Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-08-22
FREE HIDES WOULD DO Sam.
Senator Warren Drops Some Broad
Hints to Eastern Manufacl Irers.

In speech few years ago before
the National Association OF Wool
Manufacturers. Senator Warren of
Wyoming earnestly advised against
any attempt To secu's removal of
the tariff on wool. ~. said he. In
substance. any of you are thinking
of free WOOL l would repeat the fam
Gus advice OF Punch to persons con.
templating matrimony: 'Don'.! This
was supplemented. as we remember,
with some significant suggestions t.
the effect that the tariff on woolens
could not very we'll be retained after
the tariif on wool should be remover
Senator Warren's DON'T" produced
the desired effect. Very little has been
heard from wool manufacturers in the
past five years on the subject of abol.
fishing the tariff on wool.
Again the senatorial ranchman from
Wyoming is on hand with a DON'T"
This time his advice ia addressed d.
the manufacturers of boots. shoes
and leather products Mr.. Warren's
speech of June %. in the senate. on
the subject of Livestock Statistics:
Shall There BE Duty on Hides?" Is
brimful of pertinent facts as to the
magnitude of the agricultural inter.
ests which would be assailed and an.
tagonized by the refusal of the party
oil protection to continue the protec.
ton embodied in the Dingley law to
the livestock growers of this country.
Ii Will astonish some people to
learn that as long ago as 1899 there
was. according to the twelfth census.
total of 11.240.131 persons In the
United States whose livelihood was
dependent directly and indirectly on
the livestock industry. or 3S per cent.
OF our entire working population. and
That the gross value of meat products,
not including retail butchering, will
in 1906 reach s1.00O,0OO.OOO.
There are facts and figures in Sen.
ator Warren's speech which may well
arrest the attention of those who
ciamor FOR free hides and threaten the
downfall OF the party OF protection
unless their demand shall be granted
IL should occur to these people that
they represent rather small voting
force. compared with the 10000 600
voters who are concerned In the re-
products of thel livestock industry.
TO the disturbing element which
would. II II could. stultify the party OF
protection by free trade In what Il
buys while retaining protection for
what 1t sells, the closing words OF
senator Warren should come alike as
a rebuke and a warning:
The permanency of protection as a
national policy rests largely with the
American farmer. When he arrives
at the conviction that protection Is
being withheld from him In order that
the profits of manufacturers may be
swelled, then the end OF protection
will swiftly come.
Mr.. President. our tariff laws when
framed by protectionists have never
Deen made to favor one state, one
section of the country, or one indus.
try. They never will be. We are all
so interdependent that an injury to
one industry or to one part of the
country Is an injury to all. and a
benefit to one is a benefit to all. I'm.
der a universal protective tarin our
freight cars are loaded going both
ways-from east to west, from west to
east; from north to south. from south
to north. The farmer is prosperous.
as is the manufacturer, and employees
OF both. A protective tariff is a com.
pensating tariff and always must be.
else 1t would not give protection at
all and unless 1t is given to all. IT
is given fully to none. Protection can
not be sectional and selfish. 1t must
be general and adequate. Such pro
lection Is now in force under the op-
Grafton of the present law. II Is the
most perfect law we have known. We
shall, as a matter of course. have to
revise 1t some time, but not to-day.
we are too busy, too well employed.
TOO well paid for our labor, too pros
porous TO think seriously OF tariff re-
vision in the year OF our Lord 1906. "
Higher Prices.