The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-29
HOLDS FOR
LOWER TARIFF
Perkins Says What Revision
is Made
WILL BE DOWNWARD
putty on Lumber Peculiarly Defense
iess"--Few Rich Interests Have Prac-
tically Ail-New York Congress
man Speaks in the House.

Washington, Jan. 2o.--Hope for tariff
refoFmers who want the tariff lowered
was given in speech in the House yes
terday by AIR. Perkins of New York,
though Mr.. Perkins may have been
buoyed BY hope himself, as he is an
original downward rcvisionist, and in.
sistent in his declarations that the Re
publican party pledges must be kept
The remarks Of Mr.. Perkins may also
have been diplomatic notice TO the
majority Of the ways and means com
mittee that there were men on their side
of the House who would stand for only
one kind Of tariff bill, that being one
that lowered the tariff.
Everything comes 10 him who waits,
and tariff revision Is at last undertake
en-" said Mr.. Perkins. at is not only
undertaken, but il is undertaken, l
think, with an understanding that the
new tariff bill will not be an evasion
of party pledges, but wise, to readiust
our revenue laws, TO change commercial
conditions. 1t has sometimes been sug-
gested that tariff revision might mean
a revision up. II any one ever enter
tanned such hope or such a purpose,
1t has now been dispelled, and 50 far
az there is a revision, it will be reyi-
sion downward.
mo country on the earth can compare
with US as manufacturing nation. We
have great natural resources and great
inventive talent and unequalled manual
labor. BY natural process VIC have
become the greatest of manufacturing
nations. We have S0,000.O00 Of people,
and we have potentional facilities of pro-
duction that would furnish the articles
of use and desire TO S00000000 of PEG.
pie. We cannot continue great COM
mercial nation unless we can sell in
foreign markets as we'll az home mar
kets, and TO increase our present hold
on the worlds markets, to obtain
hold upon new markets, we must com
pete with the rest Of the world
'sThe cost Of manufactured articles.
roughly speaking, depends upon two
things--the cost Of the material which
goes into It, and the cost Of the labor
bestowed upon the material in order TO
turn it into the manufactured product.
Our prosperity rests on SAL pssid labor,
vel -r5ss IL no doubt that the great Ell.
cheney OF the intelligent American labor
err. When compared with that Of other
countries, makes the relative cost Of pro-
duction to American employers, when
compared with forsign production, less
than is sometimes supposed.
The lead. the coal and the iron that
are taken from our mines are consumed.
and by so much the resources Of the
country are forever diminished. It Isl
surely the part of wisdom to allow other
countries, 40 far as they are willing,
to furnish from their own natural re-
sources the materials which we use for
our industrial achievements Every ton
Of iron and lead which Is left in our
own mines win be as safe as if it was
in ahaTlk
'sThe duty on lumber seems 10 be Pc.
euliarly defenseless. OF hardly any 9TH
er material can it be said that the
increased cost falls on so MANY and
teh benefit il reaped by 50 few. The
greater part Of the timber land III the
United States belongs only TO a few
rich men or to a few rich corpora.
tions.'