Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20
TARIFF REVOLT MAKES
REPEAL 1924 'SSJE
Fordney-McCumber Act Causing
Protests Even From Those
Supposed to Be Protected


WASHINGTON, July 2O.-Re-
cent protests against the present
Republican tariff, even from inter
ests which it was supposed to have
protected, are taken by Democrats
and Independents as evidence that
repeal OF the Fordney- McCumber
act will be one of the outstanding
issues of the next presidential
campaign. In many respects, Dem
ocrats declare, the history of the
battle against the Payne Aldrich
tariff Is being repeated as to the
existing Fordney-McCumber law.
Governor Preus's reputation of
the Fordney- McCumber tariff in
his Senatorial canvass of the agri,
cultural districts of Minnesota is
the most conspicuous o. the many
signs of popular revolt against
law which is being held respon-
sible for increasing the cost of liv-
ing and stagnating business, but it
is not the only one. Democrats
are pointing to numerous other in
dications of this uprising. Among
these are the following:
The widespread agitation, partic-
ularly among women, for a reuuc-
ton in the duty on sugar, based
on the conviction that the tariff is
to blame.
President Harding's unmistaka-
BILE avoidance Of any praise sor even
important mention of the tariff in
his trip through the country.
Complaints by farmers organiza-
tons against the Fordney-McCum-
Der laws effect in preventing the
passage of cattle back and forth be-
tween the United States and Cana
da to find pasturage.
Demands by a lumbermen's as
soclation for reduction of the
duty on spruce, fir, cedar, and
hemlock logs imported from Cana
da, on the ground that tariff is
working to the disadvantage of
Americans.
Discomfort among wool growers
because of the decline in the prices
of their product in spite of the
tariff of 81 cents a pound and the
high cost of wooden goods.
The Farm Bureau Federation's
finding that the farmers are COM
PEELED to pay 100000, 900 more a
year in higher prices for what they
buy than they get from the tariff
by way of higher prices for what
they have to sell.
The practical reversal of Repub-
lican majorities in two congress
sional districts of agricultural
states at elections held since last
fall.
Rejection of Republican candi-
dates and the election of Demo-
Gratis in Chicago and Detroit, and
in various towns and cities in
Maine, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and
Iowa.
General recognition of the fact
as evidenced by statements in
trade journals and by the admis-
sions of dealers. that the tariff has
increased the cost of food, clothing,
furniture, furnishings, implements,
and equipment.
Stoppage of building operations
and the consequent reaction on 9th
er industries because of the excess
sive cost of structural materials
which have risen rs per cent in the
last few months.
Attempts on the part of workers
in certain industries to get bigger
wages in order to make their in
comes correspond to the higher
cost of living.
Democrats have information of
the resentment against the tariff,
particularly in the West, and they
feel sure that the present hostility
will grow between now and Novem-
Der, 1924, because the Republican
leaders will not permit the next
Congress to lower rates on the
products of big trusts and combines
which contribute to Republican
campaign funds In default of a