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) SVITH OUTLINES TARIFF BELIEFS Offers Nine-Point “Prescrip- tion”—Accuses Jardine of Misrepresentation. (Continued from First Page.) epposed to letting down the bars on im- m tion. e declared he didn't even have a “relative” that he wanted to bring in, and got applause and laughter when he added that this, however, didn't mean he thought there were t6o many Smiths in the country. ‘The governor began to speed up when he reached the midway point in his ad- dress, but still continued to stick more or less closely to his text. Applause Is Frequent. Interspersing his prepared arguments on the tariff here and there with short sentences, he drew frequent applause. Among other declarations receiving spplause was a declaration that the Commission had become “para- “Tarift lyzed” during the Harding administra- - ;po ton. ‘The governor uvg;dh ‘;ame "“:ietb{ pnnpnn-ln{ part o prepared tex conoern appointment by Presi- dent Coolidge of vid J. Lewis of Maryland to the Tariff Commission. DRIFT TOWARD HOOVER NOTED NOW IN ARIZONA State Remains Doubtful. However Smith Power Speech Reaction Is Held Unfavorable. @pscial Dispatch to The Star. PHOENIX, Ariz., October 13.—Doubt- ful, but with a drift to Hoover. This epitomizes the Arizona political @ituation today with on¢ well known Democratic leader summing up the party’s problem as follows: Can we continue to lose votes as we have the two weeks and still have enough eft out of our majority registration to_win November 6 . Developments tending to weaken the Bmith-Robinsol ing rather than water to be the problem in the Colorado River de- velopment and Robinson's Los Angeles speech Tuesday pledging himself and | Smith to the Boulder Canyon dam program. Both these proposals are un- | popular in Arizona. ! Nor did the speech of Senator Henry ¥. Ashurst, Demecrat, campaigning for ee-election, declaring he could not su?- ‘port Smith's prohibition attitude, help the New York governor. 3 Even the advent of the vice pre dential candidate Robinson this week | could not smooth over the party financial row, although he did inject | . ‘new enthuslasm into their campaign.| Despite the present leaning of the Btate to Hoover, both Republicans and Democrats seem agreed that because of Arizona’s relatively la Catholic population the contest is likely to be close election d3y. SAYS DEMOCRATS FEAR " BREAK IN SOLID SOUTH 1 World League Against Alcoholism ! Official Finds Anti-Smith Senti- ment During Dixie Tour. ' By the Associated Press. 2 WESTERVILLE, Ohlo, October 13.— national Democratic urt!nlnmn.} 8s many of the State organiza- Dixie, “are concerned over pos- ] byn‘aptnnnrx g:re ele“cl. | several “of the Southern By the Assoctated Prest. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. October 13.—Gov. Smith's speech, as prepared for delivery, follows: To my personal knowledge, the Re- publican party for 35 rs. lacking an issue and unable to defend its past per- formances, has always fallen back upon the familiar cry of Republican pros- perity, claiming credit for prosperous business conditions and attempting to saddle upon the Demosratic ‘party all blame . for industrial depression and business conditions over which no polit- Running true to form, they are today making dire predictions as to what wiil happen to the country in the event of | De;;-mc;chmvlcbor_\'. the erican people will think back over history, they will find finan- jcial panics and business depressions have been as frequent in Republican ad- ministrations as they have been in Democratic administrations. If in the administration 6f Grover Cleveland the country passed through some trying moniénts, it must bé borne in mind that the crash came too soon after inaugura- tion to be recognized as anything else | | | {son. A panic occurred in the adminis- tration of President Roosevelt in 1907, three years after his election. The fact is that the most effective guaranty against panics ever enacted by law was Federal Resérve act passed in the Wilson administration, which the pres- ent Republican Secretary of the Treas: ury acknowledges “gave the country the soundest financial structure in its his- tory” and “is one of the most impor- tant factors in the effort toward world stabilization.” Republicans Opposed Measure. | lcal party could exercise any control. | than a heritage from President Harri- | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, | an “inereased” domestic demand is the | ;msn hopeful sign in the business sky. | Of course it is not surprising that in | September and October, in the midst | of a national campaign, the Republican \c-mpulgn managers should claim credit | for what prosperity there exists in this | country. However, in June, 1928, Presi- | dent Coolidge. the leader of the Repub- lican party, in addressing a4 meeting | of Government officials made no such claim. He is reéported in the scventh | annuel report of the director of the Bureau of the Budget to have said: “It would be unfortunate if out of | these discussions the impression should | be gained that it is the obigation of the Government to furnish the people | with _prospérity. They -are entitled,” | the