Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-30
WAN 7 FREE HIDES
Secretary Moody Explains
Shoe Manufacturers Needs.
SPEECH AT BROCKTON
WILLING TO TAKE TAX OFF OF
PRODUCT.
BE Quotes Mr.. Bailey of Texas in Sup
port of His
Views.

secretary MOODY OF the Navy Department
spoke at Brockton, Mass, last night on the
subject of the tariff.
Secretary Moody said: IT come back to
Massachusetts, to find, to my establishment,
that our democratic friends are preaching
the doctrine of what they are pleased to
term free raw materials 1 had supposed.
that our experience ten years ago had
taught us the folly of that
'Of course, If there is to be free trade,
or what is economically the same thing
tariff for revenue only, our revenue would
be raised by internal taxation and tariff
taxation not intended for the purpose of
protection. Then, doubtless, both what we
call material and our manufactured
product would be free. There are some
free traders in our state who believe that
such system would be a wise one. / have
nothing to say to them. They constitute
too Insignificant a minority of the people,
however respectable in character they are,
to provoke much discussion.
But to those who believe it would be
possible to protect our manufacturing in
dustries and leave entirely unprotected the
products of other states and other indus
tries which we employ as raw material, l
have word or two to say. and must take
the risk of being denounced disloyal to
the interests of our state in saying it.
believe it to be the duty of our members of
SollSitSS AZ every ldllil SNiSIOI ~ spare
no efforts in caring for the interests of our
own industries. | acted upon that theory
while was member of the House. But we
owe at least to our people the duty of tell
ing them the truth. l believe that free raw
material for. us and the continuance of
protection upon our manufactured product
to be unatta nable by the act of either OF
the great parties. / believe that the con-
slant preaching of this doctrine is sec
tional and Improbable, and that it raises
a just rritatio against US which in good
season will bear its fruit. Such a course
is narrow. 1t is worse than provincial II
is parochial.
Free Trade and Protection.
"You may have free trade; then you will
have free raw material and free manufac-
tured products; but if you have protection
it must be national in it's scope 1 have
no attachment to any schedule which can
not be overcome; reluctance to change
any schedule of the existing law when the
time comes for change which shall be
shown to be in the interests of the whole
country, and in making'the change l would
regard, if l were member of Congress, the
interests of our own commonwealth and
fight for them to the last ditch: but l be-
lieve in the principle Of protection. l be-
lieve it is accomplishing munificent results
in our country and for the sake OF a tenn
porary political success or to avoid a tenn
porary political failure 1 would not aban-
don the principle of protection. l would
nail Its ensign the masthead anu 80 W
the bottom of the sea with it,
ITO those who believe that the democratic
party, continuing our protection upon the
manufa ctured products, would free all our
raw material from duty, 1 commend the
speech of Mr.. Bailey of Texas, now a sena-
tor from that state which l heard when l
was member of the House. He is an able
and an influential man and speaks the
thought of the southern democracy, which
controls the action of the democracy of the
country 1t was made on July 10, 1897 in
the House and quote some sentences from
it.
Speaking of the Wilson law he said
Z" I have never been an enthusiastic sup
porter of the present law because l cannot
subscribe to the theory of free raw ma
terial. which is one of its marked charac-
teristics.
The Chicago platform differs materially
fl ON the platform of 1882 to the policy
of eXempting raw materials from taxation,
but, sir. the doctrine of free raw material
was itself a radical departure from all dem
ocratic traditions, and in departing from it
the Chicago convention simply returned to
the time-honored principles of our party.
-" Never in all its history, until it fell I'M
der that strange delusion which can only be
described Clevelandism. did the demo-
cratic party advance proposition to allow
the manufacturers of this country to buy
almost everything they need free from tax
alton, while giving them the benefit of the
duty on nearly everything they sell. What
ever strength its advocacy of free raw ma
terials may have brought the democratic
party in the past, it can bring none now
and will not bring any in the future.
Bride Offered by Democrats.
" They were SO eager to make New Eng
land democratic that they forgot our i'm
mutable opposition to special favors, and
they offered the manufacture of the east
the valuable privilege of buying their ma
terials at free trade prices and selling their
finished products at protection prices
" If 1t were true that the American man.
ufacturers needed this advantage I would
not give it to them because to do SO would
be giving special privileges to a special
class of our people,
eff we should elect in assachusetts four
teen democratic members of Congress they
would be simply tails to the southern kite,
as they always have been in all our his
tory.
AT this place desire to say few words
about the duty on hides, which I believe
ought not to continue. l have always be-
lieved So and think was the first to in
troduce a bill for it's repeal. There is no
need of justifying this belief, because it is
shared by all our people. Any representa-
tive upon any ticket would vote for the re-
peal of this duty. 1 trust that I may not
be considered traitor to the cause if 1
point out some difficulties in the way of its
repeal and condition which I think should
accompany it.
Action. if it is to be effective should be
taken with an intelligent knowledge of the
When the Dingley bill left the House of
Representatives it contained no duty on
hides. An effort had been made for the i'm
position of one. confined by no means to
the republican side of the House. but it
had proved unsuccessful. In the Senate
where every vote attainable was required
to enact any tariff law. the attempt was re-
newed. it proved too powerful to be re-
sisted. Our senators. judging 1t wiser to
submit for the time to what they believed
to be the inexpediency of that duty. rather
than to prevent legislation altogether and
continue the depression and deficit which
was robbing the country of its prosperity,
voted for the tariff which majority Of
their associates demanded. In my jude,-
ment, they could not do otherwise
1.-THE members of the House never had an
opportunity of voting upon the question
separately. but only had the choice of vot-
Ing for or against the bill which contained
this duty.
Increase on Tanned Skins.
when the bill was pending in the Senate
the Upper Leather Tanners Club OF Boston
presented memorial to that body concern