The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
Texan Speak, At Dallas on
 Subject of Tariff
BRYAN'S VIEWS CRITICISED
Bailey Takes Issue With Bryan on Pol icy of Free Raw Materials and Says the Consumer Should
 Reap Benefit.

Dallas. Tex, September 1s.-Before a large and enthusiastic audience United States Senator J. W. Bailey tonight re- piled to an address oe1ivered in this city last Tuesday by William J. Bryan on Democracy and the Tariff" MT. Bryan declared for free raw material and reduced rates on manufactured goods and severely arraigned the Tex as democratic platform of 1S96, which denounced this doctrine. Senator Bai- ley contended tonight for low reven le duties on both raw material and manu- factured articles.
 In his speech Senator Bailey as- cribed the authorship of the Texas dem- ocratic platform of 1896, which was at tackled by MT Bryan, to former United States Senator John H. Reagan, and de- tended the declaration which arraigned the Wilson bill for admitting raw mate rials free of duty while manufactured articles were protected by heavy duties. He declared that the Texas platform was In harmony with the tariff plank of the national democratic platform of 1896, when MT. Bryan was a candidate.
 Taking up the four reasons advanced by Mr. Bryan in favor of free raw ma terial Senator Bailey made reply to each in detail To the first objection of MT. Bryan, that duty on raw material would be an embarrassment to the manufacturers in export trade, Mr. Bai- ley said.
 "Of course a duty or f 1, s- terial is an 'embarrassmeut rio l. ufacturer just as any tsS sa s4p r. rassment in the same ase ta 4a an who pays 1t. Of course eusn fEa ln- ufacturer pays a tax O h. raw te- rial his cost of produc H f5cf sed just that much. but VI Hsp ern- ment lays tax on u e9aa. rer's finished products, the piig is increased just that m fi neri- can consumers, and r8 | CT to relieve the 'embari t oi me American consumer ala fAan to relieve the 'embar na1g f the American manufact ahroag
 And my answer f tnr 1ho de- mand free raw mate ia af af that our manufacturers may condn-.s i1 he mar kets of the world is that I am willing to take the tax off the raw material when- ever they are willing to take the tax off the finished product. I believe that American consumers are as much entitled to the benefit of competition in our mar kets as manufacturers are entitled to compete in foreign markets. If we are to have free trade in raw material for the benefit of the American manufacturer abroad let us have also free trade In their finished products for the benefit of the American consumers at home.
 MT. Bryan's second argument against duty on raw material is that 1t is at least a duty on the consumer.
 This is strange language to come from a man who has been three times presi- dential candidate of the democratic party To contend that democrat must levy a compensatory duty is to convict the dem ocratic party of adopting the worst of protection devices Where did MT. Bryan revenue tariff Is obligated to give the manufacturer a compensatory duty?
 "A compensatory duty has no place in the vocabulary of democrat, who be- lieves that-all taxes should be levied for the purpose of raising money to support the government, because 1t Is employed for the purpose of allowing the manu- facturer to compensate himself out of the pockets of the people for the taxes which he has paid toward the govern ment's support The manufacturer as well as every other man will do that whenever he can and often enough with out a special law enabling him to do it.
 "The democratic party has always con- tended that the price of the finished prod uct is not regulated by the price of the raw material or by the final cost of pro- duction. We have always insisted that the manufacturer looks to immunity from foreign competition. which the duty on the finished product furnishes him and not to the cost of production, when he comes to fix the cost of his commodities. have always believed and I believe now. that the democratic party has been and is right In that connection. I be- lieve that the manufacturer will exact from the American people the highest price he can without exposing himself to foreign competition and l do not believe that reducing the cost of production to the manufacturer will reduce the price of the goods to the consumer.
 MT. Bryans third reason for support ing the doctrine of free raw materials is that the tax is lghtest when im- posed upon products at the most advanced stage.
 Senator Bailey discussed the binding force of platforms and declared himself a strict party man. but declared his Texas constituents had declared against free raw materials and he had always publicly opposed it, hence he obeyed his and his own conscience and disregarded this plank of the national platform.
 Charter Is Restored.
 Washington, September 1S.-The 70 &e