Dresident said. “to such an ad- | ministration of their affairs as will give | them every falr opportunity, but if | there was to be prosperity they must | turnish it themselves.” | Naturally. the Republican party at- tempts to link prosperity to the tariff with the hope that thay may ereate | alarm in the business world by fore- ' | casting imaginary reductions of the | | tariff following Democratic success and | by appealing for support to special and favored interests thai might improperly benafit By an increass in some of the | tariff schedules. Reviews Tariff Legistation. | Let us briefly review the history of tarifi legislation in the past. and I am atisfied that it will demonstrate the insincerity of the Républican position on this question. Every person who | has given thought to ths subject knows {how unsatisfactory has been the method | | dealing with this important problem. im. [No taFiff bills found. thelr way into | P D. C, OCTOBER 14 1028—PART T FULL TEXT OF GOV. SMITH’S LOUISVILLE ADDRESS | it to be my duty to build up the com | | | This,pRoto, received by telephoto, shows left to right: Gov. Horton of Tennessee, Mrs. Al Smith, with Gov. Smith at| of both political parties in the past in | the ralivasd statlon on the nomimee's arrival in Chattanooga, Tenn., Friday, surrounded by the rmwdp-hk: 5 —P, an welcomed A. Phétos. | Incidentially. let me say Republicans gave but litt that the | the statute books of the country as the encourags- | result of fair, impartial and scientific the oid" wornsout 'political method of | n _ticket in this State| include Smith's Denver speech, declar- | | Républican party. {ment to this great measure. When it jcame up in the Senate originally for passage. only three Republican Sena- tors voted for it and but one came | from a State east of the Mississippi. | The Republican party seems to be | unable to avoid the temptation to mis- represent thie condition. There was/| no business depréssion in the first | four years of the administration of President Wilson. The fact is business was sufficiently prosperous to warrant | the American peoplée in re-electing President Wilson. The long history of the Républican | party discloses that its tariff argument is used to cover a multitude of sins, When presented with any other great issue the Republican party does not | seriously stress the tariff. Let us look at the teriff plank of th: Republican | platform in 1920. It contains but séven | lints, and it refers to the time-worn | cxpression of protection to American | industry as though that were some- | thing that belonged exclusively to the Four years later, | however, there is an entirely different| story te tell. Looking for the campaign {issue and in an éndeavor to smoke- {soreen the black record from 1920 to| 1924, we find whole pages of the Re- | publican pjatform devoted to the plank on tariffs. In 1928 we find tiem again claiming eredit for business prosperity | beyond a point where it would be pos- | sible for any political party to claim | the credit for it. Pages of the piat. | form are again devoted to the subject | of the tariff and the ‘old-time bugaboo | is 2gain resurrested in an attempt to scare business men and working men 2rally and to throaten dire results to the country and its busincss pros- pority in the event of Democratic sucs cess. Shines Up “Full Dinner Pail.” The old gentleman with his Prince | Alvert coat, symbolizing the G. O. P.. is d in the garret of the Republican household shining up the old “full dinner pail” and seting as though in the past 35 years the American people | have gained no knowlsdge upon this SUb; and contenting himself with the belief that the Amcrican public con- tinues to pay attention to the fallacy that Democratic success means general | business depression. The Republican party and the Re- ublican candidate would have us be. lieve that the fact that we have a com- paratively high level of wages in in- d foday is the barometer of prosperity in the country. This I deny and I take the Republican candidate’s word for it when. in his apeech of ac- ceptance he said: “Although the agricultural, coal and " 'textile” industries still lag in their re. 11t been noted? covery. and still requiré our solicitude | and assistance, they have made sub- stantial progress.” What is the progress and where has log-rolling “and star chamber proceed- ings. It is a matter of record that the representatives of special interests | paraded through the lobbies of the uniformly been the result of what we | National Capitol and sccured for those {eall legislative log-rolling. Special in- whom they represented tarifl schedules terests represented at Washington have | that they desired, enacted largely in been in a position to write their own | return for campaign contributions— schedules, the final product has been a | the pre-clection slogan being “Small compromise and. clearly indicates that | favors thankfully received. larger ones even the most consclentious members | with proportionate amount. of grati- | of Congress were without the necessary | tude.” I could offér a great deal of evi- | information on which to pass an intelli- | dence to back up