Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-04-12
PRESIDENT WILSON
TALKS ON TARIFF
He Says Business Men Who Are
Uneasy Have Something to
Be Uneasy About.
JOLTS> THE POLITICIANS
What the People Put on Their Backs
and Into Their stomachs Must Be
Made Cheaper.
JoLTS, THE POLITICIANS
(By John Edwin, staff correspondent of
the United Press)

(By JOhn Edwin, staff correspondent Of
the United Press.)
Washington, April 12.-President
Wilson is standing pat on free sugar
and wool.
The crisis in the tariff fight, reached
today in the house and senate commit.
tees, found the president ready to carry
the fight to the people.
The United Press today is able to pre-.
sent in part, President Wilson 5 tariff
views as he sketched them during the
campaign, as he expounded them TO
congressional leaders and as he expects
to urge them in direct appeal to the
people, if forced to that course.
"What the people put ON their backs
and into their stOmachs must be made
cheaper, no matter who suffers" is
President Wilson s final word to senate
financiers. He insists that the idea that
the passage Of the proposed tariff bill
would be disastrous to the country is
most false.
The President Raps Them,
President Wilson referred his callers
to his frequently uttered views on this
subject, and then said:
"I always am afraid that the bust.
ness men who are so uneasy have some
thing to be uneasy about The Ameri-
can people are taking notice in way
they never took notice before, and gen
tlemen who talk one way and voting an
other are going to be retired to a quiet
and private life" "
The president sees no reason to com.
promise on the tariff bill He believes
the people will support him, and that
he can compel an adjustment Of the tar.
iff. He directed attention to the posi-.
tion he took when it was charged that
n low tariff would hit the farmer, aud
said:
"The American farmer never has
been protected because he never needed
protection, But everything that is worn
and much that is eaten, including meats,
bears n heavy duty, bringing the inter
esting result that the farmers are pay
ing for great deal Of the wealth of
America, but are getting nothing, 30
far as the tariff is concerned.
"It is notorious that many members
of the senate finance committee did not
know that he significance Of the tariff
schedules the committee reported in the
Payne bill. It was always said the
tariff did NOT determine prices, because
so much competition within America
kept American competition and trade on
n level. But haven't you seen competi-
tion disappear Haven't you attended,
by proxy, congressional hearings and
court trials, where the whole process
was disclosed7
Some Straight Talk.
"The country's business is staggering
under masses of stock whereon divi.
dends must be paid by the prices
charged to the consumer, But under the
proposed new tariff bill, tho whole
thing is upon new basis, and business
itself is going to burst It's restrictions.
While our exports in grain aro falling
OFF our exports in manufactured articles
are increasing. We are finding an out
let for these"
This is the presidents position, and
the one taken before the house ways
and means committee, whom he de-.
clarod, in introducing tho tariff bill,
that "tho future growth Of our great
industries lies beyond the seas"
The president has decided that, in
nearly ovcry instance, American bust
ness enterprises will bo restored, as it
must be under the proposed tariff bin,
to a position Of real competition; that
the manufacturer will enlarge his plants
and meet the new conditions in such n
way that the country will enter into a
period Of real prosperity, which will