Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-04-29
THE new TARIFF
BILL DISCUSSED
Reduced Cost Of Living the
Prime Objects Aimed at
in the Proposed Law
MEETS WIDE APPROVAL
The First Tariff Bill Written
in Interest of the People
Since Civil War

WASHINGTON, d. c., April "a
Especial. )-The new tariff bill just
presented to Congress has been re-
ceived with more hearty approval
throughout the country than any that
has been presented heretofore for
more than half century. While the
Republicans have strained every nerve
in endeavoring to find grounds on
which to criticize the same, yet they
have found remarkably little with
which to find fault.
Reducing the Cost Of Living
One of the great objects of the re-
adjustment of the tariff is to reduce
the very high cost of living, by plac-
ing nearly all articles that go into
the market basket on the free list.
Farmer Remembered Too
1t will be recalled that when Presi-
dent Taft negotiated his reciprocity
treaty with Canada few years ago
that cattle and all kinds Of live stock
were admitted free" from Canada
which brought the American farmer
into competition with the Canadian
Farmer, but on the other hand, dress.
ed beef was not admitted free there.
by protecting the great beef trust
needing no protecting. The present
tariff bill admits dressed beef free
from every country thereby compell-
ing the beef packers to compete with
the beef packers of the world. On the
other hand the farmer is remember.
ed by tax of ten per cent on live
stock of all kinds. The bill aims
to reduce the cost of living by re-
ducing the cost to the farmer of pro-
ducing his crop, and along that line
fence wire has been placed on the
free list, and all farming implements
and farm machinery have been plac-
ed on the free list.
This is really the first tariff bill
that has ever been written in the
interest of the whole people since
the Republican party was born. 1t
has been such burden that Hon.
Oscar Underwood, chairman Of the
Ways and Means Committee, who
has been rendering his country a
great service in this bill has almost
broken down under the strain of
| framing this bill. Heretofore the Re-
publicans have been the ones to frame
the tariff bill and "Mr. Steel Trust"
being heavy contributor to the Re-
publican campaign funds would be
invited to come in and write the Iron
and Steel schedule. '.Mr. Sugar
Trust" being another heavy contribu-
tor, would come in and write the su-
gar schedule, and so on down the
list and the whole tariff bill was
written by and in the interest of
those great concerns who were al
ways trying to skin the public.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April &c.
Confronting progressive members of
the house with plank in the ma
tional platform of their party pledg-
ing them to immediate revision Of
excessive tariff schedules" without
waiting for their proposed non-parti-
san tariff commission, Representative
Lawrence B. Stringer, a new member
from Illinois, called upon the third
party representatives in the house
tonight to support the Underwood
bill if they wished to carry out their
party declarations.
"You tell me that the progressive
party favors non-partisan tariff COM
mission" he declared. "That is true
but that plank in the progressive
platform concludes by saying: "The
work of the commission should not
prevent the immediate adoption of
acts reducing those schedules gener.
ally recognized as excessive
Murdoek Appealed To
Waving aloft the quotation and ad
dressing himself to Victor Murdoch,
progressive party leader in the house,
Mr.. Stringer continued:
Il call the attention of the gentle
man from Kansas to the statement
that if he and the progressive mem
bers of this body who he leads de-
sire to carry out the declarations of
their own platform, and l believe they
do, they will be compelled by the
logic Of those declarations to Join
with us in this measure. That plat
form denounces the Pa Aldrich
bill as unjust to the people,. It de-
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