Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-06-19
REPUBLICAN SENATOR
ON REPUBLICAN TARIFF.

best speeches made IN the senate
against the pending Fordney McCum-
Der profiteers' tariff bill was made
by Senator George W. Norris IRE
publican, Nebraska), discussing the
rates on shotguns, rifles, etc.
The house bill imposed the follow
at more than SIS, $3.50 each; valued
ing high rates: On shotguns valued
at more than S. and not more than
$40, 50 each; valued at $40 and not
more than $25, Sc each; valued at
more than $25, $40 each, with an adj
ditional ad valorem rate of 35 per
cent, which the senate committee
made As per cent.
In his best ironical vein, Senator
Norris said:
81 am surprised that the senator
(Mr. Simmons) does not understand
it. Of course, tbs not for protec-
ton, because we send guns all over
the world. We command the worlds
market in guns. There is no protec-
ton in it. 1t is not for revenue, of
course, because none are imported;
but the senator forgets-and this ap-
plies to good many other things in
this bill-that there is another rea-
son that might have a practical eff
feet, and l am surprised that the
senator does not understand it. Has
he forgotten the men who are engag-
ed in making guns in this country?
Has he forgotte that the war is over
and that their market is probably
somewhat interfered with, and that
they need some assistance from
somebody? Does not the senator re-
alize, too, that while there are no
guns imported, because they cannot
compete with us, there are, neverthe-
less, people in other countries who
make guns?
"We have this market. We are
reaching out to get the balance of
the world. We want a tariff away
up high so that wescan raise the price
here and still keep out the FOREIGNER
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while we go out into the foreigners
country and sell guns at less than
cost and put him out Of business. We
could not do that if we did not have
the American fellows here toiling
and working to make up here what
we lose abroad, and hence we have
to have this. 1t is necessary. If we
can raise the tariff high enough to
keep out the other fellow, and raise
the price here up to the level of the
tariff wall and compensate ourselves
while we go out and conquer the rest
of the world in the gun business,
when we have driven the other fell
lows out of business in their home
countries, which may take some time,
we can increase the price there. We
could not do that without losing some
money unless we had this thing in
the bill, and so we have it in here.
at may be pretty hard on the fell
lows who want to buy guns to shoot
prairie dogs and rabbits, but it is
splendid thing for the millionaire
who makes the gun. The senator has
forgotten about that, and while he is
travelling out to gather in the world
market we will toll and sweat and
work and labor and keep the wolf
from his door. That is why we have
this tariff, not onl yon guns, but on
good many other things. We are
going to do the same thing with
sewing machines and paints, and
lot of things made out of steel, and
whloe lot of other things; and will it
not be glorious day when that
time comes, when our millionaires
will control the world, and we will go
hungry and toll while they are get
ting around to do it? We ought to
be glad of the opportunity to make
these sacrifices. We ought to rejoice
that we are the instrumentalities by
which these men will not only prof
iteer, but continue to profiteer They
have us captured now. We want
them to capture everybody else, and
let everybody pay tribute to their
g .eatness and to their grandeur.
"The senator from North Carolina
has not grasped the idea yet. He
ought, it seems to me, to be able to
and he will when he gets
IS old as / am and lives as long as l
have, that one of the blessings that
come to us through such legislation
as this is that for every drop of
sweat and every bit of toll that our
people go through and all the suffer-
ng they have to endure they are 60
ng to be able to see somebody living