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Show WHAT DEMOCRATIC REVISION OF THE TARIFF REALLY MEANS X i HEET SMOOT. U. J. SEftATCfR F"ROM UTAH 9 Among tho greatest questions with which every government Is confronted confront-ed Is thnt of keeping Us peoplo om-ployed, om-ployed, and at n wage rate sufficient to allow them to live hi accordance with the standard established In tho particular country In which thoy ro-ride. ro-ride. Tho older governments of the world have long atruggled with this problem. As civilization advances In each particular country, tho problem prob-lem becomes more rerlous and It requires re-quires tho Judgment nnd wlBdom of tho greatest statesmen to even partially parti-ally boIvo the question. Tho God of Naturo haa no blest this country with vast areas of foitllo soil, natural resources of untold wealth, and mountains filled with precious metals, tint up to the present pre-sent tlmo our gotornment has not been compelled to consider seriously serious-ly this question; but Iho tlmo Is fast npprouchlug, If not already here, when It must be met and solved by the representatives of tho American people. Tho stnudard of living of our laboring labor-ing man Is the highest in the wlrld. This can only be maintained by our Government adhering to the poil.y of pi o tec tlon. By protection I menu a tut Iff rate sufficiently high to on. able our Industries to maintain their present wage scale and keep their plants in operation. No honest man .-fncturer .-fncturer or bcllovcr 1 ntho prlnclplo of protection would expect a higher rate. A consistent protectionist I honor; an open and avowed free trader tra-der I respect; but a man who demands de-mands high protection on tho wares made by himself and freo trado on everything ho has to purcbu.no I neither nei-ther honor nor respect. During this session of Congress tho American peoplo will havo an op portunlty to seo tho dltfcrcnco bo. twecn a Democratic tariff bill for revenue only nnd n Republican measure meas-ure providing a rate of duty sufficient suffici-ent to cover the dlfferenco In the cost of production In this and foreign countries. The tariff bills passed during tho oxtra session of Congress by a Democratic House, It enacted Into law, would havo destroyed many an American Industry, not In ono sec-' tlon alone, but In every part of our country. So far this sosslon tho Democratic House has, under caucus domination and gag rule, passed but one trfrlff bUl. This bill revises tbo present rates of duty on tho metals and manufactures manu-factures of the metal schedule. Hon Oscar W. Underwood, In speaking for the new schedule, udmlU tho reduced reduc-ed rates will allow twenty million dollars of additional Importations . e first year. It may allow ono hundred hund-red million or more, but whatever tho amount of Increase In Importations, Importa-tions, be It twenty or ono hundred million, tho American laboring men will bo deprived of employment required re-quired to produce the Increased Imports Im-ports and tho foreign laborers will reap tbo benefit. If nowspapcr reports aro true, other oth-er schedules of tho Tariff Act are tJ he treated In oven a more drastic manner. -Tho sugai schedule Is to be. revised and rates made low enough to destroy tho homo production of beet and cauo augur, thus placing In the ;hands of tho Sugar Trust tind sugar refineries tho Importation nnd distribution of all tho sugar consumed consum-ed by the American people, t'ho public pub-lic le Informed thru tho press that the Democrats claim that, In tho revision re-vision of tho Biigar Bchedulo a saving sav-ing Of 2 cents per pounl will remit to tho American people. Trio rnio etiggpsted Is to bo 1 cent per pound, with tho present differential of 20 pi-r cent, allow cd to Cub.i It Is imt.ej straiigo how 2 cent" por pound wl'l oo saved by Biich a re Mien when th- present rntj from Cub.i, where Wo get practically all of or Import ed sugar. Is I M cents ' or pound, end ihs piopond rate from Cuba -ild be 8-10 t of a cen per pound i.r u difference of only ..4-10 of a i-!iil ter pound .Tho loss of revenue to tho Govern-n:rr.t Govern-n:rr.t 'which would bo caunud by tho liopcfcd redutUon on sugar Is nd mltted to bo from twenty lo twenty-f.vj'mllllon twenty-f.vj'mllllon dollars per annum. This If.itlcuhir loss of revenue iu to bo met by a revlB u of the tariff rates :i .