The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-25
TALKS ON
PA Y n E
BILL
Crumpacker of Indiana
Commends Tariff
Measure

Washington, March 25.-Declaring
tbat the chief commendatory feature
OF the Payne tariff bill Is the placing
OF certain crude, raw materials used
Ia manufacture, on the free list. Rep
rcsentatiye Crumpacker of Indiana,
the most pronounced downward rows
ionist among the Republican members
of the ways and means committee, in
n speech in the house today. discuss
ed at great length the protection ideas.
and some of the most important sched-
ules In the new bill. He said that
tariff bills are peculiarly the result or
compromises. and said that ne had
no doubt that the Payne bill Is a great
Improvement over the Dlngley act
THE objects OF protection" said
Mr. Crumpacker, us TO stimulate do
mestic industries along natural lines,
where the resources of the country
are capable of supplying the entire
domestic demand. thereby creating
home competition and securing TO the
people the comforts and accessories
of life at stable and reasonable prices.
Protective duties should not be un-
necessarily high. 1t Is often charged
that a protective tariff creates trusts.
Trusts are combinations growing out
Of the passion of avarice and they are
created to stifle competition and IN
crease profits. All combinations are
not trusts. Trusts exist In free trade
countries as We'll as In countries that
maintain protective tariffs, The chet
difference Is, that in free trade coun-
try. there is no tariff behind which
combination can find shelter in In
creasing prices unjustly. and imposing
upon the people. while In a projection
country, IL the tariff Is higher than is
necessary TO cover the difference in
tho cost OF production, ombinations
may degenerate into trusts and raise
prices clear to the top OF the protec-
tion wall with entire safety.
"The theory of the free raw mater
ial doctrine Is that 1t promotes the
greatest development or industries,
and gives the greatest opportunities
for the employment OF capital and la
bor Duties upon raw materials are
a handicap upon the American manu-
facturer for the export trade. They
operate to protect his competitor IN
the neutral markets by seriously IN"
creasing his cost OF production There
is no great producing country in tho
world, except the United States. that
does not give its manufacturers the
benefit Of free raw materials"
Mr.. Crumpacker made q lengthy ar
Rument in favor of free hides, assert
ing that the duty on hides has In
creased the cost OF shoes for the wage
Garner but has not created any de-
mand for additional capital, nor cro-
ated employment for single addl-
tional laborer. He said the average
farmer will derive more di-
rect benefit In the decreased
cost OF boots, shoes. harness
and other leather products than he
now derives from the tariff on cattle
hides
He proposed. as means of ex-
Ianding our trade with South America.
that raw materials from that conti-
pcnt be admitted free TO be made in-
TO finished products In the United
States and sold back to the South AM
orican countries. He said that the
drawback provision OF the Payne bill
viii tend largely TO increase export
trade
Attacking the 'tarlff Tor revenue
only" policy of the Democratic party,
Mr. Crumpackcr declared that this was
sham and a fraud. He discussed
the maximum and minimum provls-
ions Of the Payne bill and declared IL
TO be n wise provision.
II predict for this BILL said MIR
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acted into law. the sincere approval
OF all the people OF the country who
arc interested only in promoting the
I general welfare. Following its en-
actmcnt. confidently look FOR such
I revival of Industrial activity as VII,