Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-11-01
FOR A PROPER TARIFF
PRESIDENT TAFTs POSITION ON
MATTER Is PLAIN.
Measure Adopted Must Be Framed
and Adjusted to the Needs Of BusI.
ness-Served Interests Of Peo-
pie by His vetoes.

In his Grand Rapids speech Presi-
dent Taft declared for q tarifr that
should be protected from the manipu-
iation Of those seeking political CAPT
tal. TO the infinite disturbance of bust.
ness and values. The matter OF the
tarin is not now so much q question
OF tariff for protection as it is the
securing OF a tariff framed and adj
)usted to the needs of business The
method OF Its adoption much be such
as to protect the country from the
tinkering and tampering OF those who
see In tariff legislation a means for
promoting personal and party for
tunes. The review given by the presi-
dent OF the wool. the cotton and the
farmers free list bills, that he refused
10 sanction. Is remarkable showing
or the lengths to which the Democrats
with their insurgent allies were will
Ing to go to discredit the administra-
ton and to create issues for the cam
paign. AT least. no other plausible
reason can be advanced for the action
oil the legislators in violating the pol
icy that was agreed to by many OF
them by their votes. To act In the
future In the adjustment OF tariff
schedules upon the data forthcoming
from the tariff board until n perman-
ent tariff commission should be ap-
pointed and should take up the sub
)ect as n purely economic one d.
Vorced from partisan politics was
agreed to by many who became snap
Shnf In, H.. arx>I.
call Tor an extra session of congress
was too much Of temptation for the
men whose sole purpose was to defeat
the ends OF the administration. Moth
Ing appeared in sight for the purpose
half SO attractive as making a drive at
the PayneAldrich bill President Taft
Is not welded to this or to any other
measure. He has frankly conceded
the defects OF any tariff bill prepared
as such bills customarily are. He was
just as frank to condemn the tarir
oiiis or the extra session. conceived
and framed as they were under the
same motives that so often have OBJ
Grated TO cause ill-adjusted and unfair
schedules TO act as a burden upon the
people.
The explanation given by the presi-
dent OF the wool schedule shows 1t to
have been thoroughly reprehensibe,
and had he given his approval he
would thereby have made himself a
party to gross Injustice to the Amer
lean people. This bill was illogical: It
was unavoidable; its effect would have
been to play ducks and brakes with
the various industries dependent upon
wool In its raw state and in its manu-
tactured forms. The wool schedule
was vastly more drastic even than the
corresponding schedule in the Wilson
tariff bill of 1894, when there were
very much more plausible grounds for
lowering OF the rate for relief from
the existing duties than can be found
today. President Taft admits and has
admitted that schedule X is too big
In Its percentages in many respects,
but the item has so many ramifica-
lions that no body of men acting I'M
der the inspiration OF the moment
could hope to alter It in an orderly
way without hearings. without data
and without time. Hence the outcome
OF the work Of the foes OF the admin.
istration would have been little less
than tragical for the industries de-
pendent upon the schedule and for the
interests OF the people at large.