The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-17
HILL VS. UNDERWOOD
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 We would not levy tax at all nue But the Government does need l the revenue, over three hundred mil lions of revenue. As the Democratic 1 leader of the House, and without con- ] tradiction I have declared in the l House that the Democratic party pro poses to raise at least as much tax in
 Hilrs party is raising today. THE 1 ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT WE
 EXPECT TO RAISE THEM IN A
 MORE EQUITABLE WAY FOR THE | AMERICAN PEOPLE.''
 He classified the Roosevelt and Taft followers as members of two makes no difference whether you are l of the stand pat Republican party or of the Bull Moose Republican party, | the Republican party stands for tariff | for protection Both want to base their tariff on an equalization of the cost of manufacture at home and i American manufacturer.
 He spoke Of the revision of the Ding
 ley bili. Of the Payne bin. and pointed out that the profits of the American
 manufaci urer are well guarded.
 But am not going to contend
 with nay. friend on what his position
 with the position of the Republican
 party My friend may have changed his position today. bIit when he was on the committee that wrote the
 bill which vi l.rotected the nannfacturers'
 deny it.; X revenue tarin must be
 a competitive tariff. When you equal
 ize exactly the. difference in cost at
 home and abroad-it is impossible to
 do 1t exactly, but yeu can approxi-
 mate--you have got competitive tar-l
 lLffEE Pecause then the smanufacturersl
 both abroad and at home can coms in
 tothe feid-an fight for control of the
 market. But the minute your tax
 goes above the difference in the cost of production, you have a prorective
 tariff am here to say, that if we did not need the revenue would not
 tax he American pc 0.,le. am free to say to you gentlemen who may be a tax on the maority of the people who get less than $500 a year to put money ic vs,ar pockets and make you
 applause. 1 But - as the government has got to have reyenle and has got to run, am perfectly willing to levy you shall enjoy the incidental Denedt from it I recognize
 Of cource the manufactures is en- titled to a reasonable profit rec ognize thath want to ses him sr1c- eeed. hope he will have a reason aFie profit if he is an honest man and is paying his labor an honest wage. 1 But my friends, he is entitled to a reasonable profit If he earns it by the tTsln and sinew of his own right arm l Si1i sISr his E,,yIf 9Tn business , @ a1l.5y dE Is THAT IS MADE FOR HIM BY A | LAl LAW or HE UNITED STATES ence between the Democratic and Rel publican view and you can't get away l from 1t. Some of our Republican, friends are here has given indications tonight that even he is beginning to move They are becoming progressive when they move towards the lights Of a pure Democracy in that they are willing to levy a tariff only for the benefit Of the government not on one class of people for the benefit Of another | claes.''
 Then Congressman Underwood took the big asse1nb lage into his confidence gressman Hills charge of sectional | |
 ''All that own. except my house. is in the iron and steel business, g l said he. can't see any reason why my profits should be protected by a law of the United States government. across the street, or the banker. or the merchant, or the farmer, OR THE OF THE WAGE GARNER IN THIS PROTECTED 
 .But there is no great danger Of these great manufactories being injur- 0Q Dy D61IfOcTdLlC rule. I
 Then Congressman Underwood, fighting HfH in the 1atter's favorfte field, launched into statistiee and showed the protection afforded the z woolen interests and the cotton in- terests through Republican tariff leg slation. He reviewed the history of the tariff discussion of the last Con! gress, arT+aigning Hf11 and his col- leagues as reactionaries.
 "I am not making you any idle prom iseS. my friends,' said Congress- man Underwood. TT ann not telling you what we would do. telling you what we did and what we will do ient of the United States.
 There are two sides to this tariff question: continued Underwood t1i am not going to throw down the man. 1facturers but I am going to see that he great consuming mass of the Am orfcan people get a square deal.
 a"He took up the free list again, and spoke Of putting machine tools on it. He told of the exportatfon Of one-1 enth of the $50,O00.O00 of machine tool products to foreign countries, a large oroportion of the export going to Ger many, where the American manufac~ z urers paid transportation charges.
 And eight per cent. duty, and then told their goods at a 5 per cent. dis E count the American process. And { here was less than $20o, 900 of ma I ,hines all told, imported here,"- de- s dared Underwood. (
 Then Underwood took a different s ack. 'I don't like to brag," said i 1e. "Kut I think, my friend, (turn- ( ng to HflD that I am going to write t he next tariff bill If you think C m wrong, you had better come down T ne going to destroy your indus S ry then I may not write if zs T now t