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Show TARIFF STICKS FORIBMOHTHS Demand for Scientific Agreement Grows As Congress Debates BY ROBERT s. BMALtl Special Oof i UMiondent r The Stnnd- arl-F:amliLcr. (Copyright. 1 922, by Tho Standard-Examiner. Standard-Examiner. ) WASHINGTON, July 29. Strikes maj come and tlrlkcn may ko. out the tariff remalnM with us lun vi r. Ae if resentful ot tho greater ...n-aldetuUon ...n-aldetuUon being given the industrial crisis, the senate debate waxed SXC. ed-I ed-I Ingly liot this week. And entirely out of keeplnt; with torrid lets July weather, the schedule under discus-! slon d-iilt with wools and woolens j The moat intense polltlc-.-il partisan-Ship partisan-Ship uf the. entire consideration uf the tariff flared worth this r.k onl to culminate iti a demand by some oij the Democrats that th tariff be taken i completely out of politics. President Taft fostered that plan a Ions time (ago. and his political fortunes might have been different If he had BUCCeea-ed. BUCCeea-ed. TARIFF DEMAND. The demand for a scientific tariff ts as but a small voice crying out In the wild 9 mow Just now, but It Is a demand de-mand which will grow There ate a number of progressive Republicans ready now to Join with tho I . mo, rutin rut-in that demand. Some of th.m ar members of tho agricultural or farm bloc which has exorcised much Influence Influ-ence and power In tho present session of congress. They must not be confused, con-fused, however, with tho agricultural tariff bloc, which is quite something el6e again. The farm tariff bloc Is led by Senator Gooding of Idaho, a millionaire sheep raiser and one' of tho men prominent In tlic present fight for a tariff on wools Higher than the famous schedule K of tho Payne-Aid" rich bill. The farm bloc Is 1-nl bj Senator Cappor. of Kansas. ntuunch believer in a scientific tnriff IB 3tONTri.S- WHKSTFiE. The experience of the present con-rrrees con-rrrees with tho new tariff is calculated to give tho movement for a scentlflc tnrlff agreement Initial impulse. Con Kresa has been wrKtling with the problem for somo sixteen months already al-ready and tho end la not In eight The Dill is being shoved along Its way by I the old methods ol trading and compromise. com-promise. Senators of one section of the countiy, In return for a high tar- I I iff on their products, are willing t give the other follow a nigh tarl'i I whether his products actually need It j or not. The Impression has gone out ol Washington that in the current tariff bill the farmer Is 'getting nis " Un-doubtedly Un-doubtedly he Is gettinc a higher tariff tar-iff placed on all of his products thar over before, but on most of his products prod-ucts no tariff is needed Tor the farmei must export u large share of his cropt llln order to make money Some members o fthe farm bloc an beginning to figure out the price, the farmer is to pay- for his "protection' and the results of thr-lr figuring arc nono too reassuring For his "protection" "pro-tection" on corn, for instance, whrn America ts the corn bin of the world land the greatest of an Hie exporting countries, the farmer finds ho Is be-I be-I ing a-ssessed heavily on everything that enters his homo, his boots and shoes and clothing and hats and all the materials f..r clothing his family ( REPUDUOAN8 iPPREHENSIVE, Just at the moment there Is no distention dis-tention among the farm blockers on jthe surface but there are mouMer-jing mouMer-jing differences of opinion on thfl tai 'iff which may burst Into name at anytime. any-time. The Republicans arc begln-jnlng begln-jnlng to realize that the longer tho tariff Is delayed the greater (rows i the danger lha some of their calculations calcula-tions may be upset. They remember .the experience of thc league of na-itions. na-itions. When tho debate tlrst started In the senate it bo. med almost .in a--iired fact that ratification In some form would ensue before many months Had past But the foes of the league were strong enough to delay action time after time until finally the IS '. inland in-land the entire treaty of peace went to smash, Foes of the tariff are tryTng out the same process. They do not hope ulti-m.iteh ulti-m.iteh t defeat the Kordrie v - M r 'u m -ber bll, but up to the time it actually becomes a lw they believe There , t chance of smashing some of the schedules. nrVKRGENT VIEWS There never was j trme In the history his-tory of politics In tMs country thatj tt ' .m ihe t.iriff were bo divergent ! Qven the platform of the Republican party, adopted at Chicago in 190 was not-commlta on the subject As a' no itter of fnct 'he nt.rtrr w-.im purposely "played down" at .Chicago, but now It has bcrnm.- a tl'Vnlnnrit factor In h. political Situation nn.l .11 Ftepub-1 11. in congresKin. n must face the Issue t the polls in November, In all tho debates the nemocrats Obviously are seeking to pile up cum-! palgn material They are pfaing gr.-at r.tore by tho wool schodulo This schedule always has played hob with lolltlcal parties In the past. t ought' to be schedule K in the pre ;ent bin I but schedule K of tho Paynu-Aldrlch I act brought so much trQUMe and tribulation to the party that the Re-' publicaj leaders year decreed'! there would be no tCnSdultl K Tn or-1 .b-r to get rid of K they changed Ihe) 1 ntlro system to numbers rather than letters. Under the new system the wool schedule is number 11. It remains re-mains to by seen whether this political subtlety has broken the spell or not. |