Detroit evening times., 1945-06-29

.Nif.ll lltNf Nfhl lIN' y ltNlilt-ill
chair land lost IT alSol for their
stand upon thiN one question
al0no NathinG. including tho
civil War which was a phase
of the tariff dispute between thc
foreign hee-tradjnC cotton
growers and The New England
textile manufacturers dcSlrouS
of protection has 50 deeply
torn Tho political hearts of
Americans
pUT tins time Congress. with
- Republican votes. authorized
a further >laShing of - per
cent los the President single
handed making = per cent in
all from The old high tariff
rates without advice or con-
sent II Congress OF the Rcpub-
lican national committee.
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10" =" ''N
that thi. increased am,horitv
might he u>ed in such a way as
10 endanper ar trade out, sao-
menfS Of American industry
American agriculture. or Ameri-
can labor. No such action was
taken under President Roosevelt
and CordeI Hull and no such
action will take pIace under my
presidency"
The ONLY reason for = tariff
rate of course. is 10. protect
some American industry farm
or worker from cheap prouction
costs oming in competition
from abroad. There are no
tariffs on noncompetIrIve prod
ucts, no reason for any
If there is 10 he no danger"
10 domestic interests from tariff
cutting. how can there be any
tauff cutting i'm fact. why was
the subject ever mentioned. or
the law passed p
TO THIS question NO senator
L / have found has oven a mi.
yatc answer Tho only S,cges-
tlon approacbinp an ovnlanafiop
iS that MIR Truman e(necte "a
horn IN Sop,e way an fbo Co
man and Jan trade hv >onic
magic vet undi>clo>ed and u
will have to he big magic hn-
cause the Nall and Ian cost of
production was what made tins
trade possible uncludlnp electric
light bulbs in our 1O.cent stores
for half our cost Of production
Whv moefd not Republican
vote for Democratic tariff
proposition like that
Indeed the administration
went compromiSinclv further
and announced firmly that an
10 it's future tarin-cutting trea-
ties. one like the provision Of
the MeXiCan treaty which saws
restrictive quotas on lmportS
can be imposed whenever the
shipping nation cctS too much
goods tn our opinionl IN any
line Of exports. or more than
We can handle.
But We have hccn told bv the
administration. the lefiwinrorS
and even Republicans that
quotas are horrible, IN fact.
were the cause of the war Mr..
Truman'S pcople have adycr.
tjScd his new tariff SlaShlng
powers as a beautiful bonanza