The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-11-02
CHAMBERLAIN SAYS
LITTLE ON TARRIF

Republicans who heard Senator Geo.
Chamberlain Thursday night. remem.
Der that he said the Democrats had
solved the tariff problem by providing
for the appointment of tariff com.
mission. Republicans of Hood River,
since Thursdays meeting have also
pointed out that Senator chamberlain
tactfuly failed to mention the repeal
of the Panama free tolls act.
On the tariff situation the Telegram
says the following:
Senator Chamberlain is telling his
audiences over the state that the tariff
question is now settled because the
Democrats have authorized a tariff
commission that will do the work in a
scientific manner. Ii is the usual soft
soap and palaver which the Democratic
speakers are putting forward to meet a
vital issue.
The tariff ommission-which, after
all. is purely an advisory board, for
congress is the only body that can pass
Northumberland in the admins.
tration of President Taft. When the
Democrats came into power they re.
fused to continue it because at that
time they didn't believe in a tariff OF
see any need of il. But as time went
on they changed their tune and faced
the other way, under the terrific pres.
sure that came from all parts of the
country. The Underwood bill became
in spots a protective tariff measure,
and to still criticism the Taft idea of
a tariff commission was revived, chiefly
with the addition OF more commission.
ers and bigger pay for them.
But let US consider the question OF
the tariff being settled by the commits
sion. Suppose the war should end anC
the commission, dominated by southern
influences, was fiddling away on scien
titic schedules with all the delberatior
which high salaries in these days seen
to encourage. and suppose the noble
Underwood law was still the law oi
the land, how would that affect the
people of the United States the coun
try over?
Everybody, except those who for the
moment are politically perverse ant
will not see, readily agrees that at the
close of the war we will be left in 8
more exposed position than any nation
in the world. To the world we afford
the handiest market; from the war We
have made more money than all the
other nations combined. They will
want to get it back. Germany, fol
example, is piling up great reserve
stocks. They are being made by WON.
q and children and those men who
have been disabled by the war. The
cost of production is reduced to mini.
mum lower than ever before known in
the history of the world. France and
England have learned the lesson OF
efficiency from Germany and in the
great school of experience. Their
women have been trained as never be.
fore. and their men, released from the
trenches, will come back to the aven.
Nes of industry qualified as never be.
fore to take up the work. The United
States will not and cannot get down tC
the European standard of wages and
living. With all the bars down, how
are the Democrats going 10 meet the
situation? Are they to stand helplessly
by and permit commercial invasion
that will paralyze all our industries
and throw our own men out of work!
Or, under the pressure of necessity and
when the damage is done. will they
turn to protection as the only way out!
If protection under such circumstances
is the only hope, almost anybody would
prefer to have it done by those who
believe in it and realize its need now
before it IS too late.
Then in our own fair state where dc
we land? The Democratic administra
ton has taken the tariff off lumber, ou,
chief product, and we do not recall any
work to prevent it done by Senator
Chamberlain. Canada jealousy guards
its own frontier while the bars are
down on our side. We are invaded, but
we cannot invade any part of the do.
minion. Canada is stealing away oul
trade in California and the south. anC
because she had greater advantages
than we have in getting through the
canal. with cheaper production anC
cheaper bottoms tour advantage OF
free tolls having been taken away
from US by the Democratic administers
tion, which act Senator Chamberlain
then denounced we are simply seweC
up in a sack. Take one illustration OF
how the Underwood tariff is operating
against Oregon. The Crown.Willam
cite Paper Co., of Portland, with @
wilderness of standing timber right al
home, has been forced by conditions tc
establish great new mill in Canada.
1t will have capacity of 400 tons g
day and it will employ 500 men. Much
new machinery was built for the plant
but in addition to that it took across
the border all the machinery owned BY
the Coos Bay Pulp & Paper Co., al
Marshefild, Ore. Did the Canadian
government receive the Crown-Willam
etc with open arms? 1t surely did. II
met it at the border and levied a toll
of $50, 600 on the machinery it proposed
to set up in Canada, and at every turr
of the road it had to pay one sort OF
official tax or another. But under the
Underwood tariff law it nevertheless
finds it good investment, and one OF
these days, and that very soon, it will
be selling its paper in the markets OF
Oregon, Washington and California,
and the Portland papers may even be
printed on it.
Bully for the Underwood tariff anC
three cheers and tiger for Senator
CHAMBERLAIN, who is upholding it ir
Oregon and soft soldering the people
into believing that the Democratic
tariff commission has air eady made us
happy and prosperous, in face of the
hard facts that actually confront US