Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-02
TARIFF IS G. 0. P.
MUMBO JUMBO"
Congressman Townsend Tells
Audiences in Oranges Trick
Is Played Out
HE AND WALTER /. MCCOY
MAKE WHIRLW WIND TOUR
They AssaiI Republican and
Moose Attitude on Pro-
tective System.

The protective tariff DOGGY was
exposed to the keen satire of Con-
gressnen Walter I. Mccoy and Ed
yard w. Townsend last night as they
made whirlwind tours of the Oranges.
addressing crowded houses. The can
didates for reelection from the Ninth
and Tenth districts invoked consider
able hstrnor N their appeal as they
bitterly Denounced the DOGGY" OF
protective tariff.
Congressman Mccoy spoke to his
largest crowd at Electric Park and
Congressman Townsend found "a
large gathering assembled in the
washington Street School, West Or
ange a
Congressman Mccoy's speech in
part follows:
'It seems to be assumed in all
talks Of the Republicans that the
manufacturers of the United States
all want a protective traiff. This,
however. is not SO. Here is what
congressman Redfe1d says, and~re-
member that he is a manufactures
of thirty years standing: I be-
lieve. gentlemen. that protection is
an injury to American manufactur-
ers by limiting their scope and by
narrowing their horizons. L believe
1t costs them enormously in the loss
of foreign business and that Is one
reason why manufacturers in this
country are so rapidly ceasfng TO De
protectfonists. ! have never seen on
the other side of the House a list pro-
duced of the manufacturers in any
line who have not applied for a pro-
fective duty. o have you. But one
reason why the manufacturers OF
this country are abandoning the pro-
tectfonist faith is that their plants
have been stimulated to become SO
large that only in rare years has the
demand in this country become
enough to take their total product
and they have got to sell it abroad.
aRedacld's view Same as carnegie's.'
,.Nr. Redfeld, as you probably Will
remember, is not the only manufact-
urer who took that point OF view.
Mr.. Carnegie, in 1910, t~estifying be-
fore the ways and means committee
of the House of Representatives, said
that the tariff on steel should be les
sened as the steel industry did moi
need the protection. Mr.. Schwab said
the same thing.
Governor Foss, at the; head OF two
of the largest manufacturing concerns
of their, kind in the United States,
both making iron and steel products.
avs i am a manufactures. ! re-
ceiye 4STper cent. protection. l do not
need it and ought not to have 1t. ]
reap the benefit of it,. My stockhold-
ersS share in the benefit, but II Is
tariff graft forced on me and Others
and for which the American nation
Is paying dearly
"Mr. Underwood, chairman of the
present ways and means committee
of the House, who is interested IN the
production of pigiron, stated on the
floor of the House that the concern
which he was interested in could pro-
duce pigiron cheaper than any other
concern in the world and that 1t did
not need any protection.
"Generally speaking, the only manu-
who need protection are
those whose plants are not UP to date
or who for other reasons cannot sue
cessfully compete with others in the
came business iii the United States.
For instance, Mr.. Redleld says: i re-
call three wooden mills that stood
idle for three years because their ma
chinery was out of date and they
would not replace 1t and another that
was idle and stood idle because 1t
was three miles from the railroad
and the carriage killed 1t. Those are
the things that do it and not the dit
ference in the wage rate
How Many People Realie Thiss
"How many people realize that
there are manufacturing houses in
America that sell no goods in the
United States? They pay as high
wages as anyone. There is one in
P-oughkeepsie, N. Y, makers of agri-
cultural machinery; another is in OF
near Newburg, N. Y. There are many
more; one in New York city. This
statement make on Mr.. Redheld's
authority, as one who is thoroughly
familiar with the subject
Congressman Townsend said:
~ have two Republican opponents
a Bull Mooser and a standpatter, whit