NEW TARIFF-NOW PUBLIC WILL PAY

...the duty under this law amounts to $33 1-3, while the actual duty on $100 worth of hogs at the price they are bringing today amounts to less than $5...

...They have enough on hand to supply the trade for that length of time...

...It perpetuates the profiteering practiced in war times, and the only limit to prices consumers will have to pay is their ability to pay...

...Over a year ago the dye embargo contained in the tariff bill as originally presented to this House was defeated by the House...

...But the Steel Trust is no longer an infant...

...The bill went over to the Senate and the embargo was again defeated...

...I believe in a tariff that will measure the difference in cost of production at home and abroad...

...They say what they shall receive for the finished product and they say what they will pay the farmer for the raw material...

...The Fordney-McCumber tariff is based on no such principle...

...The bill was sent to conference, and the conferees exceeded their authority, put the embargo into the bill again, and it was again defeated...

...The duty on a $5 razor is $2.70, while the duty on corn enough to pay for it, at the present price, is only 90 cents...

...But it is not a question of the tariff rates...

...Many of the articles upon which this bill gives protection to the farmer, on the other hand, are not imported to any extent, and the protection given in the law docs not benefit the farmer at all...

...This puts the farmer to a still further disadvantage in his struggle for existence...

...As a matter of fact, the framers of the law have placed just sufficient duty upon the farmers' products to provide a cloak behind which excessive and extortionate duties might be levied for the enrichment of the real tariff beneficiaries, the trusts and combinations, engaged in exploiting the farmer when he sells his products and even when he buys as a consumer...

...that will measure the differences in wages at home and abroad...

...When his hogs, his cattle, his eggs, his butter, his milk, and his cheese are ready to sell he has to sell them He can not hold them for another year, even for another month...

...To pass the bill and satisfy the farmers, the law perpetrates a fraud upon the farmer...

...But the trouble with that argument is, REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPERS IN PROTEST "THE tariff bill agreed to in confer-once is the perfect product of logrolling protectionism gone mad...

...Besides, what does it profit a wage earner to get high wages and have it all taken from him by the price he must pay for the bare necessities of life...

...Is Against the Farmer BUT is we should concede that the tariff on farm products actually protects the farmer, the law would still be s rank discrimination against the farmer...

...We do not import corn— we export it...

...They hoard them to such an extent that they do not have to buy any live stock or dairy products of the farmers to-day, or tomorrow, next week, or next year if they do not want to...

...But the duties in this law are so high as to practically prohibit the importation of foreign manufactured articles...

...A tariff on corn, no matter how high, will not protect the American farmer one cent...

...Rochester Post-Express...

...And yet when this law was sent to conference the House conferees succeeded in having that provision of the law stricken out in order to save the food adulterators of the United States at the expense of the farmers and consumers...

...That is what happened during the war and it is what will happen under this bill...

...People Must Pay IAM a Republican...

...When someone suggested an ox team to show the stages in the progress of transportation everyone agreed that finding oxen would be easy," said Secretary James W. Welch...

...What is true of the above articles is true of practically everything the farmer has to buy as compared with what he has to sell...

...Nor is this all...

...That debt can not be paid in gold, because those countries have not the gold with which to pay...

...Protect the Manufacturer ON the face of the law it is thus apparent that the Gamers of this tariff measure, while claiming to favor the farmer, have actually discriminated against him and accorded vastly greater protection to the manufacturer from whom the farmer must buy...

...They have tried to pacify the farmer by giving him a meaningless duty on wheat, which we export, while they have impaired his ability to sell his products in Europe and increased the price of every manufactured product he has to buy...

...while the duty on wheat enough to pay for it is only 30 cents...

...Not Wage Question IT is argued that this law will enable manufacturers to pay good wages to their employes...

...Kansas City Star...

...These are a few of the things that are handed to the wealth producers and consumers of this country in this law...

...He has to sell them whenever they are ready to sell...

...If the value of that suit goes to $2 the duty automatically goes to 94 cents...

...But it is said, "The President has power to raise and lower the duties in a way that will compel fair and equable prices...

...The framers of this law know it...

...Not only this, but they likewise control the price of the raw material that goes into the manufactured article...

...To illustrate: The duty on a suit of underwear valued at $1 is about 47 cents...

...Eventually we heard of one blind ox in Phillips, Wis., and after getting the entire city interested in the search, we located a yoke near there...

...I think, perhaps, that is true...

...But the duty on a bushel of corn is 15 cents, and it makes no difference whether that corn is worth 50 cents a bushel or $10 a bushel...

...The duty on a clock valued at $10 is $9...

...It levies excessive rates on manufactured articles which will greatly increase the prices the farmer must pay, and in exchange it gives the farmer a mess of pottage—and a very meager mess of it, at that—in the form of much lower duties, many of which are of no real benefit because levied on articles which the farmer himself exports and which are not generally imported into this country...

...I do not believe in that kind of price fixing...

...Wealth Shifts Burden to Consumer By J. D. BECK (Congressman from Wisconsin) THE tariff law will encourage thousands of manufacturers in their mad scramble for wealth and protect them in piling up huge profits at the expense of the farmers, wage earners, and consumers of manufactured articles...

...and always has been, that the most highly protected industries have always paid the lowest wages...

