The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-08-22
COOLING FIGHT
FOR 7 AR|FF IS
ATTACK OBJECT
East Overlooks Many
Factors; Wool Schedule
Assault Answered by
Facts on Other Articles.

Due to the eff
fective work of the farm tariff bloc"
of the Senate, of which Senator Frank
R. Gooding Of Idaho is chairman, the
American farmer, under the Senate
tariff bill, will get degree Of protec~
ton never before accorded him in any
American tariff law. For the first time
the farmer has been put by the Senate
on plane with the manufacturer, and
the degree of protection accorded the
latter has been carried onto the pro-
ducts of the farm as we'll. This is 60
ing further than any previous republi-
can congress has done; while under
Democratic tariff laws, most products
have been carried on the free list.
The creation of the tariff" bloc" was
the idea of Senator Goodino and his
tireless efforts during the winter,
spring and summer months, not only
perfected the first organization the
Senate ever seen, formed to protect
but kept that organization together,
kept it working, and made its work eff
fective.
Papers Attack Gooding
Of late Senator Gooding has been
condemned by some of the large met
ropolitan newspapers of the east be-
cause he led the fight for an adequate
duty on wool. For time they over
looked the fact that Senator Gooding.
as chairman of the tariff bloc, led the
fight for all other agricultural rates
in the bill, and fought for adequate
duties whether the products were
grown in his state or not. Perhaps
no single item in the agricultural sched-
ule was SO bitterly fought out as the
duty on vegetable oil some thing
does not produce. 1t was Senator
Gooding who championed the cause of
the growers of soya beans and other
beans and nuts, and his fight against
the soap manufacturers, who were
seeking free oils, was every bit as
vehement, if not more vehement than
his fight for Scent duty on wool.
The eastern newspapers, which late
ly have been assailing Senator Good
ing, are the identical papers that have
been fighting and condemining the
Fordney- NJ Cumber bill from its very
inception; they are papers that have
been clamoring to keep American
points open to free ingress of materials
from abroad now they are papers, as
Senator Gooding demonstrated, that
thrive largely on the one, two and
even four page advertisements OF large
importing houses which have no con-
Germ in the protection of American
industry, but are chiefly concerned
in Their ability to continue to buy their
stocks Europe at unbelievably low
prices that now prevail, because OF
the depreciation of the currency of all
European countries. These same i'm
porters, as Senator Gooding, Senator
McCumber and Senator Watson all
showed in detail, to not pass on to the
American buying public the benefits
of their low purchase prices, but ex-
act profits on imported goods rang
ing from 500 and 700 to 1000 and
even 5000 per cent
Because Senator Gooding had the
temerlty to expose the unconscion-
able profits demanded by the big
eastern importers and because he
gave the names of those who were
exacting profits that ware as
founding New York, Boston, Chi
cago and other big eastern impor-
tiers have undertaken to get the
Senator, and they thought they
found their opportunity after the
Senate voted duty Of 80 cents
pound on wool.
Overlook big things
These importers, and the newspapers
whose columns and pages they fill
daily with the lucrative advertising have
Just awakened to what every Idaho
voter has known for years, thai Sen
ator Gooding is sheepman, and hav-