East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-23
One Of the RoundUp's Greatest Heroes and Winner Of
the Bucking Contest in 1911

choice between this bill, vita its gen.
eral level of duties on manufactured
products. reasonable just to home In
dustries, excepting as / have indicat-
ed. and the iniquitous rates imposed
upon the American people by the
Payne-Aldrich law.
ION this issue, which involves the
general welfare of the millions in
every walk of life, partisan politics
should have no place. The contest Is
really between the people and en-
trenched privilege. 1t is an unequal
struggle. and calls for the highest SER
vice which men now in public life can
render to their country.
THE trusts and combinations in
their relentless oppression of the pub
lie have been materially ai.ied by the
monstrous tariff law enacted four
years ago. Their power will not be
broken when that law Is supplanted
by the present bill. But its passage is
significant. 1t means a change. II Is
the winning of the first battle in the
long war which must be waged against
industrial monopoly This warfare is
not against legitimate business. II is
against the tyranny of unlawful COM
blnations, over protected, over, stimu-
lated, over-capitalized. Our indus
tries will of necessity feel the strain
OF readjustment to normal healthy
basis-a' basis of actual values.
Through this period. we must pass to
secure industrial peace and real in
dustrial prosperity"
| Senator La Toilette says that after
considerable study, the trainers Of the
tariff measure were driven to adopt
the principle of the difference in the
cost of production at home and
abroad, as means of measuring the
amount of tariff. They called it com
petitive tariff rates"
"A tariff bill deals with thousands
of products" continued Senator La
Follette's editorial, "and reliable data
for determining most of production
has as yet been worked out, with sci
entific accuracy, upon only portion
of the articles covered by the bill As
to products, the cost of producing
which is not known, any committee
must mack the best estimates possible
with the material at hand A pro-
gressive republican committee would
be compelled to adopt estimates on
production cost for large number OF
products. But a close study of this
bill will convince any unbiased mind
that in the excepting upon food
products-the general plan and pur.
pose of those who framed the bill, was
TO lower the high and often prohibi-
tory tariff rates of the Payne-Aldrich
law, to such a level as to insure
enough foreign competition TO prevent
the combinations, formed behind the
tariff wall, from continuing to exact
monopoly prices from the consumer
And on the other hand the conclusion
Will be reached that 1t was not theil
purpose to admit enough foreign com
petition to injure American manufac.
turers who are dealing fairly with tn,
: American people.
Upon the products of the farm suit
! able for human food, those who con
structed this bill abandoned the prin
, ciple upon which the balance of III,
bill was framed and placed those ar
, ticles upon the free list. The purpos,
, of this was manifestly to reduce tn,
, cost of living. And it is their con
tention that as to those products th'
, farmer derives little or no direct ben
efits from the protective tariff"
The senator analyzes in detail tn
tariffs on pig iron, wool. sugar, an'
other products of prime necessity
1 justifying his position in each case b.
i an extended analysis and comparative
!. tables