what T just said. Let | gent, business-like tariff measure. | it be sufficient for me to refer to Dr. One of the leading authorities on the | William Starr Myers, professor of poli- tariff in this country, Prof. F. W. Taus- | tics of Princcton University. himself a | sig of Harvard University, former chair- | Republican, writing the history of his man of the United States Tariff Com- | own party when he said: | mission, speaking of the traditional | “The Fordney-McCumber tariff was method of framing tariff legislation, | worked out in a spirit of log-roiling id: that was anything but edifying to the Influential persons could ‘fix’ legis- | countrv. It required a lon? and bitter lation and work jokers in and eventu- | fight before this plece of legislation ally bring into effect provisions which | finally passed the two houses of Con- could not be .10 bs intended by | gress and was signed by President Congress ‘ot hy anyone except, an oc- | Harding on Seplember 21, 1922, 1t ‘eagional: conniving member of Con- | stands as one of the most ill-drawn Qur: tariffs have hasn settled ln(plflcts of legislation in recent political irresvongsible fashion. | history. It 1s probably near the actual Bacome . painfully | truth to say that, taking for granted | | some principle nflr l?‘?tclcuonha( Ame{‘" | can business an ustry, the country | Complaints Pronounced. | has prospered due to past-war condi- | Complaint of tariff bills was so pro- | t'ons abroad and in spite of rather nounced that the progressive msmbers | than on . account of the Fordney-Mc- | of both political parties 20 years 280 Cumber tariff. Mr. Fordnsy himself | recommended that there b2 some scien- | gas of the vintage of the Republican | tific basis for tariff lesislation ai d\ranmnhn texthrok for 1838 and ap- | sought means by which the facts neccs- | parently had learned nothing since sarymf‘gr ”!:T (nforml;ur‘s; of Con:dn'b | that time." | on subject might procured by | an impartial fact-finding body. As far FIARS Latsr | B foment: back as 1309 several bills for the crea-| Later on in the campaign., if time tlon of such A commission ware intro- | permits it, I will g0 into detail regard- duced in the National Congress. but|ing the treatment accorded to iha Tariff | went to death in committee. " Unret a | Commission under the Repubiican ad- | clause of the tariff act of 1909 the | ministrations of the past seven and a | President was givan the power to ap- | half years. point a board to advise him with re- | As indicating clearly what President inquiry. No ftariff bill has ever been | produced as a result of a report of an impartizl fact-finding body. The tariff has been in politics and tariff bills have |spect to foreizn tarifis discriminating | Coolidge's attitude was to this import- | against American products. Under | ant ageney of the Government, I shall | this provision President Taft apnointed | refer to one of the Democratic mem- | a board made up of three Republicans. | hers, David J. Lewis of Maryland. In| The following vear thers was proposed | his case President Coolidge went so far | a bill to establish a bi-partisan com- as fo ask that a letter of resignation | mission to deal generally with the tariff, | bs left with him before he would re- | but it was killed in a filibuster on the | appoint Mr, Lewls on the commission. | last dey of th» sassfon, it beinz noted | The records show this. Mr. Culbertson, at the time that-a majority of Con- | Republican membsr of the commisaion, gress actually aporoved it. Whon: I|had an interview with the' President. say that it was lost in a filibus‘cr that | He s: g means that it was bea'-n by indiree- | “I recelved a request over the tele- tion and not on the merits. | phone to come to the While House to | Notwithstanding its defeat, the Presi- se¢ the President. I went over im- dent added two Democratic members | mediately. Ths President was reason- to the existing tariff board to the end | ably cordial. The President stated he that he might carry out what he re- | intended to reappoint Mr. Lewis, but | garded as the intent of Congress. | that he dul*r‘ed M\;. luwh; to lpre?;\rr; | & T of resignation Refers to Taft. 2nd give to him a lette: resig | ag :\merlnl;c; of th‘e l’lrnrlfl Cnn;,ml?io;.i In a message to Congress on Decem- | At first I did not fully comprehend the ber. 7..19%9, referring to his authority ; ature of the request. I spoke of Mr. fo «ppoint. o fariff board. Precideny | Lowls term having already expired— Taft sald:” % | then the President explained that h y wanted Mr. Lewis to submit his resig- | nation under the new commission, to | Borah to Answer Smith’s Speech in Louisville Friday By the Associated Press LOUISVILLE. Ky.. October 13 ~The speech delivered here to- night by Gov. Alfred E. Smith will be answered in detail in an 80-minute Address by Senator William E. Borah on Friday night, October 19, from the same plat- form, it was announced today by Representative M. H. Thatcher. 