Beaver County Democrat. (Beaver, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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eaver County
The Official Newspaper of Beaver County.
J. R. Smith.
Beaver, Beaver County. Oklahoma, Thpbsday August. 19 1909
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The Beaver County Democrat.
Published Every Thursday.
By A. J. A. SMITH.
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THOMAS PRYOR GORE.
Another Republican Editorial.
Lut week we warned deiupcrHt*
to beware of tlie snide "antl tariff"
movement and compared IU aliened
leader*" to cow bo?* riding at th*
head of a stampede to bring buck
the cattle Here la an editorial from
the Kitueas City Tlinea wblch not
only prove® our position but *bow
Col. Norton aa something Of a cow-
boy blmaelf.
The Party Welcomea the issue.
Set It down aa a fact—a striking
potential fact—tbat the rank and
Hie republicans rejoice In the trans-
fer of the tariff Issue from the olu
battle ground lying botween the
llcpubllcan und Democratic parties
to the new battle ground lying
wholly within the Republican party.
Tariff reform waa welcomed aa a
Republican la-ue laat year In the re-
publican presidential conteat. Mr
lull's candidacy gained the ascen-
dacy early lu the campaign for the
presidential nomination. It pro-
gressed ateadlly and atronglv. for
the rank and file were ready to de-
clare for a revision candidate. Buf
for the large field of "favorite sons,
all of reactionary declarations or
proclivities, Mr. Taft wotold have
h. d the apoutaneuoa Indorsement
| of practically every state outside of
the N^w England group.
It that lirnt sklrmUh the revl-lon
lata had an easy victory.. The*
nominated their candidate and b*
was elected. They forced a promise
of revision Into the republican plat-
form, and the fact that this promt*
has not been kept has onlv served
to IntrnsMy the tsaue within th
party, where It Is now flung hot
froin theTecent struggle of thecxtr
sesHion, to lie kept nglow by at
aroused people.
Revision sentiment lias long been
g.lining in the Republican pirly
Until la t year It had not eliown It
self Informal action except In a fe*
Isolated tnstan *ea, a«, for example
tbe end sought and not tariff re-
form at all? Would any true
champion of tariff reform ''re-
joice" to discard six millions
democratic votes?
Tbe republican party was born
a free trade party. Its battle
cry in it* tirst national campcitfu
in 1856 was "Free trade, Free
speech, Free homes, Free men
Fremont!
Nine tenths of tbe voters of
the republican part) have always
been opposed to a tariff because
they knew they had it to pny \o
thn other one tenth.
Sioce corpo utions usurped
control of tbe party at the close
of the war, as Lincoln said, "were
enthroned," the lenders of the
party have favored a tariff A1
though they did not favor it, the
rank and file voted for leaders
who did favor it, impelled by the
''bloody shirt" tomtom and other
campaign delusions.
Their votes counted for a good
deal more than their wishes, and
have ever since. Not one man
in a hundred in this district
thought he was toting for an in-
crease of tar iff when he ^ voted
for D'.ck Morgan. But Dick
knew itaud so did all the wise
ones.
WEtfive this Wee* a letter
John N Shepler of the Land Sate
department. Henceforth we will
publish every announcement
Horn tut Cau.n.iu*
matter of that ktna roiimx to whs pteneer tn the cause, ft wo tit '
have asMsrted Itself more freijututl.4
and more generally but for the l*ck
of eo-oderat1dh and national lea^et
Tariff reform was not welcomed
by tbe leaders of the party. Bui
Taft was nominated and elected
because he pretended to favor it.
U was only a pretense Be was
n jt iu earnest.
Of course tlie promise was not
kept. It was only made to bold
the vote*.
Wbetb< r it will continue to
hold theui depends^n the intel
Democrat may be considered offi
cial.
Senator Doliiver showed in
a speech that the government
receive* 1300 000.000 from the
Often** of th* JcepnbllpM Eaters, bet where ti
Uut Col. Norton is evidently go er* ire yellow oogs and atme-
tariff and that the trusts receive
%2.100,000,000 from it.' The
trusts could afford to pay Dick
a right smart bunch for robbing
the people of Beaver county.
Die* T. Morgan robbed A. J.
R. Smith by his vote in congrees
Hasn't Smith a right to squeal?
Now that Dick Morgan has
got home, and tbe women have
taken off their stockings, we
hope he will write us a letter giv.
ing us a list of the good things
be has done for Beaver county.
We couldn't find them in the
Record.
tr Disk Morgan will send us
four hundred copies of either ol
bit speeches in congress we will
mail tbem under his frank, to
our country subscribers.
The Republican party seems
destined to split over the tariff
question Just as tbe old detoo
oratic party did in I860 on the
■laeer v'question.
Tub last session of congress
sbowod that *,be republican par-
ty it not a a political orgamsa
tion at all, bat simply a sommer
cial club organized to rob the
American people and tnrlcb
few trusts. .