-ubbcr and manufacture J nr i lib-It:!' lib-It:!' In rt most romarknWo way -a .y that the tariff tinl:?r of Iv.m'. f ) i- la allvo tt, will couOeiuu him. self for not having conceived and In-ccporatcd In-ccporatcd iu tho Wilson bill, In unci words, tho rubber manufactures manufactur-es of this country nro io receive a doublo Democratic blow. Not content con-tent with lowering tho rates on rub-tor rub-tor goodB so as to encourage Increased Increas-ed Importations sufficient to raise a lortlon of tho twenty million dollars, dol-lars, -the-Democrats" propose lo place duly upon raw rubber which is now, nnd alwa)s has been, upon tho freo lltt. It this reported plan proves un-r-opubr or meets tho disapproval or ridicule of tho public press, then Boiuo other scheme will bo resorted to In order to provldo for tho loss of rovenuo which will bo caused by Iho redaction of the duty on sugar. 2 S moot Artlrltiu'Used by the American manufacturer manu-facturer now on the freo list and not produced in this country, aro to be transferred from tho free to tho dutiable duti-able list, and at tho samo tlmo tho rate of duty on the manufactured article ar-ticle Is to bo reduced to any old rate which may be' agreed upon by tho Ways and Means Committee of th House. 'Tnr-ee aro but two of "the twejva schedules which have to run .the gauntlet of tho Democratic Houso, with the evcr-prcBent thought of what. Is best to do In order to assist tho Democratic candtdato to tho Whlto House In tho coming Presidential campaign. If tho Democrats woro in u position to give force and effect to their present tnrlff program, tho balance bal-ance of trade In our favor last year of nearly one-half a billion dollars would bo wiped out and a bond Issue would be in order Immediately, But that would bo nothing unusual under a Democratic administration, when tho laws aro based on theory and tho Government maintained In part on borrowed money. Tho Democratic Houso, after hav Continued on Pago 4. numbers by somo of Logan's foremost fore-most artists: 1. a. "Four Folk Songs." b. Selections from "Tho Persian Unrdcn" Liza I.ehmun THATCHER QUARTETTE Accompanied by Mrs. Phyllis Splcker 2. "Tho Witch Song" Vllderbruck-Schllllng . Prof. W. O. ROBINSON . Accompanied by H. G. Smurthwalto. 3. n."Cauzonetta" d'AmbroBlo b. "Dance" ,, ..Laraon MRS. SP1CKER 4. Selection for Trombone v B. G. THATCHER C. a. "Under tho Leaves" ..Schubot b. "March" 1'nplm Mr. and Mis. 8PIC1CEU Accompanied by Mtb. Nettlo Sloam Tho students In millinery aro busy making spring hats and bonnetc. bur Ing tho Inst two years this work, under un-der tho able direction of MlBd Joan Muen has bicn very attractive, ns tho product Is better than that to ho upon the market. Tho Swimming pool still continues, to bo popular both among the mud-onta mud-onta and the townspeople. A now filter has Just beou InstalloJ bo secure se-cure perfectly clear water during the spring freshets. This nddud to the caro already taken to le.-ep It In a sanitary condition, makes tho pool a very dcslrnblo placo for exorcise and enjoyment. Faculty members and students Interested In-terested In tennis turned out on Saturday Sat-urday and put tho two tounii courts into good shape. Interest In this Bport has bet-n growing; of late and this spring promises to seo many lively conte.-itb. What Democratic Revision of The Tariff Realty Means Continued from l'ago 1. lng refused hearing to laboilng men. manufacturers and every ono Inter ested directly or Indirectly in tho bill dealing with metals and manufactures manu-factures thereof, pushed that mensuro to passago with little more than u day's consideration und debate, notwithstanding not-withstanding there nro elghty-thiee distinct Industries which produce goods Included In this schedule. The public has been led to bellovo that the schedule relates almost exclusively exclusive-ly to Iron and Btcel, and ir reductions wero mado they would errect only the Steel Trust. Tho truth 1b, there ure In tho United States about twenty- flvo thousand establishments producing produc-ing articles covered by tho Iron and stecj schedule. They havo a capital Inveetcd or nearly for billion dollars, employ ono and one-quarter million uago earners, who receive Tor their labors seven hundred hnd fifty million dollars In wages, and have an annual production of more than four billion dollars. And yet we find tho future of theso vuBt American Industries turned over to a HUb-coinmlttco tor consideration and n