Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-31
WISCONSIN INTERESTS
PROVIDE SHINING EXAMPLE
Varied Local Industries Demand Pro-
lection and Plead Ruination of Busi-
ness Would Yellowstone Congress.
men Willing to Let Small Concerns
Go Broke for General Good.
Especial Correspondence

passing the tariff bill, an excellent IL
Neutrality-suspicious. the best possible
may be found in little study of the
attitude of mind of the Wisconsin del
egation in senate and house.
Wisconsin is state full Of interests
which ordinary are deeply concerned
about tariff schedules, If this revision
were being made under the ordinary
rules, Wisconsin could be depended
upon to engage in any log-rolling pro-
gram to keep duties as high as possI-
BILE. And yet Wisconsin is infected with
profound disaffection over the Payne
bill. It wants more revision imam
the bill offers. It declines to, be lined
up for any program of you scratch my
back and I'll scratch yours" Its del
egation is for revision, real downward
revision, even as to things in which
Wisconsin is interested. In that state
of affairs, and because Wisconsin is
typical of the general middle western
attitude of mind, it Is utterly impossl-
bile to make combinations for the
maintenance of q long series OF du-
ties.
Wisconsin, for example, is the great
est paper state in the union. One Wis
consin member. Mr.. Morse, republican
aid insurgent, has $70.000,0O0 of capt.
tai invested in the paper manufacture
in his own congressional district. he
probably represents more paper cap
ital than any other one man IN US
lower house. The paper makers nave
come from Wisconsin, and made thelr
most earnest appeal to the statfs DEL
egation for retention Of the present
tariff. Yet the delegation is unmoved'
and it is very doubtful it single
member OF the badger delegation, IN
either house, will vote for cent OF az
ditional protection above that recon-
mended by the Payne bill. The Payne
bill reduces the duty on print paper
from Sc to 81 per ton. SO far as Wis
consin is concerned, 1t will not ne
raised above that figure.
Under the rules of the game as
played heretofore, Wisconsin's delega-
ton ought to be rending its garments
in prodigious worriment over the I'M
pending ruination of its paper INDUS
try. Instead it is calmly advising re-
dnction which the manufacturers de-
clare ruinous.
. But that is. only one instance. Wis
consin is a great lumber state, with
immense forests and factories, and
with investments in every importah'
humber region on the continent-in the
south, the far northwest, Canada. WIS
consin's congressional delegation III
former tariff revision sessions, mas 1alr-
ly torn around looking for means 10
save or to secure the largest possible
measure of protection. This year 1t Is
ra dically different The Wisconsin DEL
egation is doing nothing of the sort
and there are probably more members
of it who want free lumber, or DIG
reduction in the tariff, than there are
who would support an effort to retain
the present schedules.
There is big zinc and lead IN
dustry in Wisconsin, but the delega-
ton is entirely satisfied with what mas
been done for it, and in no wise dis
posed to make trouble or to enter
combinations to improve the situa-
ton. The state has huge tanning III
dustry. for which it wants free hfdes'
and almost every man from the state
would be- glad to help in that direc-
ton. The tobacco interest In southern
Wisconsin is of the greatest import
ance: so is the dairy interest tnruout
the state; while Wisconsin produces
more high-class barley than any OH
or state in the union, makes more malt
than almost any other, and IS up al
the top in brewing. All these interests
are deeply concerned about phases OF
the tariff legislation, and the Wiscon-
Gin delegation might, and in other
Years would be taxing around lock-
ing for trades in the effort to get as
many schedules as possible raised.
Rut it is doing nothing of the sort.
II is rather a tariff revision-a down
ward ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and II VIII
turn I'D in the end decidedly on the
side of the radical revision1sts. II is
a. complete reversal of form as COM
uared to other tariff years.
Take again Minnesota. Senator Mel
son is for free lumber; Senator Clapp
will probably go with him. nelson Is Is
not passively for free lumber nov
merely acquiescent. He is gettlng 10
gether vast fund OF dnformatloli "ieh
which to make a fight.
Turn to Nebraska. That is a cattle
and a beet sugar state. Time has 'peen
when a quarter section of sugar beets
was presumed to he ample to deliver
states delegation on the whole tar
tiff proposition, and to ally it with the
high schedule forces all along the line
But this year Nebraska is demanding
free humber and lower iron and steel
and not worrying itself about meet
sugar.
And so on. The hide raising states
refuse to excite themselves gravely
over the possibility of free hldes.
some members will vote for tree
hides. others viii insist on some duty
|heing retained. But 1t is not furl-
damentaa of faith with anybody.
These are the reasons why efforts
at combination to hold up long rows
of schedules are meeting difficulty. III
Lis why the house leaders fear to bring
an. their rule for the bills conslderst-
ton. They are afraid it would De voted
down. The sentiment Tor real revision
is stronger than anybody expected.
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