Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-07-09
SENATOR DOLLIVER AND
THE TARIFF

q ENATOR DOLLIvER is not only
one of the most pronounced, but
~ he is also one of the ablest of the
Republican insurgents which the fail
ure of Mr. Taft's administration to re-
deem the promises for tariff revision
made by the last Republican national
platform, has produced.
In a speech made in the United
States senate just before the adjourn
ment of congress, Mr. Dolliver paid his
respects to President Taft's Winona
speech in which the latter had charac-
terized the Payne-Aldrich tariff law
as "the best tariff law ever enacted"
In the course of his speech President
Taft referred to statistical table with
which he had been furnished, which
showed decreases of the tariff in 654
items involving a consumption value
of $4,000 100000. After characterizing
the statistics used by the president as
That anonymous scrap of statistical
sophistry, a curious table made up by
paymaster in the army" Mr. Dolli-
yer continued:
Now, only a slight glance at these
statistics, imperfect and misleading as
they are, would have indicated that
these reductions were in most cases SO
small as to have no value 10 the pub
lie, that a full third of the number
We're yarns and threads of cotton, jute
and linen ready for weaving into cloth,
and that nearly all of the $1,000 900, 900
of consumption is made up either of
food products which we export, or raw
| materials like coal, iron ore, petrC-
leum and the hides of cattle, or parity
manufactured materials like pig iron,
scrap iron, tonnage steel, and sawed
! lumber ready for the planning mill. Tho
public has asked, and asked in vain,
| for anybody to point out a reduction
which has any commercial significance
| of any sort.
Us it any wonder that the pub ic receives
| this batch of freak statistics with deriSive
laughter? When they get to thinking about
| the length of time it will take them to eat
| themselves into possession of the ) cents on
the 100 pounds reduction ON refined sugar
even If the thieves of the sugar trust gave
| it to them, and then reflect that of the whole
| So 900 600, 900 of consumption affected by re-
| auctions nearly one-tenth of the amount is
charged up to the sugar schedule, is it re-
markabie that they smile in quie; way?
do you suppose that if last summer
we had known that the total cost Of
| smelling a ton of lead ore was IS we
would have been induced to put a duty
| of $3.50 a ton on pig lead, on the
theory that labor was to be protected
! and a reasonable reward offered to
capital? Do you suppose that if we
! had known that the cost of smelling
| copper in the United States is not ma
| terially greater than in other countries
we would have allowed a protective
| duty of $3.50 ton on pig copper in
all its forms? Do you suppose that If
we had known that the rubber indus
| try in the United States needs little
or no protection, that at 30 per cent
ad valorem every department of It was
| prosperous, that we We're making rub
| Der wearing apparel cheaper than it
| was made anywhere else in the world,
! that were making rubber tires for auto
mobiles with such profit that in Akron, Ohio,
| in ten years the Diamond Rubber company
| had declared stock dividends which had in
creased its capital from S50,0G0 to $i0,000,-
| coo under the old rate-if we hal known
that do you suppose the senate would have
listened with patience to the senator from
Rhode Island when, after admitting that
rubber wearing apparel like boots and shoes
needed protection, he said, "but there
are rubber tires OF automobiles?'
II am through with it. I intend to
fight as a Republican for a free MARKET
| place on this continent"