Weekly journal-miner., 1922-09-13
THE TARIFF

HE TARIFF
 1.-THE chances are even that tre republican tar i l if bill will receive the signature of President
 Harding some time between October first and
 fifth The efforts Of the anti-protection press and of importers propaganda to create a deadlock in the conference, to give the impression that the bill will die in conference have been utterly
 futile The report that the republicans are afraid
 to pass the bill the eve of the congressional
 elections because they think 1t will lose the house
 to the democrats is false.
 As matter of fact the bill is proceeding to its conclusion faster than anticipated by the most
 sangune of the conferees. It was thought at one time that the American valuation plan which originated in the house would prove to be bone of contention between the senate and house con ferees which would delay the bill for some time. Senator Shoot is authority for the statement that the tariff bill would be a law by October first Chairman McCumber IS even more optmis- tic, and Representative Fordney expresses the belief that the bill will be completed so far as congress is concerned, by September 2Oth These conferees know what they talking about, for they handling the measure. The newspapers and the gossip-mongers who oppose the bill, do not know what they talking about and such statements as they make other than those ex pressly authorized by the conferees are not to be relied upon and entitled to no credence.
 Ever since the tariff debate opened i'll the senate predictions have been rife on the part of opponents of the bill that it would never become a law The wish was father to the thought. The campaign against the bill was permitted toI get under full steam by the prolonged filibuster of the democrats, who exhausted days on unm- portant schedules As Chairman McCumber said when the chemical schedule up, we have wasted Is hours four cents worth of formic 1 acid. Sensing the fact that the democratic fili- buster staged for the purpose of giving time to the importers combination to mobilize their forces to defeat the bill, the republicans. seized the opportunity to make a counter-attack by show ing up the greed of these importers, and the re- port of this engagement IS compressed into a most historic tariff document entitled Imported Mer- chandise and Retail Prices" 9th congress, 2d session, a copy of which can be at the Journal Miner office. This shows by actual f. | gures officially recorded, the profits of importers on the landed price of foreign goods ranging from lj7 to 237O per cent. Photographs of the articles are given, and the sales slips accompanying the purchases of these articles. It is the worst knockout. the free traders have received in the r history of tariffs.
 The republican tariff framers having put their hands to the blow have displayed no intention of turning back. They will enact measure which | carries the lowest average ad valorem rate on all imports that has ever characterized republican law, and which, when deprecated foreign cur rences are considered spells protection with a mighty small D." Following the enactment of this bill will come the usual pack of falsehoods and traducing of the framers. But if this country is still for protection and there is every indica tion that it is, the voters will stand by the repub- icans and the tariff law they have passed in the the face of the most thoroughly organized oppo- Stion congress has ever known. !.