Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-13
R|DD|CK DECLARES
TARIFF ACT HELPS
MONTANA FARMERS
Says 1t Was Designed to Aid
Worker and Tiller in Key
note Campaign Talk.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Deer Lodge, Oct. 12.-Defending the
present tariff bill as legislation that
was designed to bring prosperity to the
American laborer and farmer. Con-
gresham Carl w. Riddick, in the key
note address of his campaign here
Thursday night, said the denouncers
of the measure were guilty of as much
robustness as those who found fault
with the weather hex Sunday"
The republican nominee for the Unit
ed States senate pointed to the flexible
qualities of the new tariff as one Of
the reasons why it will prove effective
and satisfactory. In the course of his
remarks, Congressman Riddick told his
audience of what he thought were the
outstanding accomplishments of the re-
publican congress. His remarks on the
tarur were In part as follows:
Protection is Aim
The republican tariff is primarily
directed to protect the American labor
er and farmer. It is to keep American
industry going by preventing cheap i'm
ports from closing domestic factories
and mines and bringing ruin to live
stock and farming industries. The ideal
tariff is that imposes just enough
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ence between cost of production at
home under American living conditions
and cost of production abroad, under
the low wages and cheap money con-
ditions that prevail there, and at the
same time not enable the home pro-
Queer to profiteer by soaking the on
sumner.
Is Modern Idea
THE persons who are denouncing
the present tariff bill as being too high
are doing as foolish a thing as finding
fault with the weather next Sunday.
No one can tell exactly what the wealth
er will be next Sunday and no one
can tell what the tariff will be next
month, or the month after, for the
republican congress has adopted a
new, modern and scientific idea in a
flexible tariff.
OF course, New York and other
newspapers that represent importing
interests that have been buying goods
cheap abroad and selling them at high
prices in America and making exorb-
liant profits do not like the new tariff
law. 1t was not written to benefit
them. 1t was written to bring pros
perity to the laborer and farmer of
America, just as past republican tariff
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and as in the past, this sound legisla-
ton viii have that good effect. Every
period of prosperity and development
this country has seen has been under
a period of republican protective tariff
and yet there are always those who
complain and find fault when a pro-
tective tariff law is passed.
viii Settle Difficulties
Trade and wage and money ex-
change values are sc unsettled today
everywhere that no one can definitely
tell how high a tariff wall we need to
stop the food of imports that will re-
place products of American labor and
farmers. Because no one knows ex-
actly how high a wall will be required,
ONE say erect no wall at all, let the
food overwhelm US and later we will
see what ought to be done.
THE new law is flexible. The presi-
dent is given power to follow the scien-
tific findings and advice of a nom
political tariff commission, created dur
ing the Wilson rule. and can raise or
lower the wall to fit the changing sit
uations. Rates may be reviewed and
changed after a hearing, much like rate
hearings before the interstate com
merce commission.
This new tariff idea bids fair to set
tie for all time many of our old tariff
troubles, and indicates again that the
republicans of this congress have given
unusually careful thought TO the best
needs of the whole people"