Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-04-07
lNTRlciEs OF THE TARIFF.

s. XII x / ,hl
tNTRiciES OF THE TARIFF.
Regarding the interview had with
Hon. HI G.. Hansbrough, by the Wash
ington Post, appearing in another
column, the Post editorially says:
Senator Henry Clay Hansbrough
of North Dakota, jealous protection
list, is not at all satisfied with the
administration of a certain phase Of
the tariff law, and is anxious, and
was clamorous, for tariff reform, as
he calls it. He acknowledges, how
ever, that congress does not intend
that there shall be any tinkering with
the Dingley schedules, and lays it on
the standpatters. Mr.. Hansbrough
may be called a limited tariff reform
er. He is also a peculiar tariff re-
former. His idea of tariff reform is
that hard wheat coming from Canada
shall be made to pay the tax without
rebate when it is mixed with domes.
tic wheat and ground into -four for
export. Thus the senator would re.
form the tariff cup.
s# There can be no tariff reform with.
out the consent of Joseph g. Cannon,
Charles III. Grosyenor, and John
Dalzell, who are the majority of the
committee on rules. These gentle
men are standpatters, who believe
that tariff reform is the same as
economic treason, or little sayaer,
and they argue with very considerable
force that If the country was in favor
of that sort Of thing it would have
sent the democratic party to congress
to do that sort Of thing. It might be
retorted on them that the country
elected q tariff reformer president Of
the United States, but there are sew.
eral replies to that, and the committee
on rules will be swift to say that Mr..
Roosevelt was elected president not
because OF what they think are his
tariff vagaries, but Id spite OF them.
Besides, the president has very plain.
II shown that he is not strong
enough tariff reformer to get into a
serious row with congress about 1t. Y
NO doubt the committee on rules
would be glad to reform the tariff
up" for the benefit of the North Da.
kota wheat growers, and saddle the
tax on every household in the land;
but somebody might try to step In and
reform some other schedules down"
such as hides and other raw materials,
and SO the committee on rules win
stand pat to the end, and Mr.. Hans.
brough and his constituents must
grin and bear free trade in Canada
Wheat-by obstruction" with all
the patience they can muster, and
that is no great abundance.
What a lovely tariff it would be
Il it suited everybody-if we could
only set Aladdin's lamp about the
Job. Il we could only have free wool
for our mills and protected wool fol-
our shepherds, free hides for our tan
neries and protected hides for our
graziers free wheat for Mr.. pills
blry's mills and protected wheat for
North Dakota and Kansas farms. free
raw sugar for the. sugar trust and
protected sugar for our beet farmers.
II somebody will only invent a tariff
that will operate like that all down
the line, and IL the standp atters will
enact II, the tariff question viii be
settled. We could be Indifferent to
the logic Of Adam Smith and to some
Of the best wit OF Sidney Smith. We
could smile at the epigrams Of
Bastiat and Mr.. Bryan's citing Of
Tom Moore's Last Rose OF Summer
as an authority to elucidate a tarin
argument would only be recalled as 4
specimen Of naive and unconscious
humor.
fsut we VIII not have a tariff like
that IN our day, and the tariff will be
local question IA American politics
Tor many years to come. Senator
Hansbrough's constituents are pinched
to the extent of i've Or SIX cents q
bushel On their wheat BY the econ.
struction' Of the treasury department,
but that only makes the American
breahfast table that much cheaper,
and Tor that some thanks are due
Mr. Secretary Shaw. ~
Forecast fos Tonaorrow. 81
Fair and warmer and dry sunless
you So 70 Richholt,s where his eIe-
gant soda iountAin viii be ia fulI