WnuN the republican congress
chums the right Id rob Beaver
fcoenty, hadn't we a fight l
i Dick?
ship. And In truth the icvMonlet*
never knew their streuuth until ou
of their number became a candidate
for the presidency. But now they
not only know their strength, but
they have developed strong leaders—
not merety men who are sympa-
thetic with the low tariff idea, but
men who have had the courage to
bold nut against the party majority
to stake their future ou the strength
if tariff reform as a republican doc-
trine.
It significant that one Republl
an state convention—that of Ne-
braska—has already aligned Itself
unconditionally with the revision-
ists. It Is not without Ira press! ve-
ness that Senator Cummins, one of
the foremost men in the fight for th*
Republican pledgee in the recent
<«e«ftlon, was given an ovattou ou hi"
return to DesMoldes last bight, and
that Senator Bristow will receive
fine welcome In Salina to show him
that the people of his state aie with
blm In bis fight.
Senator Cummins declares that a
^reat content will be on In 1912 for
the control of the Republican party
But If tlx? revisionists assert them-
-wives In the Intermediate elections,
especially In the congrwtonal elec-
tions of next year, the war will be
won before another presidential
nomination le made.
There! NowaftOr reading it,
jo back and study it Note that
old tattle" 'between republi-
cans and democrats and th* "new
m.ttle" "wholly republican"
tiow streetly is all democratic
•riforl for tariff rUtorfctt eliminat-
ed. Does not that sentence
ilainlf show thtt the presorfa-
.miI Of 'be tepfcUlioan party Is
ing to try it. He is going to pre
tend that the republican | arty is
•'revision downward" party
Republican Reductionists.
The Beaver Democrat has no
noesgays to offer to that gang of
«hytiers who bloviated In the
last congress in pretended efforts
to redu'te tbe tariff, That the
tariff payers of tbe rank and tile
of the republican party aro be-
coming restive is erid mt, and it
is also certain that tbe hue aud
cry raised oy such snides as
Beveridge, Cummlngs, Bristow
and Murdock is simply to pre-
vent their transition to the dem
itcratic party
These fellows are just as muoh
tariff men as Aidrich and Can
non, A man who steals only
four torses because he thinks
that is all he can get away with,
is just as nucha thief as the
man who thinks he can mauage
six. and so a teals that many, and
the man who advocates a 40 per
cent tariff opposes a 60 per cent
one only because he believes the
people won't stand the bigger
one and is no* deservlu? of bon
or.
There is no essential difference
between the Bristow crowd and
the Aidrich crowd.
While the Bristow! were work
ing their mouths and wildly
waving one hand to attract the
voters, the other hand was
warmly claaping'that of Aidrich
under the table cover.
Where ever tbe voting tariff
payer* have a little grsjn of
sense and are kicking about the
robbery as in Kansas and Iowa
their representatives did not
waut to be re^ai'dud as w iling to
ratsn the tariff for fear ttiey
would loose their grip on tneir
tbe tariff pay-
tlow many he can
mains to be seen.
deceive re
Tariff.
A tariff Is a tax laid upon goods
or property when brought into
one country from another.
Tariff taxes are of tf ree kinds:
Revenue, Protective, Counter
vailing. A revenue tariff is a-tax
to be paid by tbe Importer to
balance tbe ordinary property
tax that a maker of the same
amount of goods la required to
pay to support the government.
Tbe manufacturer pays his taxes
once a year by regular assess-
ment. Tbe importer pays bis
taxes #hen he Imports bus goods.
A revenue tariff Is as ttearly as
possible equal in amount te the
ordinary tax of tbe producer.
A Protective tariff ti 4 tax
required of the Importer so much
higher thai* a revenue tariff that
less chumps, as in New England
the roobors have no four.
These men know, as all men
know, that the so-called Repub
lican party exists only for the
tariff robbery an J other grafts,
They are loyal to that party In
everything else and only criti
cize s little of the tariff steal.
If they are really and honest
ly opposed to the tariff why don't
they join the men who have been
protesting igainst it for years?
Their loyalty to the other
grafts of that party and to 75 per
cent of th) tariff steal proves
that they are not very deeply op
posed to tbe other 25 per cent
We judge men by tbeir actions
The struggle la between the
trusts and the people. These
fellows cannot be for both.
Speaker Cannon did a mean
trick in tbe closing hours of the
session. He transferred onr rep
reseniative Carter from tbe *-ln-
dias" committee for which he
has special fitoeea and waa vain
ble to the "Foveign Affairs*' cox
mittee where he is oit of place
sxcept is an ornament. Cham p
Clark was hot abottt It ibd sent
Carter a Very Complimentry let-
ter.
