Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-07-14
THE BURDEN OF
NEW TAXATION
WILL BE GREATLY iNcREAsED
BY THE NEW FoRDNEY
NEXT TO NOTHING TO FARMER
Ono Chapter After Another OF Special
Favors To Those Who Need Them
Least And Special Burdens
On Those overburdened.
NEXT TO NOTHING TO FARMER
BY WALLACE BAssFoRD
Especial News Correspondont.)


Washington. D. c.. July 1o.-The
Congress which In March was talking
OF adjournlng in May, in July is talk.
Ing of the possibility OF adjourning In
August while tho country sweats un-
der tho uncertainty of how great will
be the burden Of now taxation pilod
up by the Fordney bill when 1t finally
becomes law. Tho best statistloians
who have brought their pencils to boar
on the problems are OF the opinion
that for every dollar taken from the
purse OF the average citizen under the
present tUnderwood) tariff law, tho
new bill Will take something like
$13.40, rs compared with about 1896
under the Payno-Aldrich. Democrats
cried out against tho exactlons Of tho
last named law and repealed It with
the Underwood law. which was highly
satisfactory to all except those Re-
publican New England and
tariff barons who grow rich out OF
such legislation.
With tho Republicans tho whole
tariff scheme IL u vicious circle, and
once having adopted tho system they
seem unable to escape from 1t. Hero
is tho way It has worked: Tho tariff
barons put up tho campaign funda
which enable the party to win and
then proceed, like Shylook. to collect
their pound OF flesh: their demand
takes the form Of higher tariff loglHla.
ton; after Il prolonged struggle In
Congress they got II, whereupon tho
people throw tho Republican Party out
OF power. Following tho enactment OF
the Mckinley bill they were cleaned
out, boots and brooches: following tho
Dingloy bill. IL took the Spanish War
to sayo the House to tho Republicans,
and that only savcd 1t by narrow
squeeze: after the Payne-Aldrich bill
they wore again kicked out, whereupon
the Democrats enacted tho Underwood
revenue-tarlff bIll-a bill designed To
produce the greatest amount OF rev
enue for the Treasury with tho least
burden on the public. Tho Democrats
J remained In power for years after It's
enactment and Loaf control only
through tho great wave OF political
hysteria which followed tho war. The
passing OF that wave has been more
and more In evidence OF recent
months, and return to normal think.
Ing threatens to sweep the Republl.
cans out OF tho House In tho coming
November election. Almost every day
comes tho news OF aome Republican
member who "nnds that his business
engagements make II impossible FOR
him to again BIO q candidate for Con
gross." Among the lateat nre Fordncy
and Wlnslow. both rich manufaclur
ere. who arc seeing enacted Into law
those tariff provisions which Will still
further enrloh them. They seem to be
among those wise ones who quit while
quitting Is good.
Representative Harry D. Halves, of
Missouri, mado ono OF tho ablesi
speeches yet delivered on the tariff;
he took as his particular text the tariff
on hides and showed that whIlo II
would put sixteen millions revenue In
tho Treasury, 1t would cost the people.
In the additional prices charged for
articles made Of leather, many hun.
dreds OF millions. He estimated that
on shoes alone 1t would add an aver-
age OF forty cents to each OF 100000
600 pairs. OF s132.000.O0O. Tho shoe
tax on the people OF HIS State alone
would amount to moro than four mil.
Hons per year. On tho other hand.
MFR. Halves showed that the tariff on
hides will bring NEXT to nothing to
the pocket Of the farmer who produces
the hide. but permits the packers to
get stranglo hold on both the hide
market and the tanning business. Then
he quoted the American Farm Bureau
Federation. as follows:
Cattle hides are a by-product of the
production OF animals for meat OF
dairy purposes in the United States
Animals are not produced for theiI
hides alone. and the variation in the
price OF the hide has little influence or
the rate OF cattle production.
"Most Of the hides produced in The
United States are sold by the produce
on tho animal, and not rs hides Blu
as part OF an animal. tho price be
ing largely determined by the value o
the meat on the animal. The hide.
taken of by packers comprise, rough
ly, two-thirds Of the domestic supply
and hides sold by cattle produceri
amount to a very small part Of tn,
total
"Since two-thirds Of the domesti,
hides are taken off by packers, ant
they also control about one-third o
the tanning business. they are In 1
position to be dominant factor IL
the hide and leather market.
"Cattle production needs stimuln
ton. but the increased return from Il
per cent. on 61h per cent OF the weigh
OF the animal is 30 email to be O
no Importance Us means OF increas
ing cattle production.
Therefore. we believe that hides
leather and leather products SHOULD
remain on the free list"