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KITCHIN IN A FIERY
SPEECH ON TARIFF
ATTACKS SIMMONS.
Put Forward by Democratic Leaders to Open the Debate on
The Chief Question Before the Extra Session,
He Aquits Himself Handsomely. -
HUHBUGERY OF REPUBLICANS,
reciprocity and tariff revision gen
erally. Although he took a national
aspect of the tariff, he did not over
look the position to the reciprocal
in North Carolina. He hopped on
Senator Simmons for the position he
reference to this
Down an Aisle as he Deliv-iion, as well as Mr Webb and
A w ? Vi Pnnca TVornnrrna frnm North
Skilful in Repartee and Elo
quent in Argument, 41 He
Kept the House in an Up
roar" Walking up and ; has taken with
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Washington, D. C, April 15 In a
great speech that stirred his Demo
cratic colleagues to repeated and
enthusiastic outbreaks of applause,
Representative Claude Kitchin open
ed the debate for Democratic legis
lation in the House of Representa
tives to-day.
The privilege of opening the tariff
debate was with Oscar Underwood,
the chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, who yielded to the Con
gressman from the Second North
Carolina District. This distinction
and honor was accorded Mr. Kitchin
because he is very justly regarded
as the ablest debater on the Demo
cratic side of tne House.
ENTHUSED DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES.
Claude Kitchin not only delivered
a masterly speech sustaining the
connaeiiCe reposeu in mm, --
hammered Republicans in such rasp
ing manner and with such good hu
mor that he had practically the en
tire Democratic side of the chamber
cheering him every tew minutes
during the three hours that it re
quired him to deliver his speech.
It was not only a great day tor
Democracy, but a great Claude
Kitchin day as well. A number of
Democratic senators came over to
the House side to hear the Carolin
ian open the tariff debate. Senator
Overman was among the number,
and remained throughout the after
noon. When Mr. Kitchin concluded
he received an ovation, practically
all the Democrats, and many Repub
licans, passed in line to Mr. Kitchin's
desk to shake his hand and congrat
ulate him on his great speech.
GREATEST SPEECH IN CONGRESS IN
MANY YEARS.
Oilie James, the big Kentuckian,
said of Mr. Kitchin's effort, "It is
the greatest speech delivered in
Congress in a quarter of a century."
This tribute was one of many. In
the press gallery the newspapermen
were enthusiastic over the effort.
Republicans as well as Democrats
amongst the newspaper men here
have to regard Mr. Kitchin as the
very ablest debater in Congress.
THE NATIONAL ASPECT.
Mr. Kitchin discussed Canadian
Carolina who are opposing the Cana
dian treaty. While his challenge oi
the position taken by Senator Sim
mons on the Canadian reciprocity
was only an incident of his speech,
Mr. Kitchin made the most of it.
That it will attract much attention
in North Carolina goes without
saying.
A summary of Mr. Kitchin's re
marks is impossible. He was inter
rupted by a great number of Repub
licans and he bowled them over with
an ease and facility that attracted
general admiration. Most of his-
would-be adversaries subsided m
short order. Claude Kitchin is a
remarkably quick thinker on his
f eet, and it takes a very quick-witted
citizen to cope with him. Towaru
the last of his speech Democratic
members were hollering "Next!"
FLOORED 'EM AS FAST AS THEY CAME.
That was an invitation to some
Republican Congressman to tackle
the honorable Claude and be floored.
Mr. Kitchin ridiculed the idea of
protecting farm products. He quot
ed Zeb Vance on this subject, to-wit:
"It is a delusion and a snare for the
farmer for the Republicans to keep
on putting on the tariff books a tariff
on his wheat, his corn, his rye, and
his agricultural products."
"Vance denounced Republicans for
this fraud," continued Mr. Kitchin,
vst vrc r,rrv Democrats in
. ' TT '
tor for nearly twelve years, ne
was when he was elected to the Sen
ate, and he remained for some time
the chairman of the Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee.
Mr. Kitchin that was followed by
prolonged applause.
HE GETS AFTER DAIZELL.
