The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08

nouncements were necessary, encour-
aged only the carrying of dutiable i'm
ports to our shores while the tonnage
which unfurls the flag on the seas
is both free and dutiable, and the car
goes which make a nation eminent in
trade are out going, rather than in
coming.
1t is not my thought to lay the prob
lem in detail before you today. 1t is
desired only to say to you that the
executive branch of the government,
uninfluenced by the protest of any
nation, for none has been made, is
well convinced that pour proposal,
highly intended and heartily support
ed here, is 50 fraught with difficulties
and so marked by tendencies to dis
courage expansion, that | invite your
tolerance of noncompliance for very
few weeks until plan may be pre-
/ sented which contemplates no greater
draft upon the public treasury, and
which though yet too crude to offer it
/ today, gives such promise Of expand
ing our merchant marine that it will
argue its own approval. 1t is enough
! to say today that we are so possessed
/ Of ships, and the American intention
to establish a merchant marine is so
| un<erabley that plan of reimburse
ment, at no other cost than is con-
templated in the existing act, will
! appeal to the pride and encourage the
hope of all the American people.
There is before you the completion
of the enactment Of what has been
termed ga permanent" tariff law, the
word permanent" being used to dis
tinguish it from the emergency act
which Congress expedited early in the
extraordinary session and which is
law today. I can not too strongly urge
an early completion of this necessity
legislation. 1t is needed to stabilize
our industry at home; it is essential
to make more definite our trade rela-
lions abroad. More, it is vital to the
/ preservation of many of our own in
! dustries which contribute so notably
to the very life blood of our nation.
Good Republican Doctrine.
There is now, and there always will
! be, a storm of conflicting opinion
about any tariff revision. We can not
go so far wrong when we base our
tariffs on the policy of preserving the
| productive activities, which enhance
! employment and add to our national
prosperity.
Again comes the reminder that we
must not be unmindful of world con-
ditions, that peoples are struggling
| for industrial rehabilitation and that
we cannot dwell in industrial and COM
mercial exclusion and at the same
time doNthe just thing in aiding world
recognition and REIMBURSEMENT We
do not seek selfish aloofness and we
could not profit by it were it possible.
We recognize the necessity of buying
wherever we sell and the permanency
| if trade lies in ! it's acceptable ex-
changes. In our pursuit of markets,
we must give as we'll as receive. We
cannot sell to others and do not pro-
duce nor can we buy unless we pro-
duce at home. Sensible of every OBJ
| legation of humanity, commerce and
finance, linked as they are in the pres
ent world condition, it is not to be
argued that we need destroy ourselv-
es to be helpful to others. With all
my heart l wish restoration to the peo-
Piles and blighted by the awful world
war; but the process of restoration does
not lie in our acceptance of like con-
ditions. 1t were better to remain ON
firm ground, strive for ample employ
ment and high standards of wages at
home and point the way to balanced
budgets, economy and resolute, eff
cient work as the necessary remedies
to cure disaster.
Everything relating to trade among
ourselves and among nations has been
expanded, inflated, abnormal and there
| is a madness in finance which no
American policy alone can cure. We
are a creditor nation, not by normal
| processes but made so by war. It is
not an unworthy selfashness to seek
to save ourselves when the processes
of that salvation are not only denied
| to others but commended to them. We
seek to undermine for others no indus
| try by which they subsist; we are OBJ
| ligated to permit the undermining of
none of our own which make for en-
ployment and maintained activities.
Necessity for Revision.
Every contemplation, it little mat
| tiers in which direction one turns,
magnifies the difficulty of tariff leg
islation but the necessity of the re-
vision is magnified with it. Doubtless
we are justified in seeking a more
flexible policy than we have provided
heretofore. I hope a way will be
found to make for flexibility and elias
ITCHY, SO that rates may be adjusted
to meet unusual and changing condi-
tions which can not be accurately an
ticipated. There are problems incid-
ent to unfair practices and to ex-
changes which madness in money have
made almost unsolvable. l know of no
manner in which to effect this flex-
| Utility other than the extension of the
powers of tariff commissions so it can
adapt itself to a scientific and wholly
| just administration of the law.
/ I am not unmindful Of the constitu-
tional difficulties. These can be met
| by giving authority to the chief execu-
| tive who could proclaim additional
duties to meet conditions which the
Congress may designate.
At this point must disavow any de-
sire to enlarge the executives powers
| or add to the RESPONSIBILITIES, of the