'our-minute talks will be made by Representative John M. Rob- sion, chairman of the Kentucky Republican _ committee: Mrs. Christine Bradley South. vice chairman: Gov. Flem D. Samp- son, Senator F. M. Sackett, Rob- ert H. Lucas and J. Mattchilton. it was announced. . Mr. Thatcher will introduce Senator Borah. Mayor William B. Harrison will preside at the meeting. Commission_recommended by their own President Taft platform of 1928 contains not one singie word about the Tariff Commission. that the Republican |that afforded industry. |'or any other individnal to get in any of his fine work of misrepresentation. 1 have written a prescription that to my mind meets the situation with re- | 2ard to {arifl and here it | | First. T believe that the tariff should | be taken out of politics and should be treated as a business and economic | problem. I am opposed to politics in | tarif making. | Second. 1 believe in the Democratic | platform whicn recognizes that the high wages and constructive policies estab- lish*d by Woodrow Wilson and the busi- | ness prosperity resulting from them in | | America. coupled with the economir |ruin of the rest of the world, brought | | about a new condition that committed | the Democratie party to a definite stand ' | in favor. of such teriff schedules as will to the very limit protect legitimate | | business enterpriss as well as American | |labor from ruinous compstition of | foreign-made goods produced under | conditions far below the American standard. Condemns Republican Policy. | ! Third. I condemn the Republican i | policy of leaving the farmer outside our | protective walls. On import crops he must be given equal protection with | On his other | | products means must, be adopted to give | him_as well as industry the benefit or‘ From a Republican point of view it is | tariff protection. dead and gone and would be interesting to ask the Republican candidate if he views that performance with satisfac- tion. In his sprech of acceptance he makes no mention of it. TIs that per- formance on the part of the Republican party a part of the record of the last | tainty. { _Pourth. 1 siate definitely that the | Democratic party, if intrusted with | power will be opposed to any o tariff bill. Personally, I regard gensral| arifl legislation as productive of log- | | 10lling, business confusion and uncer- I consider the method of gen- seven and a half years that he praises ; eral tariff revision to be inherently un- | and iooks back upon with great satis- Sound and I definitely pledge that the Nobody can answer that but It will not do to pass that on to Dr. Work or Sscretary Jardine. Charges Misrepresentation. Running true to form. the Republic- an party in the present campaign is grossly misrepres:nting the Democratic attitude to the question of tariff. I predicted that there would be an at- tempt made to distort my attitude and I have lived to see the prediction realized. In the course of one of his speaches, the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr, Jardine, is ‘reported in the press to have sald: “If Gov. Smith is elected and tariff rates are reduced to the schedules of the Underwood act as the governor faction? hi 4 | forecasts in his speech of acceptance, | | the entire tarm industry will be thrown | into a state of utter demoralization. In his speech accepting the Dzmocratic nomination, Mr. Smith spoke of the Underwood acts as a measure em- b;u}yln{ all that is best in tariff prin- ciples.” In making that statement the Sec- | retary of Agriculture deliberately and wilfully misrepresented my views to the American people. I challenge him or only change I will consider in the tariff |will be specific revisions in spacific schedules, each considered on iis own | merits on the basis of investigation b; an impartial tariff commission and a careful hearing before Congress of all concerned. | Fifth. No revision of any specific | | schedule will have aporoval of the | | Democratic party which in any way | interferes with the American standard of lving and level of wag: In other words. I say to the Amer| working | man that the Democratic party will not | do a single thing that will take from {his weekly pay envelope a five-cent |piece. To the American farm-r I sa; that the Democratic partv will fin svery thing in its power to put back into his nocket all that belnngs there. . And we furthér say that nothing will be don~ ! | that will embarrass or interfers in any way with the legitimate progress of business, big or small. Favers Tarilf Commission. Sixth. I favor a tariff commission e up as hereinafter referred to with ample facilities . and resources, with broadened powers, and with provision | for the prompt and périodical publica- | interference from any outside agency, ROBINSON URGES TRADE SHP AD | Pleads for Large Merchant ' Marine in Talk at Seattie. important duties imposed upon it by law without the slightest suggestion or official or otherwise. I would believ: mission in public confidence and sup- Tt Seventh. 1 will oppose with all the | vigor that I can bring to my command | the making of the tariff a shelt:r of | extortion and favoritism or any ac- | tempt to use the favor of Government | for the purpose of repaying’political | debts or obligations. | By the Associated Press. Eighth. To the very last degree 1! gpATTLE, Wash. October n believe in safeguarding the public against menopoly creatsd by special this Northwestern metropolis from which ships sail to the ports of (he tariff favors. Ninth. 