, 1924-03-27
Senator Warren Takes
Issue With Sen. Walsh

The Protectionist," published
monthly by The Home Mraket Club
of Boston. carried in its March is
sue, just out, a quotation from the
Boston Fgening Transcript about
the recent efforts of Senator David
|. Walsh democrat, Massachusetts)
tc make n tariff speech-although
there is no tariff bill pending before
Congress at this time.
Senator 'rren took issue with
Senator Waisn at the time, relative
10 some of the percentages of ad-
vanced costs set forth by the Massa-
ctcsottS Scion, and the article re-
fe.rcd to touchcs upon that fact and
certain wool points of interest to
TO Wyoming readers.
The text of the transcripts story
follows:
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts
cssayed a speech on the tariff re-
Gently. No Democrat even can com
pose an address upon this subject
without discovering In his own mind
that, as Mr.. Walsh puts it. ''of all
the FOL and faults embedded
in the tariff bill none are of a deep
er dye or more in defiance of justice
and honesty than the rates levied in
the o schedule" Upon this hy-
pothesis the junior senator paints a
= picture which, were it laid down in
true and fast colors. might very well
cause the tariff architects to hang
their heads. Like most critics of the
tariff whose shafts are tipped with
!, politics rather than economics, the
. senator deals largely in percentages
. making a horrifc showing along that
. line, although not one that will
. hugely impress the consuming pub
lie when reduced to dollars and
l cents. The veteran Senator Warren
y of Wyoming, who knows more about
e the WOOL duties in n minute than
Mr.. walsh in a month, quietly point,
$ ed cut hat the price of cotton goods
u had advanced two or three times as
much as formerly without any re.
3 lation of the tariff to the increases
and begged the Massachusetts, Sen,
ator to note hat the item which
does not bear n tariff rises in aver
a larger degree than a tarif-pro
tected commodity. The burden of tn,
argument OF Senator Walsh was tina
the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill
had been a benefit to the wool grow
er. and evidently he accounted I
the sin Of sins that this should b
so.
The junior senator from Massa
rhUgetts need not have struggled 81
Il hard to prove that the new tarii
p law has benefited the agriculture
states OF the West. This is frecl'
admitted by the National Woo
Growers Association which In ~
f%fty-uinth annual convention. helt
on January "a, adopted a resolution
of gratitude TO the Congress for thu
enactment of n measure (which hai
been of such tremendous benefit L
all producers of so-called raw ma
terials."
4 clause in the preamble reads a
follows: Under the operation O
this bill the agricultural ms live
stock interests OF the entire nation
have been Immediately benefited
with the result hat prosperity Is be
ginning to return to these Interest,"
and its existence is being reflected
in the prosperity OF the communitieO
In general"
The wonder Is not that Senate
Walsh as II low-tarin Democra
should try to belittle the benehcen
influence q the new tariff law in IL
effect upon the fortunes OF tn
Western farmers, but rather tina
Senator Walsh as chairman OF tn,
Democratic Senatorial COMMITTEE
should Expect to gain votes for hi
party in the agricultural states ives