Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
SPECIAL WASHINGTON CORES
PoNpENcE.
By Clyde H. Tavenner.

W oS1ASooiS. AC WO0lSll oSuSuulC
will be taken up first. The lumber
and cotton schedules will receive ear
ly consideration.
In some cases articles entering in
to competition with trust controlled
products will be placed on the free
list There will be real reductions in
the tax upon the necessaries CT life,
such as beef and other commodities
which American manufacturers are
selling cheaper abroad than at home. /
Gradual reductions will be made in
all schedules until a maximum-rev-
producing rate shall have been
reached. The tariff will then be a
tariff-for-r revenue basis.
The last paragraph is the NEST inn
portant of all, because II is the key
to the revision Of tariff by the DEM
ocratic party. The term gradual re-
ductions' is guarantee to the bust
ness world and especially to the pro
tected industries Of the United States,
that no industry will be ruthlessiy cut
down. Manufacturers who have been
fed ON the intoxicant protection so
long that they have come to believe
they could not exist without it, will
not have all their stimulant taken
away on the instant Such violent
treatment would hardly be advisable.
Over-protected industries like the
sugar and steel industries may be
likened to humans who have become
SO accustomed to the use of drugs
that their very existence seems to
demand more and more. A physician
would not be likely to deprive such a
patient of his stimulant all at once,
lest the shock might prove disastrous.
1t is the same with the steel trust,
or any other over-protected industry.
1t might suffer too great a shock, and
cause too great an upheaval of bust
ness, if all the protection should be
taken away suddenly. The demo-
Gratis mean to start their ship toward
a tariff-for-revenue, and to keep sail
ing constantly in that direction until
port is reached.
i There is maximum-revenue-I roduc
| ing tariff rate on every article. UP
to that rate all are revenue rates; ;
above that they are protective and
approximate the prohibitiye or
course rates below the maximum-rev-
enue-producing rate are protective
pro tanta,-that is, as, far as they go
This incidental protection, can not
be helped, and may be allowed to
make up the actual difference in the
cost of production at home and
abroad.
], Under a revenue tariff, If our man
ufacturers undertake to put up prices
t too high, more foreign goods will
come in and the government will col
!ect more revenue, while at the same
, time the consumer will buy his goods
1T lower figure.
On the other hand rates above the
naximum-revenue-producing rate. a
though the dominant idea Is protec
ton, produce some revenue, which
iiminishes precisely in the proportion
as the rates approximate the prohib
! tive.
So much for the manner of the tar
1T revision by the democrats. Nov
here is how the common people ar
concerned:
There will be big reduction OF
nearly every article in the wooler
schedule. The democrats will lea.
off with this schedule because 1t i.
the most obnoxious feature Of the
Payne Aldrich-smoot law. and works
severe hardship on ali who use wool
ems, and nearly everyone does. Pres
: ident Taft himself declares the wool
en- schedule to be ''indefensible."
: 1t is certain the 105 per cent. ta1
: on womenis WOODEN dress goods will
be cut way down. The duty on mems
, clothing will also be reduced. Blank
cts, flannels, carpets, mems, wo
: mems and children's underwear
], shawls, knit goods and other wooler
manufactures are now taxed from 81
to 140 per cent. and the rates on all
these articles will be lowered.
The democratic ways and mean
committee will probably recommend
the repeal of the tariff ON wood pulp,
print paper, lumber, timber and logs
and place these articles on the free
list. The lumber trust has such com
1 plete control of the lumber business
t that downward revision of the tariff
fails to be effective so far as protect
s ing the common man from excessive
prices. When the Payne Aldrich
Smoot bill was framed, the duty or
a certain class of humber was reduc
, ed 81 per thousand fee, and the lum
+ Der trust, as if to show its contempt
> Tor mere downward revision of the
tariff raised the price of lumber sc
that before the members Of congress
got away from Washington the price
had gone up 81. The Denver demo
cratic platform of 1908 pledges the
party to place wood pulp and lumber
on the free list.
Taft Furnishes Insurgents.
;, President Taft is still fighting des
perately to check the progressive
movement, probably because he real
ICES that genuine progressives are Ii
able to bolt the party in case of his
denomination for the presidency,
which is practically certain. The
president nominated Guy N. Golf tt
be the United States district attor
ney at Milwaukee. Golf seems t.
have a good record. but that ap
pears not to have been the CHIEF
reason for his nomination. PresidenI
Taft, it is charged by progressive
republicans, appointed Golf simply be