The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-22
TARIFF MEASURE
HOTLY ATTACKED
BY REPUBLICANS
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D1 REPUBLICANS
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continued. Tho per capita consump-
| ton OF sugar is over clghty-onc pounds
| annually now. and 40 per cent Of that
enters into the manufacture of con
/ fcctioncry, etc. making per capita
consumption OF the remainder Of forty
/ eight pounds. No one anticipates the
! slightest reduction in confectionery and
/ such things ~ result Of the removal
of the duty on sugar. on the remain
ing consumption. free sugar would APP
parcntly make An annual per capita
| saving Of per cent. but when the
| beet sugar is distinguished, the sugar
/; renners will control the business and
the consumer viii not benefit. az
] Eeriencc has shown
! Predicting dire results when tho bill
becomes Il law. and that the first in
| dustrics Of the country 10 suffer from
| It's passage would not be the great
! trusts and powerful corporations. but
! the thousands Of manufacturers OF
small capital" Senator Snoot said: II
/ have been 80 proud OF my country's de-
| vclopnent and her people that never
get tired of singing her praises nor
I never cease thanking my God that |
was born an American. am interested
in maintaining her present standard Of
living and preventing. If possible. her
q NOTklUB people IIOlI coming IN NiIttl
competition with the unfortunate work
/! ing people of less favored countries.
\ There is only one way to prevent il.
and that Is By n protective tariff. and,
/ therefore. | have been and am Still a
( protcctionist without qualification"
TnIks of Foreign "Lobhy.''
Asserting that a foreign lobby" had
! Influenced the Democrats in the franz
Ing OF tho Underwood Simmons tariff
/ bill. Senator Smoot attached the
measure. He painted picture
of mills shut down workmcn un-
employed, investors ruined and an
era OF general financial and indus
trial depression as the result OF the
! lcvcling of tariff walls European ma
lions. he declared. were not so much
1 10 be feared as competitors as the ma
/ lions OF the Orient.
There has been a lobby here in be-
half OF foreign manufacturers" he
! charged such was never before
| witnessed in tho history OF tho nation
/ they asked for. The Italian Chamber
I OF Commerce o: New York asked Cor
! certain reductions. and the Democrats
/ in nearly ever" case have given them
more than they asked"
Tho Senator assailed tho increase in
the free list. especially with reference
Y TO sugar. wool pig iron and textiles
! He charged that tho sugar industry
/ Of Hawaii and Porto Rico would BE-
| ruined. with consequent benefits 20 the
so-calIed sugar trust" and that China,
with it's great steel plants. would cap
1 turc the steel business OF the Western
/ Hemisphere.
Referring 70 the Walker tariff bill
/ NJ 1850 on which he contcnded the
present bill was largely modelled, MIR.
Smoot said tho Walker law provided
for tho admission free OF only about
Q per cent cr Imports. while tho I'm
( d"rwood Simmons measure allows 90
per cent Of tho greatly Increased vol
urne OF incoming trade 10 enter un-
taxed.
Under tho walker law. he added. the
average rate OF duty on all imports
was 23.l6 wnilo under the proposed
new law, tn. rate would be merely a
tr.le over Is per cent.
Lower Thnn Wilson Tariff.
".lN the world knows how this coun
try suffered as a result OF the Wilson
tariff law in 1896" he continued. "hut
\ the average rate of duty now is over
. per cent lower than was the case
under tho last Democratic tariff. Then
the business Of the nation was para
lyzed. and 3,o0o.oO0 persons thrown
out OF employment"
Senator Smoot charged tho Demo
Gratis with Inconsistencies in the fran
ing OF tn. measure. Calling attention
10 tho fact Rat wheat -four. corn and
cornmcal. potatoes and virtually every
FORM OF meats go on the free list Ger
tain food products peculiar TO the
South remained under a tariff tax
''Rice, peanuts and bananas. grown
in the south" ne charged are on tho
dutiablc list They are used by poor
people generally. In Porto Rico. rice
is consumed to tho extent OF 100
pounds per capita. 1t can be used in
stead OF corn and wheat. But corn.
wheat. potatoes and other such pro-
ducts go on the free list when rice is
made dutiablc."
The Senator then launched into de-
! tailed comparison O; the cost OF pro-
duction and the wages paid in the
United States and abroad. and asserted
the removal of duties was an open in
vitation TO foreigners to use tho United
states as a dumping" ground for
their surplus products
China and Japan. he said with their
ever increasing mills. would prove dis
astrous competitors in the home mar
kct, especially in the steel industry.
He concluded by declaring that the
question OF the future wiz be that of
competition with the starvation wages
OF Asia. instead of with the low rates
OF Europe
Attack ny Burton.
Denunciation OF free trade as time
~ policy for the United States. n pre-
diction OF failure in It's purposes for
tho Underwood Simmons tariff bin ana
an attack on an ad vaioreum taritt
system. were t'oiccd by Senator Burton.
Of Ohio. to-day, wncn tariff discus
sion was resumed In thu Senate.
Senator Burton declared he was no
worshiper of protection Il fetish"
but that he approached the subject of
the tariff rather with the conviction
that whenever there shall be an era
OF comfy and mutual concession in
trade among nations and our country
shall have reached n point when it's
productive capacity has been fully de-
vcloped free trade might be q rational
policy" such. he said, was not the
case, the disposition Ito restrict trade
among nations and to grant access to
markets only on rendering conccs-
sions in return" being on the i'm