Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-01-05

ed the amount OF our pfoductipn ana
We are able TO get living prices to
nay for the labor and capital en-
ployed In production. the centers o.
population who consume our surplus
products Of the ranch, the farm and
other products OF the soil. demand
the removal OF the tariff on what
We produce. well knowing that II will
be retained on articles to which their
labor is applied.
No such proposition OF wholesale
and fragrant discrimination has ever
been proposed before. II is well
known that those who favor free
meats. free hides, free Tool. and the
free importation OF so-oalled raw ma
terials. for the most part do II TO-
the benefit OF the so-callea consumer
mr. manufacturer. and the underlying
reason extends 10 all farm products
as was fully evidenced by the pass
age OF the Canadian treaty, admitting
livestock and farm PRODUCTS from
Canada free for the admitted reason
of cheapcnine them in this country.
II there was a proposition TO put
everything on the free list, IL would
ne different. but nobody proposes that
and everybody knows II would imme-
ldiatelv wreck and ruin most of the
manufacturing industries of the coun-
try. Hence tariff sufficient to yield
probably s400. 100000 will be re-
tanned and that equitably distributed
would afford sufficient preference Ia
our home markets to insure the Am
erican producer the advantage of the
American market as against giving II
10 foreigners II that is treason let
the Times make the most OF II.
No man should have such advan-
tages In the home market as TO en-
act undue profit. and the stock raiser
and farmer never has had it and
can never get 1t, but are now for
the first time In a position 10 reap
the advantage OF better price at
home than abroad and get 4 living
D. wage. and Just as soon as that time
comes We hear the cry Of free trade
for them. but not for the manufac-
turers
The Cattle Raisers' association OF
Texas opposes II as do livestock men
and farmers throughout the western
part Of the United States The Re
; publican party put hides on the free
list. they helped to pass the free
list bill in the house they advocate
free raw material Roth Republic
ans and Democrats from labor cen.
tors demand the free list on what
We eat.
How then does the FL Paso Times
reach the conclusion that the Cattle
Raisers association is an adjunct 10
the Republican party? What the
Cattle Raisers' association docs is TO
stand up for the rights of its mem
hers, regardless of partisan politics,
in the bare hope of fair treatment
4 fro mhoth. But II realizes that un.
less the stock raising and farming
elements of this country stand up
for their rights and make themselves
felt. they will be deprived of all the
benefits Of whatever tariff system Is
enacted and subject to all its bur
dens
The Times also points out that
the executive committee OF the Cat
tie Raisers association endorsed the
Aldrich financial bill Nothing of
: the kind took place. What It did do
was to declare that II did not en-
Gorse It hut that the provisions of
the proposed hin might nc consid-
cred with a view of enacting a cur
rency measure and recommended that
II that should result in providing an
asset currency, then that II embrace
provisions for using Gotten and grain
warehouse receipts as enc of the best
possible assets.
Further than this the association
has not Ione into matters which by
any possibility might be called no
litical. Il has advocated those re-
forms along economic lines which
affect the business OF its members
and has advocated or opposed meas
ures in congress and the legislature
affecting the business and well be-
ing of It's members. always reg sd
less OF partisan politics
trust that it will never do less.
hut continue TO do more and that
the time will never come when the
Democratic party of Texas will de-
clare in favor OF those policies or
laws which will place orr producers
IN a free trade basis for what they
produce and leave them the burden
Of the tariff that must and will be
retained on the products OF the east
which fill the shelves OF our stores
and which we buy to supply our daily
: necessities or Injuries.
AS the acts OF the Cattle Raisers'
association in opposing free hides and
free meats is the only political Of
Tense that can be charged. II may be-
well 10 here remark that the claim
by the tanners and shoe manufac-
turers that shoes would he cheapen-
ed was the controlling cause OF plac-
. ing hides on the free list. But on