The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-19
GETTING TARIFF DATA FOR
COMING BIG CAMPAIGNS
lnquisitiVe Politicians, Who Are Keenino lin
Strenuous Fight in the
Senate.

to know what the tariff rates are going
to be. A change here or there in the
tarrH law might wipe out the profit of
an enterprise as at present organized.
The business cry, however, does not
appeal to the opposition. "You Repub-
i1can leaders are responsible" say
these oppositionists. "You shall not
rush through legislation here on that
sort of an argument.
Then the western country, from
which the Republican insurgents come.
IS not an extensive manufacturing sec.
ton. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Min
nesota, South Dakota. That comprises
about all the insurgent Senator's In
most OF those states a big factory
would be almost as much of a curios-
lty as modern battleship. And the
comparatively few factories that those
states have are engaged in manufac.
lures that grow out of the agricul-
tural industry-the big -four mills Of
Minneapolis, for instance. And these
big imperial states in the heart of the
country are protected from foreign COM
petition in their products by the great
distances from the .seaboard, which
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coming products. Cotton goods, wool
en- goods, boots and shoes and scores
of manufactured articles that these i'm
perial states in the very center of
the country use in quantities are made
IN the great manufacturing states to
the east.
Even the insurgents from Nebraska,
Kansas, South Dakota, and Minnesota
can be as nimble as anybody else in
piling bricks upon the tariff wall when
it helps them and their constituents.
All at once. the other day, Senators
Bristow, La Toilette, Nelson, Burkett
and others of the ultra Western
progressive group" wheeled out of
the Democratic column and caught step
with Aldrich, Hale, Lodge, Root, Pen
rose and other high tariff men, 1t was
sight that viii long be remembered.
Barley was the cause. The Senate
Finance Committee had recommended
duty of 80 cents a bushel on barley,
where the House had voted "a cents.
The barley raising states said "A cents
was not enough although the House at
the very eleventh hour, had raised the
rate. Iowa does not produce barley
and therefore the eloquent Dolliver and
the aggressive Cummins voted against
the increase. Nearly all the other in.
surgent Republicans came tumbling in
to the regular Republican ranks and
helped pile up the duty on barley.
Senator Bristow has received a thou
sand letters of commentator since he
started his fight in the Senate for in
formation. That is enough to turn the
head of new senator. New men
have a hard row to hoe in the Senate
as a rule At first the Senate paid
little attention to the inquiring Bris-
tow The hero of the Postoffiee De-
partment investigation knows how to
hang on with grim determination. He
pursues to the bitter end. He sat up
nights to study the white lead SEIZED
ules and then made speech. He read
testimony to the Senate, he asked ques-
tions about figures and then the Sem
ate voted against him. Undaunted he
began sitting up nights to study the
sugar schedules. He trained his in
ouiries upon the famous 'No. 16 Dutch
Standard of COLOR
"Why, d ill., exclaimed Senator
Root. who sits next to the Kansan and
who rarely uses any profane word, yon
will drive the sugar refneries out of
business.
elbow would this drive them out of
business9' inquired the imperturbable
Brstow.
He opened his mahogany desk, drew
out more material and prepared to
fire away. He fought valiantly and
the Senate voted him down again. But
he still says he is ready for more. He
wants to know why. His Kansas con-
stituents, factoryless, engaged in agri-
culture. interested in getting as much
as the market will afford for corn and
wheat, want their cotton goods and
wooden goods and boots and shoes and
implements of iron and steel just as
cheaply as they can get them. lt
makes little difference to them whether
products of steel and iron which they