determination ot the rutPB or duty without granting a Dingle person o chance to be heard as to what ctrcct tho proposed rates would havo upon theso American Industries. In-dustries. Tho chairman ot this sub-committee Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer, now serving serv-ing his second term in Congress, In his opening remarks defending tho measure, made this confession: "I am not an expert upon the genet gen-et nl turirf question, nor have I any other than tho ordinary knowledge cr that particular phase of tho question which Is Involved In tlio discussion of tho proper rates to lis levied upon metals and the manufactures of met- lltB." Due credit Bhould however, bo given giv-en t" the export knowledgo of tho Demociatlc members of that sub-corn-mlttce, for It 'must not be forgotten that Congressman Ulxon, of North Vernon, n vlllngo In Indiana, 'who Is a lawyer by protesslon, was tho other oth-er Democratic member or tho subcommittee sub-committee that levlsed tlio Iron aud steel schedule. 1 ask tho American people It an Industry It such vnst linportnnco, having millions of stock holders, and employing a million anil n quarter ot wngo earners, should bo treated so flippantly. I do not hesitate to say that It 1b not a tariff bill for protection, or ono for revenue reven-ue only, but n tnrlff purely for political poli-tical purposes. I do not bellovo the American peoplo will bo deceived or that confldenco will bo Inspired In tho Democratic party by nny biicIi jc-tlons. jc-tlons. Evidently, the manufacturers ot this country uro not tho only ones to reel the blighting nctB ot Democrncy for In tho naval appropriation bill n plan Is proposed which, If carried out will mean our early elimination as a sea power, Tho Democrats could have directed no moro ratal blow at our navy than to abandon tho battleship program which has put the American navy In tho first rank of the world to-day. to-day. Our army also Is to be weakened, weaken-ed, by cutting down the cavalry one-thlid, one-thlid, and at a tlmo when tho necessity neces-sity ot patrolling two thousand miles ot border tor an Indefinite period makes a heavy demand upon our mounted service. This Is all done on tho name ot economy, but It Is really for political politi-cal use In tho coming campaign. Hon Champ Clark In an nitlclo In The Independent of January 25, 191B, makes this statement: Tho tariff bills which wo passed and which President Taft vetoed would havo saved to tho American peoplo about rivo hundred millions or dollars and yet nt the samo time would havo raised nbundant revenuo to support tho Government." Tho United States Imported In tho year 1911 7G0,981,GSI7.0! worth ol dutiable goods, yielding a revenuo or 3Ul',Ctil,J43.CS. The Democrats boldly claim that tho lates or duty Imposed In tho bills jmssedrby tho democratic ilouso mid vetoed by tlio l'lesiucnt last session would havt. reduced tlio uutics nearly one-hnlf. II the revenues wero to be Increased, a claimed by the Democrats', or eveh maintained, tue Importations of lor-elgn lor-elgn goods would havo to bo.lncras-cd bo.lncras-cd to double the amount Imported today. to-day. 1 Can the American worklngmcn afford af-ford to hao foreign labor emplijed in making tncBj hundreus or millions it uoliura worth of goous in addlt on to wnnt mo lorciguur Is nlieady mulling mull-ing for the American markot, knowing know-ing that every dollar bo mado will displaco u Blmllar quantity otAniert-enn-made goods? How will tho Am -rl-can buiiiness man be benefited b having our laboring men tale iiii'1 foreigners for-eigners cmplojcd us they were unaer the Wilson bill? Nocounlry or its nutii.ets institutions can bo ptejper-oils ptejper-oils and havo nn army of um-mpl'iy-id men. Instead of rive bundled million dollars being saved to the American Am-erican people If tho Democratic political poli-tical tariff bills of last cession hud not beep ctoed by the President, I maintain thnt that amount or moro would have been lost to the American Ameri-can peoplo if the Prci'dent had signed sign-ed the bills. Tho haraiisln: of business busi-ness for tho last two years for oil-tltnl oil-tltnl effect has cost tho laboring men ,u, d the American pcopl. hundreds or millions of dollars, in tho coming campaign, as a Republican, I welcome '.ho Isstio between the tw great par-Mb, par-Mb, or protcctiiiu to Amu lean labor und American industries, . 