The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-10-05
md worsted industry is of conse-

The magnitude of the Job See ms
tremendous, but it has been dem
Onstrated that with sufficien,
force of people, working along al
intelligent, systematic course, that
the results may be as accurately
calculated as the annual statement
of fifty thousand dollar corpor-
alton.
The simplicity of the plan is
admirable, and the ease with which
it may be comprehended by the
average mind, is a striking merit
of the great work. The results
are subject to the application of
the methods of the crank of pro-
tective tariff, the tariff for rev.
enue only man, the free trader, or
the simple tariff reformer' who
wants only to equalize the differ
ences existing at home and abroad.
There need be no doubt in the
mind of the individual law maker
as to the rate of tariff which will
meet his general views as to the
way in which schedules should be
arranged.
1t would be passing strange if
the heads of some great CONNER
cial enterprises should blindly at
tempt to run their business with
out regard to the varied conditions
that entered into the affairs of
their own concern; yet tariffs have,
since the beginning of the country
been created in an entirely hap
hazard manner, and whether 20,
20 or b per cent, is a fair ratio
of guess work on the part of con-
gressmen who handled the wool
bill in the special session, is al
most as probIematical as the num-
Der of stars in the milky way.
1t is very clear that the govern
ment proceeds with snail-like pace
to the settlement of some of it's
greatest problems. And as your
correspondent said in the outset a
thorough understanding of what
the tariff board is doing, is con-
vincing that the whole tariff ques-
ton is merely a matter of account
ing and bookkeeping, not half as
difficult as the classifications that
have been recognized in the sta
tistics of the census department,
and vastly inconsequential to the
tasks of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, through which rail.
road rates have been fined and
regulated. Any first class public
accountant could take the data of
of the tariff board and frame a
logical tariff schedule for the
woolen industry, when the data
now being gathered is complete.
Whether several hundred congress-
men and senator's could do as much
remains to be seen.
The greatest thing about the
tariff board is that it absolutely
determines questions of dispute
between the political parties in
reference to tariff schedules, and
simplifies the matter to such an
extent that the great national
guessing contests within the big
political parties, need only to be
brought down to a system of hunt.
ing out 'brass tacks" through the
guide furnished by the tariff boarc
and by little persistent labor
carried on in an intelligent man
ner, any kind of a tariff scheme
ranging from free trade to a pro
hibitive tariff, can be worked out
What with Postmaster Genera
Hitchcock carrying mail in an air
ship out on Long Island, New
= York; Secretary Fischer, of th'
5 Interior Department, crossing bat;
: with Senator Bristow over tn
4 question as to what constitutes tn
brand of progressive republican
! most in demand; Secretary Wilson
: trying to hold down the Vile.
o controversy; Attorney Geners
s Wickersham protesting that b