The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-26
THE NEW TARIFF MAKERS.

OF the committee Oh W avs anu means
In the next Congress are lawyers.
Three OF them are minority members
Of the Ways and Means Committee in
the present Congress. The oldest
among them has seen nfiy-sevcn sum
mcrs and the Youngest has barely
crossed the thirty seventh parallel.
Only four OF them come from important
manufacturing towns-Underwood OF
Alabama. who will be chairman Of the
Committee, and who lives at BirminE
,ham. where there are blast furnaces.
rolling mills. steel works and railroad
New York: Andrew James Peters, Of
Boston. and William Hughes. or Patcr-
:don. New Jersey, where there arc loco
motive and bridge works. cotton, wool.
silk and linen factories. The other
Democrats on the Committee como from
very small communities, HULL, OF zen
nessee. hailinG from Carthage. which
with its 900 population does not wish
TO be dcstroycd: James from Ken
tuckr: lNitchin from North Carolina.
Hammond from Minnesota, Rainey from
Illinois, Dixon from Indiana, Palmer
from Pennsylvania. Shackleford from
Missouri, Randell from TEXAS and
Brantley from Georgia. Underwood has
been in Congress for ten years and the
next Oldest member OF the Committee
In point OF service is Brantlcy
These arc the men who were select
r:l tic IL
10 franc the tariff bills that will BE
introduced III the next Congress- ana
we have not the least doubt that they
will do their work we'll. Some exccs-
'1ively nervous people think that they.
Will not be as conservative as the So
called business interests" would like
and il need not cause surprise il they
so about their business without spc-
cial concern for any particular class in
the country. Thcrc will be sore dis
appointment II they do not frame a bill
Il that VIII revise the tariff downward
thus fulfilling the pledges OF the Re
publican party at the last Presidential
elccton and Justifying tho restoration
OF the Democratic party TO power The
,act that most of the Democratic Nom
bers Of tho tariff making committee
come from small country communities
affords the best assurance that The IN
tercsts Of the people will be regarded
IN INC making of tho new law. The
next Democratic tariff will not be made
In secret conclave. behind closed doors
at the dictation OF the representatives
III Congress of the special interests a:
the Payne Aldrich bill was made ".
may be sure. The country lawyers O,
5 the Committee will doubtless be glat
10 near the interests" but cominr
from near the people who pear tn,
burden Of the tariff taxes as they bea,
the burden Of all other taxes. thew vii
take good care that the welfare O
their immediate constituents is no, las
sight OF in the general scramble anon.
the infant industries" for We; nor,
protection.
The tariff is to be revised this tim,
IN earnest and in the interest OF III.
people. In order that the people ma,
know exactly how ii is done. we woul,
suggest that all hea rings before tn.
Committee be held out in the omen
that there he no backdoor business - !
time. tina, the tarin duties be la;a ~
for protection but for revenp. on,v
and that. in reckoning the amount !,
be raised BY the tariff. accom-, y,
taken only of the needs Of no t;oy
eminent economically administered
We have heard r-r.,t d,.,,
scientific n,,bods i I'D " -"
tho schedules 50 that Amcrioa, u
dustry will NOT he b,,rt 800