The Missouri herald., 1922-05-05
WHEN THE SNOW FLIES"
Prepare for the tariff fight.

ate.
The revision, for the most par.
has been upward
Thirteen months after the ad-
ministration took charge the tariff
bill is offered as the first of the do.
NESTS questions which the president
informed the congress were of so
pressing Importance more than
year ago.
During that thirteen months we
have seen an emergency tariff en-
acted and given new leases of life
and we have seen that tariff send
the prices of farm products lower
and lower and close factory after
factory.
The Senate Finance Committee
has thrown down the gauge of bat.
tie to the House Committee on Ways
and Means.
The Senate leaders declare there
will be no american valuation"
Representative Fordney, father of
the original bill, declares there will
be american valuation" or the
Congress will be kept in session un.
til "the snow flies"
Fordney has lived for this tariff
bill. 1t appears to be the heighth of
his ambition to have his name at
tached to the measure, despite the
warnings which the ghostly fin
gers of Dingley, Payne and Aldrich
must present to him in moments
when he is susceptible of receiving
suggestions.
The bill, as revised by the senate
committee, is receipt in full for
campaign contributions from the
vested interests of the country. 1t
is higher in several respects than
the Payne-Aldrich bill, which sent
its sponsors to defeat in 1912 and
split the Republican party wide open
Another difference that may be
noted between the new bill and the
Payne-Aldrich act is that where the
schedules of the latter were desig
mated by letters, the schedules of
the former are designated by nu'
merals.
The memory is short that can
not recall Schedule X" The new
schedule H is Schedule IL" 1t
protects wool for the manufacturer
This bill is designated to raise
1852, 100000 year.
Who will pay the S352, 100000?
The consumer-the dear old con
sumer.
He will pay a tax for the shoes
he wears, for the clothes he wears
for the food he eats.
The bill will tax the infant whc
drinks from the milk bottle and the
aged who need shawl to protect
his body from the winds.
1t is a system of taxation that
will exact its toll from the cradle
to the grave. None may escape.
1t will add $35O,000,000 a year
to the cost of living in the United
States.
Every man, woman and child in
age of $685. year indirectly into
the treasury if this bill becomes a
law.
That means that the average
family will have $16.75 added tc
it's annual tax bill This tax will
not be collected by the internal rev.
enue agent or the tax collector. II
will be collected by the grocer, the
butcher, the banker, and the candle
stick maker every time you have tc
buy pound of sugar, pound OF
beef, a loaf of bread or pair OF
shoes. 1t is tax that you cannot
dodge because you cannot obtain
the necessities of life without pay
ing it.
The Republican spellbinder will
tell you that the importer of the for
eign manufacturer pays the tax. He
lies and he knows he lies. Every tax
is collected at the point of consump'
ton.
The manufacturer adds his tax on
to his price and the importer adds
his tax onto his price and mid
dleman and the jobber and the re-
taller do likewise until the product
gets into the hands of the man OF
woman who consumes it and the tax
Is included in the final cost OF the
product.
This is not revenue tariff. II
is a protective tariff"-a tariff that
protects manufacturers at the eX