Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-03
MURPHY ISSUES
SECOND DEFENSE
OF PAYNE TARIFF
In Address to. Voters Former
State Chairman Again Ig-
n0res State Issues.

Former Governor Franklin Murphy,
before resigning the craftsmanship of
the Republican State Committee, pRom-
ised to issue address No. 2 to the voters
of New Jersey. It made its appearance
yesterday. Like address No. 1, it ig-
nores the State issues and Is a defense
of the Payne-Aldrich tariff.
Mr.. Murphy defends the cotton
schedule, which is the target OF
Progressives all through the country.
He says that it remains practically as
1t was under the old Dingley law.
therefore it CANNOT be responsible for
the increase in prices.
Mr.. Murphy takes a whack at pro
fessional reformers," whom he COM
pares to "Bully Bottom"-they neither
see, nor think. nor recognize a fact.
BY way of introduction Mr.. Murphy
says:
Needs No Defense.
AS a member Of the State Com
mittee 1 am to discuss the question of
the tariff and it's relation to prices, as
was intimated In the address issued
July IL. 1 am not to defend the tariff
lit needs no defense-I am to dis
cuss 1t.
.ductory:
Il. The criticisms against the Payne
tariff are principally from Democrats
and free traders who always criticise
any tariff, and, when they have their
way, plunge the country into disaster.
There are others who criticise the
Payne tariff-not Democrats and not
free traders = who Join in the cry
against that great measure because
its opponents have made so much noise
that they think the criticisms are JUS
titled. This class oppose The sbill from
ignorance. They know the bigness OF
the tariff question and t'iey haven't
the time to study 1t. When they do,
their opposition ceases.
80. Read number one over.
wool Schedule for Instance.
20. The sections of the Payne tariff
which have been most violently as
sailed are the same under which the
country has prospered for thirteen
years. The wool schedule, for instance.
1 don't say it should not be modified;
I call attention to a live and incon-
testable fact; it is the same under
which we have prospered.
-. No tariff bill is perfect. This is
the best that could be made with
countless conflicting interests. 1t is
the result of a give n take arrange
ment among its trainers; and it must
be so as the Law now stands. Every
Congressman must look after the in
~terests of his district, or he ceases to
be a Congressman-and public life is
sweet. He that provideth not for his
own household is worse than an in
fidel.'
IS. The best thing about the new
tariff situation is not in the new tariff
law at all, but the law providing for
the appointment Of a tariff commits
sion who shall investigate each in
dustry, beginning, naturally, with the
most important. They Will give Con-
gress faots-not the facts colored by
self-interest-the really and truly facts.
Then action, when necessary, can be
taken without ~paralyzing the business
of the country by opening up the whole
question, and without the opportunity
for trading votes that now exists. So
that we may hope in the rot distant
future for a tariff hat shall be rea-
sonably scientific.
Not an Easy job.
sc. Making a tariff is not an easy
job.
81. The government must have a
large revenue from some source to
meet it's expenses, and he difference
in results to the consumer between a
tariff for revenue and a tariff for pro-
lection is largely academic.
IS. The Payne bill has been in oper-
alton long enough to prove that the
revenue under it will be tmple for the
expenses of the government.
ut is like the professional reformer
to denounce the new tariff a as the
cause of higher prices. 1T is the bust
ness of the professional reformer to
kickznot to think, not to see, not to
recognize a fact. Like Bully Bottom
he has a reasonable good ear He
heard some yelloy Journal shout that
the tariff was made by Cannon and
Aldrich. That was enough"
Mr.. Murphy then makes a long list
of items from the Payne-Aldrich tariff
on which the duty was lowered.
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