Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-17

From both these stand-poiuts the Payne
tariff law well deserves the communication
of President Taft when he says that Il
is the best tariff bill ever enacted by the
republican party. The demagoEue may pick
out an item here and there and say that
duties ars too Egh. but the law is to
be tested BY all its provisions and not by
an Isolated item here and there.
The best test Is that afforded By the
result Of the operations OF the law. The
Payne law went into effect on August 5
1903. For the fiscal year ending on June
90 1910. the duties received under the OBJ
Grafton Of the new law ct being in 90
Grafton less than eleven months OF that
ume1 amounted 10 Ssss.e0o0o0. the largest
revenue produced under any tariff law ever
enacted. So that II is a success as a
producer OF revenue
One-third OF our population are engaged
in Agriculture. rvo-th.rds in mining. manu-
featuring. railway work and other voca-
tons. since the enactment OF the Payne
law 10000 idle freight cars. with the
locomotives that hauled them. have gone
out OF the shops and off OF the sidetrack
and again ara engaged in answering the
great demands OF transportation and com
merce. Labor which bad been idle. and
therefore a minimum consumer Of the
products OF the farm and ,ae products Of
the farm and the factory, has gone into
constant employment. No one who is will
ing 10 live in the sweat Of his face need
search for employment; employment
searches for him. Not only is there uni
versal employment. but IL has been esti-
mated that since the passage OF the PAYNE
law wages have been increased in the
aggregate 5O0eOo.OO0. The demand comes
for further advances in wages, and. in my
Judgment, there will be and ought TO be
further advance
Prosperity = Certain Result.
with fun employment and fun wages
there cones full consumption. The prices
the farmer receives for his products adj
vance because OF the greater demand. and
in turn. he Is enabled to increase his con-
sumption If articles which he does not
1 produce. The farm and the factory come
closer together. thus cheapening the cost OF
the exchange OF products
/ Year by year the economic policies of the
republican party. or. to put IL in another
way. under the economic policies Of a ma
jority OF the people of the republic. con-
stituting. as they do the republican party,
we have become the greatest producing
nation on earth. In Agriculture, in mining.
in manufacturing We produce one-third Of
i the products OF all the civilized world.
| Westward the star OF empire has taken
its course. There il more Of production in
MANUFACTURES in the middle west that in
the east and far west combined. Illinois.
we claim. is still first in agriculture. II Is
third in manufactures. Chicago Is the sec
ozd manufacturing city In the United
States. aye. more. it is the second manu-
featuring city in the world. In the middle
west we have ceased 70 borrow, and now
lend II is no longer true. except in the
me nth OF the demagogue, that the west is
tributary to the east.
Not only do cur agricultural products con
! stautly increase in volume and value, but
basing the estimate on the semi-decennia
census OF 1906. Kansas produced during tn,
fiscal year ending June Do 1910. manufac
: tured articles TO the value Of szsO.Ooo.0oo.
The same census shows that. counting tn,
real wealth that you can sec and feel, tn,
tangible property-the per capita wealth o
+ Kansas is now about q. CO. Nebraska hal
per capita wealth OF about s. 800, low
1 r, IOa Illinois $1,000 New York s2.OOe. Will
New England has a per capita wealth o
4 about u-I0o- say again the star Of empfr
n westward has taken its way
Champ cIark's Onslaught.
Under these conditions, the leader OF tn
4 democrats ia the national house OF repre-
4 senratives. Mr.. Clark, makes procIamatio
: in his speech OF July at TamEany Ha
that the democrats are united; that the re
} publicans are divided into factions, an
then he proceeds to call for recruits. H
n attacks the Payne tariff law as vigorousl
l. as Bristow, Cummins. La Toilette, BeveE
idge and other sO-called insurgents attac
u IT, He gives notice that the democrats ar
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d and that their first labor viii be a revisio
y OF the tariff from the standpoint OF rev
q erue. He declares that they will pass
y tariff-for-revenue-only bill, put il up TO tn
s. senate and IL the senate does not pasg
upon the provisions OF that bill they wi
l. enter the campaign OF 1872 asking to
3 clothed with fun power both executive an
'e Legislative.
ot have been denounced as a stand-patrs
II and as against a revision Of the tariff.
u viii confess that do not believe frequer
n changes in the tariff are for the best fnte
as ests OF the people. Therefore, from n
or time OF the enactment OF the Dingiey Ia
IS, TO the making OF the national platform
to 1893. upon which We nominated Taft ar
s. Sherman and declared in favor OF the r
ed vision Of the tariff, was against snnerir
upon revision OF the tariff
Agitation HRlt9 PrOducsfan.
y Agitation for revision and the revision
y self always halt production. The imports
fearing that he will not have customer
- imports the minimum. and the revenu
A1 that are derived from imports eorrespon
ingiy decrease The manufacturer. n
knowing what the proposed revision brin
ls forth, enrtails his production. for he
aware that his product may be sold LAT
- at loss. The farmer. the miner and
=. other producers purchase the mini.au
and the result is that in the aggregate I
capacity OF the people to buy decreas,
IL has been estimated by careful observe
n that every day spent during the discussi
ne and consideration OF the Payne tariff /
ct resulted in an aggregate loss to labor a
ne production variously estimated at from 81
on 600 900 70 s200Oo.0oo a day. Yet those "
esi oppose the Payne tariff law propose
enter upon a revision Of the tariff d,Iri
M the next congress II they are grant
ed power.
er Much complaint has been made about I
high cost OF living. Our friends the Z
pa envy. 90 to the manufacturing centers a
seq say that those VINO ars engaged in man
lIy featuring. mining and mercantile pursui
I'm a. differentiated from those engaged
NJ agriculture, compelled to pay too nnu
ier for breadstuffs and other products OF ,
ION farm Then in the prairies OF Illinois a
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