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Show I TAKING TARIFF OUT OF POLITICS At a meeting or the directors of the Uth Manufacturers' association, held in Salt Lake on Friday, a resolution alaapRri was adopted favoring legislation that shall take the tariff oui of politics and make tariff-making a busine rather than a partisan matter. A student of tariff legislation, ad dressing the directors before the reso-bbbbV reso-bbbbV lutlon was passed, made this state ment: "Tariff making in this country has always been a matter of politics. The! theory on which it is based varies J with the political party in power. ! whatever measure is adopted by either' party is passed under the pressure of; special interests and of political ox pediency. Accurate and sufficiently omplete data, fundamental lo anv equitable and economically sound j measure, are never properly collected, ' classified, presented or considered. With each political change and its subsequent tariff manipulation there comes business uncertainty and de pression. Today there is widespread 1 unwillingness and Inability to go : ahead because no one knows what the! tariff is going to be and. worse yet. no' one knows on what basis it is going jJrJIij 'o be figured. There is plainly dis ' cernible a growing lack of popular con-I fl fidencc in the abilitv of the law mak-(ng mak-(ng body to deal with ihe problem with the seriousness and dispatch which it requires, the whole presenting a situation situa-tion which must give concern to alii who have our political and economic institutions honestly at heart. It seems ! inconceivable that as a nation we shall continue to tolerate these periodic upheavals up-heavals ' For years the best thought of the country has been endeavoring to take the tariff out of politics and not until duties are established by a board of experts, divorced from politics, will this country escape from the disturbing disturb-ing effects of changing national ad ministrations, oo |