The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
GRIGGS CORAERED EN-
Gave Baq Makers Representa-
tlyes Big Case Of Disgust.
N THE TARIFF INVESTIGATION

Made the Manufacturers of Cotton
Raging Admit That the Farmers
We're Paying Them Toll Under
the Present Republican Tariff
Laws. Were Evasive of Griggs'
Questions.
The following special dispatch to
tho Savannah Morning News of Fri
dov from Zach McGhee, its we'll
known Washington correspondent,
will be read with much interest by
tho farmers and others of this sec
ton:
When the democrats on the ways
and means committee undertook to
oot information from the bag makers
that would show that the farmer,
tho man who buys and uses bags for
cotton, grain, and other produce, and
NAYS for them, had a part in the tariff
m bags they struck the usual haro
nroDosition, for so far no manu-
facturer of anything who has come
before the committee making this So
rallied tariff investigation has
shown a spark of interest in the ulti-
mate consumer except to get him to
support his particular industry.
Judge Griggs and Representative
Randall of Texas conducted this part
of the investigation" much to the
disgust of Messrs. Payne and Dali
zeII. Mr.. A. V. Phillips, who rep
resented the burlap bag manufac-
tuers of the United States, was more
evasive of Judge Griggs' questioning
! than almost any other manufacturer
] who has appeared.
The BurIap Bag.
Mr. Phillips and his concerns
make bags out of burlap There is
a tariff on both burlap and the man
8 ufactured bags What he asks for
8 is reduction of the duty on raw
4 burlap so that they can get their
& material cheaper, in return for
which he is willing that there be a
B reduction on the tariff on the man
8 ufactured bags
1t was all very pretty, but when
Il the democrats opened upon him and
made him tell how that the differ
81 pptia1 rr;v, ho 60
larger profit than they are now
e getting and destroy the revenue to
the government it began to be embar-
81 RAISING. When they pressed him a
u little further and made him tell that
3 the farmer does now and would con-
81 tlnue to pay to the manufacturers
OF the bags a toll which they were
81 putting into their POCKETS, wanting
only law which would enable them
81 TO put more into their pockets at the
il expense OF the farmers, it got so hot
LOT Mr.. Phillips that Messrs. Payne
ana Dalzell protested to Judge
Urges that he was bringing up eX-
Z lraneous matters. If one would
watch these tariff hearings closely
81 'ney would be bound to conclude
Il 'hat MesSrs. Payne and Dalzell con-
Sluer everything touching the con-
sumner that is the farmer, the small
merchant, the shoemaker, and so
loIlh' OF which the great mass of
Tue people is composed as wholly ex-
'aneous to the subject of the tariff.
The Only Man to Be Considered.
from their standpoint it is only
'Ie man who makes things to sell
when is to be considered, and as
I, uie only the great magnate at that.
me- as for the manufacturer, who
ouleS up and asks for an increase
~ lle tariff, on his wares, why moth
Is more can be expected of him.
Az IS greedy, but then, as they say,
l4al Is only the human nature in
a',Lu Nor is it any matter that the
Tonle KIND of human nature is often
found in hogs.
w. phillips was telling the COM
ai''ee about the consumer of bur-
ap' The greatest consumer of bur
m "p III this country, he said, was
6,'bi, present who made roofing in
n 111H ne used burlap. And, do you
tbot Judge Griggs could not make
rooe man see that the maker of
JnNS was no consumer at all, but
It middle man, and that the real
5a 194 iner and the man who paid for
0uIiap including the tariff on