Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29
SEN. DUPONT
LAUDS RECORD
OF congress
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another term In the Senate has beer
formally launched.
County Chairman Charles A. Pat
terson presided over the Count.
Committee meeting.
Senator DUPONT in the course o
his speech before the County Com
mittee said:
There is In some places a grea
deal of criticism OF the Republican
Administration and to many of us 4
seems there is little progress beins
made and that industries and norma
times are slow in returning.
IF the facts are sifted. It will b'
found that there has been a grea
deal accomplished: indeed. / think
such as has never been accomplished
in the history of the world in SC
short time. If you take into con-
sideration the fact that the debts OF
the European countries in many
cases exceed their total wealth, and
in all cases are four or five times
greater than the debts of the United
States. The inflated condition OF
the market on all products and labor
during the war has made It hard for
many of us to get back to normal
times, and many articles which are
apparently not as essential as our
farm products for instance, are still
very gradually very high in compar-
ison TO pre-war prices. but are grad
ually reaching their proper level.
THE Republican administration
however. has accomplished a good
deal The accomplishment of the
peace conference, conducted the lat
ter part of last year and the first
part OF this year, was something
that none of us thought possible. Al
this conference the United States
took the lead and came out unques-
tonabiy at the head OF the column.
Several threatened descriptions be-
tween countries have either been |
averted or the trouble is on the way /
TO satisfactory adjustment, and this |
has ali been done noiselessly yet /
firInly, and is an honor to the United |
States.
The proposed tariff law now be-
ing discussed in Congress- which Is
an tHutdNOI " VAVAtNAAOAA OA u
fair basis Is probably the most diff
ficult job ever undertaken, in this
direction. With fiuctuation of money
values on the other side, bringing in
a new factor. with new conditions
caused by the World War, with the
conditions of shipping, both in the
United States and abroad. it is very
-
both fair and just; and Of course,
everyone of US thinks the tariff law
should be written primarily for him I
self and his friends. For instance.
the cattle men in their vast western
country are very anxious for duty
on hides; the shoe manufacturers of
New England and the Eastern States
want free hides; and many letters
have been received by all members
Of Congress advocating free hides to 1
get cheaper shoes. while the western |
farmer wants a duty on hides to in
crease the value OF his cattle. The
situation might be illustrated as fol-
lows:
"A hide weighs about 65 pounds /
and the duty on a hide is about So |
II cattleman out West sells a
thousand cattle with an addition of
y a hide. his price has increased by
1000. This is about cents
b. The average pair of shoes
Weighs less than two lbs. so that the
Iuty on hides at is per cent. which
he Eastern shoe manufacturers are
bjecting to, amounts TO 10 cents on
pair of shoes. 1t will make a diff
erence to the farmer In the West.
s you will see, to have his cattle
rejected, and there is no one per-
on or one family even in the United
tates who consumes enough shoes
year TO make this duty on hides
burden.
"There is already very much in
a disposition on the part
the Democrats to hold back leg
lation, and they are using every
,nceivable plan to do this. their
ought being that II legislation can
postponed-if the Republican
srty can be accused of doing moth
atter showing next fall, and to fight
lis as well as to get through Con-
ress any tariff bill under any CIR
instances is very hard and goins |
, be very tedious work. In a re-
ent talk in New York. John Adams.
hartman of the Republican Ma
on committe. said, and he put it
cry concisely:
There has been too much delay n
IN the tariff bill. Everybody knows II
hat. But other necessary legisla- A
ton has interfered. It always re
luires six months to year to frame |
a good tariff measure and Il always |
VIII. Ten thousand experts. more
or less, mainly camoufage artists.
want to be heard. There are seri-
Gus differences Of opinion within the
party on this important question
are these differences more
radical and more irreconcilable than
in the East. If you were to select
five hundred of the leading business
men Of New York TO do the work Of |
md turn them loose on a
TRANSPORTATION.
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