Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01

i il No members Of congress outyoted in their
would would have proudly expressed their dis.
aesast H she on Its h an
a larger and more substantial thing
Having IN mnd the history o. ta6
the revision should be made with refer.
ence to standard Of justice. standard
which the by to be &
and abroad. and the fundamental protest
which was filed against the measure was
ard, as the platform of the party required
Not only So but o the effort Iofto Which was
N, nent t'n board Of experts. SO that the aeea.
INFLATED scandals Of generation might
in the future were ridculed and rejected,
and the platform of the party itself de-
nounced as vain and worthless express;
sion The circumstance was Ignored
that for over twenty years We have had
seIf-constituted tariff commissions Mt work,
without public responsibility, or nnthorit!
debating to congress, not only the amount
OF protection demanded, but the very
Language, often devious and unintelligible.
in which the purpose of the law should
Abuse lie Old One.
This abuse is very old one. Forty
schedule of wool and woolens was pre-
pared by the. parties interested outside OF
congress-, and enacted into law. without
at time Of general Indifference Of the he
public mind toward such matters and
what seemed anssa,n perfectly natural then ia
"If Senator Sherman could stand up
scehnie on the grund that the parties
or cross a st" In their manuscript, so
| that in the future they would be estopped
lfS% mans VOICES Would be heard IN OBJ
| lection. and somebody would he liable
to say that proposition involving the
Considered orsiid for few minutes At least from
a public standpoint, so that that portion
| Of the community which wears wooden
yet in 1867 Schedule X was handed
/ to us. after that exact argument by SEN
ator Sherman and by that exact argu-
Grafton eit to generation. brinsing Into re:
from that day to this. Even. Mt the be-
ginning, there were . some s., voices against
business. The names of Charles Sumner
and Henry Wilson. were recorded against
the measure on Its final, passage. But
there Is no evidence that the general
opinion Of the country took any oifense or
account Of the application of this prim.
tive method of tariff making by com
that for nearly half century that SEIZED
ulc unchanged and immutable. has defiet
every effort of the law-making power t.
mitigate its excuses, CIR even to moderniz,
4 80 Affects other Schedules.
"But Schedule X is not the only on
II of our tariff schedules which congress
government. and respohslbie only to tn
business offices Of which they were TIL
Tead s in the Senate IN ne es aa
writing of Governor Dingley, letter t
Col. George c. .Tichenor In which thi
rs
be drawn that moi, even a change Of pollt
, ical parties was able to shake the grip. Q
o e hssd ssss %p
the letter now. from this little book, .whic
has since been printed by Henry D. Tiche
nor. the son and private secretary OF tn
| late chairman of the board of general up
Jan. 30, 1s97.--My Dear Sir: Your
enclosing suggestions as to tobacco sch ies1
mail the hearings on metal schedule. 70
!; will notice by these hearings that tn
manufacturers ask only a cent and ma
The eastern manufacturers want iron ker
at 40 cents and the western ore men war
it advanced, to 80 cents. We expect Ct, !,
those Of the act Of 1890 The metal mn
cotton schedules OF the present law tWi
son bill) were really made by the mani
except as tS DsIey 5e9
True Of Other Industries.
3 what is true of the cotton schedul
and the wool schedule is true Of the othc
our mare ON hs
8 products Of the factories concerned tina
;. The cloths which they weave, and :.
thoroughly is TINT understood st3S TINT fs
& Joke. when at the end of the extraordinal
o session the lifelong lobbyist Of the sil
y mills left the capitol saying Gentle
%ssss !Aa .,s. s @ -. ss.s,a.. ,,.,s
the ways aud means committee ,anIa have be,
o Sired to have done. and careful stud
these hearings during the period
even in the minor schedules. can be trace
. talmost in a straight line, to these hea
y lIgs. In the old days, when many OF OF
d industries were struggling for foothold
g the. market PLACE; when they were all
! active competition among themselye,
: up to control prices: when there was an,
Lefty on every hand to stimulate enterpris
and induce the Investment OF capital, Il
n old method Of tariff making. even II 1t hi
: been understood by the public. was lie
4 Offensive morally than 1t ID now.
"Yet, more thnn twenty years ago Il
I senate in the Allison bill Of 1888. add,
d q provision, elaborate In Its machinery. +
p putting our customs laws upon a tar
!, Commission; and in 1897 Senator Spoone
e man Of marvelously clear vision. intr
J duced into the senate on July 5lan amen
ment to the Dngley bill, prepared
r Colonel Tichenor creating q tariff col
= mission. and in support Of his amendme
. spoke these words OF wisdom, far more 81
i. nifcant now than they were then:
d If the old method of tariff MAXI
j. had produced no other scandals exec
a that involved in transferring to Interest,"
d outside parties, the exercise Of the pow
' Of the congress over taxation. 1t won
4 have been bad enough; but. nnhappily, t
d tenn of party organization through Will
the bosssn. which has corrupted near
r all our municipal governments and TAX
:. the administration Of the affairs of gre
r commonwealth ont of the hands of t
g people who inhabit them. has been broug
: Into the legislative power of the COVER
q ment.