The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-16
CALAMITY HOWL
 OF OPPOSITION TO TARIFF IS REFUTED
Pottery Workers, Once Hotly Against Revision, Rushed
 With Work.
fsneeiaI to the Farmer )

Washington, June 16-The old trick of the highly protected industries gain ing additional protection at every tar if revision by appearing in Washing ton and pleading the destruction of their business if duties were reduced has been most thoroughly exposed by the operation of the Underwood tariff bill the first entirely honest tariff en- acted since the Civil War
 It took an immense amount of moral courage to expose the trick, to reduce duties in the face of these sworn pre- dictions of the ruin to follow But the old superstition of high tariff pros- perity has been exploded by the new law. The predicted ruin has failed to come. And even some of the standpat lRepublican senators, who honestly be- lieved the arguments of the protected interests and fought for them in the tariff debate, are now becoming highly kindignant and are charging that they were deliberately misled by the man ufacturers.
 Take the pottery industry in Ohio, for instance. It's complaints against the proposed tarin last year were per- haps the 1oudest of any. In fact, such general ruin was predicted that the potters threatened to close their fsc- tories or to reduce wages before the tarifr law was enacted.
 There was almost a panic among the pottery laborers. Tremendous pressure by the potters. unions was placed up- on Congress not to reduce the pottery duties The situation became so grave that Representative J. J. WEitacrs, who represents the Ohio pottery dls-, trict, went to Secretary Redfie1d and induced the latter to 1naugurate his famous policy of sending federal in vestigators to those industries threat ening to reduce wages on account Of tariff reduction. The pottery indus try was the first to be investigated.
 Tn spite. of this campaign on the part of the pottery Inagnates, in spite Of the anguish and anxiety in the nttle mill homes in the East Liverpool. Ohios pottery district, the ways and means committee courageously reduced the duties on ceramic products as it had promised. The result of these duties on the industry was told to the Senate the other day by Senator Pomerene, or Ohio. Pomerene merely read q fer publican newspapers of the pottery district.
 One of the pottery towns is sebring. Ohio. The Sebring Times said in it's issue of March 24. 1914:
 ttThe past two weeks hold the record hff -ory Of Sebring. The most grati- flying feature is that the ware is not going into stock, but is being used to fill orders and is being shipped as soon as made"
 A Pittsburgh pottery trade journal said on April 14, 1914: Never before in the history of the American pottinR Industry have there been so many kiIns in use or so many potteries in ac- tive operation Shipments are great err than ever before in the history ofa the trade.''
 The East Liverpool Review, a Re- publican newspaper, in it's issue of May 1, 1914, said: But there is a fly in the ointment. It is the lack of com petent workmen. " And the same pa- per on May IA called attention to the fact that 500 new houses are needed In East Liverpool as homes for the in Aux of pottery workers brought by the unprecedented prosperity in the business.
 This was the industry which protest ed it could not exist in competition with the Spauper labor Of. Europe and protested so loudly that it forced the administration in self defense to examine into the industry. Tn future tariff making the calamity argument is likely to have mighty little weight