1 can relieve the RepublicAn | worq genator Joe T. Robinson tonizht party and its managers of the necessity . 1 e it of spreading false propaganda about the (Ivisaged a4 = Government-suppor ed Democratic attitude on the tarifl by American merchant maring which atating that neither the Underwood nor | :":‘l"gr;:"fl;;-:‘ d'kg’;;":‘n.;{ e any other tariff bill will be the pattern | U7 PUTS € 27 e He declared that a_continuance of for carrying into effect the principles Republican rule would see the mer- herein st forth. D o P | chant marine “soon diminish to th- Promise to make it effective. T assert | Status of insignificance it occupied when with confidence that neither iabor. nor | (¢ Democrats besan to rebuild it in industry, nor agriculture, nor business, | 19137 whercas, the Democratic party. has nnyimn( to fear from Democratic | he said, would build up a Government- success at the polls in November. | supported ing service without dis- the contrary the carrying of these| STmination’against any ports or sec- policies into effect will result in wide- > v spread and more equal distribution of Cites Jones-White Bill. prosperity that will not be confined to| “The policy of the Republican party,” any limited groups in the community = Senator_ Robinson declared, “has been but tn which all will have an equal|to_discdhtinue Government operations, opportunity to participate. sell American-owned ships at mere PR o KA | nominal pricesiand with little assur- ST. LOUIS SPEECH SET | ™8 %8s e prsimin IN SMITH’S SCHEDUL The Democratic vice presidential Governor to Srend Two Nights | nominee contended- that the Jones- White shipping bill enac*>d at the last This Week in Scdalia, Mo., and Two in Chicago. session_of Congress, to vivify American 13 ! shipping, was- not. an administration measyre, but wes put through “largely by Progressive Republicans and Demo- crats.” He said no one knew in advance | whether President Coolidge was for or | against it. | Referring®to the Republican platform pledges for. the last 44 vears Senator By the Assoclated Press, | Robinison declared that the failure of LOUISVILLE, Ky.. October 13.—Gov. | the Republicans to redeem these prom- Smith's train schedule for next week, | 's2S gives the most “glaring example of announced today upon his arrival here, | inefficiency and faithlessness” in Ameri- calls for a two-hour visit to St. Louis | can history. Monday on his way to Sedalia, Mo., | Opposed to Monopoly. where he will make his first campaign | Rather than let Ameérican shi - A ips pa speech of the week. Two nights will be |\, dor Yoroion control, Senator Robinson spent in Sedalia, and Chicago. where | i his second speech is set, for Poldn At said the American merchant marine will have him for two nights. The should be a source of protection in cas: schedule follows: of war in addition to promotion and Sunday, leave Louisville at 11:39 p.m.; | °Xpansion of cmmerce. Monday, arrive Belleville, 10 a.m.; leave “Vessels in the service should be kep Belleville, 10:05 a.m.: arrive St. Louis, In repair and new ships should be pro- ve St. Louts, 1 p.m.; arrive | Vided.fo meet the requirements of co 6 pm.; Wednesday, leave |Merce and of competition with privatc. T arrive St. Louis ! foreign lnes,” hessaid. (yards). 2:30 p.m.; leave St. Louis, 2:45 | _“Our party is gpposed to a monopol: p.m.; arrive Springfeld, Il 5:20 n.m.; | in Amierican shipping. We condemn tl leave Springfield. 3:30 p.n.; arrive Dractice of the Republican party in sel Bloomington, 6:45 p.m.; leave Bloom- ing Government ships at great sacrifice ington, 7 p.m.; arrive Chicago, 9:45 particularly under conditions which ds p.m.; Saturday, October 20, tentative nOt assure contimy or improvemeni. departure from Chicago. 10 a.m., from Oof Service™ 7 Big Four Station. “The decline of the merchant marin i PR | began with the first assumption of n~ HOUGHTON WELCOMED | tional political control by the Repub !tican party. and continued without in | terruption until President Wilson's ad- ministration.. when our shipping wa; revived and restored to its former pres- tige, BACK TO HOME TOWN Thousande Fill Main Street Square in Corning as Envoy-Can- } didate Returns. ' R RO, Inc. Dy the Assoctated Pr: 11“‘.& G Sts. CORNING, N. Y., October 13.—Alan- son B. Houghton, Ambassador to the Court of St. James and Republican nominee for United States Senator, was welcomed back to his home town today ! by a crowd of several thousand persons who filled Main street square and adjoming streets. § Mr. Houghton was escorted from th- § train to the square by four men who have baen in th: employ of the Corning Glass Works, founded by his father, for} 50 years. i He was much touched by the welcome ' }} | and reped but bri*fly to speeches. He did not refer to politics except to men- tion his servic® as Representative in Congress and as Ambassador. Official notification ceremonies will. be h2ld here next Saturday. FLANS DEMOCRATIC BODY. Group Will Form Smith-Ro%inson Independent Cirele. ¥ ¢ Universal Electric Toaster 3:the . revorsb’s miadal—turns the {peiitg touched by the nickel ‘phatsd; guarenteed Degular price. $6.00. Spe- 53 75 . chal price . . 