Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-11-09


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The Tariff and Wet Virginia.
fou will observe that have omit
ted the tarII Oil passed at the extra.
ordinary session watch President
Tart called almost immediately after
his Inauguration in compnanc. with
the Republican platform have re
served II for the last because wish
cd 10 speak a little more at length
about 1t. The platform promised a
revision OF the tariff 70 ACCOMPLISH
three things
rlrst-A minimum and maximum
tariff so that we could have a weapon
with which to compel other nations
TO treat American shippers as they
do all others.
seccnd-To enact a tariff law
which would protect American indus
tries, but in whose schedules there
should be no excess above that
amount Of duty required for protec-
ton.
Third-To raise more revenue to
meet the growing demands of the
people for governmental service.
The minimum and maximum pro
visions OF the new tariff law have
worked. Under those provisions and
their wise and diplomatic administra-
ton by President Taft, foreign ma
tons, many of whom formerly dis
eliminated against us. their best Gus
toners, have been compelled to cease
their discrimination, and are admit
ting our products on as favorable
a basis as those of any nation in the
world.
The new tariff law has met the ex-
panoing needs of the government for
more revenue. The economy Of the
TAFT administration and the excellent
revenue raising capacity of the
Payne tariff law have wiped out the
deficit. The people of the country
generally do not perhaps appreciate
the extent to which they are making
demands uron their federal and state
governments for new and Increased
service. Within the limits which
must be put upon this letter, | will
mention only one instance as Illus
uatiVe of scores of others. The
rural free delivery service costs
thirty million dollars more annually
than it did when Mckinley was in
augurated. Yet the people are insist
ent ia their demands for new rural
free delivery routes, and there are
hundreds OF applications for more of
them always pending i'm the postofice
department at Washington which
must be delayed for lack OF revenue
Not one benny OF the revenue OF the
government is misappropriated or
wasted. and yet the people are press.
ing every department Of the govern
nent 'CR additional public service
ar>r Reductions Made
ran perhaps best indicate what sort
OF a REVISION of the tariff we made by
lnstanclne the character of its reduc-
tions'and It's increases We reduced
the duty on steel rails 80 per cent. on
piG iron from $500 10 $3.50. on iron
ore from 40 cents to IL cents. and
under our reciprocity provision, that
from Cuba will come in at II cents
a ton. We reduced coal from 81
cents to 40 cents ton. lumber from
$500 to 1925 per thousand feet. over
my protest, admit. We put h;Ges on
the free list. reduced the duty on
leather. leather betting. etc. so per
cent, reduced the duty on one grade
of shoes so per cent. and On another
40 per cent. These two grades con.
stitute all the shoes. While we did
not reduce the tariff on cattle, We
did reduce the duty on dressed meat
% per cent, and on hams % per cent
have picked out these reductions be
cause persons possessed Of more
power Of inyectiye than vigor o. con
science have said that the trusts
dominate the framing Of a tariff law
and that increased prices of protect
ed products are due to the Payne
law.
Any OF our critics who has the in
dustry and the honesty to do so may
verify by reference 20 the law itself
the figures which I have given show
ing that iron ore and other products
of the steel Corporation and the
mendously reduced: that the prod
ucts Of the Beef Trust were reduced
one-fourth, the farmers cattle I'm the
meantime retaining the Dngley duty
that ii there is a Coal Trust. we re.
duced the tariff on coal: if there is a
Lumber Trust, we reduced the tariff
on lumber. Anyone who has been
asserting that tho tariff is tho come,
Of high retail prices may go TO the
law itself and find out that 7 am cor
rect in saying that the Payne law
placed hides ON the free list. reduced
the duty on Leather so per cent. and
on that class of shoes which four
hf.hs Of us wear GO per cent. He may
then sit down and educate himself
into a new view of the relation Of a
protective tariff and retail prices bv
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