The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-10
TARIFF T0.BR|NG
PARTY POLICY
CHANGES
Democrats May Represent
''SoIid Business" and Re-
pubIicans ''Sons of Toll"

i business sense ana the kSSPuUACdIA
party may be the party OF the
"1owIy and down-trodden sons of
toll"
Such is the prospect now held
before Washington as day by day
the returns come in frorl every
where in this. country on the SUBJ
ject of foreign relations and on the
subject Of the tariff.
Leading officials OF the United
States Steel Corporation are known
to have expressed sentiments en-
tirely hostile to the whole present
i Republican high. tariff idea. These
officials and their colleagues and
sympathizers want more export
trade. They therefore want cheaper
i raw materials at home, and lower
living costs: and then, on the basis
i OF those lower costs, they want to
fill all foreign markets with Ameri-
can steel.
Il Federation Attitude Changed.
i Meanwhile leading Washington
Representatives OF the wheat farm
i ers want to raise the wheat tariff
i from thirty cents bushel to forty
five cents through action by the
Tariff Commission.
The American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton, which always has been re-
| garded as an anti-tariff organize
ton, has not opposed this sug-
i gested tariff increase. On the con-
trary, its delegation which recentlv
i conferred with President Coolidge
was largely favorable to an experi.
mental effort at a so per cent wheat
tariff advance.
Meanwhile, however, and on the
other hand, the Carded Wooden
Manufacturers Association, OF New
England and Of Boston, in the head.
quarters Of Republican high tariff
sentiment, has been issuing q state.
ment in which it says that ''the
tide or resentment is running
against the present tariff with ire.
sistible force"
The carded wooden manufacturers
think that this tariff goes too far.
So do the paper manufacturers.
The paper manufacturers have
come here to the Tariff Commission
to urge q reduction In the duty on
casein.
Thereupon. however, Charles w.
Holman, Texas Democrat and an
experienced accredited representa-.
tive here Of all the cooperative
dairying interests Of the whole
United States. has hurried to the
rooms Of the Tariff Commission to-
protest against any disturbance of
the protection to casein, witch Is
made from SKINNED milk. -
Other Changes Sought.
Similarly. again, Mr. Holman and
also all the representatives Of some
thirty of forty other sorts Of
agricultural interests and organiza-
tons have always been vigilantIy
on hand In strong protestation
whenever the great soap nnanu-
facturers-who mostly are Re-
publicans-have come here TO try
to persuade the Tariff Commission
to reduce the duties on vegetable
oils.
These oils proceed from cocoanuts
In Tahiti and Nigeria but they also
proceed from peanuts in Virginia
and cotton in Georgia and corn m
Illinois and flax In North Dakota.
Nothing OF Importance has been
done before the Tariff Commission
by any organization Of farmers to
reduce the present tariff duties.
Whatever Of Importance has been
done In that direction has been
done by manufacturers-and. al.
most always, by large manufactu-
rers.
Coincidentally, while manufactu
rers thus are trying to break a
hole in the Republican policy of
so-called economic isolation" the
American Bankers Association and
the United States Chamber Of Com
merce have earnestly requested
President Coolidge to go to the
rescue Of Europe and to abandon
the Republican policy of so-caIled
political isolation"
The high business world OF Amer
1ca' dominantly, is absolutely proved
by all the present returns to Wash.
ingtOn to be hostile to the present
degree Of Republican international
isolation"
Farm-LAbOr Bloc View.
The Democrats, therefore, who op.
pose isolation" find themselves not
among the "down-and-outs," but in
high society,"" and the Republicans.
who used to associate with the man
with the high brow find themselves
associated with the man with the
hoe.
The Farmer-Labor party of Min.
nesota is opposing ''participatfon"
in Europe as zealously as the
American Bankers Association is
promoting it.
President Coolidge Is siding with
the Farmer-Labor party rather
than with the American Bankers
Association.
He informally has preached the
subject OF wheat tariff raise to
the tariff commission; and the COM
mission Will now, with scientific
impartiality, endeavor to discover
whether or not a raise is justified.
He also, through his White House
spokesman, has made a most signifi-
cant allusion to his feelings on the
subject OF American Intervention In
Europe.
This spokesman was asked II the
President had anything to saw re.
garding Mr.. Lloyd Georges annrov.
al OF Mr.. Secretary Hughes sns.
gestion for committee of econon1ic
experts to render an opinion on
Germany's payments Of reparations
Keeping Out of Europe.
The Presidents spokesman said
that this Government had made that
suggestion to Europe but that e.
had been made once and wouId not
now be repeated.
In other words this country nh
solutely is not taking any fnrtbar
| initiative in such matters, in snita
| OF the views of the great fra
| ciers in the American Bankers Xs-
/ ISOLATION and in spite of the View.