Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-09-27
QUESTIONS FOR TAFT
SEATTLE TINES FIRES Off A few
HETEROGENEOUS.
Pre- Sident vii! Be Presented with an
Opportunity to Explain His Atti-
fude OH the New Tariff. Promises
OF Republican Platform C0ntraSted
with Performance.

In case President TAFT should find
time hanging too heavily upon his
hands during his whirlWind tour of
the country, we have beeA requested
by President Edward Moir, of the
Carded Wooden Manufacturers AS
sociation, with headquarters in Bos-
ton, to ask him some questions as to
why he did not do some of the things
which he probably could not do in
connection with the revision of the
wool schedules.
President Taft has already stated
bluntly that he found the woollen
manufacturers and other wool inter-
ests to be so powerful that if the
tariff was not fixed TO suit them the
passage OF the whole bill would have
been seriously endangered. However,
inasmuch as President Moir is far
back in Boston and President Taft
is headed in our direction, we will
do the Boston man a favor and head
President Taft off with the list of
questions:
The promises made by the platform
of the Republican party to which re-
ference is made in the questions in
clude the following:
THE Republican party declares
unequivocally for a revision of the
! tariff by a special session of con-
gress Immediately following the in
auguration of the next president.
In all tariff legislati the
true principle of protection is best
maintained by the imposition of such
duties as will equal the difference
I between the cost of production at
home and abroad, together with
reasonable profit to American indus
tries the aim and purpose
of the Republican policy being not
only to preserve without excessive
duties that security against foreign
competition to which American
manufacturers, formers and prOduc-
ers are entitled, but also to maintain
the high standard of living of the
wage earners of the country, who are
the most direct beneficaries of the
protective system"
Bearing in mind the promise of
the platform and the fight which
President Taft made to obtain the
passage of a tariff bill which could
be distinguished from the Dingley
Bill by person of average intelli-
gence, so that he could truthfully say
that the tariff had been "revised," the
questions are rather interesting and
perhaps President Taft might forgo
game of golf with Josiah Collins
and answer one or two of them while
! in our midst. Following are the
questions propounded by Mr.. Moir:
| % At Cincinnati on September
90, you stated in public address
"If | am elected President | pro-
mise the nation that | will use every
| uDCI VI my bCihS w va D''N 'O'''N
| ly and decently the tariff revision
promises of the Republic platform"
Why did you fail to make any pub
| lie effort whatsoever this year to
correct the wool and wool goods
schedule while the tariff was being
revised?
,,t1 Gan TOW 11,nr
last year, you stated in public
Il am here to plight the faith of
the Republican party, in accordance
with it's platform that the revision
will be honest and exact according
to the measure stated in the plat
FORM
The tariff on wool and wool goods
is practically the same in the Ding
ley and Payne bills The Payne bill
places prohibitory duties running
from 100 per cent to 700 per cent on
the raw materials required for the
low priced clothing worn by
the poor. 1t admits at duties as low
as 80 per cent the raw material re-
quired for the high priced wool
clothing worn by the rich. Why did
you not prevent this oppression OF
the consumer as you easily could?
CD The Payne bill which YOU
signed places duties as high as 2oo
per cent on the wool cloth required
for low priced clothing. Why did
you give your approval to this dis