Evening star., 1932-01-10
SPEAKERS PRAISE
AND HIT TARIFF
DickinsonAt Attacks Democratic
Policies as Editor Asks
Protection for Farmers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January e.-A United
States Senator attacked Democratic
tariff proposals, a Minnesota publisher
demanded better protection for the
farmers and a former Government off,
cial praised Republican tariff policies
in luncheon discussion today at the
National Republican Club.
Senator L. j. Dickinson, Republican,
of Iowa declared that the Democrats,
after branding the Smoot- -Hawley act
as ubiquitous" failed to suggest q
single rate change when they came into
control.
There should be no lowering Of the
protective wall which shuts out pauper
goods and shuts out pauper immi-
grants" he said.
AS for the present tariffs effect on
the farmers, he asserted, "it did more
to put cur agricultural schedules on a
workable basis than any tariff legisla-
ton which has ever been passed. The
farmers are becoming more and more
dependent on the tariff
Editor Disagrees.
Frederick E. Murphy, publisher Of
Minneapolis Tribune, economic expert
and sponsor of the Minnesota plan"
for the diversification Of agricultures,
disagreed with the Senator, saying: Il
do not think it can be seriously said
that the Smoot -Hawley act has been
Of any appreciable benefit to American
agriculture"
He declared that tariff that would
amply protect the farmer from imported
tropical oils would bring into profitable
production 100000 acres of land now
producing our surpluSeS, and demanded
justice" He said these oils were now
being used as substitutes for animal
fats
Congress and industry too, may we'll
take cognizance of this fragrant eco
nomic injustice" he said.
Industry insists on having tariffs
to protect its American market Why,
I ask you, should industry allow it's
great agricultural market made up of
30000,000 Americans to become more
impoverished and deprived of buying
power? Industry ScurrieS around the
globe franttcally looking for foreign
markets. Why should industry shut its
eyes to its best markets here at home,
where there is no need to teach the
buyers to use American goods-where
there are no high tariff walls-where
there is no going off the gold standard
and where there is no talk of debt
populations? A prosperous agricul-
pensate for our vanishing foreign
trade
Kaufman Hits. Lower Rates.
Herbert Kaufman. former Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, attacked any
attempt to, lower the tariff Majority
welfare viii be betrayed" he said, "by
shortening or dullng one spike of that
barrier which now alone defends the
American factory and the American
pay roll from the cheaper merchandise
and productive capacity of desperate,
emhittered and universal competition" 4"
He also criticised what he looked
upon as American ENHANCEMENT in
European affairs. Hitting at the
Wilson administration, he said:
"If we had not then built the futures
underpinning so ineXtricably into
Europe's economic ramshackle, the
crash there would have left us un-
shaken here"
Senator Dickinson said that while
the Democrats now control the House,
they have talked long and loud and
only recently presented a bill repre-
sentative of their. views. -: :?
Not a single, rate had been sug-
gestsd for change, he said He charged
the Uemocrats would make the flexible
provision unworkable by having the
euthQrity- to change rates vested in
Congress instead of the President. 9
He added. that ,"they- are also asking
a conference among the nations in
order to agree upon policy of recipro-
cal tariffs He said it would be a
waste of money and time 10 confer with
nations of the Western Hemisphere
which produce the same articles Of
which the United States already is
producing a surplus
None of the claims OF the opponents
of the tariff have come true, he said,
since practically every protected item
has decreased in price to the consumer.