The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-03-26
What Democratic Revision Of
The Tariff Really Means
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| ing refused hearing to laboring men
manufacturers and every one inter
ested directly or indirectly in the
bill dealing with metals and manu-
features thereof, pushed that measure
to passage with little more than q
days consideration and debate, not
withstandlng there are eighty-three
| distinct industries which produce
goods included in this schedule. The
public has been led to believe that
the schedule relates almost exclusive
ly to iron and steel, and IL reductions
were made they would effect only che
Steel Trust. The truth is, there are
In the United States about twenty.
five thousand establishments produc.
ing articles covered by the iron and
steel schedule. They have a capital
invested Of nearly for billion dollars,
employ one and one-quarter million
wage earners, who receive for their
labors seven hundred and fifty million
dollars in wages, and have an annual
production OF more than four billion
dollars. And yet we find the future
of these vast American industries
turned over to a subcommittee for
consideration and determination OF
the rates of duty without granting
a single person chance to be heard
as to what effect the proposed rates
would have upon these American ill.,
dustries.
The chairman of this subcommittee
Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer, now serv-
ing his second term in Congress, in
his opening remarks defending the
measure, made this confession:
II am not an expert upon the gen.
eral tariff question, nor have | any
other than the ordinary knowledge Ct
that particular phase OF the question
which is involved In the discussion of
the proper rates to be levied upon
metals and the manufactures of met
ais"
Due credit should however, be Civ
en- 10 the expert knowledge of the
Democratic members of that sub-com-
mittee, for It must not be forgotten
that Congressman Dixon, OF North
Vernon, village in Indiana. who is
a lawyer by profession, was the 9TH
er Democratic member of the sub
that revised the iron and
steel schedule. ask the American
people II an industry II such vast
Importance, having millions of stock
holders, and employing a million ana
n quarter OF wage earners, should
be treated so flippantly. ! do not
hesitate to say that 1t is not tariff
bill for protection, or one for reven-
ne only, but a tariff purely for poll
teal purposes. l do not believe the
American people will be deceived or
that confidence will be inspired in the
Democratic party by any such &C.
tons.
Evidently, the manufacturers Of
this country are not the only ones TO
feel the blighting acts of Democracy
for In the naval appropriation bill
plan is proposed which. II carried out
will mean our early elimination as a
sea power. The Democrats could have
directed no more fatal blow at our
navy than to abandon the battle ship
program which has put the American
navy in the first rank of the world to-
day. Our army also Is to be weaken
ed by cutting down the cavalry one
third, and at time when the neces-
sity Of patrolling two thousand miles
of border for an Indefinite period
makes a heavy demand upon our
mounted service.
This is all done on the name OF
economy, but 1t is really for politi-
cal use in the coming campaign. Hon
Champ Clark in an article in The
Independent of January %, 1912,
makes this statement:
The tariff bills which we passed
and which President Taft vetoed
would have saved to the American
people about five hundred millions
of dollars and yet at the same time
would have raised abundant revenue
to support the Government"
The United States imported in the