Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-27
TARIFF REFORM RECEIVES AN IMPETUS

If things go on as they have been going until the congress meets in reg ular session. there will be prompt and sweeping revision Of the tariff, without regard to any report of the tariff board. There will be so little opposition to a general revision that presidential vetoes, if Mir. Taft should have the hardihood to interpose them. would he intellectual
 The sentiment in favor of revision is not being made by the demagogue. by the politician, by the professional tariff reformer. but by the protected interests themselves.
 With indecent haste, after the de feat of reciprocity was assured, the prices of grain and grain products were advanced. Day before yesterday the EIgin creameries announced stiHer figures for butter. Forty-eight hours after the Canadian elections, the paper manufacturers who had been hurnedly summoned to a meeting at Chicago announced an advance in the price of white print and other grades of paper.
 These manufacturers, those butter bakers and those grain dealers evi- dently feel securely entrenched behind the protecting wall which the presi- dent and the democrats in congress have been unable to breach.
 The paper makers in explanation of their action admit that it was made possible by the failure of reciprocity and they add statement that would not be out Of place on the humorous page, 'the price of paper has been too low"
 The print paper and the wood pulp schedule of the Payne-Aldrich law is the one absolutely indefensible schedule of the present tariff. There are, Of course, other schedules that are not properly defensible but the paper and pulp schedule is the one in support of which no argument has ever been offered
 II may be said, rightly or wrongly in favor of every other schedule that it furnishes protection 10 labor or that the margin Of profits of the in dustry protected are so narrow that competition would be destructive.
 But there was ample evidence be- fore the ways and means committee engaged in the construction of the Payne bill that labor was better paid  by the Canadian paper and pulp mills than by the manufacturers on this side of the line. It was also shown that despite the intended pro hibitory tariff of the Dingley law and the higher price of labor, the Canadian manufacturers were still able to compete with the American manufacturers at rhe high prices the manufacturers had fixed in this country.
 Thus, American consumers were paying the enormous tariff imposed upon the Canadian product and also the equal enormous in the shape of profits to the American man. ufacturers. This evidence was col lected by the American Publishers association and it was not contro- verted seriously by either the mem  bers of the paper trust or by the so- called independent manufacturers.
 The print paper question. of course, fs not ore which will not greatly excite the multitude but the multitude has for some time been excited over the cost Of living The people have been told that the tariff has little or noth- ing to do with that. Dozens of other reasons have been put forward-the increase of population out Of ratio to the increase of the volume of pro duction; the outstripping Of the rural