The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-06-01
BRYAN BUTTS IN
ON WOOL Tariff

Mr.. Bryan 3 defiance Of the party
leaders in the house, his warning to the
Democratic members that the voters
are yet to pass on the wool schedules
they are to ratify and his appeal to
them not to add Hypocrisy to the
SIM of voting for a revenue on wool,
have caused intense feeling in the
party, says Washington press dis
patch of May 80.
Notwithstanding this Mr.. Under
wood, as chairman the house com.
mittee on ways and means, was insist
ent in the prediction that the revenue
wool bill will be approved by a big
majority.
"In my Judgment" Mr.. Under
wood said in answer to Mr.. Bryan,
his statement is unjust and unfair
to the members of the ways and means
committee and to the Democratic rep,
resentatives in congress who will sup
port the bill.
The ways and means committee
have cut in half the whole schedule.
They have reduced the duty on manu-
factured goods as low as they were
under the Wilson bill that Mr.. BRYAN
voted for when raw wool was placed
on the free list. In that reduction they
have fallen short of 10000 900, now
raised by wool, by $13, 900, 900, and it
is necessary in order to secure this
revenue to place q revenue tax on
raw wool imported into the United
States.
"Under the high rates Of the Payne
tariff bill the tax on raw wool was
highly competitive, nearly one-half of
the wool used in this country being
imported. When the rates on raw
wool are cut more than one-half IL. is
for the purpose of revenue without any
of the essentials of a protective tar.
iff.1
Goes Beyond Platform.
Mr.. Underwood said that in the tar
iff bill the ways and means committee
have gone even further than gradual
reduction in the tariff to which the
Democratic party in it's last platform
was committed.
eff the Wilson bill, which Mr.. Bry-
an voted for,' said Mr.. Underwood,
was an honest reduction of the tariff
in the interest of the people bin that
reduces the taxes on wooden goods
which the people buy as low as under
the bill Bryan voted for and advocat-
-
measure from this standpoint. The
fact that in reducing these taxes on
wooden goods we have levied a small
tax on the manufacturers does not in
any way increase the burden to the
purchasers of wooden goods
The Democratic leader explained
that the party and the committee are
confronted with deficiency in the
treasury; that the government needs
more money and that the income tax
| amendment is as yet unratifed. He
said the committee in reducing the
tariff has so to write the schedules
that they would bring at least as much
| revenue as does the present law.
| The committee contends that by rc-
ducing the rates and making the tar
| iff more competitive more goods will
come in and thus supply the revenue.
Under the Wilson bill the tariff on
wool averaged about forty per cent ad
valorem, a figure comparing closely
with the average in the bill to be made
public next Thursday.
"The Democratic party Mr.. Un-
derwood concluded, "stands essential
ly for tariff for revenue, which
means we shall collect from the custom
houses the revenues required for the
expenses Of the government. It does
not stand for free trade and do not
believe when this bill is published and
the people understand the facts they
will be misled by the statement which
Mr.. Bryan has made, and the caucus
will adopt the bill and it will be ap.
proved by the masses as a party
measure
Mr.. Bryan's Criticim.
Mr.. Bryan took exception to the pro-
gram of his party in the house and
criticised sharply the majority Of the
Democrats who have agreed to support
the revised tariff schedule on wool and
wooden goods. The criticism was
contained in statement made public
through Representative Harrison, of
New York.
"The Democratic voters said Mr..
Bryan "know that all needed revenue
can be raised in less oppressive ways,
and they know the argument that the
tariff on wool is proposed as revenue
tariff is merely a subterfuge employed
because those who employ it are
ashamed to say they favor protec-
tion.''
The Nebraskan warned against the
| drift of Democrats toward the protec-
tive policy which, he said, is most
marked in those Democrats who "have
among their constituents influential
beneficiaries of the SYSTEM
"The Republicans want protection
on wool, because they believe in the
principle of protection" he declared.
"Let no Democratic advocate of a tax
on wool masquerade behind the pre-
tense that he is voting for revenue
tariff; let him not add hypocrisy to the
sin which he commits against his
party
Mr.. Bryan insisted if protection was
to be accented as Democratic doc
trine. "that it be accepted openly and
applied to everything and to all Sec
| tions.'
He said there is no reason for favor
itism to few sheep raisers at the ex-
pense of all who wear wooden clothing.
Before the Democratic party is un-
equivocally committed to the doctrine