Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-27 | Page 1 | Extracts from Tariff Speech by Senator Reed Smoot

I t EXTRA EXTRACTS C TS FROM TARIFF SPEECH B BY Y SENA SENATOR TOR REED SMOOT T I IH H This bill 1 regard as the most injurious tariff measure ever taken I up for consi consideration by Congress It is a n partisan sectional and an and sectional meas meas measure I ute ure the tIme outcome of secret caucus methods such buch as never nEWel ruled before in the tile Senate of the tim United States In his book Our New Freedom President ent Til Wilson ou says sas that I there is no excuse for caucusing in Congress an and in iii a speech in I I Indiana preceding his election he emphasized this point And I II yet this vastly important measure affecting in one Ollo way war or another t I every citizen of the tile United States Stales is wholly the product of secret I and and caucus methods No public hearing was aS ever eyer g given cn on this j I bill hihl Not in the history of Congress has there been anything I II I equal to that record in the way of dark methods metho s in the preparation of or a tariff measure This bill threatens disaster to many American American- industries as fiS I II I complete completo as we had under the last Democratic tariff law It is because because beI be be- I cause of the tile experience under thIther that law that business men are arc practically t I certain of r what is to come como under this proposed law la This f I bill will wipe out at least investment in in the sugar inI industry in- in industry I j I alone to help the sugar trust and sugar refiners who have I heen agitating at such largo large expense to bring about this result I 1 The banks have havo stopped loaning money to the because wool is going going- on ol oil the thc free list and aDd already wages wag s are declining anti and I out of in iii that in oth othi- I I I men are aie being thrown employment industry as us i ers cis How can any sane man mun ex expect peeL Americans to pay wages j I It t two and arni three times tithes greater in the textile industries anti and compete under the rates rales' of provided duty duty pro idel in lit tl this is bill I For For Foi the tho last Jast two t years pictures portra portrayed ed in speech and nUll s of our om country beiJ being dominated b by selfish interests with a r ic- ic I suIt stilt of a universal of the American people though h unjustifiable able have ha had the time effect t of creating distrust and unrest among among a certain certain tain fain class of the tIme American people Whether for foi good or 01 bad had will be yet demonstrated I have been een so su proud of or mf my country's development her history that I never cr get tired of her I her Jim people singing singing- praises nor 1101 never ne I cease thanking God that thai 1 was horn bom in in America It H is natural that II I I should be lie jealous of I lier I interest I T Iun am interested in maintaining her herI I present standard of living h and aud pIC ent preventing if Jf possible the tue working I people from froni coming coming- ill in iii direct cOI competition with the tho unfortunate working work work- ing in people of or less leE les favored fa co count 1111 t iles Ile I J have ha isH visited ed cd I the leading indus industrial trial countries of tl the c corIel world orIel I T have seen the time poverty PO the squalor I and suffering to which the laborer i- i is subjected u jc J I have i seen eon the thc effect ef cf- I feet of upon the lie and women antI and children of iIi f t io c e countries I I and I 1 have e made a vow m i I tH that lint t no act ad of If mine shall hall cy er c place lInen an nil Anier- Anier iu in the position of condit I I u-an u workman o having to compete with such sueh condi condi- I t jells Theme i is only is-only only OUk one 3 way to t o prevent it if and lIHI that is is' by a protective I I five tive tariff l and l therefore 1 I have ho been heen and am nm still tiJI a it protectionist 1 without vi I I t t S