The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-14
Allowed Full Sway, California
Alone Would Lose One Hun
dred Millions Every
Year
Low TARIFF BLIGHT
Insurgents and Democrats
Can Combine and Reduce Tariff
Bill, Many Industries
viii be Ruined.

"A plAi ChiSoc
The protectionists of the country awak-
In to the meaning and Importance of
he insurgent movement, says Repre-
Sentative Duncan McKinlay, 1t is prob
hbel that the forces of the democracy
and of the insurgents, by uniting in
the middle west, will be able to return
enough democratic members to con-
gress to compel a reopening of the tar
lift question next winter and the pass
ing of the lowest tariff bill the country
fhas ever known. That is what Mr..
McKinlay thinks insurgency means.
The congressman from Callfornla
has returned from a trip through the
great food-producing country OF the
Emiddle west, where he went at the re-
&Quest of the republican national COM
[mittee, the republican congressional
#conpmittee and the president. he was
asked to size up the situation ana TO
do what some of the big republican pa
$pers of that region would not 40,
*namely. present the attitude OF the adj
fministration regarding its legislative
2programs and tell what was the real
%record of two months of the new tariif
@bill.
In his book on Twenty Years in
st,ongress,' said Congressman Mckln-
James G Blaine said that the
time would probably come when the
great food-producing states would turn
to free trade. and the south. becoming
manufacturing region, would ask for
protection. That time seems to be
almost here. The middle west Is shout
ing for lower tariff. Some of the great
republican papers there are demand
ing that men be elected to congress
who will insist next winter on revising
the tariff downward. Senators Beyer-
idge, Cummins, La Toilette, Dolliver,
Clapp, Bristow and the insurgent rep
resentatives in the house are constant
ly demanding lower tariff. On the
other hand, tie cotton manufacturers
of the south are becomining alarmed
at the encroachments OF the Japanese
in markets heretofore controlled by
the American manufacturer, and are
listening to protectionist arguments.
Il visited some of the western
states and collected Information by
various means from others. In Hi
nois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colo
RADIO, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and Iowa my information is to
the effect that some OF the leading pa
pers-such as the Chicago Tribune
the Topeka Capital, the Kansas City
Star and others | might name, are
preaching the propaganda of lower tar
III, which amounts practically to free
trade.
mo matter whether it can be showr
or not that the tariff raises prices
they believe that it does, and they are
loud in their demands that the tariff
be revised entirely on wool, cottor
goods, agricultural implements ant
lumber, and that 1t be cut In half ol
be reduced even further on wines, or
anges, lemons, nuts, vegetables, canned
goods, raisins, figs-in fact, on almos
everything that California produces.
believe that If this program is carried
out 1t will result in loss of 100000,
900 year to California.
1t will ruin many of our industrie!
which have been built up with grea
labor and for the adequate protection
of which against cheap foreign laboi
We had to make most strenuou,
fight In fact, California would no
now enjoy the measure of protection
for its extensive and varied industries
which it does but for the fact tina
We had Needham on the ways ant
means committee of the house ant
Flint on the finance committee of tn,
senate, where they We're highly in
fluential, and because the entire dele
cation from California enjoyed the re
spect and good win of their colleagues
from other states. California is th'
second wool-producing state, beinl
second in that respect only to Texas
1t Is the only producer of lemons, thu
chief producer of oranges and wines
and in various other lines of produc
tion 1t has no rival Yet these grea
industries are in danger of actual ey
tinction.''