The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-10-05
INVESTIGATES TARIFF BOARD
Correspondent of the News
writes entertainingly of the new
tariff factory in the national
capital, new schedule
easily made
SPECIAL TO The News

sonally conducted tour of the
headquarters of the Tariff Board,
in order that they might learn as
did your correspondent that the
universal. belief that the tariff is a
dry and uninteresting question,
and what is more important-it's
solution hopeless problem, is en-
tirely mistake, owing to the
method of work being carried on
by the Tariff Board.
If this simple statement has
served to carry the reader beyond
the customary point where having
discovered that the subject per-
tains to the tariff, and he is still
willing to follow your correspond
ent, | will endeavor to give him
something new' that may mod
ify his previous notions concern
ing this over ripe subject.
The tariff board is applying sim
pie rules long recognized in priv
ate business, in the classification
of industries. A striking proof
shown by their work is that while
it NAV he that the members of
the Board are not tariff experts.
as has been claimed, that their
work absolutely demonstrates that
the so-called authorities of con-
gress, working with their prim-
tive methods, could never posi-
bly, an intelligent tariff schedule
of any kind. Wool and worsted
statistics are now being prepared,
and a corps of representatives are
in the field covering every detail
entering into the question of cost
regarding the growth and manu-
facture of woolen goods. BY the
same principle by which farmer
who keeps first class set of
books can tell at a glance the cost
per bushel or acre of raising any
portion of his crops; or by the
methods employed by corporations
and manufacturing institutions,
enabling them to compute the
price which they must command
to secure profit on their pro-
ducts, has our industrial and CON-
mercial development been able to
advance along safe lines. Tagging
far behind comes the government
of our country, now proposing to
substitute in place of guessing that
washed heeces and unwashed COMB
ings may be produced at given
figure, a method whereby the act
ual prices governing the growth
of wool, it's manufacture, etc :,
may be ascertained. An army of
trained men has been dispatched
to every section of the country,
and working upon carefully pre-
pared schedules they have analyzed
the differences in conditions exist
ing in Wyoming, New Mexico,
Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Colora-
do, Arizona, Washington, and
other western states, where the
growth of wool is carried on as
great and separate industry, indie.
pendent of other branches of farm
ing. An entirely different condi
ton exists in states like Ohio
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin
Indiana, Iowa. Nebraska, South
Dakota and other states, where
wool growing is recognized a.
only a part of the general scheme
of farm life-not constituting I
separate industry. The results o
the tariff, as it affects the WOO
grower in each state, may be an
ticipated when taken in connection
with the absolutely correct figure
governing every phase of the in
dustry.
The agents of the tariff board
besides their work in the Unite
States, have covered every coun
try in the world, where the VOC