The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-16
Senator Dillingham; Scored
Underwood Measure
in Senate
is BURDENSOME
TO CERTAIN PARTS
Vermont Senator Thinks
There Is Necessity for
Tariff Board

Washington, d. c., Aug. l6-ln the
Senate yesterday, Senator Dillingham; OF
Vermont made notable tariff speech
saying in part as follows:
''At the close of the Civil war our ma
ton, with an increased confidence in the
ability of free people to preserve free
institutions, entered upon a system OF
development unequaled in the history of
any other nation, the result of which
has challenged the admiration of the
world. The central thought of this
great movement was not only to devel-
op our vast national resources, but in
doing so to open the door of opportunity
to everyone worthy to enter. Realizing
that, if free institutions were to con-
tlnue, If the government was to be safe
ly and wisely administered, every pos
sible advantage should be given to all
the industrial classes to improve their
condition socially and industrially; that
American homes, established upon a
more liberal basis than those of any
nation, should be multiplied and in
creased; and to the end that the al
ready superior condition of American
can party, with prophetic vision, secured
the passage of the free homestead act
which threw open the great Northwest
to actual settlers. And with what re-
sultl
Agricultural Expansion.
prior to that time we had opened
up in almost two centuries OF colonial
and national life only 100000 of farms.
But under this system we have in the
last 80 years opened up 100000 farms,
and we now have an agricultural area
/ times as great as the total area
OF Great Britain-as great, in fact, as
that of Great Britain, France, Germany,
Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Switzer-
land, Austria Hungary, Portugal, Meth
crlands, and Greece combined. We have
in the United States in actually inn
proved agricultural land an area SIX
times as great as the entire area OF
Great Britain; in fact, as great as the
areas of Great Britain, France, Germany,
Italy, Portugal, Switzerland and Greece
combined.
Necessity for Markets.
"But what could be the object of open
ing up these vast areas OF agricultural
lands if a market for their product must
be sought in foreign nations? Could it
be hoped that with really improved ag-
ricultural lands six times as great in
area as the whole of Great Britain we
should find a profitable market abroad
for the products of this vast field! Such
a proposition was preposterous and was
discarded almost by common consent.
Moreover, the proposition that under
such conditions the United States should
remain dependent in any substantial de-
gree upon foreign nations for manufac-
tured commodities, thus continuing our
people at their mercy in the matter or
prices, was even more preposterous.
"The Judgment of the American peo-
pie, recognizing the soundness of the
proposition that there should be a home
market for home productions throughout
the length and breadth of our land, de- |
manded legislation that would make the
nation Independent industrially as well
as politically; that would extend manu- |
featuring industries throughout the ma
ton; that would encourage the exchange |
of commodities of all classes; and that |
would encourage to the utmost that sys |
tenn of public carriers which has con-
nected the East with the West, the |
North with the South, the agricultural
area. and has enabled us to build up that |
remarkable system of interstate ex-
change which has made us the most |
prosperous people in the world.
Protection and Home Markets.
"To this end and because the people |
demanded it, the Republican party in
augurated the great system of protective
tariff legislation which after more than |
half century of trial has demonstrated |
the correctness of its principle as APP |
piled to American conditions. They fully |
realized that the development of manu-
featuring industries in America was abb
solutely demanded not only to provide
market for our vast agricultural prod
ucts. but also to protect our American
people against exorbitant charges on
foreign made goods and to protect the
American workingman from unjust com
petition with ow-paid labor in Europe.
Development of Manufactures.
'Nhat has been the result? At that
time, 1850. the products of our mills
were less in value than those of any
other frst-elass nation. Under the old
system agriculture had flourished, manu-
featuring had languished, and to such
an extent that products of American
mills amounted in 1860 to only $1,000
100000; but under the Republican pol
lev of protection the value of such prod
ucts jumped to S4232 100000 in 1870
and equaled the output of France with
her centuries of progress. In another
10 years the value of American manu-
featured goods had increased to $780,
100000 and became equal to those of
Great Britain or of Germany. In 1890
the value of the output OF American
mills had still further increased to So
372,000,000 and equaled the production
of Great Britain and France combined.
in 1900, or 40 years after the adoption
of this system of protection, the value
of American manufactured products had
reached the enormous sum of Sl3000, (
o00,00O which was greater than the val
ne of the output of all the mills of
Great Britain, Germany and France COM
bined, while in 1910 the value of such {
products had advanced to S20,672. 000,
600. the increase alone from 1909 to |
1910 being over four times as great in
amount as the entire products of our {
manufactures in 1860. This was an !
achievement never before attained in I
any nation. and its Importance can only {
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