The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-11
GRIGGS TO BABCOCK
HE THROWS SOME OF THE LAT
TIERS THUNDER BACK.
LATTER'S CHANGE OF BASE.
HIS DUAL POSITION ON THE TAR.
IFF CONTRAsTED.

sumner in 1901 and Even During
Recent Session of Congress, But
Now Has Taken the other Tack
and Declares the Tariff the Lead
ing Issue ON which Republicans
Will Face the Country-His Argu-
ments Then and Now Compared.
Washington, Aug. 8.-Republican pol
iticians have thus far been exceedingly
generous in their contribution of cam
paign material useful to the Demo-
Gratis.
When Chairman Griggs of the Demo
cratic Congressional Committee was
asked yesterday what he thought of
the recent interview of Chairman Bah
cock of the Republican Congressional
Committee on the trust question, he
said:
Il will let Mr.. Babcock answer Mr..
Babcock on the great trust issue of
this campaign. See this:
what BabcOck Said in 1901.
Congressman Babcock in Southwest
ern Wisconsin, summer of 1901:
I maintain that it is part of the pol
icy of protection to protect the con-
svmer.
I'VE can to-day produce and under
sell the world. Shall we continue a
tariff on articles that are. in fact, arti-
cles of export? If Congress maintains
tariff on such articles, the whole
theory of protection falls to the ground
and it simply inures to the benefit of
those who may secure the control of
any such commodity since by it's aid
they can fix exorbitant prices in the
domestic market. How can such a
policy be defender"
Mr. Babcock in the Washington Post,
Sept. 21, 1901:
"One of the points which impressed
me of the desirability of revising the
steel schedule was Information l OBJ
tanned in Scotland of the placing of an
order for 10000 tons of American
steel. When you stop to think that TO-
600 tons of steel means more than 1000
carloads it will not do to say that such
an order placed abroad by our manu-
facturers is only their surplus pro-
duct"
February 4, 1902.
From now on 1 am going to push
the tariff plan at every possible oppor-
luIlly. tiII SOlHS TO take advantage
of every possible opening. The bill is
going to be pressed every time the
smallest chance offers and 1 am not
going to let anything go by"
If the bill ever gets before the
House it will pass by three to one, AMI
it will get before the House.
Il don't care whether he Payne)
takes the duty off lumber or not. That
is a threat that has no terrors for me-
That won't hurt in Wisconsin. The
people who are going to make trouble
If the duty is taken off lumber live m
Pennsylvania and Maine, especially the
hemlock people in Pennsylvania. If
Mr.. Payne makes that threat good he
will be hurting the East and not the
West.
Nobody out our way is going to be
worried by the taking off of that duty.
1t would have been taken out of the
Dingley tariff when that bill was
passed If it had been passed by sched-
ules."
He Made Complete About-face.
Congressman Babcock on July 49,
1909.
IT observe that the Democrats have
already dropped their Philippine issue,
as it was prophesied they would. 1t
was too hot a proposition for them to
hold close to their bosoms Their at
tack on the army miserably failed. All
they have now outside of their old
financial heresies for issues are the
trusts and the tariffs.
1.-THE Republican party is ready to
meet them on the question of trusts
and the tariff.
THE tariff is an issue we gladly es-
pouse. With everybody at work,
everybody with money and clothes,
and food, and enough money left over
to have some kind of a good time on:
with prosperity on every hand, the re-
suit of Republican policies, we are not
afraid to ask the country to continue
the Republican party in power in or
der that those policies may be contin-
ued in effect.
1.-THE efforts of the Democrats to
make an issue out of the allegation
that manufacturers are selling goods
cheaper abroad than at home. will fall
fiat What If it were true that they
were doing so? 1t is a rule of trade
that surplus products must not be
dumped on to the home markets to
demoralize it, but must be sold in an
outside market. A jobbing house in
this country desiring to close out a
surplus stock would not unload 1t in
its own territory breaking down prices.
but would try to sell 1t in the other
fellows territory. The possibility Of
thus disposing Of surplus product en-
ables the American manufacturer to
run his mills all the year round with
out having to shut down two or three
months. His men are kept at work
and wages are circulated through his
section just that much more in the
year than If he had been compelled
when he had supplied his own market
TO close down his mill. That rule of
trade will operate always"
No Clash In Committee.
Thus the Republican chairman re-
verses himself and replies fully and
completely 10 his interview. His first
interview was a declaration Of war
His last is the white flag OF surrender.
Is this the 'scuttle' policy Of which
we have heard go mach VIII the
friends OF the tariff ever reform Il.
except in the interest OF the trusts?
When asked about reported differ
ences OF opinion between himself and