Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-26
BRADLEY PREDICTS
DISASTER ON TARIFF
Kentucky Senator Says Bill
Will Ruin Many Indus
tries if Passed.
SHOWS THAT DEMOCRATS
HAVE BEEN INCONSISTENT
Declares High Cost Of Living Has
Had No Connection With
Protective Policy.

Declaring that the pending tariff bill,
II passed. will mean ruin for many Of
Americas Industries, and that tariff tin
kering in the past by the democrats had
invariably been followed by disaster,
Senator Bradley Of Kentucky today ad-
dressed the Senate.
1T has been said II any manufacturer
closes his factory or reduces the num-
Der or compensation Of his employees he
is to be mercilessly prosecuted and pun
ished," said Senator Bradley.
although he is forced to compete with
cheap labor. nevertheless he must con-
tinue to pay full prices, and even If he
becomes bankrupt he will be punished
for assisting in a panic"
Senator Bradley gave a history Of
democratic tariff making, showing that
the party had never had consistent
tariff policy. He said that when Buch-
anan was nominated in 1856 it was
to have free trade. In following years
the party switched to policy favoring
revenue tariff, and stating that it was
the wish OF the party to injure no in
duStrieS.
Defends Old Law.
Senator Bradley defended the Payne
Aldrich law, declaring that it had been q
revision downward, that no party pledges
had been broken in its enactment and
that great prosperity had been the lot OF
the country under its operation. He in
sisted that the high cost Of living had no
connection with q protective tariff, and
pointed out that there had been no I'm
crease in many of the duties imposed,
but that articles of food and wearing ap-
parel had continued to increase in price,
nevertheless.
The bill we have before us should
have it's title changed SO as to read: An
act to reduce tariff duties, to provide rev.
enue for the government, to encourage
foreign manufacturers and farmers and
to reduce the wages of American work
men, said Senator Bradley.
THE full effect Of this bill is heavy re-
creased duty on many raw materials
which cannot be produced In this coun-
try
Taking up the cotton schedule, which
he criticised for heavy reductions, Sena
tor Bradley said that while England IL
now the chief competitor qf the United
States, the day is near at hand when
Japan will take her place.
1T Is not far distant from the cotton
fields Of India and China, where wages
are comparatively nominal" said Senator
Bradley. I'm Japan wages are only
has an abundance OF labor. Four-f1fths
of her labor are women and children, who
receive comparatively no wages
In conclusion, Senator Bradley said:
'The republican party is coming back.
The injury inflicted on the country by this
tariff bill will furnish platform upon
which all will safely and gladly stand"
The Senate resumed its rapid consid-
Grafton of tariff duties when reading of
the bill was again taken up. Duties en-
braced in the sundries schedule were first
considered. A proposed duty on feathers
brought up again the question as to how
the new tariff law will effect the killing
Of birds and plumage.
No action was taken today on the
feather tariff. the subject being left to
the finance committee for further con-
sideration.
Many Paragraphs Completed.
Before adjournment yesterday after
noon. the Senate completed consideration
Of many Of the paragraphs of the sun
dries schedule and completed the paper
schedule. with the exception Of two para
graphs, passed over at the request Of
members Of the finance committee.
Senator Smith Of South Carolina, as
cotton mills and wages paid, provoked a
sectional debate, Senator Lippitt retort-
ing with description of the child labor
in the south and a comparison of wages.
showing the southern wages to be lower
than those paid in New England cot
ton mills
The sundries schedule was taken up
and the paragraphs on braids, brooms,
brushes and buttons agreed to. Sem
atOr BriStOw protested that the reduced
duties on brooms was another discrim-
ination against products in which farm
ers were interested. Senator Cummins
protested against the reduced duties on
the cheaper grades of buttons. claiming
that the rates proposed would put the
Iowa manufacturer out Of business.
During the afternoon Senator Ashurst
delivered a general defense OF the bill,
comparing 1t with other tariff measures
of the past He denied that it was a
studied discrimination against the farm
ing class.
An amendment to the foreign meat
inspection clause was proposed to the
finance committee by the bureau of ami
NAL industry, which suggested the orig
inal clause providing that an inspection
Of foreign meat equal to the inspection
Of American meat should be sufficient
The amendment is designed to clarity the
clause by providing that such foreign
inspected meat shall enjoy the same
rights and privileges as are accorded
American meat inspected under the in
spection law of 1906.