The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-06

economy and. set about a mastery of the rudiments of the thing.
 Last year we imported dutiable lumber and manufactures of the value of $3S,0S0,- 375, on which the government collected a tariff tax of $4,349,911 or 1142 per cent. The domestic production reported to the bureau of statistics for the year 1907 was valued at $666, 641, ,367. Now it is superla- lively democratic to assert and to main- tain that the domestic producer added the tariff duty to the price of his goods, which would yield to the sawmill folk S76663, 75z Thus under Senator Bailey's tariff for revenue" the government gets out of lum- Der less than s5,O0O,O00 and the lumber trust more than S75O00,0O0 per annum. And it's mighty little revenue and a mighty heap of graft.
 A tax on lumber. is tax on shelter. It is a tax on houses and barns and furni- ture and farm implements from wagon to hatchet Lumber is a thing of univer- sal consumption, and no citizen from the babe at the breast to the most super annuated old mother on the verge of the grave can get along without it. Nay this tax pursues us beyond death. Your coffin is taxed-unles your estate can stand the cost of a mahogany or rose wood casllet. Our tariff barons are too we'll bred to tax mahogany and rosewood They are on the free list, along with granadla, lancewood, ebony, and other bigh-toned products.
 am told that the head of the lumber trust, man with an unpronounceable Dutch name something like Meyerhaus- CT, has more millions than Rockefeller, probably for the reason that we can get along without coal oil but we must have lumber. This mans concern owns tens of millions of acres of heavily timbered land, and protected by the natural tariff of bulk and weight, and the robber tariff of 11.42 per cent, he fixes the price of your cottage or your blow at whatever he pleases, and that is why the price of lumber has doubled the past double de- cade.
 It is whispered in Gath and proclaimed in Washington that 1t was the lumber trust that caused Lorimer to be elected" senator from Illinois. Watch Lorimer's vote when the democrats proceed to doc tor the lumber schedule.
 MT. Bailey says: My tariff philosophy wholly excludes the idea of projection. D Brave words. And only words. We have seen tHat for less than s5,0O0,00O revenue paid the treasury from his tariff on lum- Der. MT. Baileys tax on that raw ma terial gives to the lumber trust above $75,000 GOO protection I advise MT. Bailey to swap his philosophy" for some va gary.
 When 1t comes to wool, MT. Bailey's philosophy works precisely like 1t does with lumber though the rake-off of the tariff barons is not so great In round numbers we use 800. .O00,0G0 pounds of wool of which we produce some 300, COG, ,000 The tariff on wool is about 50 per cent ad valorem. Add it to the price of the domestic supply. and for every g revenue the treasury gets from this tax the wool growers get s3 graft There is MT. Bai- ley's fellow senator, MT. Warren, a many time millionaire, If report speaks true, who legslates in Congress to tax every human being in America to add to the value of his own property on his sheep ranch.
 But the democrats of the House of Rep resentatives are sound on the tariff and they are resolved to dress the thing in democratic garb, which is free raw ma terals and tariff for revenue only on the finished product ready for consump- ton.
 And if MT. Bailey doesn't'like it, let him hunt up his speech on Tom Patterson and act the rule he there laid down.
 Washington, March 3l.