Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-24
Senator Bailey UphoIds
Stand of Those Fa-
voring Tariff.
REASONS ON new LINE
Senator Beveridge Talks in
Favor of Larger Tobacco
Packages.

Washington, June 24-In a long
speech in the senate today. Senator
Bailey, of Texas, made reply to those
who have been criticising him for his
position in favor of a duty on hides,
lumber and iron ore and other ar
ticles of raw material in connection
with the pending tariff bill. His ex-
preston on the subject of hides is a
fair example of what he said with
reference to the other articles in
volved
If" he said. Il were invested
with power to repeal any duty, L
would not repeal the duty on hides
until l could also repeal the duty
on shoes and leather goods. 1 would
not repeal either until l could repeal
both, and | would either have free
trade in everything made out of
hides, or else l would lay revenue
tariff on the hides"
Cannot Comprehend.
He could not, he said, comprehend
how a democrat could think that he
was relieving the consumer from the
exactions and expressions of the
manufacturers by voting to take the
duty off of what the manufacturers
buy from the people and still leav-
ing duty on what the people buy
from the manufacturers. That kind
of a man." he continued, may be a
free trader, but he is a free trader
in spots; and the misery of it all is
that he selects the factories of this
country as the spots where he ap-
plies his free trade doctrine,
81 have sometimes doubted the SIN
cerity of the men who denounce the
greed of American manufacturers
and then crafty that greed by ex-
empting the same manufacturers from
the taxes which everybody else is
required to pay. If they really be-
lieve that one class is robbing all
other classes they ought to punish
the robbers and not the victims"
Not So Well Informed.
Mr.. Bailey was willing to concede
that the democrats who advocate free
hides, desired as earnestly as he did
to reduce the price of shoes and of
leather goods generally, but not to
concede that they knew as well as
he did how to accomplish this result.
They SEEM" he said, Ito think that
the proper method is to first reduce
the manufacturers cost of produc-
tion and then reduce the duty on the
finished product. That will un-
doubtedly reduce the price of the
finished product to the ultimate con-
sumer, but there is another and a
much juster way to accomplish the
same end" Outlining this plan, he
insisted that the producer of the
raw material and the manufacturer
of the finished product should be
compelled to share in the reduction
on behalf of the whole people.
With reference to lumber, Mr..
Bailey contended that the forests
would not be preserved by placing
lumber on the free list, his argument
being that the timber lands of the
United States and of Canada must
supply the demands of both countries
and that therefore it would make no
difference from which country the
timber must be cut.
Not for Free Raw Material.
Mr.. Bailey's speech was in the
main devoted to an effort to show
that free raw material was not a car
dinal democratic doctrine and that
he had never advocated such doc
trine. He was willing to admit that
during the time when Mr. Cleve-
land and his friends dominated our
party, they did commit it to the su-
preme folly of giving our manufac-
turers free trade in what they buy
while leaving them protection on
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