from 100 to 200 per cent.
higher than in the existing Under
wood law.
The Wisconsin senator said that
since he had made his study of the
schedule the finance committee ma
jority had cut down some of the rates
and slipped out one of the many
JOhcIS lIldl NtIC SllDDCu iiiO IhS W.
ton schedule" but that even with the
reductions made, he understood that
the committee majority intended to
reduce the rates to the level In the
Payne Aldrich schedule. He argued
that these rates were entirely too
high.
To support this part of his argu-
ment, Senator LaFollette presented
tablets showing the growing exports
and decreasing imports in cotton
goods and presented also reports pre-
pared by Boston brokerage firm, to
show that many cotton manufacturers
of the country in recent years have
been making high profits.
Senator LaFOlette declared there
never was falser claim made by
mortal man than that the tariff wall
which the cotton schedules of this
; bill propose to erect for the benefit
of the cotton manufacturers will in
any way benefit the laborer in the
cotton mills"
"'rhc cotton manufacturer" he said.