The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-15

ments were made by express in
small way. The Tip Top melon, al
its best, is tip top in name and nature
Pass the salt, please.
Capper on Tariff-Making
Senator Capper demands that "the
Tariff Bull be taken out of the China
Shop.N Nor does he hesitate to tel
US why. Mr.. Capper is at the front
in all matters relating to the tariff
on farm products. He is aggressively
friend of the agriculturist and the
manner in which he has been jumping
on the Chicago Board of Trade is
sin. We judge that the senator from
Kansas looks upon the Board of Trade
as an incorporated den of thieves, oil
shall we say gamblers in the bread
of the world? Senator Capper say;
that spectators in grain should bf7e
"cooped, cabined and confined" hence
| the second CapperTincher bill, to thai
| laudable end
But the senator says a few words
about the American plan of tariff-mak
| ing which are most timely. Inasmucb
! as our farmers are vitality interested
| in this subject we pass on a portion
! of the senator's remarks for your pc
| O5dl. IL pICIu1C lC paints 10 ~
cartoon. The condition he describes
1 is just as it exists and has existed for
years. The senator begins his argu
ment, as follows:
Imagine all kinds and conditions
of men to the number of 528-men of
many minds and some with none, men
from all parts of the country, men
as innocent of expert or worldwide
knowledge of economic conditions as
the babes in the woodland you have
the great American recipe for the
drafting of a tariff bill by Congress.
Adding still further to these com
plications, 169 of the 52S men now
in Congress are Democrats and be-
lieve in a tariff for revenue only. On
the other side are $50 Republicans
who believe just as strongly in a pro
tective tariff one that will protect
the products of agriculture and indus
try from the destructive competition
of loweT-cost foreign products"
How Congress Collects Data
Congress, meanwhile, collects
mass of contradictory tariff testimony
absolutely impossible for 1t to digest
or reconcile. Whatever measure
either party finally adopts, is likely
/ to be passed under pressure of special
interests anu 0ApOulGuC6 anu
the resultant tariff bill becomes the
subject of perennial political dispute
and much heated and tiresome debate
until another one, either worse or
better, is framed in the same futile-
way.
"In these times, when a most care
fully and scientifically adjusted tariff
is a necessity for every commercial OF
industrial nation, because of the
worlds chaotic economic condition.
the United States is about the only
country which continues to make the
tariff a political football instead of an
economic issue. The true purpose OF
tariff-making is to equalize foreign
conditions of production with home
conditions of production in order to
safeguard the wage-earner and the
|, producer from destructive competi-
, ton, and thereby maintain a whole
! some national standard of living. But
, unlike our foreign competitors we
, nearly always turn out a tinker's job
= of tariff-making and always shall so
long as we do not take tariff-making
out of politics"
I Scientific Tariff-Making
Senator Capper believes in tariff
: commission, men who shall devote
JnelT time 10 the many duSlIuSS pIOU-
; lens of international trade, in all its
effects and industrial ramifications.
and be thus fitted cover the field sci
} entifically, in the best interests of
our entire people. Senator Freyling
: hansen has introduced a bill to this
end it is hoped that it will later be
: enacted into law. In the meanwhile
: Mr. Capper endorses the present SEN
! ate bill, and says: mo better bill can
be hoped for under our present meth
: cd of tariff legislation" In conclusion
senator Capper voices a wish that We
: can al endorse, when he says:
: 81 hope, however. that it will never
3 again become necessary for the coun-
try's lawmakers to waste weeks and
months of their time, and the cour-
S try's time, trying to do piece Of con-
4 structive work requiring great nicety
!, of adjustment by driving a frenzied
g bovine back and forth thru the ma
? tional china shop