The Washington herald., 1910-06-11

Insurgent Republican Senators, led by
Senator Beverage, Of Indiana, made a
demonstration in the Senate yesterday
in favor Of a permanent tariff commits
sion.
Accepting President Taft's recommends
ton, incorporated In the sundry civil
appropriation bill. for $25OOOO to carry
on the work OF the tariff board as "a
step in advance" the insurgents de-
clared that the country would ultimately
have TO come 10 the tariff commission
idea
The speakers, in addition to Mr.. Bev-
eridge, were Senators DoIliver and Clapp.
Those who fought for the tariff COM
mission idea when it was friendless may
well exult to-day" said Senator Bever-
idge, for the whole nation knows that
not one sentence, syllable or punctuation
mark OF this provision, not one dollar,
cent, or min of this appropriation would
have been written into law had It not
been for the struggle that has been
made for the idea for the past three
years"
Continuing. the Senator said
so We are back again TO where we
were when the Senate passed practically
the same provision at the end of last
session, and We are now remedying the
destroying work of the conference COM
mittee. And so we are laying the founda-
ton for that genuine nonpartisan tariff
commission or board which is as sure to
develop in power and Authority as the
Interstate Commerce Commission has de-
veloped in power and authority.
Who DO Not Want Facts.
mo one can oppose the idea of having
the facts upon which our tariff laws are
made found out There are two classes
of men who do not want the facts found
out: First. those wicked interests whose
abnormal and unrighteous profits are
made possible only by the peoples ignor-
ance OF the facts; and second, those
economic theorists who know that the
peoples knowledge of the facts would
utterly destroy their theory. The first
class are those who have secured unjust
and extoTtionate tariff rates which
enormously enrich a few individuals az
the expense Of the whole people; and the
second are those who favor a purely
revenue tariff that would place the
American people on an equality with the
lowest paid and poorest living people IN
the world who could compete with them.
I'VE, who are for this idea, are for II
because above all things ii is just: We
are for Ii also because we are for honest
protection. We are for 1t not only as a
matter of sheer justice. but We are for
IL because we will not have the word
protection used TO cloak and excuse
tariff excuses which are not only wrong
In themselves. but which by insulting
the moral instincts OF the people en-
danger the protective principle itself.
Free silver Move Recalled.
why are those who pretend to be for
a tariff for revenue only in this Chamber
against this measure? Do they fear the
truth? Are they alarmed at the prospects
OF the facts being laid before the Amer
lean people? Is it because they know that
II the actual truth about the difference
between the cost Of production in this
country and in foreign countries is laid
before this nation by the cold report of
impartial experts instead OF by heated
overstatements of partisans their pTopa-
ganda VIII be destroyed?
Not long ago these same men asked
this country to declare for a free coinage
of silver. regardless of the financial sys-
tens OF other countries; but the good
sense and common honesty Of the Anerf-
can people denied that request, and con-
founded the men that proposed it. Yet
the same men are now asking the people
TO adopt a tariff for revenue only, re-
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countries, just as a few years ago they
asked us 10 DO the same thing in our
financial legislation And again the COM
lean people will repudiate and overwhelm
them.
Would Spell Our Ruin.
When these men asked us to adopt
free silver regardless of the financial
systems of other countries. all other
modern nations were on the gold basis,
and for US to have then adopted free
silver would have spelled our ruin. Now,
when they ask US 10 adopt free trade
regardless Of the systems of other coun-
tries, we find that all other modern ma
tons are pracucing protection, with the
exception of the United Kingdom. which
is about to abandon her free trade pol
icy; and for US to adopt a revenue-only
tariff under these conditions would In
jure US no less surely than the adoption
of free silver would have injured us q
few years ago.
$50 1t is that those OF US who demand
that the facts upon which our tariff is
builded shall be ascertained by impartial
experts stand against two forces. We
stand against those mighty interests
which profit from the suppression of the
facts on the one hand; and We stand
against those who want US to ignore all
facts, and utterly disregard the fiscal
systems Of other countries. TO our own
undoing, on the other hand.
But while we stand against both OF
these forces. we stand for the truth
whatever the truth may reveal: and we
stand for the people whom the truth
never has injured and ever has helped. "
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