Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-21
TARIFF HOLDS
NOTHING OF
GOOD
REPUBLICANS IN THE SENATE Wall
At The EVIL DAYS that HAVE
COME ON THE REPUBLIC. .==SMcOT
OF UTAH BEM0ANS FATE or U.
S. UNDER The new TARIFF.
CAN SEE NOTHING
AHEAD But DISASTER

Washington, d. c., July 21-Denun-
citation of free trade as timely policy
for the United States, a prediction OF
failure in it's purposes for the Under
wood-Simmons tariff bill and an at
tack on an ad valorem tariff system
were voiced by Senator Burton of
Ohio today when tariff discussion was
resumed in the Senate.
Senator Burton declared he was no
worshipper of protection as fetish"
but that he approached the subject
of the tariff rather with conviction
that whenever there shall be an era
of comfy and mutual concession in
shall have reached point when its
productive capacity has been devel-
oped fully, free trade might by ra-
tional policy. Such, he said, was not
the case, the disposition ito restrict
trade among nations and to grant ac-
cess to markets only on rendering con-
cessions in return being on the in
crease. Senator Burton declared that
the Democrats had framed bill which
literally tears to pieces the fiscal pol
icy of the nation. in order to satisfy
the craving for the lowering of the
cost of living and to justify the dec
laration of the party platform that
the chief cause of the high cost of
living was the existing protective tar
iff enacted by the Republican party
This" said Senator Burton, was
your campaign argument; this was
the promise on which YOU regard your
selves as delegated to tear to pieces
the fiscal policy which has been the
sheet anchor of nearly two decades of
unprecedented prosperity and which is
the only guarantee of its continuance.
You have erected tariff policy blind
tn every consideration except the con
sumner. The bill was frankly not
framed to encourage capital to enter
new fields OF industry or to extend
those already established. Its sole
justification is a reduced cost of liv-
ing. II it fails in this, it fails ut
terly."
adopted in the bill as substitute for
specific duties, Senator Burton de-
clared that it was Objectionable be-
cause it meant a heavier burden upon
the consumer in periods when prices
are highest and smaller burden when
prices are low; that it affords tempta-
tion for undervaluation and fraud, and
that it works to the disadvantage OF
the American manufacturer who must
buy raw material abroad.
Smoot as killioy.
Asserting that foreign lobby had /
influenced the Democrats in the franz
ing of the Underwood-S Simmons tariff |
bill, Senator Smoot, Republican mem |
her of the finance committee, today de-
livered vigorous attack on the meas
ure.
He painted picture OF mills shut
down, workmen unemployed, investors |
ruined, and an era of general imam
cial and industrial depression as the
result of the levelling of tariff walls
There has been a lobby here in
behalf of the foreign manufacturers, ne
charged, 'such as was never before
witnessed in the history of the Union.
The Italian Chamber of Commerce OF
New York asked for certain reduc-
tions and the Democrats in nearly
every case have given more than was
asked.
MI 1oI hn iy,nr
the free list, especially with refer
ence to sugar, wool, pig iron and tex
tiles. He charged that the sugar in
dustry of Hawaii and Porto Rico would /
be ruined, with consequent benefits to
the so-called sugar trust, and China,
with it's great steel plants, would cap /
ture the steel business of the western
hemisphere.
"All the world knows how this coun-
try suffered as result of the Wilson
tariff law in 1896" he continued, "but
the average rate of duty is over two
per cent lower than was the case
nnder the last Democratic tariff, when
the business of the nation was para.
lived and three million persons thrown
out of employment
The senator then launched into a
detailed comparison OF the cost OF pro-
duction and the wages paid In the
United States and abroad and assert
ed the removal of duties was an open
invitation to foreigners to use the
United States as a dumping ground
for their surplus products. He con-
cluded
The question of the future Will be
with the starvation wages
of Asia, instead of with the low rates
of Europe"
In the debate a discussion arose
over printing map to show that
sixty percent of produce east OF the
Mississippi we're made dutiable by the
bill, as against 80 percent OF products
west. Senator Chamberlain. Demo
crat, of Oregon, surprised his colleag-
ues by saying:
while l feel under some obiiga-
tions to support the tariff measure as
it came from the finance committee,
am not bound to it. I am bound to |