Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15

as to how this inequality is made worse.
Cattlemen want tariff on hides. The
new bill provides 10 per cent tariff for
hides and then 20 per cent tariff on
imported leather for harness, boots and
shoes. The United States Tariff Com
mission reports that q 3h per cent
tariff on shoes Is sufficient to compen-
safe for O 10 per cent tariff on hides
Thus, the manufacturer secures tariff
six times what is needed to equalize
conditions resulting from the hide tariff.
Only q few farmers raise hides, but all
farmers buy harness and shoes.
Let me call your attention to another
illustration. This bill provides a tariff
Of 10 per cent on surgical and scientific
instruments. What good will that do the
farmer? Anyhow. 80 per cent OF such
instruments are manufactured abroad.
II the tariff is to benefit these Ameri-
can manufacturers. why not have 1t ap-
plicable only to instruments made IN
the United States? Thus a tariff bill
to help agriculture Is to burden the sick
and those In the hospitals.
The only increased rates for industry
which President Hoover'S message sug-
2 ted was for industries that are
languishing because Of foreign competi-
ton. This bill fails to provide a tariff
for some of such industries, but gives
prosperous. II we are to have pro-
tective tariff system, then every IN
dustry in need of protection Is entitled
to protection. To leave out any industry
in need of protection Is not only unjust
but makes the tariff bill indefensible.
That is the principal reason the
farmers complain. They are not only
entitled to protection. but also to have
that protection made effective on surplus
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| an equalization fee plan. That is why the
producers of manganese insist upon a
tariff. The steel trust wants the tariff
taken OF so they can buy cheaper man
ganese abroad, but manganese producers
are entitled to protection.
That Is why the shingle mills of my
own State Of Washington insist upon a
tariff. When we had shingle tariff
the shingle business prospered, When
ness went bankrupt. With the tariff,
we produced 5000, 900, 600 shingles every
year. Without tariff, $500, 0OO, 900
shingles are coming In from Canada an
nually, and one-han of our mills are
closed. If shingles are not entitled to
tariff, no manufactured product in
Il United States is entitled to tariff.
II shingles are on the free list, all the
manufactured articles in the United
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Dollar Out for Every Dime.
For every dime the farmer will gain
under this bill, he will pay dollar in
higher cost for what he buys. There
Is scarcely an article used upon the
farm or In the home that viii not cost
tie farmer more. Unless the bill is
radically changed it should and probably
Will be defeated by the Senate through
a combination of the Democrats and
Progressive Republicans.
While the tariff bill is the immediate
business before the Senate, Congress is
confronted with another problem with
which we must deal In the near future
It Is assuming greater proportions every
day. refer to the formation of busi-
ness mergers.
For more than a generation we have
had combinations known as trusts We
no longer have trusts. They have a
new name now. They are mergers.
Merger is not such an Objectionable
name. The masses of the people are
not familiar with that word. So the
new super-trusts are mergers.
This new name merely covers an old
evil greatly enlarged. The merger is a
form OF combination by which hold
ing company reaches out and brings
under cooperative control the corpora
ton units in any kind of business or
industries that are closely related.
These mergers are fast covering every
activity and every kind of business in
America. They no longer control mil