Mr. Kitchin devoted a large part
of his remarks to John Daizell. one
In the campaign of 1902, Senator f th ReT)blican leaders in the
Pritchard, a Republican of North House, who reDresents a Pittsburg
Carolina, was making a canvass for district, and who is probably the
highest tariff advocate in the House.
his re-election, and benator Sim
mons, as chairman of the Democrat
ic Executive Committee, and as a
Democratic citizen of North Caroli
na, was answering the arguments
and showing the fallacy of the Re
publican party on the tariff, and
now I want to read and put into my
remarks a part of Senator Simmons' the steel trust
speech, as chairman of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee in North
Carolina. He thought so much of
the strength of this argument that
the committee sent out in North
Carolina in that campaign, eighty
Mr. Dalzell opposed Canadian re
ciprocity, on the ground that it
injure the farmerl Mr. Kitchin
rang the changes on the solicitude
of the Pittsburg congressman for
the farmer, when it was well known
that he looked after the interests of
"I do not mind," said Mr. Kitchin,
in this connection, air. uiuzen
fooling himself about this thing be
ing manufacturers of Pittsburg,
but what I hate to see is that he has
been able to come over to our side
thousand copies of that speech, and and even inva(je the sacred soil of
I want e,very friend of Senator Sim
mons in the North Carolina delega
Lion to listen carefully.
QUOTES SENATOR SIMMONS.
He said: ' 'The truth is, the whole
Republican argument that tariff re
gulates the price of farm products
is utterly false, corn and wheat and
rye, and barley and grain and cot
ton farmers know that the price of
these crops is regulated tby the laws
of supply and demand; that we ex
oort of these crops one-fifth to one
third of all wheat produced, and
that the price of the whole crop is
regulated bv the price which the
surplus brings in the foreign mar
kets. The cotton and corn and
wheat farmers knows that the bulk
of that product of his crop which he
does not sell at home for home con
sumption is purchased for shipment
abroad, and the purchaser does not
my State and fool some of the Demo
crats." (Laughter and applause.)
Charging that there has been de
liberate misrepresentation of the
Democratic position with reference
to reciprocity in North Carolina
Mr. Kitchin, said, "My friends from
North Carolina at this end of the
capitol and some of them at the
other end have told our people that
this reciprocity is a Republican
measure, that it is the handmaid of
Republican protection, and that the
great men in North Carolina, like
Vance and Ransom, (whose name?
are revered to this day by every
patriotic North Carolinian) voted
against and denounced reciprocity.
"The men who make those charges
and send them out to the people in
North Carolina ought to know bet
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"Our chief raw materials are cot
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cause we export them in large
quanities."
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That was Senator Simmons' care
fully prepared written and delivered
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a delusion." (Applause.) "And yet
some of the Democrats of North
Carolina are going about saying the
tariff on corn and agricultural pro
ducts is a protection, and to remove
it will injure the farmer, and that
he cannot vote for reciprocity.
ABOUT ERRING DEMOCRATS.
"Let me make a statement that
whenever you see a good Democrat
working against this reciprocity you
must scratch a little deeper than
rain, wheat and rye, and then you
will find that it is some lumber re
duction." (Laughter and applause.)
"You will find that it is some wood
pulp reduction in that tariff, and the
biggest wood pulp manufactory
south of the Fotomac river is in
North Carolina. Scratch a little
deeper and you will find that there
is mica in that reduction, and you
will find that there is some mica in
North Carolina, where there is pro
tection.
REPUBLICANS FOOLED PEOPLE FOR
FIFTY YEARS.
"Now, when the Republicans here
concede that they fooled the people
for over fifty years, we Democrats
come along and say, 'Don't you ad
mit that, because we want to fool
the farmer and get protection for
wood pulp, lumber and mica in our
districts.' "
"I can stand here and read all day,
and I expect to put in the record the
statements of Vance, Peck, and
oretty nearly all the leading Demo
crats to show that this is a iraua
Now, I tell you that it is unjust to
the Democratic record, it is unjust
to the great Democrats now aeaa
those who are alive to hear us in our
Democratic fight. Now they say
these old Democrats were fooling
the people themselves in saying that
the Republican tariff was a delusion
and a snare. I am going to quote
one gentleman in North Carolina,
who lives to-day, and who has the
confidende of thousands of good
Democrats in the State, and whose
oppinion and whose word upon this
question of the tariff on the farm
ers' products will be taken as au
thority almost over North Carolina,
and no Democrat in this House will
j dare dispute, and that gentleman, if
. . ,f ' i : i.
it is not unparliamentary w staw it,
is the senior Senator from North
Carolina, Senator Simmons. (Ap
plause.) THE SIMMONS-PRITCHARD CONTEST.
