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Ctyt 3effersonian
Vol. 89 Number 5
ofl Recent Object-Lesson of the Tariff
E have at the present time, an illus
tration of how the removal of a Tariff
duty reduces the price of the com
modity upon which the duty was
levied.
You remember the great forest fires
w
which recently devastated so many hundred
square miles in Minnesota, and other states
lying along the Canadian border. Hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of people were burned out
of house and home. Their misfortunes, like
that of the sufferers of the Sicilian earth
quakes, was of a dramatic character which
appealed to the imagination and aroused
human sympathy. A great cry for relief
went up from the sufferers —and what shape
do you suppose it took>? It was a demand
for the removal of the tariff duty upon lum
ber. Os course, they wanted to rebuild their
dwellings as soon as possible, also their out
houses and fences, and therefore, they wanted
lumber at the lowest obtainable price. The
very men who, in Congress, had voted in
favor of the Lumber Trust and who had
argued that the tariff duties were an unal
loyed and bountiful blessing, used all of their
influence with the Taft administration to
have Canadian lumber admitted free of duty.
The Administration yielded, the tariff law
was set aside in so far as it related to lumber,
and the citizens of those north-western states
bought lumber at about half the price which
you and I have to pay.
Could you want any better proof that
Here Are the Congressmen Who Voted With the Stand-Pat
Republicans to Sustain the Despotic One-Man Power
The question was taken; and there were—
yeas, 235; nays, 53: answered “present,” three;
not voting, 96, as follows:
Y eas—23s.
Adair,
Adamson,
Alexander, Mo.,
Alexander, N. Y.,
Allen,
Anderson,
Anthony,
Ashbrook,
Austin,
Barclay,
Barnard,
Bernhart,
Bartholdt,
Bartlett, Ga.,
Bartlett, Nev.,
Bates,
Beall, Texas,
Bell, Georgia,
Bennet, N. Y„
Bennett, Ky.,
Bingham,
Boehne,
Borland,
Boutell,
Bradley,
Brantley,
Burgess,
Burke, S. D.,
Burnett,
Butler,
Byrd,
Byrns,
Calder,
Calderhead,
Campbell,
Candler,
Clark, Florida,
Clark, Missouri,
Clayton,
Cline,
Cocks, N. Y.,
Cole,
Collier,
Conry,
Covington,
Cox, Indiana,
Cox, Ohio,
Craig,
Cravens,
Creager,
Crow,
Crumpacker,
Currier,
Dalzell,
Dawson,
Dent,
Diekema,
Dies,
Dixon, Indiana,
Dodds.
Douglas,
Draper,
Driscoll, D. A.,
New York,
Driscoll, M. E.,
New York,
Dupre,
Durey,
Dwight,
Edwards, Ga.,
Ellerbe,
Ellis,
Elvins,
Englebright,
Esch,
Estopinal,
Fassett,
Finley,
Fitzgerald,
Fordney.
Foster, Illinois,
Foster, Vermont,
Fuller,
Gaines,
Gallagher,
Gardner. Mich.,
Gardner, N. J.,
Garner, Pa.,
Garner, Texas,
Garrett,
Gillett,
Godwin,
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, February 2, 1911
Gordon,
Goulden,
Graff,
Graham, Illinois,
Grant,
Greene,
Gregg,
Griest,
Guernsey,
Hamer,
Hamilton,
Hanna,
Hardwick,
Hardy,
Harrison,
Hawley,
Heflin,
Henry, Conn.,
Henry, Texas,
Hill,
Houston,
Howell, N. J.,
Howell, Utah,
Hubbard, W. Va.,
Hughes, Georgia,
Hughes, N. J.,
Hull, lowa,
Hull, Tenn.,
Humphrey,
Washington,
Humphreys,
Mississippi,
James,
Jones,
Kahn,
Keifer,
Kennedy, lowa,
Kennedy, Ohio,
Kitchin,
Knowland,
Kronmiller,
Lafean,
Lamb,
Langham,
Langley,
Latta,
tariffs are framed for the benefit of the cruel
trusts’? Do you any longer doubt that the
increase of tariff duties in the Payne-Aldrich
bill, which went into effect last summer, was
the true and only cause of the immediate
advance in the cost of living? Can you have
any further doubt that those who pretend
that tariffs are made in the interest of labor
and for the general welfare of the country,
are unmitigated liars and hypocrites? Could
you any longer doubt that when such
Senators as Bailey and Taliaferro, and
such Representatives as Brantley. Bell. Calico
Charley and Gordon Lee voted for that duty
on lumber, they were fully conscious of
the fact that they were betraying their con
stituents to the Lumber Trust '?
Consider the injustice of this thing: see
with what favoritism our government is run.
We must not begrudge the enormous benefit
of cheap building material to those burnt-out
unfortunates of the North-west. But why
shouldn’t the same benefit be enjoyed by all
the rest of us? What have we done that we
are less entitled to have the cost-increasing
tariff' on lumber removed in our favor? Why
should we be held down by the government
while the Lumber Trust goes through our
pockets ?
There is not an hour in the day when
somebody is not burned out; there is never
a night when the alarm-bell does not strike
its terror into some town or city. The num
ber of dwellings, barns, gin-houses and other
of Speaker Cannon
Law,
Lawrence,
Lee,
Legare,
Lever,
Livingston,
Lloyd,
Longworth,
Loud,
Loudenslager,
Lowden,
McCall.
McCredie,
McDermott,
McHenry,
McKinlay, Cal.,
McKinney,
McLaughlin.