1'no speaker or the IIouf.o also says the chlcr desire of the) . Democrats Demo-crats Is to save to Die taxpayer every ev-ery dollar not neccsBtirv for tho economical ec-onomical and cfrcctlva Jdmlnlstratlon of the Government. I wonder Jf It K.re ror this purpose that ha Sherwood Sher-wood pension bill was passed, by the Democratic House", carrying an In-cieaso In-cieaso or pensions or nearly seventy-five seventy-five million dollars per iiontjin J re(illy balleve that Demoo'atji ecuu-o:n ecuu-o:n was not tho motlvo In passing i hi! peiiBlou bill. Til's bullof V'B9 strengthened when Congressman Merger, Mer-ger, ot Wisconsin, the only Socialist member ot the House, congratulated tl Deino'.'ratk' party on lining play-"i! play-"i! successful poll! ' :s In Its pasjai,'- When I recall that tlio "paramount"1 It-Mies or tho D.nn.intlu paity have I'hanged in evcrv campaign slnro ll'i I am convinced it will havo a new' ono Tor 1912, hoping that all Termer paramouiitB will be rorgotten " a'nd that that new Issue will be sufficiently sufficient-ly popular to carry the party Tho paramount Issuo of the Dem-oeffftio Dem-oeffftio party of 18UC, undqr the leadership lead-ership of tbo "peerless one," was the rcmonetlzntlon of silver. Democratic orators told tho farmer that if the Issue Is-sue ot "sixteen to ona" was succor-Tul succor-Tul he would receive doublo price for hfs wheat, his cattle and all the products pro-ducts ot his farm. The laboring man was to havo his wage more than doub-' led. Tho Storekeeper was to havts his profits grently Increased. In 'act, ovory commodity would bo enhanced nt least two fold In value. The millennium millen-nium was promised to bo close tit hand. Democracy expected to como Into her own by tho adoption of tho froo silver theory. That paramount ttsuo was not successful. Silver wail not remonctlzed noverthlcss, prlous havo advanced, but ror no other reasons rea-sons than those ascribed by Democracy. Democ-racy. Sixteen years ngo Democracy was in sackcloth and ashes on account ac-count ot low prices, and today sho Ih again expressing pity tor tho poor American people, but this time, because be-cause prices arc too high. The pio-'mine pio-'mine inndo In 189G was treo silver and high prices; ror 1912 it will be turlff revenue only and low pi Ices. Tho three other paramount Issues, beginning with tho Imperialism In 1900, have also been relegated to tho scrap pile. Scarcely two years ago tho Democrats Demo-crats or tho House, with a rew Insurgent Insur-gent Republicans, had a spasm ot reform; re-form; and on Juno 17, 1910, ur Clark, the present speaker ot tho House, proposed n rule, which was adopted, taking from tho Speaker of the House tho right of arbitrary recognition re-cognition on suspension days, Tho Speaker was stripped or his power, and it was claimed that this power was given back to tho representatives or tho peoplo. This victory was nor-aided nor-aided thru tho newspapers and magazines, maga-zines, on tho Chatauqua plaUorm wnl on the stump. It won announced thnt i. mighty achievement ror tho peoplo had been accomplished Ihru tho wonderful won-derful leadership of Mr. Clark, A few Coys ngo Hoprcscntntlvo Henry, ot Texns, chairman of tho Commlttoo on Rules, Introduced Into the House n proposition to amend the now Democratic Demo-cratic rules. His amendment reclothcs tho present Speakor of tho House with tho power that was token nwuy from Speaker Cannon tan .June 17. 1910. Ily another new rule tho Dcmocraln havo simply transferred tho power of appointing , committees from tho Speaker to the chairman or the V'a)s and Means Committee. Tho chairman of this committee selects Its members, mem-bers, and they In turn name tho members or all the other committees or tho House. When the cbungo Is fully understood, may opinion Is the American peoplo will as soon have Cannonlsm of the North as Undr-woodlsm Undr-woodlsm of tho South. During tho discussion of the tariff tar-iff act of 1909, Mr. Clark and other lending Democrats of both the Hojso of Representatives and tho Senato pleaded ror, Insisted upon, and demanded de-manded the creation ot a non-partisan Tariff Doard which should gather ine facts as to tho difference In cost of production in this nnd foreign countries, countr-ies, bo that Congress might act intelligently intel-ligently In revising the tariff In the future. So eager then wero tho Dom orints to secure a "sclcntirlo" report on what thoy considered the most