Senator Simmons has been a Sena-
(and it is unparliamentary to name
them here), who have the franking
of Kentucky, and every single soli
tary Democratic Senator in the
Senate in 1860 denounced it as a
sham reciprocity. Real reciprocity
with Canada and the States South of
us received every Democratic Sena
tor's vote and against it was cast
the vote of every Republican Sena
tor. The Democrats favored it.
JUSTIFYING OPPOSITION TO RECIPRO
CITY.
"The platform of 1892 has been
used in North Carolina for the pur
pose of justifying the votes against
this rerinrocitv aereement. It has
been sent the people living in North
Carolina in order to show how a vote
mg
Carolina that this tariff is a great
benefit to the farmer of wheat and
corn and rye and he and they cannot
support this reciprocity measure be
cause it removes this tariff,
"Gentlemen, that is not all. This
arae distinguished gentleman from
North Carolina, who honors us in
the Senate, made a speech about six
months ago, and that speech was
such a good one that the campaign
committee sent it out in this cam
paign book. In that speech he said:
"the tariff does not help the far
mer either to fix or control the vol
ame of the'se products or their mar
ket value as to these products the
tariff is in operative, even when a
duty is imposed by the Republican,
pretendedly for his benefit
"Then the speech goes on ana
shows about cotton and wheat and
cook's success.
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Mr. Gudger says he will defend his
position and reply to Mr. Kitchin on
londay if he can get the time.
Representative Dough ton is also
lisposed to vote against the treaty,
though he says he wants to hear all
the debate before he reaches a final
decision as to how he will vote.
Queer Chinese School.
It is Good to Bs a Southerner.
nrivileo-e. at the other end of capitol against this reciprocity measure 1?
from North Carolina, who are send- m harmony with tne uemocrauc
the doctrine through North platform. Men who have enjoyea
the franking privilege here ana at
the other end of the capitol have
sent broadcast in our State and gar-
belled extracts of this Democratic
platform. Let me read it. It may
not be interesting to you, out it is
mighty interesting to me and our
people in North Carolina to know
the truth and the whole truth about
the Democratic position.
Listen to the words here and
this alone is all that has been sent to
the people. 'We denounce the sham
reciprocity which juggled with the
people's desire for enlarged foreign
markets, etc.
"Thfi four nrec'edinsr lines have
been left off in this literature which
has been sent to my State. Here is
section four of that platform in re
gard to reciprocityand it reads this
Trade inter-change basis ot
with the
way.
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Porn and rve and all the farmer's reciprocal aavantdg
.rmntnps nar ticiDaunsr la a ume
products that the price of them is
fixed in the markets of the world in
competition with the world, and
that the tariff had nothing to do
with it. It concludes by denouncing
this tariff on wheat, corn and rye as
a fake tariff, and yet there is being
sent out by somebody, and I presume
the man who made them does it, to
North Carolina, a certain speech
made on the third ot March, just a
few days ago, saying that the reason
he cannot support this reciprocity
measure is because it is taking the
tariff off wheat, and the farmers
products and leaves it on the manu
factured products." Congressman
Davis, of Wisconsin, an insurgent
Republican, thought he would em
barrass Mr. Kitchin by reason of
the votes of a number of Democrats
on the admission of free lumber
during the enactment of the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill. Finally he want
ed to know how the members of the
North Carolina delegation, aside
from Mr. Kitchin, voted.
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say," was the prompt response of
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"And these four lines showing
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the Democratic party to have re
ciprocity with Canada a3 well as
countries south of us, are left out.
The quotation breaks in the midst
of a sentence after the word 'but'
and makes this platlorm to read,
Wp denounce sham reciprocity.' "
(Applause on the Democratic side.)
Whatever may be . the difference
of view as to Mr. Kitchin's argu
ment and position on reciprocity,
there is unanimity of opinion in
Washington that his effort today
adds much to his great reputation
as a debater. He was given the
il APQCT attention in the House.
iiuotuw
'Majority Leader Underwood, Uncle
Joe Cannon and all the notables ioi-
lowed him throughout.
GUDGER AND WEBB TO REPLY TO
KITCHIN.
Mr. Gudger and Mr. Webb, who
will vote against the Canadian bill,
may have something to say in reply.
A well-known writer gives in a re
cent publication an odd picture of a
Chinese school, many of whose pupils,
from 8 to 40 vears old. were the
wives of high officials.
"Eager to display her knowledge
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self a I'sns-laise in a purple, sack
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