Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-31
IDEAL TARIFF BILL
CRITICS OF THE PRESENT LAW
HAVE A DUTY TO PERFORM.
Those Who Find so Much Fault With
to Formulate improvements
That Will Meet All Re-
quirements.

In all sincereity and good faith, We
call for a tariff revision bill at the
hands of the progressive" gentlemen
who are so strenuously insisting upon
immediate action by the dominant
party, lest through neglect thereof the
party that is in should be displaced by
the party that is out. If the exigency
Is SO pressing as all that, and If, as is
claimed, there is involved in the exist
ing tariff more of extortion and graft
than have been practiced in life in
surance since life Insurance was in
vented, then it is up to the progress
ives" to come forward forthwith with
the draft of measure for the COM
plete reform of this terrible tariff In
all conscience they ought not to stand
back and wait for somebody else to
undertake the work. They, being the
ones who pick the flaws and find the
faults with the tariff as it is, are the
very ones to come promptly to the
foreground with plan of rectification.
They are the ones who know how bad
things now are; ergo, they are the
ones to remedy the condition.
Governor Cummins should by all
means step to the front. He knows,
no man better, what fearful instru-
Dingley tariff is. Naturally he should
be the head of volunteer tariff COM
mission. Governor Guild would of
course, be the vice chairman. Who
can speak so authoritatively regard
ing the sufferings of the boot and shoe
of the atrocious tariff on hides? Mr..
Foss will naturally have controlling
voice in determining what to do in
the matters of free raw materials and
Canadian reciprocity. Congressman
Mccall and Ames could help greatly,
for they are tremendously alive TO the
pressing necessity for tariff reform.
There are others so numerous that
space is too short for mention in de-
tail who would be of signal usefulness.
We do not include John Sharp Will
liams, Champ Clark and Bourke Coch-
IAN III IliS IdltSOIy uSSduot VI lllc itdl
that their presence and cooperation
might prove somewhat embarrassing
Still, they might be consulted on the
quiet for their help will be needed on
roll calls later on. The president of
the Sugar trust, high authority on
reduced sugar tariff rates, and the
president of the Tobacco trust, always
interested in lower tobacco duties,
would make excellent members of the
commission.
These suggestions are purely tenta-
tive. Far be it from assuming to die
offer valuable hint when we urge
that the volunteer tariff commission
should take shape and activity at the
earliest possible moment The co1n-
try is looking to the reformers and
progressives for the ideal tariff bill.
without the slightest difficulty. Know
ing, as they do, how utterly abomina-
BILE the present tariff is, it follows
necessarily that they know just how to
improve it. All they have to do is to
utilize their proficiency as tariff max
ers and agree upon the bill to be sub
mitted to the house committee on
ways and means. No need to wait
for an extraordinary session of con-
gress to be called next spring. Less
need to wait until 1909. The time to
act is now. The volunteer commission
can be called together inside of three
days, and, once together, we don't
suppose it would take more than three
hours for the experts to agree upon a
detailed list of the reductions to be
made in the Dingley schedules So
easy it is for those who have mastered
the tariff in all its intricacies to de-
eide rs to what should be done.
Let the volunteer tariff commission
get together and get to work. The
country wants this question of altered
tariff rates settled. 1t wants bill of
particulars, bill that it can read, un-
derstand and admire. Delay is repre-
hensible under existing conditions.
We might almost say inexcusable.
Bring ON the ideal tariff reform bill
Possibly it would strike congress so
favorably that, instead of ten months
ordinarily devoted to such matters, it
would pass both houses in ten min
utes! Who can tell? At all events,
let us have the bill right away.