Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-23
REPUBLICANS open
FIRE ON TARIFF BILL
.SmOOt Sees Everything All
Going to Smash

the UnderwoodSi tariff bill to-
day. Senator Burton, of Ohio, ex-
pressing the assurance that it would
fail in it's purpose to lower the cost
of living, and Senator Smoot, of Utah,
in an address to be continued, brand
ing it as "the most injurious tariff
measure ever taken up for consider
alton by congress-"
This bill" said Senator Smoot, is
partisan and sectional measure, the
outcome of secret caucus methods
such as never ruled before in the SEN
ate of the United States. In his book
| Our New Freedom President Wilson
says that there is no excuse for eau
cusing in congress and in a speech in
Indiana preceding his election he en-
| phasized that point by asserting that
there was no necessity for secrecy in
congressional proceedings. Yet not il
the history of congress has there been
anything equal to this record in the
way of dark methods in the prepare
ton of tariff bill.
Cites FOss' Attitude.
Gov. Foss, of Massachusetts, who
has been three times elected to his
present office by the democratic party,
and was supported as a candidate for
president at the last democratic ma
tional convention, denounces this bill
as a sacrifice of the interests of the
nation. He has purchased site iii
Canada for his large manufacturing
establishment in Massachusetts AMI
will remove his business there if this
bill becomes a law. VIM. R. Hearst
agrees with Gov. Foss. We all kno V
what democrats of Louisiana, Colora-
do, Montana and other states vitality
interested think of this measure
"a former democratic United States
senator from Colorado has denounced
it in vigorous terms. How could aa
do otherwise when it sacrifices prac-
tically every important industry in
that state, as we'll as other states, eI-
cepting possibly some in the South.
Says 1t VIII Hurt South.
Manufacturing is developing all
over the South, crops are more diver
sified and there is every reason to be-
lieve that if left alone under the pro-
tective tariff its prosperity will con-
tinue to increase with great strides
But this bill will hurt instead of help
ing the South, as it's originators seem
to think will be the case"
Analysing the bill from end to end
Senator Smoot declared that if the
many "monstrous' provisions of this
tariff law, perhaps the worst is the
one designed to annihilate the produc-
ton of sugar in this country.
at seems almost incredible that any
party should make itself responsible
for such a great calamity as putting
sugar on the free list to benefit few
refneries on the sea coast" the sena-
tor continued. "The per capita con-
sumption of sugar is over 40 per cent
Of that enters into the manufacture
of confectionery, making a per capita
consumption of the remainder of 4S
pounds.
mo one anticipates the slightest re-
duction in confectionery and such
things as a result of the reduction o.
the duty on sugar. On the remaining
consumption free sugar would appar-
emily make an annual per capita saw
ing of Ga cents but when the beet sugar
industry is eXtinguished, the sugar re-
fners will control the business AMI
the consumer will not benefit as ex,
perience has shown"
Predicting dire results when the bill
becomes law and that the first in
dustries of the country to suffer from
it's passage would not be the great
trusts, and powerful corporations, but
| the thousands of manufacturers of
small capital" Senator Smoot said 81
have been so proud of my countrys
development of her people, that nev