Arizona republican., 1913-03-02
On theiY O1On merltS, modest men ore dumb.
 ---GeOTge COIman.
The Live Stock Industry and the Tariff

The Live Stock Industry and the Tariff
 The ways and means committee the house ol representatives is engaged preparing the taritr program for the next congress, which, it is announced. will meet extraordinary session April l. The committee is said declared among other things. for free In this sub jrct Arizona, well the entire west, is greatly concerned for the declaration is threat against one three great industries of this state
 The expression, free meats" sounds well the consumer who has been paying runous prices for meats But free meat does not mean cheaper neat is tariff legislation though always enacted in the name of the consumer, intended for his benefit
 The removal of the tariff cattle would lessen the price cattle the packer and the butcher the price would be slightly lower that the difference would be wholly absorbed before the would reach the table of the consumer. Slight the reduction of the price of cattle would be, it would the difference between profit and loss in the cattle industry many cattlemen would be driven of business. result would be the rais- ing of fewer cattle this country, intensfying of a condition of which there is already complaint and consequent excuse for the packers to further increase the prices O meats.
 The congress and the country should take a les son from the result of the tin1ering with the tariff on wool in the Wilson bill. Consumers should not forget the disappointing effect, the ruin the wool
  to anybody the manufacturer. the jobber and, perhaps, the retail merchant. though generally the benefit wholly absorbed by the manufacturer and the jobber.
 Men of middle age will recall that there has been time since the restoration of the tariff on wool the Mckinley administration, when they could buy better suit of clothes less money than they could buy any time during the operation 0 the Wilson law. They will also recall that while that law was effect they could buy clothes cheaper than formerly and that there was money with which to buy them.
 The convention the American Live Stock As socation this city January, opposed the pro posed removal the tariff live in the fol- lowing resolution:
 l. That We demand the retention of
 fcent duties imports of live stock and it's
 products and all farm products of this coun-
 try will be equal, fair and just to the in-
 dustry which represent. compared to the
 import duties other products. whether
 those duties shall be levied for the avowed
 purpose of protection, or for the avowed pur-
 pose of producing revenue to run the govern
 ment.
 2 We condemn as unjust unfair and
 discriminatory the bill which places hides on
 the free list and demand the restoration of
 same, and declare that unalterably
 opposed to the placing of live stock and live
 stock products and the products of the farm
 and ranch the free list.
 our own state association had previously adopted similar resolution. We believe it is the duty of all business men. all citizens Arizona to try to give these resolutions effect We believe that legis- should assist in the preservation of the live stock industry by official expression to congress against the proposed removal of the tariff.
 If as a result of it's removal consumers would be materially benefited benefited at all, sonable objection could be offered The good of the whole people, the greatest number of the people, is more essential than the survival of any industry IJ,,+ +l,, ba oyyi6a spread benefit from the removal of the tariff cattle, and there would certainly be a consequent disadvantage to all except a favored few.