The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-07-29
Misrepresented Says Crawford
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VIC WOulu Hiu lnut a 5lCat hiohy Va
travagantly stated fears and appre.
tensions about 1t were not well found
ed. But that does not mean that !
must vote for it, with many things in
ii that / do not like, when | believe
that protesting against them now will
enable them to be improved upon
when them come up for consideration
In the conference committee. There
fore | shall vote may" simply as a
protest against many of the increases
in the bill with which | am not pleas
ed, so that it will not go to the con-
ference committee with apparently
the absolute approval of every repub-
lican member OF the senate when
many of US do not approve OF many
changes that have been made here.
Does the Senator from Rhode Island
say to me that because / propose to
exercise my judgment and my on
science in a matter Of this kind | am
not a good and loyal member OF my
party? / maintain that it Is the duty
Of every member of this body to stand
here and represent his judgment and
his convictions in regard to the bill
as 1t is here in any form for consid-
Grafton"
We reprint In full below Mr.. Craw-
ford's letter written to a friend in this
state which fully explains his position
on the tariff:
my Dear Sir
"Your favor at hand and contents
noted. | do not know just what your
friend from Iowa means in his state
ment quoted by you hat Crawford
has been wabbling about some /
assure you that there has been no
'wabbling' IN my part from the course
| determined upon when | came to
Washington. The situation is rather
n peculiar one. The s~tand-patters,
represented by the leadership of Can
non in the house and Aldrich and the
committee on finance in the senate,
were apparently determined from the
beginning that the revision of the tar
LII schedules by the present extraor-
binary session of congress. should be
n revision downward, and have firm
ly maintained this attitude throughout. |
What reductions have been made, have
been reluctantly conceded by the con-
trolling forces and grudgingly given.
On the other hand. for some reason
wholly unaccountable to me, the metro
politan papers, the press generally, and
the special newspaper correspondents
here in Washington have gone to the
very extreme in the opposite direction.
In fact. II the majority in congress had
gone to the limit advocated by these
newspapers, the tariff, SO far as it's
containing any protective element in
duties is concerned, would have
been practically abandoned.
"The, republican platform of South
Dakota, on which | was elected, de-
clared for the removal of the tariff
from lumber. iron. wood pulp and pulp
wood and further provided that where
the manufacture of an article was con-
trolled by a trust and competition de-
that the tariff upon such ar
tlcle should be SO reduced as to per-
NIT competition through the import
ing of such article. | stood squarely
upon this platform and did not waiv-
Notwithstanding. | have realized that
am a republican and not n democrat,
, protectionist and not a free-trader or
riff-for-revenue a | not only
spoke in favor of, but | voted to re-
move the tariff from lumber, iron,
coal, petroleum, crude and refined and
products thereof, wood pulp and
pulp wood. / voted for all the re-
proposed in the iron and steel
in the glass schedule, and
substantially all of the pro-
posed increases in the cotton schedule. !
When 1t came to the wooden schedule
the house bill nor the senate
ill as reported, proposed to increase
he duties above the present law, but !
were offered In the SEN |
tie to reduce the present duty and / !
declined to give my support to the {
assault made by the insur- !
rents upon that shedule and under 1
he same circumstances I would GER I
ainly do so again. y
South Dakota has had an expert '
nee In connection with the reduction Y
nd removal of tarif on wool, which
do not believe the people Of the
tate have forgotten. The Mckinley 9
aw Of 1890 put a protective duty upon I
roOl and wooden textiles. After the .
assage Of the law. thousands of farm |
n and stockraisers In South Dakota b