Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-06-01
tinn in America.

at all in framing the Underwood bill.
1t was entirely revenue measure,
and the Senator never took into con-
sideration the protection of a single
| industry Am l correct in that state
ment?"
81 will say to the Senator that he
is right in principle. but not entire
| ly in fact" was the admission of
Senator Underwood.
Senator Underwood said that in
writing the underwood law the demo
| cratic congress had sought to let
down the "house of protection which
| had ben built upon stills, and that
! the trainers of that bill had not I'M
dertaken to remove the stills with an
axe, but to lower the house with
jackscrew', to make the reductions
gradually. "The Senator kept the
! iackscrew under the manufactur-
err, retorted Senator Gooding, put
| he applied an axe to the stills so lar
as the farmer was concerned. The
| farmer got the axe where the chicken
usually gets it," At the close OF MS
colloauy, Senator Gooding said:
"I wish to say to the Senator from
Alabama that when he undertakes to
discuss this question before the cnrn-
try he is going to meet 2,0OO,OOO
Young men who went across the sea
and saw service on foreign SOIL.
There they saw people satisfied with
very little in this life, and in some
come cases the farmer and his far
4 iIv living under the same roof with
their farm animals and the mother
working on the farm, not because
there was a great war in the world
hut hecause it had been the custom
. for ages for the mother to go out
/ an the farm and do the work OF the
/ farm The Senator will find 2,OOO,-
600 Young men who saw that con-
dition and know what free trade
means. In my opinion, the Senator
had better take that circumstance
into account"
senator underwood took occasion
to saw that whit the emocratic tar
if does not tax many form products
II benefits the farmer bp putting
farming machinery on the free list.
With considerable delight Senator
Godoing pictured that fiction. He
Said
1.-THE Senator from Alabama spoke
about the bill bearing his name put
4 ting machinery on the free list. That
is true but it is an insult to the
American farmer when you say you
put it on the free list to give the
American farmer cheaper farming
material because the facts are that
the American genius on the farms
in this country has lead the whole
world with improved American MADE
! farming machinery. There is No
farming machinery made elsewhere
! in the world that the American farm
er can use: and so. if there is not
anv that can be imported what is
the use in insulting the intelligence
of the American farmer by telling
him that it was put on the free list
for his benefit?
AS the debate between Senator
Gooding and Senator Underwood
continued, the later made the charge
! that proposed tax on wool is going to
"cost the American people in the
enighborhood of two hundred mil
lion dollars a year. The fallacy OF
that claim was exposed when Sena-
tor Gooding showed the total value
of the wool clip of America to be
s65,oOO,000 a year. The Idaho Sen
ator while on the wool question,
made the contention that it is
quite as much necessity of life as
is food. and if the one is to be pro
tected the other should be. "All re-
, quire labor to produce" said Senator
| Gooding. II the Senator can see any
difference between he labor on the
! farm and the labor in the factory, or
| between the man who owns fac
tory, or between the man who owns
factory and the man who owns
I farm, he looks at life from an en-
tirely different standpoint from that
which l think they are all American
citizens and all ought to be treated
alike.
"You should not make any distfnc.
ton, replied Senator Underwood?
but do not believe in levying taxes
for the benefit of anybady." This
admission brought from Senator
Gooding the following enjoinder:
''If all men who discuss the tariff
question will go before the American
people and discuss it as fairly as the
leader of the minority in the Senate
we will settle this question very
quickly If the Democratic party is
not in favor of protection it will not
take long to settle it. l want to say
to the Senator that any Senator or
Congressman who goes into any Yves
tern State and makes that state
ment cannot be returned to Cong
ress. He may be returned from the
South. but he canot come from the
West: and hope that all Democrats
who go out on the stump this fall
will be as sincere and honest as the
Senator from Alabama. If they do
there will be no question about what
will happen in the election. The
American people are for protection
In concluding his speech Sena-
tor Gooding said: Let me say that
we have an American standard to
maintain-the best in all the world
and If you are going to maintain it
there must be some way of equaliz-
ing the difference in the cost of pro-
duction here and abroad, and l do
not think there has ever been time
in the history of the country when
we needd a protective tarife as much