Evening times-Republican., 1913-10-04
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE Is
PREPARING TO DEFEND MEAS.
uRE AGAINST ATTACK.
EXPERT EMPLOYED TO
FORMULATE LITERATURE
Material to So Widely Distributed -
Plans Made to Cover Whole Country
in Systematic Manne-chautauqua
Speaker Also to Defend Measure -
Varying Opinions as to Tariff Law.
Especial Correspondence.]

! Washington. oct. 1.-THE democratic
! congressional committee has practical
! ly decided on campaign of education
/! on the tariff. II is going to the country
| With defense of the Underwood Sim
mons i'll. The method of doing this has
| been about decided on.
! a tariff expert, Lee Francis Lybarg-
! er Pennsylvania man and friend Of
4. Mitchell Palmer, has been watching
closely all the proceedings in congress
on tariff and has been following close
/; y all the debates. He is represented to
the congressional committee as being
! loaded for bear" with respect to the
tariff. He is supposed to know more
about the new tariff bin than most OF
the men who made il. The committee
Will avail itself of his services and in
formation.
To Send Out Literature.
The plan will be TO have literature
prepared setting forth the good feat
ures of the new bill from the demo-
cratic standpoint. This literature,
however, will not be the ordinary tar
III literature. It will consist of brief,
, catchy paragraphs portraying in an at
tractive way the effects of large num-
i'eTs of important items or features Of
the bill.
This material is to be widely dis
tributed. In fact, the plan is to cover
the whole country with il in a system
attic way. 1t will be sent to dem ocratic
editors to be used to afford texts. OF
course. editors who are so inclined can
use scissors and paste.
Moreover, democratic speakers will
be furnished with the material and it
will be widely used on the stump.
To Take chautauqua Platform.
Lybarger himself does chautauaua
work and talks tariff from the chau-
tauqua platform. He will utilize some
OF the material that way.
In addition to this systematic cam
paign by the distribution OF special
tarin literature to democratic news
papers and speakers, It is the intention
to prepare tariff handbook. This plan
was talked about some months ago.
Now. 1t is the expectation to use much
OF the material prepared for the news
papers and speakers to make up
simple booklet on tarin which can be
scattered broadcast thru the country.
Will 1t Need Defsnse7
folks who thought the passage OF
Tor awhile from hearing tariff discussed,
1t VIII be seen from this, are ain
wrong" They had forgotten about the
campaign committees and overlooked
the fact that the democratic campaign
MANAGEMENT. the bill having been
passed, will have to defend It. At least
the committee thinks 1t will or course
If the bill cuts the cost of living and
saishes most folks 1t will need little
defense. On the other hand, If IL does
what Serene Payne and some of the
republican warhorses say it will do,
whole carloads Of literature will NOT
avail to defend it. The democratic ocn-
gressional committee. however. will
take no chances and will endeavor by
ample use of argument in time to make
as many people as possible look at the
new measure with favorable considera-
ton. The leaders think this will help
make the bill work out without serious
hurtful effects.