The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-09-23

which decreases applied and to less than
$500, 100000 OF articles OF necessity TO which
the increases applied.
The Party Platform.
Now the promise of the republican plat.
f Tara w ara mot ct e tbs revise ynsse sysryt Mhieb "
been taken as Interpreting that platform
which I made In the campaign, I did not
promise that everything should &c down
should be many decreases and that In
some few things increases would be found
to. be necessary, but that on the whole !
would make the revision necessarily down
ward, and / contend, under the showing
which / have made, this has been the re-
suit OF the Payne bill.
take up. The tariff on hides was taken
off because 1t was thought II was not
necessary to the man who raised cattle
s wsre te safs s1e prO Without " tf lme costre G 4 dTty'
and that a duty was likely TO throw the
control OF the sale Of hides into the hands
OF the meat packers In Chicago. In order
to balance the reduction on hides, there
was a great reduction I'm shoes, from % to
10 per cent; ON sole leather, from 20 to
5 per cent; on harness, from 40 to Is per
duty on coal OF 50 Is per cent. All coun-
teryailing duties were removed from oil.
naphtha, gasoline and its refined products.
Lumber was reduced from - to S1.25, and
NAAoot ~ ~ III NtNlo5 VI III "a AANNS1otNSs
Wool Schedule Bad One.
With respect to the wool schedule. I
agree that II Is too high, n that II ought
to rave been reduced, and that IL probably
represents considerable more than the DIFF
Terence between the cost Of the production
The difficulty with the wooden schedule is
that there were two contendlng factions
early In the history of republican tariffs,
to wit, wool growers and the wooden a
ufacturers, and that finally many years
ago they settled on a basis by which wool
In the grease should have II cents a pound
and by which allowance should be made
in the s~hrinkage in the differential upon
wool manufactures. ~
When 1t came to the question OF reduc..
ms the duty at the hearing on the tariff
Mr.. Aldrich In the Senate found that In
the republican party the interests OF the
wool growers OF the far west and the IN
terests Of the WOODEN manufacturers in
the east and In other states, reflected
through their representatives in congress,
were sufficiently strong to defeat at
tempt to change the wooden tariff, n
that had It been attempted 1t would have
beaten the bill reported from the commit
tee. i am sorry this Is so, and / wish that
IL a been otherwise. 1t is the one inn
portant defect In the present Payne tariff
bill, and In the performance OF the prom
Use of the platform to reduce rates to a
difference In the cost of productions with
reasonable profit to the manufacturer.
cloth or clothes l very much doubt.
On the whole / am compelled to say
that I think the Payne tariff bill is the
best tariff bill that the republican party
ever passed; that in It the party has con-
coded the necessity for following the
changed conditions and has made tariff
rates accordingly. This is a substantial
achievement i'm the direction Of lower tar
ifs and downward revision and 1t ought
to be accepted at such.
Boost for Tawney.
Mr.. Tawney was a downward revision
list like myself. He Is a low tariff man
and has been known as such In congress
all the time he has been there. He Is a
prominent republican, the head of the APP
preparations committee and when a mar
votes as / think he ought to vote and an
opportunity such as this presents itself, I
am glad to speak Of what he did, not In
defense Of II but in support OF Il.
Now, / am not here to c~riticise those re-
publican members and senator's whose
views on the tariff were so strong and
intense that they believed 1t their duty to
vote against their party On the tariff bill.
II Is a question for each man to settle for
himself. The question Is whether he shall
help maintain the party solidarity for ac-
complaining its chief purpose or whether
the departure from principle in the bill
as he regards II Is SC extreme that he
must in conscience abandon the party. All
/ have to say In respect to Mr.. Tawney's
action and In respect to my own signing
the bin Is hat I believed that the inter-
est of the country, the interest OF the
party, required me to sacrifice the ac-
compiishment of certain things in revision
of the tariff which / had hoped for in or
der to maintain party solidarity, which I
believed to be much more important than
the reduction OF rates in one or two SEIZED.
ules of the tariff.