The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-09-23
which decreases applied and to less than
$500. goo, 600 OF articles of necessity to which
the increases applied.

which decreases applied and to less thar
$500, GOO. 900 of articles of necessity to which
the increases applied.
Tho Party Platform.
Now the promise of the republican plat,
form was not to revise everything down.
ward. n in the speeches, which have
been taken SIS interpreting that platform
which / made in the campaign, I did not
ward. What I promised was that there
should be many decreases Inc that IL
some few things increases would be fount
conceived that the change of condition.
would make the revision necessarily down.
ward wa and l contend, under the showing
suit of the Payne bill.
There are other subjects which I might
take up. The tariff on hides was takel
necessary to the man who raised cattle
and that the profits in the cattle businesi
were sufficient without imposing a duty
control of the sale of hides into the handi
OF the meat packers In Chicago. In ordei
to balance the reduction on hides. there
was a great reduction in shoes, from Is I'd
10 per cent; on sole leather, from 20 I'd
3 per cent; on harness, from 40 to 15 PEI
cent. So also there was a reduction in the
~tervailing duties were removed from oil,
naphtha. gasoline and it's refined products,
Lumber was reduced from 81 to $1.25, and
these are all articles OF prime necessity.
Wool Schedule Bad One.
With respect to the wool schedule,
agree that it is too high, and that 1t ought
to have been reduced, and that it probably
represents considerable more than the diff
abroad and the cost of production here.
The difficulty with the wooden schedule is
that there were two c~ontending factions
to wit, wool growers al and the WOODEN aa man.
ufacturers, and that finally many years
ago they settled on a basis by which wool
and by which allowance should be made
In the shrinkage in the differential upon
woo! manufactures.
When it came to the question Of reduc.
bill on wool, Mr.. Payne in the House and
Mr.. Aldrich in the Senate found that In
wool growers Of the far west and the in
terests OF the wooAan manufacturers in
the east and in other states, reflected
through their representatives in congress.
We're sufficiently strong to defeat any at
tempt to change the wooden tariff, and
that had it been attempted it would have
Pc beaten the bll reported from the commit.
it had been otherwise. 1t is the one inn
potrtant 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.
That it will increase the price Of wooden
cloth or clothes very much doubt.
On the whole I 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
ifs and n revision and it ought
to be accepted at such.
Boost for Tawney.
Mr.. Tawney was a downward revision
list lik myself. He is a low tariff man
and hQC hann known q q C11nha IN .r011prnSQ
all the time he has been there. He is a
prominent republican, the head of the APP
preparations committee and when a man
votes as I 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 1t but in support of 1T.
Now, l am not here to criticise those re-
publican member and senator's whose
views on the tariff were so strong and
intense that they believed it their duty to
vote against their party on the tariff bill.
himself. The question is whether he shall
help maintain the party solidarity for &C
complishing its chief purpose or whether
the departure from principle in the bill
as he regards it is SO extreme that he
must in conscience abandon the party. All
/ have to say in respect to Mr.. Tawney's
and in respect to my own signing
the bin is that I believed that the inter
est of the country, the interest OF the
party. required me to sacrifice the ac-
co~mplishment of certain things in revision
of the tariff which I 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 sched-
ules of the tariff.