The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-09-28

men in Washington, among them the |
men on the Senate Finance Commit |
tee and the House Ways and Means
who would actually write
a Democratic tariff law. Everyone
Of these men from his own testimony
is an uncompromising foe of the
principle of an adequate protective
tariff policy for this country.
In the Congressional Record for
July, 1922. Senator Robinson spoke
of the Democratic theory of a revenue
tariff and the Republican theory OF
a protectice tariff as being the fun
damental distinction between the two
parties. On May II, 1926, he denounced
the present tariff law with some
strange mathematics and harked back
to the idea exploded thirty years ago
that the tariff was the mother OF
trusts, and on January 10, 1926, he
stood in the Senate of the United
States and called for combination
to tear down this tariff wall"
How will Mr.. Raskob explain all
this away? And when he has finish
ed let him turn to Mr.. Cordell Hull OF
Tennessee, member of the House
Ways and Means Committee, who has
filled pages of the Congressional
Record during the last six years with
his violent denunciations Of the
principle of protective tariff as De-
ing Immoral and dishonest. Let Mr..
Raskob tell what Senator Simmons
of North Carolina meant on January
8, 1924, when instead Of the greatest
peace-time prosperity the country
has ever had, Senator Simmons i'm
agined the country "groaning and
staggering under the tariff law Of
1922. Let Mr.. Raskob explain what
Senator King Of Utah meant when on
April Is, 1922 he denounced the Ford
ney-McCumber protective tariff law
as a counterfeit.
Representative Oldfield Of Arkansas.
What did Mr.. Oldfield mean on jan
uary 20, 1926 when he denounced on
the floor of the House of Representa-
tives that he would reduce the Ford
ney- McCumber law to revenue
basis? In it's six years operation
the Fordney- Nice umber law has turn
ed into the Treasury almost 81 bill
lion dollars or enough to equal more
than half the reduction in our ma
tional debt. And so the record goes;
indefinitely it almost seems, but sure
ly enough to keep Chairman Raskob
busy from row until Election Day,
and then some!
And let it be remembered that these
Senators and Representatives are all
members of the Congressional COM
mittees who would write next Demo-
cratic tariff law. The House and
Means Committee would be headed by
Representative John N. Garner of
Texas, a sworn enemy of the protec-
tive tariff policy. The senate Finance
Committee would be headed by the
Hon. Furnifold N. Simmons whose
idea of protective tariff is the nom
protective Underwood Simmons tariff
act of 1918.
To Senator Pat Harrison from Miss
issippi goes the honor of best sum-
marizing the real Democratic posi-
ton on the tariff. On June Is, 1926
in the House of Representatives,
Senator Harrison delivered himself Of
this tariff opinion:
g.. What right has a Republic
can to ask a Democrat who really
has convictions upon the tariff to
surrender all he has ever stood for
respecting that subject and vote
for a measure that spreads the
iniquity and perpetrates it in
power?"
It will take more explaining than
MIR. Raskob can do to expurge this
,inion from the Record. It will take
more explaining than he or any Of
his cohorts can do to convince the
people of this country that they have
not been prosperous under the oper-
alton of the Fordney- McCumber tariff
aw, passed on September %, 1922.
And how is he ever going to keep them
from remembering what happened to
the country following the passage OF
the wilson, German low-tariff act
of 1894 and the Underwood Simmons
act of 1913?