Show S SENATOR BEVERIDGE l t OUTLINES S HIS PLANS 1 J. J fOR TARiff REVISION f it WASHINGTON Feb 5 5 Senator of Indiana today ad addressed thc the senate renate in advocacy of his bill but to tofi toto to fi 1 create a permanent tariff commission 3 1 Tho senator was accor accorded d a a. c careful hearing by both the Republican and sides of tho the chamber and also by the crowded galleries In the galleries several sections had ceD Tc reserved ef ed for members member of ommer and m manufacturing bodies now In in th city for the purpose of promote ling Ji the interests of or Mr fr 9 bili Should hould Have HaV Exports Experts v The tariff is fixed by facts how to get ct at nt those these facts is tho the first question In the whole tariff problem Common Commonsense sense and experience ans' ans answer cr the questions ques we should create a body of ex- ex I io to find out th these se e facts for us The Themen Themen Themen men should be the fittest men who can be found for this work the they should give ive their whole time to this work ork and lay before us the result of their work r This This bill seeks to create Mich uch a n commission ioD of ol experts to find out the facts upon which congress builds a tariff tar tar- iff and to make a clas classification of articles arti cles des to which con congress can plainly and accurately fix customs duties BY By this bill the commis commission on its itself 1 is no not Dot allowed to fix duties or even e to suggest est an any rate Tho The ibin fixing of duties is left to eon congress To Gather Facts Pacts The commission is kept to the task of jath riu facts fauts and making clear classifications tho first is ig expert in investigating sti work the second expert clerical work Neither is le legislative work Wc We must have o more moro foreign trade We e must o open n foreign markets to our live ll cattle which are arc now kept out of those thode markets Our Oum manufacturers ask aak the same lame advantages ad nd vAnta vantages es in iD foreign n trade that the German German German Ger Ger- man government gets Jets for German man man- American producers demand that tho doors of other ather nations which are open to their rivals shall no longer be closed to them Need New System Wo We cannot open apen these doors by a purely purel revenue re tariff because such a tariff merely gives Jives other ather nations trade advantages ad with ith us without getting gettin from those at other her nations an any trade advantages advantages ad aJ vantages in return We Wo must have c that a a. system gives us tho same weapons capons that our aur rivals have by which we can cm ge get et for our producers producers pro pro- the same caine favors that our aur rivals get et for their producers Wo We must have e havea haea a maximum and minimum tariff the tho first to apply to all nations that will not give Q our producers special favors in their market and the last ast to apply to those nations that will give our producers pro favors in markets marlet By this plan German producers are selling more German goods abroad than nn any other nation Germans Lead If we consider area wealth history and aDd all other elements of the problem German producers arc are selling more moro German Ger man goods abroad than an any other five nations in in the world put together Germany German J Japan and the world worM followed fol lowed our plan of a single protective tariff and then 10 logically cally developed d that plan into a double protective plan U We We must be as wise now as the they were then and rind ju just t as they took t tl the e single protective plan from us BO so now now we must take the double protective pro pro- teeth teeth-c. plan from them Our manufacturers our cattlemen our oura a agriculturists our miners our whole producing classes classed ask only the tho san same e advantages advantages ad ad- vantages th that t their rivals have in the tho markets of af the world The They demand no more than this but they will accept no less than this T Tariff for far trade trade for prosperity common sense methods for both both these these must henceforth henceforth hence hence- forth be the tho American watchwords in inthe tho the world-wide world contest for commerce |