Evening journal., 1916-05-03

kbPOBLItAN TARIFFS PRODUCED REVENUE
N addressing the Senate on the repeal Of the free
sugar clause. Senator Underwood author Of the
present tariff law, said: "Where your (the Republi-
cam tariff wall built so high that you prohibited
mporations by il, there was no revenue; and when
we said we proposed to have a competitive tariff, we
declared in favor Of lowering that wall to point
where reasonable mporations could come over and
the government Of the United States could have an
opportunity to collect it's revenue the custom
house a competitive tariff means a tariff
that will collect revenue"
Delawareans no doubt remember that there was
never any fault to find under the Dingey and Payne
tariff laws respecting lack Of Duties were
laid not prohibitory basis but .on a protective
basis, and they adjusted that while they pro-
teced American industries and American labor they
likewise provided ample revenues There was never
any necessity except during the Spanish War. fall
back stamp taxation. Our revenues we're collected
at the ports Of the country and paid by the for
eigners
Underwoods competitive tariff brought some reve-
but 1t fell short Of doing share toward the up
keep Of the government If economy had been
praoticed. With Democratic Administrations engaged
in the widest sort OF extrayagances the law was
wholly incapable Of maintaining balance. Hence
the report Ct the first gun in the European struggle
the signal to enact a war tax" at home to piece
out the falling with internal taxation coming
directly from tho pockets of the people Propretors
OF theatres who pay tax seating capacity, cir
public exhibitions commission merchants and
others all helping out the Democratic tariff law
Every time you place adhesive stamp on a bond or
promissory note, pay a cent for telephone
telegraph message, you subscribing TO Mr. Under
woods fund to get the government out of the hole
You, with millions Of others have been made under
writers to the failure OF the Underwood tariff law
revenue producer
You were not asked to do that when a Republican
tariff law was the statute books You didn't feel
the tax which collected the ports Of the con-
try. That it taken out of the pockets of the
sumer by the advance in the cost Of living is
proved to be utter faacy. That argument has not
even Democratic backing today The old idea that the
tariff added TO the price Of goods is exploded. Tho
cost Of living higher just prior to the under
Democratic nearfree-trade than II the year. be-
fore under the Republican law The foreigner im-
porter pocketed the difference in rates. The consumer
got no benefit in the shape Of reduced prices
Now. the Democratic low-duy tariff having been
passed in order 10 reduce the cost Of living, which it
did not do and TO increase the revenues which de-
creased under its operation; and the Republican law
having supplied ample revenues, turning over to the
Democrats "A legacy Of between forty and fifty mill
lions of dollars protected American industries
labor. what is foolish enough to hesitate for a
moment i'm choosing for the administration of this
government the party which champions the protective
policy, and America First?'