The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-11-17

schedule shall be Just high enough 10
cover the difference between thu cost
OF production THAT II. the cost OF
labor and raw materially IN this
country where we live on = high
plane end IN foreign countries where
there In cheap labor and shere every
body lives on a low plane. The whole
contention 1t the last session Of Con
gress between Republicans was not
over the principle stated In the above
rule. but over the facts. The regu-
lar or stand-pat Republican produced
facts which he claimed showed that
a certain schedule on . certain arti-
Gle should not be lowered. or IL Low
cred not beyond a certain point. be-
cause the difference In the cost of
production here and abroad was so
much. On the other hand. the insur-
gent Republican always agreed 10 the
rule or principle as above-stated. but
claimed that the facts stated by bis
Republican opponent were wrong and
he proceeded In each case to pro-
duce facts which he claimed required
a reduction In a certain schedule.
And thus the battle waged for many
months between Republicans.
During this great contest the Dem
ocratic Congressman sat silent so far
as facts and arguments were concern
ed. Indeed, they had no facts, and
seemed not to care for facts. What
they said In theory was that they
were against the whole American
protective system, but 1t is noticeable
that when the voting time came every
Democrat was found voting for high
protection in some schedule that pro-
tected some particular article In
which his State or his District was
especially interested.
This radical difference between Re-
publicans who are agreed on the
great American fundamental princi-
pie of economy as to the facts caused
the two factions to agree before the
tariff bill was passed that in the flu
ture they would not differ, because
a
curing the facts as to the difference
in the cost of the production here
and abroad on each article and as to
each country in an official manner.
This resulted in an item being placed
in the tariff law authorizing the
President Of the United States to ap-
| point a tariff board or commission of
experts to travel to every country in
the world with which we have trade
relations, and to gather officially the
statistics as to the wage scale and
the cost Of raw material and ev-
cry other element that enters into
the cost of production here and
abroad, and that such commission
should, as fast as the facts are gath
cred as to any one schedule in any
one country, forward the same to the
President, who should Immediately
transmit the same to the Congress,
with recommendation to raise or
lower the tariff rates in each SEIZED
ule as to each article, according to
the facts.
1t is noticeable that this provision
aroused more antagonism from the
Democratic Congressman and Sen
ators than any provision of the pres
ent tariff law. The Democratic lead.
ers realized that this would rob them
of their tariff issue under which they
have made blind, wholesale, unbound
} ed, and vicious attacks against the
Republican tariff laws as being il
the interest of trusts and not for the
protection of American labor anC
| American capital. The facts abou
, this scientific solution of the tariff
: question for the future attracted yer!
little attention over the country a
the time and was not thoroughly un
, derstood and digested by the voter
: before the recent election. Had
been otherwise, the result Of the cleo
= ton would have been very different
: On the other hand, the Democrat
; landslide is the result. not only of tn
t usual reaction against the party Il
D power that revises the tariff, but wa
J, accentuated by the belief in the POP
9 ular mind that large part OF tn
3 Republican party, known as progress
sives or insurgents, protested agains
q the Republican law as passed. Thi
h Ia nua of $ha couoac Rnr %ho non-