Show I TARIFF REVISION The Hon lIon John Dalzell of Pennsylvania predicts that th the new tariff will be the most scientific ever cyer formulated but thinks it will not be he so o material a change from the present one as many people antici antici- pate If the committee will consider the business sense as the height f of science when it comes to framing a tariff law ln t the thle e result will be sure to be sa sat sat- The rule should be to take every item of the schedules and investigate in its merits the cost of production the num number er and wages of employees the necessities of f consumers all all the facts and then I consumers proceed proceed proceed pro pro- to fix the tariff or when hen possible to dispense with it Another serious question is what is raw material ma ma- tenial The man who makes white lead or load lead bars treats pig lead as raw material With him the opening opening open open- ing lug of mines in the desert the transportation the cost of smelting all go for nothing though what is done supplies him with a product which by simple and comparatively com corn ely parati inexpensive processes he is able to conert convert convert con con- vert ert into what he calls calls a a finished product This is characteristic of a thousand other industries and the trouble is that when the tariff is taken from what he lie calls the raw material he be is always too absent minded I to reduce the price of his finished product To revise the tariff riff requires s the utmost practical sense something which the scholars and scientists in congress congress congress con con- gress cannot successfully perform because the matter invades fields they never explored c. and requires knowledge that is only t taught in the tho practical schools of experience e It requires a vast amount of discrimination and courage also to stand off the specious pleaders who have lave only an ati individual interest to serve and who combine with others under like incentives to bulldoze bulldoze bull bull- doze congress Tariff revision should d be real revision and on right lines |