Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-16
FREE HIDES WOULD DO HARM
Senator Warren Drops Some Broad
Hints to Eastern Manufacturers.

the National Association of Wool
Manufacturers, Senator Warren of
Wyoming earnestly advised against
any attempt to secure removal of
the tariff on wool. Of" said he, i6
substance, any Of you are thinking
of free wool, ! would repeat the fam
Gus advice Of Punch to persons con-
templating matTimony: DON'T This
was supplemented, as we remember,
with some significant suggestions tG
the effect that the tariff on woolens
could not very well be retained after
the tariff on wool should be removed.
Senator Warren's DON'T" produced
the desired effect Very little has been
heard from wool manufacturers in tho
past five years on the subject of abo}.
ishing the tariff on wool.
Again the senatorial ranchman from
Wyoming is on hand with DON'T"
This time his advice is addressed ID
the manufacturers of boots, shoes
and leather products. Mr.. Warren's
speech of June 81, in the senate, on
the subject of Livestock Statistics:
Shall There Be a Duty on Hides?" is
brimful of pertinent facts as to thA
magnitude of the agricultural inter.
ests which would be assailed and an.
tagoniZed by the refusal of the party
of protection to continue the protec-
ton embodied in the Dingley law to
the livestock growers of this country.
1t will astonish some people to
learn that as long ago as 1899 there
10 hn frra
total of 11,240,131 persons in the
United States whose livelihood va,
dependent directly and Indirectly oo
tie livestock industry, or SO per Ger {.
of our entire working population, ard
that the gross value of meat products.
not including retail butcheling, wul
in 1906 reach 00,000,000.
There are facts and figures in Sen.
ator Warren's speech which may we'll
arrest the attention of those who
clamor for free hides and threaten the
downfall of the party of protection
unless their demand shall be granted.
1t should occur to these people that
they represent rather small voting
force, compared with the $4,000 000
voters who are concerned in the re.
tetnion of protective duties on all the
products of thel livestock industry.
To the disturbing element which
would, if it could, stultify the party of
protection by free trade in what ii
buys while retaining protection foI
what 1t sells, the closing words oe
Senator Warren should come alike as
a rebuke and a warming:
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
been 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
benefit to one is a benefit to all. Un.
der a universal protective tariff 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 manufactures, and employees
of both. A protective tariff is a com
pensating tariff and always must be.
else it would not give protection at
all and unless it 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. 1t is the |
most perfect law we have known We |
shall, as matter of course, have to |
revise it some time, but not today. I
We are too busy, too well employed, |
TOO well paid for our labor, too pros. I
porous to think seriously of tariff re-
vision in the year of our Lord 1906" /