New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-31

are not the only items that are causing
trouble to good Mr.. Payne. The cat
tlemen of the west are ready to do
little rough riding over the free hides
section of the bill; the steel men have
started the anvil chorus against the,
cut on their products; France is pre-
and minimum tariff; Manila has let
out yell because of our limit on her
sugar and tobacco; the states that
have an Inheritance tax object to the
federal government dipping into the
same pot; tobacco growers are making
smoke over the treatment of their
product; southern cotton planters are
letting out shrill whoop about the
cutting of cheaper grades of cotton
goods, while Champ Clark feels it his
.bounden and pleasant duty to rip up
the bill generally to the extent permit
ted by somewhat versatile, voluble,
vigorous and vitriolic vocabulary
The hardest shedding the Payne bill
will have is in the senate, where Aid
rich, Hale, Lodge and other high
priests Of the stand patters are throw
ing ashes on the track. The things
the senate will do to the measure will
be painful and plenty. The president
is now calling Aldrich into consulta-
ton to get him to temper the blow, but
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knows that crib is not the White
House. What the bill will look like
when it returns from the senate butch
ers not even the widest imagination
can picture but the general opinion is
that it will suffer change greater
even than did its renowned father
when he lost his whiskers.
What Was Done to the Wilson Bill.
William L. Wilson once got up fine
tariff bill in the house, but by the time
Arthur Pue German and some Of his
senatorial friends had finished with it
the only thing that poor Wilson recog-
nized about his bill was it's name. Ev-
erything else except the enacting
clause had had things done to it. Pres
ident Cleveland was so fncensed at the
changes that he would not sign the
measure, but let it become law with
out his signature. 1t is to be hoped
that President Taft will find no such
bantling left upon his doorstep.
A revision Of the American tariff is
always an important thing for the en-
tire commercial world, to say nothing
Of the world Of politics. The present
revision is even more noteworthy in
! that it constitutes the first big policy
Of new administration. The prepara-
| lions for the event went forward many
months. Mr.. Payne's committee had
| innumerable meetings in Washington,
which were livened up by such famous
humorists as Andrew Carnegie, who
| said III effect that the tariff might as
well be abolished since he already had
his. Why Mark Twain was not called
| is not apparent.
The ancient, honorable and perennial
nature of the tariff is Indicated by Mr.
| Payne himself when he says:
"Our tariff system Of today, viewed
entirely apart from any political as
pect it may have and solely as we'll
established economic policy Of the gov
| eminent, is the outgrowth of over
| hundred years Of experience. The tar
! if question was agitated in the United
| States long before the adoption Of the
| federal constitution"
The word tariff Is supposed to
have been derived from the name of
| the town Tarifa, Spain, where vessels
passing were compelled to pay tribute.
Punsters have said that it comes
| from terrific, but the tariff costs too
| much money to be treated with levity.
| However innocent the word was in it's
Infancy, it has grown hardened in sin.
| 1t has also been hardened by the pro-
family hurled at it by travellers and
| importers. The tariff has been sworn
at in all languages and from the most
remote ages. AS custom houses are sit
| uated on the frontier, the nations
| blessed with a tariff-and cursed for it
| have been literally ringed with blue.
What the Tariff Is Good For.
| Port duties have not only caused
picturesque and diffuse blasphemy, but
have swelled the ranks Of the Ananias
club. What traveller ever failed to lie
about the contents Of his baggage to
the inQuiSitive custom house officials,
and what traveller who did lie ever
failed to get caught at it, when the
custom house officials tumbled his be-
longings all over the premises? There
is only one good thing about the sys-
| tenn, and that is having ones bags
! plastered all over with aristocratic
looking foreign labels. When man
can sport stickers Of all kinds and
sizes on his suit case it let's the world
know that he has been somewhere
The tariff we have with us always
| The first political speech l ever heard
was on the tariff The last listened
| to a few months ago had the tariff as
! its chief theme Presidents have come
and have gone new issues have arisen