Connecticut western news., 1913-04-10

AAft Ahth igN a'NAAf Ah NihNfttN lfRAAN hardly remember the conditions that preceded tive have sought in our tariff schedules to give each group of manufacturers or producers what they themselves thought that they needed In order to maintain practically exclu- sive market as against the rest of the world.
 Consciously or unconsciously. we have built up set of privileges md exemptions from competition behind which it was easy by any. even the crudest, forms of combination to or ganize monopoly; until at last nothing is normal. nothing is obliged to stand the tests of efficiency and economy. in our world of big business, but every thing thrives by concerted arrange ment. Only new principles of action will save us from final hard crystal. lization of monopoly and complete loss of the influences that quicken en- terprise and keep Independent energy alive. ..
 Abolish Everything Like Privilege.
 Ut is plain what those principles must be. We must abolish everything that bears even the semblance of priv. ilege or of any kind of artificial ndynn- tage. and put our business men and producers under the stimulation of a constant necessity to be efficient. eco nomical and enterprising. masters of competitive supremacy, better workers and merchants than any in the world Aside from the duties laid upon ar ticles which we do not and probably cannot produce. therefore, and the duties laid upon luxuries and merely for the sake of the revenues they yield. the object of the tariff duties henceforth laid must be effective com petition, the whetting of American wits by contest with the wits of the rest of the world.
 "In dealing with the tariff the meth cd by which this may be done will be matter of judgment. exercised item by item. To some not accustomed to the settlements and responsibilities of greater freedom our methods may in some respects and at some points seem heroic. but remedies may be heroic and yet be remedies. It is our busi- ness to make sure that they nre gen ulne remedies Our object is clear. If our motive is above just challenge and only an occasional error of judg- ment is chargeable against us we shall be fortunate.
 Tariff Must Come First.
 ''we are called upon to render the country great service in more mat ters than one. Our responsibilities should be met and our methods should bc thorough. as thorough as moderate and well considered, based upon the facts as they are and not worked out as if we were beginners.
 "we are to deal with the facts of our own day. with the facts O no oth- CT. and to make laws which square with those facts.
 "It Is best. indeed lt is necessary. to begin with the tarlff."
 Removal of all tarlff from many ar ticles of food and clothing, broad re- ductions in the rates of duty on all necessaries of life. m increase of tar If on many luxurles and a new income tax thnt would touch the pocket of every American citizen whose net yearly income exceeds S4.0O0 are the striking fentures of the new Demo crntlc turin revision bill presented to the hnrsr
 Sn"ar would be free of duty in 1916. tho h'll nwposing m immediate 25 per cent rednstion and the removal of the remuiuiny duty fin 1916.
 Raw wool world be made free at once with 9 correspond'ngly heavy re- duction In The taritf on all wooden goods.
 Mir. underwood's Table.
 Mir Underwood. chairman of the ways and means committed. in his statement. accompanying the new tarlfr bill gave the following comparative table showing reductions in tariff duties made upon necessaries. Tn each item both the present tarifr and the pro- posed tariff had been reduced to m nd v,e InwavxR ha ofas