Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-02

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enough to tell his colleagues that the
result Of the recent election does not
| prove that the majority of the people
OF the United States desire deep cuts
| into the body Of the rates
There are views expressed Just
counter TO those of Mr.. Doremus
Some of the Democratic party leaders
want the revision to be 1'as deep as a
Wen and they say that the results
will in no wise be disastrous to busi-
ness and that the only thing which
keeps the party timorous on the subject
Is the assertion of the opposition that
a tariff for revenue only will mean
business disaster and the defeat Of
the Democracy at the next election.
The radical revision Democrats tell
their brethren that the last thing to
pay attention to is the advice of the
threats of men who want to see tri-
umphant Democracy become defeated
Democracy.
May Not Resemble Former Bills.
Few Republicans and few Progress
sive Republicans in Washington be-
lieve apparently that the next Demo
cratic tariff bills will bear any close
resemblance to those formulated by
the ways and means committee at the
last session. Some of the Democrats
hold to the views of the opposition in
this matter, although they content
themselves with saying that the wis
dom of hn
tee can be trusted.
At the last session the Democratic
tariff bills which passed the house
were sanctioned by the senate only
after their form had been changed.
The compromise in the senate was eff
fected by a combination of the Demo
Gratis and some of the Progressive Re-
publicans who are known as moderate
protectionists. If the Republican aid
had not been forthcoming the bills
which Mr.. Underwood's committee
framed and which the house passed
never would have reached the passage
stage in the senate.
President Taft interposed his veto
of the atic-Progressiye Repub-
lican measures of the last session and
there are some critics of the con-
gressional action who say that the
bills would not have been passed I'M
less it was known that the president
was certain to intervene with veto.
At the extra session which Mr. Will
son will call for the purpose of revis-
ing the tariff, the customs bills which
are passed are almost certain to be
signed and therefore the men who
are responsible for their passage must
be prepared to take the full RESPONSE
bility for the laws when they go into
effect.
Lever Bill in Senate.
At the last session the house
Of representatives passed bill
framed by Representative Asbury
f. Lever of South Caroline which has
for its object what may be called in
a sense a subsidy by the government
in behalf of the agricultural interests
OF the United States. In congress ag-
riculture has been spoken of as the
greatest profession" and the idea
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appropriation with an equal appropri-
alton from each state which will grant
1t for the purpose of paying agricul-
tural demonstrators who will go to
the different farms in their allotted
territory to give to the farmer the
benefit of experience and advice in
the matter of intensive agriculture.
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senate, and if it passes and is signed
by the president, as it probably will
be, it will virtually at once become a
law. II, however, the senate fails to
pass it at this session the measure
will fail and work on 1t must be be-
ton of the promoters to continue their
labor in it's behalf All bills die when
a congress dies, and this congress
| dies on March 4 next.
Farmers Should Study Bill.
The Lever bill has been mentioned
in these dispatches prior to this.
There has been a good deal of inter
est in the measure, but it is suggested
to the agriculturists of the country
that they get copies Of the bill, study
it and find out if it meets with their
approval in all it's details. Congress
| is apt to pass bill which is backed
by letters of approval from the men
and the communities supposed to be
| benefited by it, and it is likely to
kill bill if the letters concerning it
show marked disapproval or if ap-
prevail and disapproVal are about
evenly divided
The Lever bill calls for federal
appropriation of 100000 to be ex-
tended over a period of ten years,
| with the states of the Union subscrib-
ing an equal amount. The author OF
| the bill says that Belgium and other
European countries through the intro
duction of intensive farming methods
are producing from two and one-half
to three times as much per acre as
America Mr.. Lever says that were
this country to approach the European
scale it would be equivalent to the
discovery Of colony equal in size to
the present territory of this country.
The support for the Lever bill
comes from both parties in congress,
fact which is true also of the oppo
sition to t. 1t is proposed to pay
farm demonstrators salaries, one-haif
to be paid by the state and one-half
to be paid by the National govern
ment The appointment Of the demon
strators and the control Of their work
I is to be entirely in charge of the au-
thorities Of the agricultural colleges
of the states In which the demonstra-
tors work
! formed police force cleared the street
in front Of the Hotel Metropole in or
der that the assassins might pot their
victim without interruption.
A night or two after the killing a
very tired man was clinging to an