New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-02-07
ARE
READY TO SOLVE
PEACE PROBLEMS
RAILROAD LIBERALIZATION
UNDER PRIVATE CONTROL,
PROTECTIVE TARIFF,
MERCHANT MARINE BY
SUBSIDY TO LABOR
By Smell; Smith

suit OF thorough analysis of after the
war conditions, the Republicans OF
the House and Senate, who will be
in control OF the legislative branch
of the government after March 4
have, in a general way, completed
their program for the reconstruction
OF the country.
So important is the work of res
timulating, industrial energy and
finding employment for the millions
of soldiers returning to civilian l:fe
considered by members in both
branches of Congress that there is
little doubt in their minds that an
extra session will be brought abo
in one way or another as early in
the spring as possible in order to
take up all such problems which can
not be dealt with before March !
because of the pressure of the i'm
p~ortant regular appropriation bills.
The tariff, the railroads, the mcr-
chant marine, military and naval
protection of the nation for the
future, employment, general business
read uStment, economical admins
tration, and minute investigation Of
all the government departments, are
among the subjects which Will re
ceive quick attention and remedial
legislation as soon as the new Sen
ate with its Republican majority of
two and the new House with its
Republican majority of forty-siX have
ORGANIZED.
Despite the warning of Senator
Penrose and his Republican %ccilea-
CUES on the Senate Finance Com
mit,ce that "it would be entirely
without justification to attem} t TO
prescribe for the American sople
81 lal amount OF .a>cs they sh II be
called upon 70 pay ~ lhc yuaI go
that mo one with any degree OF
dsfiniteness can estimate the gov
crnmcnt's needs or the countrY's in
dustra al prosperity and that it would
be extremely unwise to lay down
4 hard and fast scheme of taxation
for the future" the Democratic ma
is now putting through con-
ference the revenue bill which inn
poses in advance the mou CT taxes
10 be collected for not only the next
but the following fiscal year.
Duties to Maintain Industry
1t is expected that this will have
The effect OF turning the attention OF
the House Ways and Means Com
and the Senate Finance Com
during the recess or iinmedia-
tely after recovering to the framing
Of a tariff bill with duties h'gh
enough to adequately cover the dill
between the cos of produc-
lion at home and abroad. 1t is not
anticipated that this will be as great
a revenue producer, comparatively,
as in former days prior to the rails
ing of many billions for purposes OF
war. 1t is true that had the Payne
Aldrich rates been applied to the
law there would have been
IN additional income to the govern
nent during the period of lis opera {
ion Of nearly two billions, but re- {
from import duties annually ;
would in any event amount only to
hundreds of millions. The point
ipon which the Republican mem ,
,ers Of Congress lay Stress is that {
high tariff has always developed ,
md maintained industry, made pos [
ible the country'S higher standard
# wages and living, protected the {
market as a constant outlet :
or home production, to this end {
,revented influx Of foreign made |
-oods, produced under cheaper con- c
I%tions, and made for healthful in |
hat in 1913, under a Democratic '
ariff, hard times were caused until {
year later the war imposed an eff c
ective trade barrier, and that now, e
With that barrier again removed, Il
here will be harder times than for c
nay years unless a protective tariff S
soon enacted. E
This is really the chief remedy I
will be put forward by the r
republican party to aid the return- v
~ soldier to find work and to keep f
mployed laboring men everywhere p
throughout the country. Its leaders {
old that provision OF special publ c
to keep a small proportion p
these men employed is p~aternalis- Ii
c and a makeshift to cover 9th r D
adequate industrial policy. They n
i'll join in the promotion of irriga- o
on and drainage works, because of s
lie enhanced development of the II
ountry ther by, but they will main II
rely upon the tariff which brought a
full dinner pail in McKinley's and n
.anna'S time to provide work for all Fl
hey say that their party p~ensioned p
lie soldiers of the Civil War for a
decades in the face Of Demo- r;
attic opposition, and that they will m
the most liberal policy 81
ward all those who participated in R
lie last conflict, and they assert B
it was Senator Cummns, OF W
WA, a Republican, who made it al
W that labor is not a commodity b,
article of commerce, but they in IN
nd in the new Congress to take la
re of both the soldier and labor re
in the community through 81
h9' will become known as the al
,rdney-Penrose tariff law, and to n;
eet the Democrats in the campaign W
next year on the issue of its re- tr
Its. Should the President veto the II
thew will leave to him the res W
visibility for the continuance of CO
unemployment of which Secre- ca
Morrison. of the American wi
Iteration of Labor, already COM re
tn
Want Modified Private Control tn
An intermediate course of modified wi
control has been practically wi
upon as the plan of the Re- a
blican leaders who will have most
do with the framing of legislation lie:
regard tosrailroads. Repres snta- in
es John J. Esch, of Wisconsin. IN
% more than a decade ago helped Of,
frame the Esch-Townsend bill, ow
ich was largely Incorporated into to
Hepburn rate law and will be WI
of the house committee lat
Interstate and Foreign Com as
rec in the Congress, has worked Or,
a program which may be sad clu