Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-09-21
Measures We're Hastily Drawn up
and Based on no Information
Will do what He Thinks is Right in
Spite of Threats of Defeat

ly advocating statutory tarln com
mission, and depricating any future
revision until needed evidence ha<
been gathered and impartial conclus
ions drawn as to the facts upon which
such revision could be properly made
quote the resolutions from Ohio
New York, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Kan
sas:
Ohio.
Recognizing inequalities due t.
changing conditions or that otherwise
may be found to exist, congress ha,
provided a tariff board, with an am
pie appropriation, for the investiga
tion of the differences in the cost o.
production at home and abroad, 81
that If any rates are found to be high
er than necessary to afford labor {
high wage and capital a fair return
those rates will be reduced.
New York.
In providing, upon the suggestion
of President Taft, for tariff board
it affords the means Of still more &C
curately determining the difference ir
the cost of production at home and
abroad. A~republican congress is nee
essary to provide needed appropria
tions for this board and to assure
business and labor that changes II
rates will be made only to equalize
the difference in cost of production
and not to reduce rates to the free
trade or purely revenue bass favored
hv the Democratic marty.
Wisconsin.
The present tariff board has no pow
er of investigation and is not required
to report to congress. We favor the
creation of non.partisan tariff com
mission, empowered to ascertain the
cost of production in this and other
countries, and required to make fire.
quent reports of the Information gain
ed to congress. Upon the information
so obtained, Congress should proceed
to revise the different schedules inde
pendently of each other, according to
true protective tariff principles.
Iowa.
We favor the creation of an indie.
pendent non.partisan tarli commits
sion, which shall be the instrumental.
ity of congress to ascertain the differ.
ence between the cost of production
here and other countries and publish
the facts so that not only Congress
but the people shall be advised of the
results of the investigations. Until
such commission is authorized they
approve the effort Of the president
to secure the desired Information
a board of experts employed
for that purpose.
Kansas.
We pledge the people of Kansas
that the republican senators and con-
gressmen from this state shall work
and vote for legislation that will
maintain a tariff commission with
ample power and sufficient appropri-
alton to ascertain accurately the dff-
ference between the cost of produc-
ton at home and abroad, and after
such information has been obtained
we hereby pledge our republican soma
tors and representatives Immediately
to fix the duties upon the basis of this
Don't Want to injure Industries
OF course, with republicans, in Or
der to secure q proper revision on
the basis to which they were commit
ted, it was essential to know from an
unbiased source the difference be-
tween the costs of foreign and home
for this was the limit of
protection which the moderate pro-
among them and the last
party platform had set. They did not
wish to injure the important indus
tries of the country by taking away
from them the measure of protection
needed to enable them to live against
foreign competition, but they did in.
tend in the next revision not to give
them more than this.
OF course the democrats recognized
no such measure of protection as just
but many of them contended that
such a commission was necessary to
secure the facts upon which a proper
tariff for revenue only could be franz
ed. The result was that by republi-
ian and democratic votes, and among
he republicans the so-called progress.
sive or insurgent republicans were
The most earnest in its support, q bill
a permanent tariff board Of
i've, to be appointed by the president,
with power to summon witnesses and
their evidence under oath,
vas passed by the house. No more