Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-05-06
PEOPLE TOPAY
TARIFF BILL
TAX SIMMONS
Says They Would Be as Real
and as Great as. Those Of
Revenue Bill.

Warrington, May 6.-The taxes
that would be imposed by the pending
tariff bill would be as real as those
imposed by the revenue bill and
probably as great-from three to four
billion dollars-Senator Simmons OF
North Carolina. RANKING Democrat on
the senate finance committee, de-
Iclared In q minority report filed to-
day IN the senate.
They must be paid by all the
people" the report says. r.just as
paid by all the people and not by the
benefciaries who have demanded and
got them! The people must not only
pay the taxes on imports which 60
directly into the treasury, but they
must pay the resulting increase in
prices of all the things they buy and
consume.
when the Fordney bill passed the
house h general public regarded 1t
as a monstrodty so %grptcsque and
absurd that they took It as q joke,
vision. 1t did not excite in them any
great degree Of alarm because they
felt sure the senate would rewrite it
and they expected from this body
saner action in their behalf. .
I'm these expectations they have
been grievously disappointed. That
disappointment has grown as they
studied the bill. first In surprise and
then in indignation at the audac!ty
of the assault upon their pocket
books. and is finally eliminating into
utmost this attempted spoilation.
Demands Exposure.
I'm these circumstances the people
will be satisfied with nothing short Of
a full exposure. through discussion OF
this attempted outrage inspired by
the desire to- placate the subsidized
interests at their expense. No con-
spiracy.o Of silence, no threat of long
sessions. no charges of filibuster or
l,cloture must be allowed to smoke
screen and divert the exposure Of the
~intqufties which Turk in the tax-laden
schedules and paragraphs Of the 436
pages of the amended Forney bill
an act (if properly entitled) to mort
gage th0 country and its tc
the protected and monopolized in.
dustries."
Tries to Answer Contentious.
In his report Senator Simmons
undertakes to answer the main con.
tentions Of h majority, report and
embodies-the main points made BY
him in his recent address in the sen;
dtc dIldChAHS Tie AT!iL Hlea6uEe. dS
asserts that the rule for the measure
of protection found in the bill Is
defined in the document itself, as the
difference in the selling price in thi.
country and abroad.
The selling prices here includes tn,
profit" he says $50 that the effect Il
to protect and maintain present higf
profits and make the people pay thes.
increased profits plus a tax for tn,
benefit of the profteer."
Senator Simmons says the statement
in the majority report, that the pur
pose Of the bill is t 0 permit America,
industry to pay wages sufficient to en-
able American w~orkfngmen to main
tain. the American standard Of Living
sounds rather strange. in view Of tn
fact that these self-same industrie,
are today engaged in an intensive
drive to reduce present wage stand
ards" File adds that the standard o
wages in1oreign competing countries
is today more nearly equal the Ameri
can standard than ever before; tina
the cost Of products bear q muci
slighter r%elation>to the daily wage pat<
to labor than in former times ant
that profits constitute a far larger Gle
ment in selling prices both in thi
country and abroad than all other ele
ments entering into the cost Of pro
duction.