4 § Certainly not in agricul- | “I believe the work of this board to; be of prime utility end importance Uriversal be effective in case hs (the Fresident) | ANY other member of his party to point so-called ‘solid South’ where decision | et the November polling can be abso- | lutely forecast,” Dr. Cherrington sald. | EAK. ' BREWSTERTO SP b ceBgor of Wopyis. . Gov. BAIph O Biewster wil speak 5 $Gov. . r will speak in | a:v;rmm this mohth ‘and next in | “the nterest of - 00yey’ nd: Curtis, it H¢ Lod LIEUT. KIRKLAND PRAISED| _FOR EISPLAY OF HER_OISM “Afvhisin Commended “for ERett, to Effect Release of Fellow Officer ture, {f the Republican platform is right, because it recognizes the dire distress of our citizens e in that industry, incidentally, one-third of the whole population of the United States The Republican slogan, “No Republican tartff ever mortgaged a farm,” does not make much of a hit in the corn belt {and in the wheat country. Textile Industries Hit. The textile industries are in strait- ened financiz! circumstances and it is rumored that the proposed speech of ths Republican candidate in the city of Boston is intended as an attempt to comfort those engaged in that industry | in the New England States. What- |ever may be our wealth in spots, no- body ‘can claim with any degree of Justice that our whole people are pass- ing through a great period of pros- erity, when a debate in the Senate | st ‘Winter biought to the front 2 statement, not successfully challenged | or contradicted, that 4,000,000 men out | of work, .representing with their da-| pendents upward of 15,000,000 people, were suffering distress because of un. employment. Certainly nobody ecan tay that we are passing through a pe- { riod of wonderful prosperity when there | {1s recorded 830 bank failures last year | whenever Congress shall deem it wise again te readjust the cus‘om duties. with the growth of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of .the tariff, and until the facts are at hand after careful and deliborate investigation, upon which such revision can properly be undertaken, it seems to me unwis2 to attempt it. The amount of misin- formation that creeps into arguments pro and con in respect to tariff rates is such as to require the kind of in- vestigation that I have directed the tariff board to make." Again h- emphasized the necessity for a tariff commission in an addross at, Portland, Oreg., on Qctober 2. 1909, in which he said: | “You hear a great deal about the| tariff, but I would like to have you | take up a tariff bill and go through it and then tell me what it means. Why, man who {3 not an expert.” | It will be readily understood that this expression from President Taft did not indicaté on his part a great deal | of respect for the common s=nsc of | the average tariff Bill. I have taken occasion fo look up his feference to| largest Indian tribes with a most diff- | Nothing halts business and interferes | Choctaw and find that, it 15 onc of tre | I | desired at any time in th» future to | accept it. The President ihen handed e & _sheet of White House paper so ilhat I would take down the tenor of | the letter he wished Mr. Lewis to write. | T wrote down the following words: ‘I | hereby resign as a membor of fhe Tariff | Commission. to take effeet upon your | acceptance.’ Lewis Was Indignant. When Mr. Culbertson explained th | situation to Mr. Lewis, the latier was | surprised and indignant. Mr. Lewis, in | his testimony before the Senate com- | mittee investigating the Tariff Commis- sion, then said: *'As T entered the office of the Presi- dent he grestad me cordially end said in his quist way, ‘Mr. Lewis, I am going to reappoint you.' As he said that he mission, and was proceeding to sign it. 8o far 2s T can judge, when he had got- ten about half way through the signa- ture he asked me—'Did you bring that letter with you?'—refetring to.the letter of resignation. I sald, ‘No, Mr. Presi- dent. From such consideration as I been able to give to the matter I do not feel free (o sign such a letter.’ | with total Nabilities of over $270.000.- | From Submerged Beaplane. |5 " aimagt, entirely in the agricuitural | Wilbur of the Navy De- | cult languzage. | He stopped momema(rfily and seemed Unable to Cope With Leaders, | much displeased, and then resumed the | signature, saving, ‘Well, it docs not mat- | | to anything 1 said in my speech of ac- | eeptance that would in any way war- rant the statements attributed to me by Secretary Jardine. 