The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-06
TARIFF TALK BY
MR.. BEvERIDGE
Indiana Senator Would Take
| the Matter Out of the Hands
of Congress.
GERMAN PLAN ADVOCATED
PROTECTED INTERESTS LISTEN
ED TO SPEECH.

Washington, Feb. 5.-Senator Bever-
fdge of Indiana today addressed the
senate in advocacy of his bill to create
permanent tariff commission. The SEN
s-tor was accorded a careful hearing by
both the Republican and Democratic
sides of the chamber and also by the
crowded galleries.
In the galleries several sections had
been reserved for members of CONNER
cial and manufacturing bodies now in
the city for the purpose of promoting
the interests of Mr.. Beveridges bill
He said in part;
THE tariff is fixed by facts; how TO
get at these facts is the first question
in the whole tariff problem Common
sense and experience answer the ques-
tionsi we should create body or eX-
tperts TO find out these facts for us. The
men should be the fittest men that can
be found for this work; they should give
their whole time to this work and lay
before us the result of their work.
Commission of Experts.
This bill seeks to create such a COM
mission of experts to find out the facts
upon which congress builds "a tariff and
TO make classification of articles TO
which congress can plainly and aecu-
rately fix customs duties. By this bill
the commission itself is not allowed to
fix duties or even TO suggest any rate.
The fixing of duties is left TO congress.
The commission is kept strictly to the
task of gathering facts and making
clear classified tons; the first is expert
investigating work, the second expert
clerical work. Neither is legislative
work.
We must have more foreign trade
We must open foreign markets to our
live cattle, which are now kept out of
those markets. Our manufacturers ask
the same advantage in foreign trade
that the German government gets for
German manufacturers. American pro-
ducers demand that the doors of other
nations which are open to their rivals
shall no longer be closed to them.
we cannot open these doors by a
purely revenue tariff. because such
tariff merely gives other nations trade
advantages with us without getting
from those other nations any trade ad-
vantageS in return.
Maximum and Minimum Tariff.
I'VE must have a system that gives
US the same weapons that our rivals
have by which we can get for our pro-
ducerS the same faVOrs that our rivals
get for their producers. We must have
a maximum and minimum tariff, the
first to apply to all nations that will not
give our producers special favOrs in
their markets. BY this plan, German
producers are selling more German
goods abroad than any other nation. If
we consider area, wealth, history and
all other elements of the problem, Ger
man producers are selling more German
goods abroad than any other five ma
lions of the world put together. Ger
many, Japan and the world followed our
plan of a single protective tariff and
then logically developed that plan into
a double protective plan.
Double Protection Plan.
I'VE must be as wise now as they
were then, and just as they took sin
gle protective plan from us, so now
must we take the double protective
plan from them. Our manufacturers,
our cattlemen, our agriculturtsts, our
miners, our whole producing classes ask
only the same ADVANTAGES that their ri
walls have in the markets of the world.
They demand no more than this, but
they will accept no less than this. Tar
iff for trade; trade for prosperity; COM
mon sense methods for both-these
must henceforth be the American
watchwords in the worldwide contest
for commerce"
Remarks by MIR. Culberson.
When Senator Beverage concluded
his remarks, Senator Culberson of Tex
as remarked that the senator from In
diana was to be congratulated because
= lin some degree at least he had Joined
the army of tariff revisiOnistS. He
said il had been announced in the
newspapers that a decree had been is
sued on the Republican side that the
tariff could not even be inquired into
at this time.
Mr. Culberson called attention to
what he said was the fact that the
average ad valorem tariff is now 45
per cent: that it is greater than the
difference between the cost of labor
here and abroad; that many articles
manufactured in the United States are
sold abroad cheaper than in this coun-
try, and that a protective tariff en-
courages trusts. He then asked to
have inserted in the record an article
from a book he exhibited.
Mr.. Beverage asked to be given the
name of that book.
81 will give it" replied Mr.. Culber-
son. 'as 1 am sure it will appeal to
the senator as an authority. IT is the
Democratic campaign book
Regrets of Mr.. 6eVeridge.
Il thought So" replied Mr.. Bever-
idge. and he then proceeded to express
his regret that partisanship should be
injected into the debate.
Tactics" Mr.. Beverage, may be
worthy of the senator as a leader of
his party, but it is not worthy of any
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