Michigan,
Macon,
Madden,
Malby,
Mann,
Martin, Colo.,
Martin, S. Dak.,
Massey,
Maynard,
Mays,
Miller, Kansas,
Mitchell,
ndell.
Moon, Pa.,
Moon, Tenn.,
Moore, Pa.,
Here are the honest friends of the People
who voted against Cannon, as all the Demo
crats did last March:
Nays—s 3.
Booker,
Cary,
Cassidy,
Cooper, Wis.,
Cullop,
Davis,
Moore, Texas,
Morgan, Mo.,
Morgan, Okla.,
Morrison,
Moxley,
Needham,
Nicholls,
Nye,
Olcott,
Oldfield,
Padgett,
Page,
Parker,
Parsons,
Payne,
Pearre,
Plumley,
Pratt,
Pray,
Prince,
Pujo,
Reeder.
Richardson,
Roberts,
Robinson,
Roddenbery,
Rodenberg,
Rucker, Colo.,
Rucker, Mo.,
Scott,
Shackleford,
Sharp,
Sheppard,
Sherwood,
Fish,
Flood, Virginia,
Floyd, Arkansas,
Glass,
Good,
Hamlin,
Simmons,
Sisson,
Slayden,
Slemp,
Smith, lowa,
Smith, Michigan,
Snapp,
Sperry,
Stafford,
Stanley,
Stephens, Texas.
Sterling,
Stevens, Minn.,
Sulloway,
Swasey,
Talbott,
Tawney,
Taylor, Colo.,
Taylor, Ohio,
Thistlewood,
Thomas, Ohio,
Tilson,
Townsend,
Underwood,
Wan ger,
Washburn,
Weeks,
Wickliffe,
Wiley.
Willett,
Wilson, Illinois,
Wood. N. J.,
Woodyard.
Young, Mich.
Hanger,
Hay,
Hayes,
Helm,
Hinshaw,
Hollingsworth,
necessary buildings that go up in flames
every year, far exceeds the number of homes
and other buildings consumed by the forest
fires of the North-west. Therefore, when you
take a bird’s-eye view, mentally, of the entire
United States, you cannot fail to realize that
there are just as many unfortunate burnt-outs
outside the burned-over area of the North
west. as there were within it. When vou
think of this and bear in mind that the Law
should be no respector of persons, and should
treat us all alike, you will deeply feel the in
justice of our Government, in compelling mil
lions of people to surrender a part of their
money to the Lumber Trust to gratify its in
ordinate greed for gain.
If you can think up any good reason why
the American saw-mills in the great lumber
regions of the North-west cannot produce
lumber profitably, as cheaply as the Canad
ians can do it, please tell us what it is.
I venture to say that the steam-whistles of
some of the American saw-mills on the bor
der. can be heard by some of the saw-mills
of Canada, and rice versa. The labor supply
is practically the same on both sides of the
line. The wages paid by the Canadian mills
are worth as much in Canada as those, paid
by the American mills are worth in this coun
try. The lumber is cut from the same con
tinuous forest growth. Why, then, should
the Lumber Trust of the North-west be given
power to shut out Canadian lumber and to ex
(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE.)
Kustermann,
Lenroot,
Lindbergh,
Lively,
Madison,
Maguire, Nebr.,
Miller, Minn.,
Morse,
Moss,
Murdock,
Howland,
Jamieson,
Answered “Present” —3.
Carlin,
Aiken,
Ames,
Andrus,
Ansberry,
Barchfeld,
Bowers,
Broussard,
Burke Pa.,
Burleigh, ,
Burleson,
Cantrill,
Capron,
Carter,
Chapman,
Cooper, Pa.,
Coudrey,
Cowles,
Davidson,
Denby,
Denver,
Dickinson,
Dickson. Miss.,
Edwards. Ky.,
Fairchild,
Ferris,
Focht,
Foelker,
Fornes,
Foss,
Fowler,
Gardner, Mass.,
Gill, Maryland,
Price, Five Cents
Johnson, S. C..
Kendall,
Kinkaid, Nebr.,
Kopp,
Nelson,
Norris,
Palmer, A. M.,
Poindexter.
Rauch,
Rothermel,
Sabath,
Saunders,
Pou,
Not Voting—96.
Gill, Missouri,
Gillespie,
Goebel,
Goldfogle
Graham, Pa.,
Gronna,
Hamill,
Hammond,
Havens,
Heald,
Higgins,
Hitchcock.
Hobson,
Howard.
Hubbard, lowa,
Huff.
Hughes, W. Va.
Johnson, Ky.,
Johnson, Ohio,
Joyce,
Keliher,
Kinkead, N. J.,
Knapp,
Korbly,
Lindsay,
Lundin,
McCreary,
McGuire, Okla.,
McKinley, 111..
McLachlan, Cal.,
McMorran,
Millington,
Sims,
Small,
Steenerson.
Sulzer.
Thomas. Ky.,
Tou Velle,
Turnbull,
Volstead,
Wallace.
Watkins.
Woods, lowa.
W T ebb.
Morehead,
Mudd,
Murphy,
O’Connell,
Olmsted,
Palmer, H. W„
Patterson,
Peters,
Pickett,
Rainey,
Randell. Texas,
Ransdell, La.,
Reid,
Reynolds,
Rhinock,
Riordan,
Sheffield,
Sherley.
Smith, Cal.,
Smith, Texas,
Southwich,
Sparkman,
Spight,
Sturgiss,
Taylor, Alabama,
Tener,
Thomas. N. C.
Vreeland,
Weisse,
Wheeler,
Wilson, Pa.,
Young, N. Y.