Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-07-25
Mr.. GARNER OUT
IN DEFENSE OF
TARIFF STAND
Says He Is For Revenue
Only Without Regard to
Protection Afforded

Washington. d. c., July 25-De-
Tending his position on the tariff.
Representative Garner, dean Of the
Texas delegation, declared ne wax
fcl revenue only without regard to
tie protection thus Afforded but in
sisted that such revenue should be
collected from manufacture and raw
products alike. He challenged his De
mocratic colleagues to show where
the party, either in platform OF
caucus had taken a stand against
this policy or whereon who holds a
its cannot rightfully be called De
mocrat.
Tie fact that some OF the Texas de
mocrats. Mr.. Garner among them.
have voted for duties on hides, oil
and cotton. has subjected them tr
cloak room criticism by their fell7w
members and il was i'm defense of hi
Texas colleagues, as well as himself.
that the CONGRESSMAN from Uvalde
gained the floor. He was greeted with
applause from both sides of the
chamber when, in opening his re-
MARKS. he asserted that during al
the eighteen years of service In the
house he had never sought to disci-
pline a democrat for voting his con-
victions. bat had ''played the game
square"
Fer Rsvs~ae Only
sg want to make my position clea.
on this subject" said Mr.. Garner.
$50 that there may be no occasion
hereafter for any honest man to mis-
interpret IT, There are but three
points Of view on the tariff. One l.
free trade, another is for revenue
only. while the third is for protec-
ton. l pause to see il any of you can
name a fourth position. | am no.
for free trade and / am not a pro-
tectionist. and, therefore, i must b.
for revenue
s4I admire the gentleman from Nh
chigan (Mr. Fordney) and | thrF
all in this house do. His position Is
clear and unequivocal- He is for pro
lection on American industry. max
ing the duties as high as it is possible
to make them. admire the gentle
man fro~s Arkansas tMr. Oldfield,
who wouldn't give protection to any
American industry. even as an incl
dent To raising revenue. But | can
not hold with either of them as
am for a tariff to raise revenue to
help nay the expense of this govern
.nert"
Catch One Catch All
The congressman then cited the illus
tration Of the English manufacture
Of cotton cloth, who must pay duty
Of 30 per cent on his products. ask
ing why a like duty should not he
collected on the bale of cotton i'm
ported from Egypt also under the
English flag.
DO YOU tell me / must not vote
tariff on the cotton and that 70
do so isn't democratic. Where is au-
thority? Show me "A Democratic plat
form or the announcement of an Of
ficial partv caucus which so declares
and I'll abide by it."
Next he cited the fact that pea
ruf oil carries duty Of 4 cents 4
gallon placed there BY the Under
wood tariff and demanded 70 know
why then it would be un-Democratic
to place a du.v on petroleum oil i'm
ported from Mexico.
"Mv position is catch one catch
all''. he said. "If YOU collect a dutv
on woolen cloth then why not on the
wool of which it is made?"
Prefers Free Trade
Following this he cited the duty
on hides to show that the duty of u
per cent advalorem would mean an
additional cost of but 1T cents on
y rair Of shoes and contended that
there is no reason why there should
be sn excessive com~ensatory duty
on shoes, twitting the democrats
with the fact that the Underwood
bill had carried a compensatory duty
of 40 per cent on hats and 80 per
cent on gloves.
IN conclusion the Texan reiterat-
ed the fact that he is opposed
both to protection and to free
trade and if forced to take a
a stand on one. he preferred the
latter. explainine that with the world
owine this country some fifteen bill
lions of dollars, the drift is towards
r.ssnatioral tree raac.
aAs for me-" he said, ''if / could