The Detroit times., 1909-07-19
III ATS FIGHT FOR
LOWER DUTIES IS
TOO LATE
Even II He Gets Oil, Ore, Coal and
Hides On Free List, Really I'm
portant Schedules Cannot
Be Changed.
You Can't Revise Tariff Downward
Now" Said Senator Aldrich,
Defantly.
BY gibson GARDNER.

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. July l3.-lt
j. not necessary TO wait any longer
~ tell whether the final enactluect
Df congress VIII be revision OF the
Lariff upward II Will.
There is not remote possibility
Ihat President Taft Will veIo the Al
lrch- Payne tariff act His interyen-
ION in De1alt or revision downward
anne too late. Senator Aldrich s.
|nIormed the president "a hours after
art announced that revision should
Lc downward
III you don { believe IL, make poll
If the senate, said Aldrich. a ne
enators who have voted for the
schedules NJ the sennte dill VIII not
pprove the conference report emDofy
lAg tree OIL coal, hides and iron ore.
The same sSntiment is voiced by me
COnferees.
III Is uD 10 President Taft to sign
Dr veto the bill. substantially as con;
ress has already framed it, said AZ
Csich. Members of the house think
bJme concessions may be made on the
cur items named by TAFT, but the!
{, III not admit for a moment that tie
sJur can go to the free list.
Senators La Toilette and Beverage
{say the president is too late, even II
| lie gets oil. ore. coal and hides Oh the
tree lisL The truth is the really i'm
portant schedules are not open u
.hange in conference.
The wool schedule was agreed 20 by
both house and senate. The same IL
rue OF the sugar schedule There
was a time when a live Intervention
' oy Taft would have compelled -
:enate 10 Weld on these schedules. II
Il president had expressed himself
In favor Of revision downward when
Dolliver was fighting the WOODEN h.
| dule. when Bristow was hghting tie
sugar schedule when La Toilette was
! fighting the cotton and wool schel-
ulss, the result would have been CHEAP
or articles OF food and clothing. Many
|senators stated that they would nave
followed the president as against Al
erich; that opportunity passed while
IIaft was playing golf.
Revision To Be Upward.
prominent progressive Republican
Iscnator said: 1T is absolutely too la
|now for President Taft To revision
downward Even II he should get all
| -four articles on the free list. the total
| Z esult OF congress work will be revis.
| ION upward"
Champ Clark, leader OF the minor
|ity, said: The articles selected by
the president for the free list are all
ARTICLES which will benefit the trust
by being placed on the free list.
The steel trust VIII not quarrel
g riously with free ore; the oil trust
|will not fuss much over free crude;
so long as they can have protection on
their manufactured products: the shoe
making trust will not quarrel with
Tree hides, nor will the mills of New
England object seriously To free coal.
10. this is not the kind OF revision
downward likely To make the rest OF
living cheaper for the average citizen"
The essentials of the tariff law have
,lready been determined. This In
ludes rates, as well as the so-called
administrative features" of the law.
What remains are the purely formal
loings.
That which is happening now is n
title drama, entitled:
Horrible Fight for Revision Down
ward Forty Rampant Fire-Eating
House Insurgents Take the War Path
III Behalf of Their Constituents, the
the Pertinacious Venimosity of Their
Natures. That the Horrible Iniquity
Of the Awful Aldrich Bill Shall 5e
.5ashed and Cut Until the Necessities
of Everyday Existence are Reduced
Within the Reach OF the Lowest, Grow.
cling, Humblest Toiler"
It's All Stage Play.
Watch this melodrama. It's going
30 be hot stun. and when it's all over
the Jimtawnies of congress will De
standing on the street corners yelling
themselves black in the face in an ct
fort to convince the public that tina
total consequence has been revision
downward"
But it's all stage play. Nine months
ago all these gentlemen had fine and
dandy opportunity to work for a gen
uine revision of the tariff. Any day in
-aay week up- to the present time, they
might have dropped in few words, or
votes. where they would have count
ell But those sheets have been torn
from the calendar That water has
zone under the bridge. In the vulgar
parlance of the street. there is "notn-
ing doing at the present time"
In the cold, gray light of reason and
the hard terse language OF figurea