wicked schedule, that a leading Dom acrat offered an amendment In '.lit Senate directing tho Tarlf Doaid to report on Schcdulo IC (tho wool schedule) by tho first woelt In Du cembor, 1911. A unanimous report oi the thrco Republicans nnd two Demo cratlc in em hers of that board was nnd a aa dlrocted. Tbo Democratic Wajs and Means Committee of the House has bad this report In Its pos ics8lon for sixty day-9 iiow. but I pre dict tho Democratic party will Ignore tho Tariff Board's report and submit a wool bill to the House similar to tin ono It passed at tho last session of Congress, when no Tariff Doard report re-port was available upon which to base a scientific revision. , I also expect to see the Democratic Hoilse,4 refuse to make an appropriation appropria-tion for .tho continuance of tha Tariff Hoard. Eventually the Information gathered by tho Tariff Hoard docs not meet tho approval ot the Democratic Demo-cratic leaders. Yet tho .great business busi-ness organizations .of tbe country have requested, such a board, hpplng that the Information collected by It would bo utilized In making futuro tariff changes. The National Tariff Commission Com-mission Association obtained from President Tntl permission to Investigate Investi-gate thn methods ot tho Tariff Board and in its report said: "Our commlttco fln-Ja that I he Tariff Doard Is composed of able, Impartial, and earnest men who are devoting their energies unreservedly lo tho work before them) that lbt start has bean carefully selected for tho work In view; is efficiently organized or-ganized and directed, mid Includes h number ot exceptionally competent technical experts; that tho scale ot salaries Is reasonable; Indeed very moderate nnd all or their expenditures expenditur-es aro closely scrutinized nnd cqua-ly cqua-ly reasonable; that tho work of tha -board, vast nnd intricate In detail, Is. already highly organized, well systematized, sys-tematized, running smoothly and that Congress and tho peoplo can now wait tho completion or that work with cntlro contldcnco that It is progressing pro-gressing as-rapldly ns consistent with proper thoroughness nnd thnt it will amply Justify all of tho tlmo nnd ov-penso ov-penso which It entails. Wn biilcvc that tho valuo of tho work when completed com-pleted will be so great and so evideni as to leave remaining no doubt ns to the expediency of maintnlnln.? It i.s a permanent function of tho flovern-ment flovern-ment for the benefit of all tha people." peo-ple." Tho Tnrlff Hoard by Its research hos mado trio solution ol ho tarlfr pioblcm a ir-nttcr or sclentP'o accuracy, accur-acy, but tor so doing It m v Ima to cease to ctst because it haB ef foctuully exploded an Issuo tho Democrats Dem-ocrats had ixpected to have for Hie coming fall election. The Demoei utic patty hopes to be successful at 'bo next Prcs'dcntlnl election on tho theory that U e American Am-erican peoplo endorse their present ac heme of r3' lolng tbe tariff and that the people have iorgotton tht Democratic Demo-cratic success t ..ins stagnation In business and idle men In eerv Industry. In-dustry. TheDemocralu bellovo that the Republican party Is divided And. .that ihclr party is united. Yes, wo t.on very day tho unity, brothcrh love, and the Blnccre friendship manifest among tho .leaders of the Democratic party. .For instance, witness .the lqvo thnt exists between Woodrow Wilson and Morse Henry; the sincere friendship friend-ship between William Jennings Bryan Bry-an nnd Oscnr W. Underwood; the neighborly feeling between Speaker Clark and Joseph W. Folk; the honeyed hon-eyed words with which Hobson Ha-" :id Fitzgerald are describing each other In the Congressional Recd'tl, lite unity between tho regular nnd In. sUrgcnt DomocratB of tho Senate, w. the latter In absoluteScontrol. ' Icannot.belleve' that life' nien who depend upon their dally wngo for a livelihood, whether on tho farm or In tha factory, In Uio mill or In the mine In tho store or on tho railroad, will vote to transfer tho admlniBtrnit .c of tho afralrs or this Government to a party which hasv already de aon-stratcd aon-stratcd what It would do to o'uV Industries In-dustries tr It had the power, Democratic' success means tho low-erlng low-erlng of our standard of living; it V means that our worklngmen will be Jr wnlklng the street, while the for- fj clgnor will bo busV nnd prosperous ll making goods for the Amerlcnn mar-kcL mar-kcL n |