The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-05-02
QUESTIONS IN CONGR ESS
A Little Talk of Hon. Seth W.
Brown to the People of
the Sixth District.


be close to all the people, and that 1t
shall actually represent the people.
Each representative must have been
citizen of the United States for seven
years. He must be resident of the
state in which he is chosen. He must
be elected by the people. His term is
for only two years.
To these provisions, now hundred
and twenty. five years old, we in Ohio
have wisely added the further provi-
sion that the representative must be
nominated by the people, by their
direct vote.
The representative being citizen
and resident among the people, serv-
ing in the light Of thorough publicity,
and answerable to the people at the
end of short term, II must be said
that at least i'm this branch of Congress
representative government is secured.
May not a candidate for representa-
tive contribute something toward the
perfection of this plan for a truly
representative body, by considering
and discussing with the people the
things in legislature which they deem
necessary and appropriate to promote
the common welfare? Is there not
something more, something better and
higher, in becoming member Of the
house, than simply getting "in to
receive the salary and enjoy the honors
Of the position?
AS Republican candidate for the
nomination for representative at the
election of May 81, | take the best
method just now available of consider
ing with the people of the sixth dis.
trict some of the things now up, or in
sight, which will engage the attention
of the next Congress.
Here is the century-old, and yet ever
new, subject of duties on imports.
Regret it or not, try to prevent 1t as
we may, this subject is present, as it
always will be, becau Sc constant
changes of parties having different
tariff policies and constant changes Of
industrial and living conditions, now
and will hereafter stand in the way of
a final settlement. As a member OF
the house, said the best word could,
and cast the vote Of the sixth district,
for the Dingley bill. | would not re-
call that word or that vote. Founded
as this bill was on the sound principle
and the sound practice Of the McKin-
ley bill, prosperity followed its passage.
Certainly some changes in conditions.
requiring changes in tariff schedules,
having occurred during these dozen
years, but should not the people still
demand the benefit Of tariff pr lection
that will protect.
We should wish TO continue TO pay
more for labor than is paid in any
other nation Of the world, and our
tariff duties should he made and kept
at rates which will enable the man
who hires to pay the higher wages
here, and the higher cost OF manufact-
ure here, and a reasonable profit for
himself.
At any time when it is shown that
tariff schedule creates, or fosters, a
trust, or a monopoly, giving undue
profits to the manufacturer, and in.
creasing the cost Of living, revise the
schedule downward and If ever we do
lower our protection wall' we should
not begin to lower it at points which
particularly protects the interests of
the farmers. The injustice of break
ing down the wall at such points would
be akin to the injustice Of the single
tax on land.
Can the people of our district hold
fast to anything better than the prin-
cinle of protection, applied intelligent
ly to new conditions as they arise, and
applied always in such way as will
make increased cost, If any, fall upon
the luxuries and not upon the necessa-
ries Of comfortable living?
or some kin to the tariff for raising
revenue is tax on incomes. In the
view Of the supreme court Congress
cannot provide for such tax, however
necessary or just it is, without violat-
ing the constitution. To meet this
situation the president in 1909 recon-
mended, and congress proposed, a
constitutional amendmen authoriz'
ing law for an income tax. This
amendment has been ratified 10y thirty
states, including Ohio, Six more rati
flying states are needed to make three
fourths of our forty eight states. II
is hoped the other necessary half dozer
may be obtained before the end Of thi
year. With this amend ment ratified
perhaps as early as the next Congress
a law can be enacted which will reacl
the vast net incomes of all the Carne
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