South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-10-31

III Charles Evans Hughes i elected prcsi-
dent. backed by a republican congress OF the
Watson New Hickey Root Smoot- Penrose- Gal
Iinger, etc, school. the non-p partisan tariff
commission OF experts created under Woodrow
Wilson by the last congress- il to- he put TO
sleep, and the old method of tariff legislation
by partisan juggling industrial coercion, and
solonic ignorance, is to BE- restored.
Under the system provided by this nom
partisan commission law, the United states
need never have another tariff, protective or
for revenue, without provision for cOntin-
gencies.
The Wilson administration has not waited
until IL is confronted by a serious situation to
meet the emergency. IL has provided i'm adj
vance for that emergency.
IL has taken the tariff entirely out of pol
itics. and has taken politics entirely of the
tariff.
II makes no difference whether an emer-
gency arises during war. before war,
after war. The tariff adjustment is placed
upon business basis.
The people have long since tired OF having
tariff regulation by partisan campaign cIamor.
such things regulate nothing.
They merely are used a plea for votes and
usually upon such ridiculous basis of spec
ulation that they insult human intelligence.
PrOgrcssives i'm their platform of 1912 de-
manded the removal of the tariff from pol
itics and the elimination OF politics from the
tariff. Republican orators and statesmen con-
forming the demand OF these four million
voters prOfessed To be for the same thing. The
democratic party under Woodrow Wilson i'm
stituted the reform by passing the law pro-
viding for the nOn-partsan tariff commission.
Ample preparation was made I'm this law for
all the work devOIving upon this most inn
portant commission. Its duty will be to
port congress and the president the investi-
CATION of all tariff schedules and it will be
absolutely a non-partisan basis
No political considerations will be allowed
To be injected or have any weight.
Republican orators ranging from Charles +.
Hughes down the line to the soap-boX wind
tanners. proclaim that the only thing which
will save this country is high tariff. They
pretend to have decided on all schedules what
is going be necessary without investigating
anything.
very small portion of the community is
going to be fooled by all this clap-trap.
Not a single one of the orators wind
TANNERS has had a word to say against tariff
commission; i'm fact, they all Professed TO
favor it until they adopted the slogan What
ever Wilson does is wrong
They do not dare to mention any of the
great reforms which Wilson has brought
about. and so they ignore them. They are
afraid to speak OF the non partisan tariff COM
mission, which puts the tariff on the same
basis that any great corporation would handle
n most vital part of its business If they were
to mention il the public might the joker
i'm their tariff argument-tarif making being
already out OF partisan hands.
The democratic party has taken thorough
precaution against any emergency that may
arise at any time and has provided heavy pen
alties in fines and imprisonment for violating
any of the provisions of the anti-dumping
law which effectively prevents unfair compete
ton with home manufactures by the agents
Of any foreign country importing goods. Ex-
clusion of imports is provided for. If necessary.
Under this law the president has full power
10 regulate any attempt to unload manufac-
tred goods or products of the soil from any
foreign country on any basis that would per-
init cheap productions of other countries be-
ing placed ia unfair competition with farmers,
manufacturers, or producers OF any KIND IN
the United States.
IL is the most comprehensive law on the
subject ever enacted, that ever could be
enacted. by an American congress for the full
protection of all American industries.
The country tried to get this legislation
from the republicans, under Roosevelt, and
again under Taft, hut IL failed. The cam
paign OF 1905 waged i'm part, on the point,
with the promise that the tariffs under the
Dinoley law were be revised downward, by
some such process: but instead, when the
Payne hdricIl law appeared, it found
that the rates had been revised upwards.
There were republicans in congress who re-
vOltcd, and on this one thing. much any
thing, the party split i'm 1912-"Opportunist''
Roosevelt grabbing the tariff commission idea.
along with every other progressive idea i'm
sight in the hope of riding them into power.
Under Taft. true, a tariff board was formed.
but if YOU please, not nOn-Dartisan board.
IL was "A protcctionist board. and then
der IL further harmless To the tariff grafters