1 made no mention | of the approval of the Underwood act | and at no time did I forecast the re- | duction of tariff rates to the schedules | of the Undérwood aet: I said abso- | lutely nothing that would suggest even n inference by &ny one to that effect unless it be by a person who was delib- crately seeking to put me in a false position for the purpose of misleading the people. The trouble with Secretary Jardine is that he is not a very careful | man and does not seem | partienlar about what | By himeelt or any of | If he had been a little more careful. if | he had paid more attention to th: duties of his office, a situation would | reached over on his desk’' for a large | not have been brought absut such a: it is just like so much Choctaw to s | Paper, which turned out o be tiie com- | resulted from a cotton price prediction | lssusd by the Bureau of Agricultursl Economies on Septembar 15, 1927, Cites Cotton Report. The prediction from his departmen® that the price of cotton was likely to decline was found by the Seénate com- mittee whieh investigated the subject | to be “mainly responsible for the break- ing of the market at the time and made it extremely easy for those who were organized and ready to realin: regions, as compared with 49 such fail- tmnut vesterday sent a special let- | ures during the last year of the Wil- r son administration, and when. ruined . Secretary of commendal to Lieut. Thomas J. Kirkland, farm people are being driven from tion attached to the aircraft It is a matter of history that Presi- | t¢f: you will hold office only at my dent Taft was unable to cope with th> leaders of his own pariy in carrying | out the principle of fact-finding by a | | pleasure in any event.’ Noticing his dis- appointment, I said, ‘Mr. President, per- | haps if you were to hear the considera- squadron of the scouting fleet, for his | their homes at the rate of about 1,000,- | tariff commission before the passage of s which determined me to this con- | | and profit by this break to take advan- tage of the situation to press the mar. ket to the disastrous low level that 't | reached.” Seoretary Jardine's depart. ment was directly responsible for great tion of its report. which shall be in such form as to present serviceable and prac- | tical information. *.a P % In the bellev that provisioh for & bi- partisan tariff commission promotss rather than eliminates politics, T would} ask Congress to give me authority o appoint a commission of five memb: from among. the best qualified in the country to deal with the problem, ir- | respective_of party affiliations, with a{ | salary sufficiently large to induce them | | to devote themeelves exclusively to this | important work. I would consider i | my duty to see that this commission ' was left absolutely free to perform the Another campaign ' organization to work ectively for the ‘Smith-Robinson | cket in' the District of Columbia, aryland, = Virginia -end neighboring ! States is to be formed tomorrow night | at the ‘Democrafic* headquarters. 16 | Jackson place. £ This is to be .known s the “Smith- ! Robinson_Independent Circle.” Andrew | 1. Hickey, ¢chairman of the group, ex- plained today “that the principai work of the new orga tion will be to dis- tribute ‘propaganda and litcrature and ' make personal contacts with the voters in neighboring States in bahalf of tho Democratic ticket. | Wirinkle- roof Elee- él plated, guaranteed for one fitted with colored ?mndl':s and cord to 56 75 match .. White Cros: attempted rescue on July 27 of Ensign FP. L. McGurk, following a crash of 2 naval seaplane in Narragansett Bay. Both Kirkland and McGurk were flying together when the plans crashed in the bay and rapidly sank. Kirk- land succeeded in freeing himself and dove down to rescue the other officer, who was unconsclous. Licut. Kirklan succeeded in freeing the belt which held McGurk, but was unable to dreg from the cockpit. came up and made a second dive, which #]s0 was unsuccessful. Whon the body of McGurk was removed from th> sunken plane it was found that he had Been only slightly injured. but was so wedged in by the contrel wheel that {’:rnkllnd could not have extricated Lieut. Kirkland is from Columhia 8 C. and was graduated from the Nzaval Academy in 1924. SALVATION ARMY CHIEF 0. K.”S COMMUNITY CHEST ‘The Salvation Army has made formal | application for admission to the Com munity Chest of the District of Colum- bia, Staff Capt. Ernest R. Holz, di- n“x‘g?t‘u commander, announced last Capt. Holz stated that he would serve ®n the chest as the staff representative of the Army and that Rudolph Jose, chairman of the Army's advisory board, ‘would serve with him. Capt. Ho's declered he h-ld high hopes for the success of the chest. In Ris vork with the Army the captain has had considerable experience with com- munity chests. - He was identifi>d with. ! cinnati, Ohio, onz of the mpost successful chests in the country. The Army captain I e 2 the nitional committee of the Salvation which made a stu“y ef th> Army 5 oRshp to commun. g chrsis Lient. Kirkland | 000 per annum. |3 S gner { al tariff. He was asio: The Republican party struggles hard | When he found how‘:npo;uln?h“vmgw | to meke us believe that they are en- | Payne-Aldridge bill, accepted | titled to the credit for the new standard | 2nd not based upon any reliable infor- | crican wages and American liv- ' mation such as could be furnished by {ing conditions. Tt reguires but the ex- a tariff commission. ercise of ordinary common sense ol The bi-partisan board named by know that this standard of wages and ' President Taft went out of existence in of living conditions was fixed during ! 