Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-01-24

form tariff law could be framed
whether the policy might call for tar
if for protection or for tariff for rev.
enue.
AS a matter. of fact" he said, "the
effect Of it's adoption would be that
, the manufacturing states wiuld be
enabled to frame a tariff solely in
their interest and against the inter-
est Of the agricultural states.
What is now proposed is not
general revision of the tariff based
upon information sufficiently com
prehensiye to embrace all the indus
tries in all parts of the country, but
that there shall be a piecemeal re-
vision based on information relating
only to the particular schedule under
consideration at the amount and Civ
ing no heed to its relation to sched-
ules covering other industries
Flint pointed out that there was
now pending in the house motion
to bring up for passage a bill plac-
ing cattle, swine and sheep as well
as all meat products upon the free
list, He said the purpose was to fol-
low this up with separate bills to put
on the free list asphaltum, salt, fish,
seeds, hops, eggs, hay, straw, fax,
beans, beets, onions, peas, potatoes,
butter, cheese, milk, barley, malt,
cornmeal, macaroni, vermicelli, oat
meal, rolled oats, biscuit barley,
buckwheat, corn, maize, oats, rice,
rye. wheat and lumber.
He declared that under a provision
Of this kind the senate would be
called upon to pass bills placing
these articles on the free list one at
time with no power to change or
amend any schedule
Senator Flint said the passage of a
tariff bill that will give protection to
all the industries of the country was
prime necessity.
1--WE are constantly reminded in
framing a tariff bill, it must be re-
membered that a single foreign
country frames tariff bill as we
would for New England alone. In
those countries there is not the di-
versifcation that there is in the
United States. If an attempt should
be made to frame a tariff bill that
would spread It's benefits all over
Europe, then some idea might be OBJ
tained of the difficulty that confronts
MS as tariff makers"
Continuing Senator Flint said
"There are some persons in my
state who have been deluded by the
idea of a purely local tariff They
have been told that 1t was not ex-
pected that the duty or citrus fruits,
olives, olive oil, walnuts and a hun
dred and one things that are raised
I'm my state would be disturbed but
that the robber barons of the tariff
are in the manufacturing states and
that 1t Is on the product of the fac
tories of New England and the East
that the reyislons are to be made in
the proposed tariff, 1t has never oc-
CURED to them that in other parts of
the country local protectionsts are
saying the same thing to the people
OF their sections
81 take it that the people in the
state of Montana who favored tariff
revision did not contend that wool or
lead should be placed ON the free
list And this is true of the local
protectionist in every other state,
"All through the East in the last
campaign the local proteCtionists and
those fayoring a tariff for revenue
only We're saying to the people We
are going to give you modern protec-
ton on what you produce but we will
have free food products from the
West and free raw material
Did they tell the people of the
Eastern manufacturing cepters that
free food products and free raw ma
terials would carry with them cheap
er wages for factory operatives and
a double measure of protection for
the manufacturers?
The local protectionists have been
discussing the matter in the several
sections OF the country one contend
ing for revision in one particular
place and another for revision in an
other particular place, each one la
boring under the impression that he
was toolIng the rest of the country
and only very certainly fooling him-
elt
1T may be that temporarily the
manufacturing interests will be able
! to avail themselves Of the fruits of
thelr victory they seem to have won
md will be able to place on the free
st products of the labor OF the farm
: ers OF the West But the inevitable
lresab OF the adoption of this policy
win be that the farmer his income
cut down, win seek TO buy the man
"t1ctures that he uses in the cheap
est market In the world
And while the fact will remain