Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-22
CONGRESSMAN UNDERWOOD RE-.
sPoNs,eLE FOR NEW DRIFT
TO DISCUSSION.
PRoHleITIvE TARIFF AND
FREE TRADE sIpETRAckED
Trend Of Discussion, Fails to Appeass
Hiah Protsetionists and New Fuel 10
Added 70 Flamss-eio Question TO
Be Amount Of Composition to 30
Permitted.
Tspecial Correspondence

Washington, Jan. 22.-The war over
the tariff, which is to be renewed III
the extra session next spring. and the
pattering Of the skirmish fire of which
is already audible, is going to be Wageo
around new phrase.
No longer will much be heard Oh
free trade, no longer will discussion re
so largely confined to protective tarill
and tariff for revenue. In the colnlis
struggle, the competitive tarih IS
going to hold the boards and be In the
limelight.
Neither in 1909 nor before that, nor
in the almost unceasing tariff trouoles
in congress since then, has there been
talk worth while OF a competitive TAR
iff." But from this time forth, tue
country is going to have this phrase
dinned into it's ears. 1t is going to be
served up to it for breakfast, lunch ana
dinner enc any other incidental meals
Underwood is Responsible.
Leader Oscar Underwood, chairman
of WAYS and means, is the man who is
responsible fo- this new expression. re
NAV not have been the first man 10 use
i, freely. but he is the first man TO
give ii wide currency. MI. Unuer-
wood has been talking mu.h of la'e
about a competitive tariff 1t mas
broken into the dispatches. into the
tariff hearings before ways and means
into all the current arguments IN the
newspapers aud journals on the sub
iect and it looks as If it had come 10
stay
Mr.. Underwood may get wholesale
criticism for his advocacy OF com.
netitive tariff" but the linguists and
lexieographers will at least be inclined
to give him credit for having enr1cnea
the lore of tariff controversy whlcn
has been raging up ard down the lana
since the time the republic was founoed
and sometime before that.
The doctrine Mr.. Underwood is ad-
yancing is that he wants, not pro-
hibittye tariff, but competitive tarii1
and wants it "all along the line.
Opponents Not Appeassd.
The opponents Of tariff revision
have been In no way appeased by the
new expression. Instead. it has
added new fuel to the flame. The
American Protective Tariff league has
turned loose all the enginery Of its ar
gument establishment against Unoer
wood and the competitive tariff" Tine
league is insisting that there Is men
ace to our institutions in such a Tar
iff. that the tariff must be high enough
to hold the home market for the nome
nroducer and shut out foreign goods
and that II the wall is lowered enough
to admit real foreign competition, then
disaster to domestic concerns Will fol-
low.
Moreover, the question is being
raised just how much competition NJ.
| Underwood would allow and what per
centage of foreign goods he would lev
| in. Where would he draw the llne' e
the interrogatory. These are not easy
questions TO answer and up to date II
| seems anparent that while introduction
| of a new phrase in tariff making adds
10 the gayety of the nation so far al
| concerns discussion. il does not reall!
help settle the ancient controversy.