1912 when a Demncratic Congress failed the war and during the admini: to make an appropriation for its con- tion of President Wilson. In the first | tinuance. The siaff of t iplace, the war mesnt a cossation of . in effect its duties weve transferred to immigration. Tha naturally narrowed | 2 bureau crcated in the Department |the American labor market. 1In the | of Commcree and known as the bureau second place. the war paralyzed for- | of foreign and domestic commerce. | eign competition and that left a_f | field for American production. From both conditions there grew a new Amer: | ican procperity and an unexpected en: largament of our domestic market. L the meantime, the presperity of th | rest of the world vanishad. The resall was thet the whole American cconomi | structure during the Wilson adminis: | tration was raised 1o a new plane of | in business circles and was stron: prosperity and created a marked dif- | urged by the United States Cham ference between American standards of ' of Commerce. The commission as ap. living and American wages and those pointed concisted of six membars namad of other countries. To preserve tins by the President by and with the ad- American standard against ruinous in- | vice and consent of the Scnate. flow from the dopresscd world two | original members were to serve for over- things were necessary: First, a restric- | lapping terms and thereafter for terms tion upon immigration, and, sscond, a | of 12 years cach and to receive a sal- | tariff sufficiently high to protect Ameri- | ary of $7,500 a year. Not more thaa can industry and American labor from | thrce of the membsrs were to belony the starvation wages of less fortunate i to the same political party. Each mem | countries. * This new standard was cre- | ber was to give substantially his entir !ated under Wilson and the Republican | time to the work. party had abeolutely nothing to do with | The permancnt tariff commission it, and no person in possession of his created under the act of 1916 held out natural faculties would believe for | to the pecple of this eountry the hone moment that by any aét the Demo- | that the ambitions and ideals of Taft cratic party would attempt to tear down | and Wilson would be cerried out. these standards. 1 Hits Fordney-McCumber Bill. Cites Party Pledge. | Under President Hardfng, however On the other hand, while the Re-!the Tariff Commission was paralyzed, created under ths administration of dent Wilson a permanent taridg "mission. The creation of this com- { mission received considerable supporl y increase future prosperity, the Demo-| back seat when the eratic party i pledged to & policy to! rastore farm-buying power. This hope | fariff into politics and <& zn padition to owr markets of such Fordney-McCumber tariff bill under t by him, | T | The | publicans offer nothing to safeguard or| rendered uscless and relegated to a Republicen ad- ministration decided again to put the | man: enacted the | tion: | elusion you might agree with my point ot view.’ | “He said, ‘'Oh no, T would not.' B; | this time the paper was finished and he | | pushed over toward my position near | the desk. Compelled to notic> his con- {tinued displeasure I said, “Nell, now.| | Mr. President, you and I are the only | ! men in'the world who know that paper | with vou. Just destroy it.’ {mo. 1 won't do that. I had no present | intention or thought of using it at all. | My only idea was that if a separation became necessary between us it might | | be accomplished more pleasantly in this | Quotes Dr. Page. i The President did not send Mr. Lewis’ | 'name to the Senate for confirmation, | | and conzequently his recess eppointment | expired on March 4, 1924, when Con- | | gress adjourned. In connection with this treatment of Commissioner Lewis by l’l‘:‘sldrmv] Coolidge, it is worth while to quote' what Dr. Thomas Walker Page, chair- | man of the Tariff Commission, under | Presidents Wilson and Harding, and chairman of tl nstitute of Economics | at Washington. rays as to how a tariff | commission ought to function. i “For accomplishing any effective re-| | form the maintenance of a peymanent | | tariffl commission 1is indispensable. It| s absolutely essential that a tariff com- | | mission should carry out. its work with- | | out prejudice. Nothing can so com-| | pletely destroy the usefulness of such | an agency as the taint of favoritism | | or partiality or political bias.” | The best proof of the utter neglact | of the Tariff Commission by the Re- i publican administration is that under pretense of economy their appropri- ations were reduced to a point where thry were compelled to stop a great of thelr studies. s The Republican party 59 successfully buried every bope offered hy the Tariff financial loss to the cotton growers of | the South. The carelessness which per- ! mitted such a situation is reflacted in tan Wants Tariff Out of Politics. n my speech at Omaha on the farm h c roblem, in order to curb misrepresenta- [has been signed. Just destroy it. 1 do Fion, T wrote out @ prescription and 1 | not want. to be unfair or dishonorable | read it to the American people and | He said, ‘Oh. | piaced it on file in the newspaper offices | 0 that there would be no opportunity for_Secretary Jardine, Chairman Work. W. W. 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