Arizona republican., 1916-01-25
ST. PAUL'S DAY
A Tariff Commission

According the dispatches of yesterday morn ing the democratic administration favors tariff commission. But, either the democrats have not de- cided upon the kind of a tariff commission they else the bare announcement that the ad- ministraton has been brought this view tounded the gatherer forgot there might be tariff commissions and tariff commissions.
 We have had tariff commission and it did good work; it may be said that it better than commission at all. It collected a great deal data and information for the edification of congress (and suppose the average congressman knows, of him self and his own researches, no more about the tariff than the who gather the roads and discuss the tariff, the while they whitte)
 The commission invested with no other power than to gather data and make recommenda- tions It does appear that the republicans made any of the data the information collected acted upon any recommendation by the commission. Certainly the democrats later did avail them selves of the labors of the commission. It short lived commission. When submitted port it passed out of existence
 If it is such commission that the democratic administration is proposng it may well it's energies another direction. demo- cratic party is ready a genuine permanent tariff commission such as was recommended the progressive platform of l912-a commission that will always be on the job, prepared to make recommen- datons for changes in the tariff to chang ing trade conditions, the party will be in the way of covering multitude of sins of omission and commission during the last three years.
 Such q tariff commission would mean the taking of the tariff of politics something which and republicans alike have been opposed in the past. Less than years ago the democrats in congress rejected proposition by Senator Lodge for the creation of permanent commission. It is doubtful whether the senator would have proposed such commission if the republicans had been in the majority. He would doubtless have preferred the old republican high protection way and regarded the tariff commission plan only less evil than the old democratic way.
 However, the sentiment in favor of a permanent tariff commission has grown rapidly since first proposed by the progressves, and within the last five months the plan has been given such hearty endorsement by business and commercial organiza tions in all parts of the country that the democrats have been brought to believe that if they do not the tariff of politics the people will take them of power.
 The democrats also, perhaps, realize that their inkering with the tariff has always been disas- to them in the past; they have perhaps come to understand their party is which the majority the voters trust, but the party with which the punish the republican party for it's shortcomings.
 In clevatirg the democratic party to power the voters do give it blanche to montey with extremely delicate matters such the tariff And when it so the people be- come alarmed, they became when the democrats began the preparation of the Underwood law. The people vet scared and they will be scared until they reassured in some permanent scientific tariff commission would go a long ways toward reassurance