The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-01
PAYNE IS
 AGAIN NOMINATED Fourteen Times Has lie Been
 Named for Congress REVISION OF THE TARIFF In Accepting the Nomination Congress man Payne Promises That Tariff
 Shall Be Revised and Filings
 Sarcasm at Bryan.
REVISION OF THE TARIFF

Auburn, N. Y, August S1.-F or the four teenth time, Serene Payne. chairman of the ways and means committee and lead CT of the lower house, was renominated today by the republicans of the Thirty first congressional district
 In accepting the nomination MT Payne said:
 In 1897 we passed what is known as the Dingley tariff act. For 10 years thereafter the country enjoyed such pros perity as has never been dreamed of. Un- der it no man able to work need be idle or carry an empty dinner pail. The world panic came upon us last fall and, unlike the period of 1891. our thrifty wage-earners generally had some savings to fall back upon. We are recovering from the panic now with unexampled rapidity.
 Two years ago l stated that when ever it should appear that sufficient good would result from revision of the tariff to overbalance the evil consequences to business by the agitation during a tariff revision, l would join in a demand for a revision. l believe that the time has now come. Our rivals in trade, Germany and France, have adopted 6 maximum and a minimum of tariff, and under our exist ing law we are unable to obtain their minimum rate without too great sacrifice to American industry We can only meet them on their own grounds with maxi mum and minimum tariff. This consid- eration alone would be sufficient to justify a revision
 Authorized by the house and by the committee on ways and means as its chairman, l have now at work a force of experts in Auburn, N Y., in Washing ton and elsewhere, who, l believe, will be able to lay before the committee all the information necessary for d revision of the tariff, except that the committee will need to take much evidence to ascertain the facts as to the cost of manufacture here and abroad in order to make Just rates, and report a bill fair to all, manu- facturer and consumer, and especially the American wage-earner Notwithstanding democratic opposition, We have convinced the American people that we are in earnest in our pledge to revise the tarift
 1t would seem almost to have convinced Mr Bryan, for he has been telling us how it ought to be done in his platform and in his speeches. He declares that articles entering into competition with trust-controlled products should be placed on the list This is in line with a bill in troduced by MT. Bryan while he was in congress in the nineties, and a member of the committee on ways and means. If he has any settled conviction, this seems to be one of them. This is for the pur- pose of destroying the trusts, and it must be admitted that this would sometimes prove effective in that direction But wherever there is a trust there are also smaller factories dependent for their ex- istence on the same tariff protection His programme would certainly destroy the latter If the trusts or the other facto- ries are wiped out, what does he pro- pose to do with the countless thousands of workmen that his free list would de- p1ive of the daily means of support? Can this be the man who proelaims himself the friend of labor? No greater danger has threatened the laboring man in this country than this proposition in the dem ocratic platform, if the claims of Bryan and his followers be true.
 ..The duties on all other articles he would reduce gradually until they reached a revenue basis, a revenue basis without incidental protection. He would destroy outright one-half of the indus tries of the country, and the other half he would visit with a slow and lingering death."