The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-25

| to have, and to insist that their rep
resentative in congress shall have,
before making radical changes in eX-
listing legislation.
| do not contend that the tariff
can be taken out of politics, in the
sense that it will never be made the
subject of political discussion. Men
differ radically as to the economical
wisdom of a protective tariff, or
tariff for revenue only, and that
must always be the subject of politi
cal discussion, But there is a means
of taking the entertainment of facts
away from tribunal like that of the
ways and means committee, which is
necessarily hurried in its inquiries
and necessarily lacking in thor
oughness and the temper necessary
to ~each the most impartial concur
sions. 1t is possible to transfer those
Investigations heretofore made by
the ways and means and finance COM
mittees to a tribunal which VIII
make a thorough and impartial in
quiry | do not mean to say that the
tariff board which | have appointed
is constituted by the best method
possible | do no think it is. | think
it would be better to have it appoint
ed by the president with the conftr-
nation of the senate, and to make 1t
Independent of the president and OF
congress as far as that may be posi-
BILE under our system. | do say that
the present board is as Independent
as any board can be, but | admit that
as any board can be, but | admit that
that conditions might arise having
tendency to rob it of its impartial
character. Therefore, / ventured |
with all the energy of which | was !
capable, the establishment of a per-
manent tariff commission, and shall
urge upon congress, as long as 1T is
my function to do so, the establish
ment by law of such commission.
But, meantime, congress has en-
abled me to organize the present
commission They have shown by
the work already done how thor
ough their future work will be, and
they have demonstrated by what they
have done that the material which
they will place before the congress
and the executive in December with
reference to Schedule X and THAT
is, on woolens and cottons will be
of more valuable character and one
from which more valuable eonclu-
sions can be drawn than any r'port
of the kind ever submitted to any
legislative body Schedule X is the
most complicated schedule in the
whole range of schedules. Schedule
l. textile schedule, is, except for
the difficulty connected with the raw
material in Schedule X, equally trou-
blesome and complicated and hard
to understand. When those reports
shall have been submitted, showing
the difference in the cost of produc-
lions abroad and in this country of
textile fabrics, and giving a basis up
on which a proper reduction can be
made in either schedule, it Will be
my duty and my pleasure to recon-
mend to congress such a reduction.
Meantime, attacks upon the board as
one whose judgment is not worthy
of consideration are born not of a
candid consideration of their previ-
Gus work, not of frank acknowledge
ment of the ability of the various
members OF the board to do work
that they are charged to do, but they
come from the thoughtless heat of
political controversy, and ought TO
have no weight with unbiased
friends of the public veal,