The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-27
TARIFF REVISION.

the tariff. In some sections they at
tributed all the prosperity that the coun-
try has enjoyed to the Dingley act and
said that any attempt to change it would
result in unsettling business and would
bring disaster. In other sections, they
declared for tariff revision but argued
| that it ought to be revised by the Re-
publicans and not by Democrats. Now
| that they have won, which promise will
| they keep-the one the beneficiaries of
tariff duties demand, or the one that will
help the bulk of the people?
| Representative Tarsney. Of Minnesota
lwho is in Washington, upon being inter-
viewed by the Washington Post, said:
1.-The paramount i6ea in the politics of
my section of the country is tariff revis-
ion. We have been passing through an
era of great development in manufac-
turing. during which there has been
| remarkable increase of efficiency in meth
| ods This has resulted in enormous
profits, which have been and are still
| going into the hands of very few men,
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when the profits from this efficiency in
manufacturing, much of which has been
made possible by the government of the
United States, should be shared by the
people thereof"
1 How do you regard the proposed
tariff commission
1.-The only proper tariff commission
could suggest was the reply, would be
| composed of members Of the Ways and
Means Committee of the House and of
/ the Finance Committee of the Senate
| "Mr. TawIfey added that he was in ia
vor of immediate revision of schedules
not a far-reaching revision necessarily
but such a revision as would bring about
a change of schedules affecting articles
where the manufacture has been render
| cd excessively profitable to the manufac-
| turer.'
The beneflciaries of the tariff will see
| to it that there is no revision along the
| lines advocated by Mr.. Tarsney. His
| indictment of the present law that "enor-
/ nous profits which have been and are
| still. going into the hands of a very few
| men, is true to the letter. Those every
| few men, will see to it that the "enor-
| nous profits" continue to come into their
| fund they have to raise to hold their
| privilege.
| Senator Frye, who holds a position of
far greater influence in the Republican
party than Mr.. Tarsney, does not agree
at all with the Western Congressman We
quote from last nights Washington Post:
what view do you take of tariff mat
/ ters9" he has asked
| Talk of tariff revision is, absurd" re-
piled in vigorous words the Senator who
was for half century the fellow towns
man of the author of the Dingley law.
THE country is in the midst of great
prosperity. Why should we spoil it by
entering upon legislation which would
disarrange business relations and certain
ly cause depression over the country"
| There is no demand for it in New
| England"
| "None whatever in Maine" was the
| answer. 81 suppose there may be peo-
| pie in Massachusetts who want some
| changes. but they always have few
| cranks in Massachusetts. The Republi-
| can who ran for Congress on a revision
platform was defeated in a Republican
district
at is equally absurd to propose tariff
| revision as a means of regulating the
| trusts
| From these two opposing interviews,
| an unmformed person might presume
| that the Republicans would have split.
No danger of that. They will all get to-
cether by compromise" as they will
call it, The compromise will require
Mr.. Tarsney to surrender his position
The tariff barons who get enormous
profits" own and control the Republican
party-or that portion of it that dictates
legislation.
During the recent campaign. the New
Orleans Times Democrat riddled the pre-
tence of a Republican revision of the
tariff by recalling the following anecdote:
81 see that the Republicans have been
revising the tariff" said the late Ros-
we'll P. Flower, of New York, to Thomas
B. Reed, in commenting on the McKin
1 ley rates. "Yes?" inquired Mr.. Reed.
Yes" said Mr.. Flower; land do you
know what it reminds me Off" "No,
said Mr. Reed "what does it remind
YOU of" well" said Mr.. Flower, lit
reminds me of the way the farmers
build their fences out in Kansas. They
build 'em four feet high and six feet
wide And when a cyclone comes along
and blows them over, they're higher
than they were before THAT is the
kind of 'tarik revision the country al
ways gets when the Republicans go into
he revising business" says the Times
Democrat.