Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1922-10-26
SANDERS EXPOSES McKELLAR'S
IGNORANCE and INCONSISTENCIES

Dyersburg / was asked the following
questions:
First, if | had been a member Of
the Senate in his place, would I have
voted for the recent tariff act? He
adds an insinuation to this question
which is not true and which l am
not considering in this connection.
"No tariff act ever passed has
pleased everybody, and no one ever
will. 1t is a fight between the pro-
Queer and consumer. ALMOST every
body is a producer of some things
and a consumer of others. Another
man produces and consumes the OPP
posite things. So the difficulties of
the problem multiply indefinitely, for
the tariff applies to thousands of
articles.
Congress is made up Of men of
different viewpoints according to the
interests of the people they represent
These men contend in Congress until
balance is finally struck, as shown
by the record of majority vote. This
is as near right as it Is humanity pos
sible to get. To make a perfect tariff
would require an infinite mind. It
covers lat closely printed pages made
up of CAT sections and Ito para
graphs, taxing all things that are inn
ported into this country or putting
them on the free list. But Senator
Mcclellan brands it as an enormous
tax put on everything we use for the
benefit Of few manufacturers. This
is simply untrue.
"To illustrate how little Senator
Mcclellan knows about the tariff, he
charges that l have grown rich by
selling plows at high tariff protection
prices. The fact is, there is no tariff
protection on plows. They have all
the while been on the free list.
STATEMENTS RECKLESS.
Senator Mcclellan says as follows
4 cannot illustrate the direct results
upon the people of this tariff law bet
ter than by taking the tariff on sugar
as an illustration. This bill fixes a |
tariff of LIE cents on a pound of raw
sugar. This will have the effect of |
raising the price of sugar, at the low
est calculation, to the American con-
sumner of not less than cents
pound. Under this tax each person
in the United States must pay an
additional $50 on the average. If
farmer has a wife and five children
he pays a tax of $42O.' According
TO these figures, the Senator estimates
that each person in the United States
would consume yearly 1000 pounds
If sugar, and the farmer and his wife
md children would consume $4,000
pounds of sugar year.
"This is one of the typically reck-
ess and eXtravagant statements in
which the opening speech of the Sem
tor abounded and illustrates his pro-
ound lack of information and knowl-
dge of the subject.
"The present tariff law was passed /,
o raise revenue to pay the expenses
nd debts of this government, largely ,
rowing out of the world war. It is
n absolute necessity. 1t was framed
D raise revenue and to put more :
honey in every mans pay envelope !
nd / would have voted for it.
Further than this | wish to say
hat the tariff is a closed question I
nd is not an issue now. The Under
'ood tariff act stood for more than 5
TX years and the present tariff will
tand in all probability until the six a
ear term for which we are running =
as expired. In fact, it will probably q
.and much longer than that, now a
nat the President has been given the
over to make such slight changes h
5 become necessary in emergencies ];
nd to prevent dumping of foreign &
ade goods on the American market. c.
ew tariffs disturb business more or Il
IS and should not be changed often. s.
he Underwood tariff might still be S,
effect if the war had not made the a
using of more revenue necessary. e.
THE BONUS.
Second question: Would have o
tied against the bill for the ex-serv- it
e mems adjusted compensation? m
president Harding announced some n
me ago that he would veto any bonus II
II that did not provide a way of n
Using the money to pay it. Congress II
en- passed a bill without any such So
DIVISION. This gave an opportunity Ct
r members to vote with the hope 5
gaining favor with the ex-service
en- and at the same time be perfectly
re that the bonus would not be paid. II
nder these circumstances Senator
cKellar voted for the bill. m
"The President vetoed the bill for o,
e following reasons: L
" Failure of Congress to provide d.
cans of financing. The bonus would al
evitably mean increased taxation. til
Ich legislation would wipe out every is
ing thus far accomplished to reduce CO
expenditure wherever te