Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-04-02
democrats ,ll'l ]. ~A l,' | lll|llly
Business Worth Many! MINI
Ions Of Dollars
President and Congressional
Committee Chairman SCan-
DinQ Situation

w NAssS
egg which the tariff r~evlsiOnists are oper-
ating upon. hence their caution and
care lest its laying qualities be destroy
ed. ~ ~
That Is to say, the value Of the prod
ucts Of American manufactures possible
of being affected by tariff revision
amount to the s%tupendous sum OF $20.-
672, 052, 900, according to census figures.
The business affects the direct employ
meme Of more than seven millions OF
wage earners and also their wages Of
more than four billion dollars.
These are the direct and first-contact
interests affected. In addition, there
must be considered the vast allied inter-
csts Of transportation, affecting another
army of wage earners ;the collateral well
fare of the food producers whose market
for their products is at stake: the small
Ter army Of middle men, land their en-
pIoycs. dependent entirely upon volume
Of food and manufactures to be dispensed
by themselves; the go-Oetweens of tho
ultimate consumer and the producer.
And in the background ~ the helpless
group of the dependent w0iien and chill
dren of those legious inft mon whose avo
cations and earning IHclMeRJarc in the
issue. -.. ~. ,.s E-~
Leaders Feel Responsibility.
Thus do President, Wilson, Chairman
Underwood and Chairman Simmons feel
the great patriotic responsibility for
legislative action resting upon the party
in power, aside from the politicar consc-
quences Of congressional action. While
the fortunes OF the democratic party and
the present administration will rise or
fall with the success or failure OF tariff
legislation, these men realize that the
country's prosperity is also to be taken
into account. and the material welfare
Of many millions of men. women and
children Is in the balance.
In tho next Congress. vested witllc the
power to loose II bind. the high power
and tho low, so to speak over the welfare
of the nation will be many new men UNI
acquainted both with tariff legislation
and with the extent Of tho interests
involved.
In fact, it is doubtful if the country at
large realizes the extent Of the manu-
featuring industry which has grown by
leaps and bounds in the last two decades
until it has. reached proportions that
staggers the imagination to picture. Blu
the men who are now dealing with tho
tariff bill, and President Wilson. who is
to be the arbiter Of inevitable disputes
between the facts, are posted on the de-
tails. 30.
The census figures which enter INTO
calculation in considering the ext mt Of
| the manufacturing industry were taken
for the year 1909. The per cont Of In
crease in the output for five years prior
to 1909 as nearly, 40 per cent, and as
business has not stagnated, there must
be large increase in the fou years from
1909 to 1918. so that the figures above
| presented must fall short Of the actual
volume of the business Of today.
Tariff and Business.
The object of the men who are leading
and directing the effort at tariff reduce
ton is to lower the tariff without Grip
| ping the enormous bushes Of American
mills by suhjecting them to undue COM
| petition Of cheaper foreign, labor and
methods. .s5 &. l5
President Wilson and Chairman UNDER
wood believe that this object can be &C.
/ \OiApsioACo. hwy ~ pNOSSSuhA6 = so
| achievement with confidence; as they
hold a warrant fioAno 1he voters to at
tempt it,, a waridntaSsueG o. individuals
In the last election MOOT T.
1t is significant that the ten states
which lead in manufactures, and, III fact
produce more than four ffths Of the total
output of manufactured articles, went
democratic in the last election, or. at
.. least. repudiated the republican party by
voting for a third ticket.
Those states are New York. Pennsyl-
vania. Illinois. Massachusetts. Ohio,
New Jersey, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indi-
ana and Missouri, named in the order
Of the value of their manufactured out-
put. New York produced over three and
one-third billion dollars worth of manu.
featured goods. employing more than a
million workmen: Pennsylvania produced
two and a half billions; with 900, 600
workmen: Illinois nearly two billions.
Massachusetts and Ohio q billion and
a half each. New Jersey mort than q bill
lion and the others from FIVE hundred
millions to nearly q billion.
AS the support Of these states is es.
sential to the life of any political party.
the present administration, while pro.
posing to enforce the verdict of lower
tariff, will at tho same time attempt
to safeguard innicting injury to pust-
ness, which will ALLEVIATE them in tho
future.
t Conditions Require Caution.
Nothing will be lone hastily, therefore.
about the tariff. but every step will DO
taken cautiously, and with full consider.
alton OF the possible result. As has
been said before, there as never a tariff
bill which has received such careful at
~tention as the one now approaching
completion. 1t represents in reality two
years OF unremitting study by men on
the ways and means committee, availing
themselves Of every possible source OF
Information, and especially practical in.
formation, secured by patient hearing to
the interests to be affected. 3&
The next task Of the committee will bs
to explain to the uninitiated in Congress
and to overcome selfish contentious Of
local interests. ~ 8stst =
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