Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-07-15
TARIFF AssA|L-ED
AS C0NsP| Tracy
Democrats Present DESCENDING
Report to the House.
BENEFITS A FEW FAvORITES
Minority Leaders Point to Plan to
Plumber Peopie-Denounce New
Valuation Basis-DecIare 1t
Was Not Campaign Issue.

Was Not Campaign ISSUE.
Washington, July 8.--Democratlc
members of the ways and means COM
mittee in a minority report fled In
the house of representatives denounce
the administration tariff bill as a con
spiracy to benefit a few favorites at
the expense of all humanity.
Like every conspiracy, it has been
Matched in secrecy the report says,
adding:
''We record our solemn judgment
that this measure is plan to plumber
the people of our own country and to
Cypress the people of every country
for the benefit of few men who have
succeeded in usurping for all practical
purposes the taxing power of this gov
eminent, using it primarily to enrich
themselves, and, secondarily, to finance
the political party which tolerates'
encourages and facilitates the usurpa-
tion"
Denied as Campaign Issue.
The report declares the tariff was
not an issue in the last campaign, and
that this is not the time to write
tariff law. They assert that the prob
lens that confront our people, Grip
pie our industry, stifie our commerce
and perplex an amiable administration
have nothing to do with the tariff"
Emphasis is laid on two things
the probable effect of the bill on
American commerce and the world in.
dustrial situation, generally, and on
the substitution of the system of Amer
lean valuation, as a basis for levying
tariff duties.
Pointing to the rapidly decreasing
American foreign trade, the report
saws: 1--WE need no tariff to cut OIL
the imports and exports of the
United States" Calling attention that
the foreign trade of the United States
fell from 81, 1SS, 255, 449 last July to
s527, 37S, S25 in May, 1921, the report
says:
Certainly the natural process is
preferable to the infected knife of in
terested surgeons who, by selecting
the industries to protect and those to
destroy, can reap the harvest their
campaign contributions seeded last
fall. Verify, the oil men are entitled
to their reward, and tho lumber men
ana the wool men and all the others
who cast their bread on the waters OF
O Republican tide"
Dealing with the plan for American
valuation of imports the report says
'1First among the subtle covert in
falnies that mask their way through
this bill is the proposal to change the
base for adj valorem duties from the
actual price paid for them when pur-
clS,used by the importer to a specula-
tive, indefinite, uncertain, nebulous
opinion reached by an appraiser hid
.Sen in the recesses of custom house
consulting, if he is industrious ano
cannot be bewildered, as TO what is
Tho alleged wholesale prices of com
pAYative products of the United States
or In default thereof. the alleged value
iu the United States of the identical
imported articles, whether sold or not
excluding all or any cost, charges, ex-
penses, including duties and also
profits and commissions, in short, per-
uniting the appraiser to place any
value he may see fit on the goods and
making it impossible for the importer
to know what duty he will have tC
par until he has actually imported and
passed them through the custom
house.
'1n the face of the uncertainty
which this bill necessarily compels as
TO duties, it will be impossible for any
Importer to continue in business, and
the result OF this provision will be the
destruction of the import trade of the
URited States"
Fear Economic" Boycott.
another effect of the American valu-
alton system, the report contends. is
that the same duty will be imposed on
'tIie intelligent high cost production
of Canada that we are to impose on
the coolie labor of India, China and
Japan"
Asserting that it is proposed by this
bill ''to declare a savage commercial
war on the whole human race" the
Democratic minority says it is doubt
full eff in the history of political af-
fairs measure so irredeemable and
universally vicious has ever been
submitted to the Iaw-making power OF
q civilized society
TITS adoption" the report goes on to
say. will be establishment by the
United States of an economic boycott
against the civilized world. The coun-
tries that fought with us in the late
war will be victims of its sayagery."
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