About nine o'clock on the
- — morning aher the next election,
ing the preeident to raise, lower j DM maf wioh that he bad stood
or abrogate it as far aa It oon-1 P*t lh# w0,"*n babies
oerns certain foreign countries, 1 who aatauger and wear ***-
conditional oa the reciprocal ae- ings rather than ola man Spreck
tion of such douutries. ties and tbe New Snglaud cotton
— atuis*
linimiillil compete in market with
HWbome manufactures. When
U)ls tax Is very high it enables
the manufacturer of any article
to uclte and compel# the Custo-
mer to pay more thaq • fair price
for the goods In eataat depend
ing on tbe height df tbelarlff tax.
A countervailing tariff la a tariff
tax laid by congress* bat enabl-
VOL. 4, No. 12
Another Increase.
Tbe most astounding provision In
the AldrKh bill I- the ooe which pro-
vides for a conditional Increase of
25 per cent ad valorem on tbe *lat of
March If I his Increase goes Into
effect there will be a large Increase
mII along the llue. Congressman Csl-
lop of Indiana, among others, called
attention to this feature. He says:
tin the chemical schedule there la
a reduction, bnt on the Important
article* of universal consumption In
th* necessities ol life there Is a large
Increase, On the schedule dntles
there Is an Increase of 2 per cent over
the lMngley rates. In other words,
the avernne specific dull*-* In tbe
Dlngley bill were 4ft per cent and In
the Payne Aidrich bill the average
Npectflc duties are 47 per ceut. The
bill reported by the conference com-
mittee Is higher than I he Payne hill
as originally passed by the house,
"Hut the specific schedule dntles do
not constitute the real ratea, and .
this Is where the public Is being de-
ceived about the real tariff. In seei
tion two of the bill Is whtre the con-
sumer Is handed a good sl«i d lemon.
That section provides "that after
the 31st day of March, 1010. there
shall be levied, collected and paid on
all art Idea when Imported from any
foreign country Into the United
States the rates of duty prescribed
by the scednlea and parag{apl a of
dutiable list of section one, and la
addition thereto *5 per eent ad valo.
rem: which rates shall constitute tlie
, maximum tariff of the United States.
"This meana that la addition te
rates flx d In the more than 4,000
spec fij sclie lules there shall iteadded
aa the tariff 30 per cent of th« value
of the artlclea as the real tariff on tlie
same and hence this raises the aver-
ng< tariff rate to 72 percent, tbe high
eat by far ever lu vied.
Let us Illustrate what is meeut
by this. For Inatanee. take rough
Inmlier, tlie cheapest kind. The spec-
ific duty fixed In the schedule la $1.30
per thousand, but to which must ls
added the 25 p^r cent ad valorem do-
tv provided by said section two.
Muppo e such I n in iter Is valued ut
110 per th« tr««ud fcdt, 35 per cent e«
that VHlrte Is $2.66, to which add tbe
$1.25, uud It would make the tariff
ou rough luntlter of that value $8 75
per ihon-Hiid feet. On lumlier valued
at $20 lithousuud the tariff Is $0.35
and on lumber valued at $90 a
thousand It la $7 00.
'The Dlngley ratee were $2 a thou
sand straight. Thus It will be essa
there has been a very large ^Increase
|n tbe tariff on lumber |lostead of a
decrease. If the maximum rats pre-
vails, and we ladleve |t will:
Take coal The Dlngley ratee were
07 cents a ton. finder the Psyjie*
Aidrich bill the specific duty ls4&ete.
a ton to which must lie added the ad
valorem duty of 25 per cent provided
for In said section, to get tbe real
duty. Take coal of the vein* of $1.
a ton, the eperiltc duty Is 45 cents,
and tlie ad valorem duty le S5 cents
which makee the actual tariff on eoal
valued at $1. a ton. TOcente. On eoal
values at $2 a ton the tariff le 05 cts.
a ton, aed.so on. Instead of de-
creaaee here Is a a oubstanMal In-
crease.
"It Is also publtehed then has
I wen a reduction of the duty on print
paper from $6 00 a ton to $8 75, bet
this la not a fact. Such a rsdnctloa
la made la the specific rtaty nsmedta
the schedule,, bnt to this yon meet
add tbe fl$ per cent ad valorem. Sup-
pose^ ton of print paper to veJeed
at #10! TKe specific daty to pfl
plus 25 ecut of $40. which to S!Q
making the total duty pn a toe of
the above statt d $18.75. Thus ti will
tie seen that Instead ef a decrease II
haa been more then doubled.
••What la trne of these erttetoafeft.
en as tUoetrationale trne of tmy
Item in the dutiable Net constat^ el
more than four thottaaadS IbeM.
Tbe wooleh schedule on speeMo da*
tlea Is the sunie as the Dlngley law,
to which must be added the Wk psV
cent ad valarem duty, which maksl
aa enormous raise le the tariff a*
woolen goods.--ThsCommons!
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