The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-11
TAFT TO TALK TARIFF.
Will Be Principal Speaker at National
Tariff Commission Convention.
Jan. s, 1911.

Tariff Commission Convention.
Washington, Jan. 1l.-President
Taft is the principal speaker on the
program Of the National Tariff Com
mission Association convention
which was opened today at the New
Willard Hotel. His address is to be
delivered at the closing banquet to-
morrow night. The opening session
today was devoted to preliminaries.
Among the delegates are some of the
leading commercial authorities, eco
nOmic experts, educators, editors ana
statesmen of the country. Aside from
the president, the list of speakers In.
cludes Senators Cummins and Bever-
idge and Representative Nicholas
LOngWorth. The latter is expected to
voice my policies on the tariff com
mission question.
The campaign for a tariff commits
sion, which has occupied so much of
the time and attention of President
Taft and his advisers, is expected to
reach its climax this month, and the
convention commenced today will go
far toward putting the proposition be-
fore congress and the public, as all
phases of the question are to be dis
cussed by competent speakers. Pri-
m rily hnuvnNnp tho l.,
the purpose of convicing the national
solons that the bill now before them,
providing for a permanent tariff com
mission, represents the popular will
and should be passed
John C. Cobb, vice president of the
Boston Chamber of Commerce, is
president of the association; Henry
r. Towne, president of the New York
Merchants Association, is treasurer,
and Henry r. Wills, secretary. Other
men prominent in the work of the
association include John Kirby, pres
ident of the National Association of
Manufacturers, II. NJ. Miles of Ra-
cine, Wis, and Alba b. Johnson, vice
president OF the Baldwin Locomotive
Works OF Philadelphia.
Officials of the association point
out that in twenty-eight states last
fall the republican platforms includ-
ed planks indorsing the tariff com
mission idea, while in not one state
was it opposed. In two states the
commission idea was indorsed in
democratic platforms, and opposed in
three. Eighty-eight important trade
and business bodies all over the
country have affiliated with the as
sociation and indorsed its program.
Geographically, the tariff commits
sion idea is most generally favored in
the central and middle western states.
The sentiment favoring such a per-
manent commission is said to be rap
idly gaining in the east and far west
II is admitted that little interest in
lut SuuJtNl udS btth lA
the southern states, but even there,
it is alleged, such opposition as ex-
lists is directed rather toward the
republican treatment of the question
rather than to its basic principles.
Resolutions have been prepared and
will be passed by the convention in
dorsing the work of the present tar
if board, which, it is said, has done
great deal of work in laying the
foundation for a systematic and intel
ligent investigation of the tariff. 1t
has gathered information as to each
article mentioned in the tariff, the
actual cost of production, actual
prices at home and abroad, peculiar
local conditions affecting particular
industries and the general conditions
of home and foreign competition TO
which they are subject.