...I believe in Republicanism as laid down by Lincoln...

...The duty on poultry enough to pay for that clock, at the price poultry is bringing the farmer today, is only $3.75...

...This institution will come before Congress and point out that these foreign countries can not pay their debts, and will advocate their cancellation...

...But the farmer has to sell them when ready...

...a President who knows their problems, their struggles, their lives...

...Every time the Food Administration fixed the price of a manufactured article during the war the price was increased above the market price...

...The protection afforded the manufacturer counts for something because large imports of manufactured articles can be shipped from abroad into this country...

...Another thing I desire to call attention to...

...But during the last year, and while these sales for taxes and business failures continue, those combinations of wealth most highly protected under this bill made in profits off the producers of wealth in this country $8,000,-000,000...

...Is Trust-Made AGAIN, manufacturers usually control their own markets and their own prices...

...The higher the price of the manufactured article, the higher the protection...

...Everybody knows that...

...The duty on a pocketknife valued at $1.25 is about 75 cents...

...neither is the Shoe Trust, the Leather Trust, and many other trusts...

...The rates in it are in general so high that they will in-crease measurably the cost of living during a period in which every possible means should be used to reduce our living costs...

...The duty on a shotgun valued at $40 is about $28, while the duty on butter enough to pay for it, at the present price for butter, is only $8...

...That will be all right when we have a President who is in sympathy with the great mass of people, with the farmers and wage earners, with the consumers...

...He received high wages during the war and yet those wages only purchased about 85 per cent as much of the necessities of life as the low wages he received before the war...

...The desire for profits and still greater profits will be just as strong under this law as any other, and big profits will mean low wages, wages that will be just as low as they can be forced...

...Then their members will proceed to make billions out of the people of this and other countries, and when our United States Treasury needs money we will levy upon the backs of the people, just as we did when we gave the railroads nearly a billion and a half dollars, just as we did when we gave Liberia, with a population of less than 20 civilized people, $5,000,000, just as we will do to make up for the $400,000,000 in taxes we took off the shoulders of the rich, just as we will do so long as we permit the war grafters to reach over into the United States Treasury and take what they want as long as there is a penny in sight...

...But when we have a President whose sympathies are not with these but with the business interests of the country, knows nothing of the struggles of the great mass of people, one who feels that a prosperous government depends upon the prosperity of big business instead of upon the prosperity of all the people and particularly those who produce the wealth, then the power to fix duty or prices is all wrong...

...The duty on a $50 silk dress is $30, while the duty on eggs enough to pay for that dress, at the present price farmers get for eggs, is only $16...

...Whenever any of these combinations of wealth get so large as to make their brags, as some of them do, that they are "bigger than the Government," then I believe it is about time that the Government, the people, give them to understand they no longer need the protecting arm of Unele Sam to bolster them up...

...We asked stockyards officials, wild west shows and many others...

...During this last spring, in my district alone, the acreage of farm lands advertised for sale to pay taxes exceeded those of former years by 200,000 acres, and the number of city and village properties so advertised exceeded those of former years by 33 per cent...

...But they no sooner got their rates increased that they began to cut wages...

...Congress will hear from the farming West once the West discovers what has happened in the name of a bill to protect American labor...

...Ezra Meeker, an Oregon trail pioneer who drove an ox team about the country in the interest of good roade, was ap-pealed to but his team was stuffed and on exhibition in Seattle, Wash...

...The steel trust controls its markets...

...And that is practically true of nearly all of the farmer's products...

...Farmer Must Pay THE duty on $100 worth of bedspreads, quilts, and the like is $40, while the duty on fresh milk enough to pay for those articles at the price farmers are getting for their milk today, is only $10.30...

...But when wo be to look for them we couldn't find one...

...During, the last two years farm values have been deflated, forced down, $18,000,000,000...

...Again, the Senate placed a duty of 7 cents a pound on coconut oil shipped into this country and used in food products...

...He is protected only one-half to one-fifth what the manufacturer is protected on his wares...

...In other words, the higher the price of the manufactured article the higher is the protection, while the higher the price of farm products the lower the protection...

...Under guise of affording protection from cut-throat competition they have given favored manufacturers duties that would have made the framers of the malodorous Payne-Aldrich Bill gasp...

...Let us take a hundred dollars' worth of shovels, spades, scoops, scythes, and the like...

...But if the duty on $100 worth of hogs is $10, and the duty on $100 worth of manufactured articles which he must buy amounts to $30, then there is an unjust discrimination against the farmer...

...Having to sell them when they are ready, and the packer not having to buy unless he wants to, means that the packer fixes the price at whatever he pleases and the farmer must accept it, and this bill absolutely underwrites this situation...

...Some of these products are co med in the localities where they are produced, but most of them go to the packers who have facilities for hoarding them all, and they do hoard them...

...This tariff law is thus nothing more than a gold brick for the farmer...

...It will be remembered that the railroads asked permission—and this Congress granted it—to raise their rates 35 per cent to •40 per cent two years ago last March, so they could pay their men a fair wage...

...That duty was calculated to save the dairy interests of the United States from the fate handed to it by the filled cheese industry 40 years ago...

...It is the question of the effect of those rates...

...If the duty on $100 worth of hogs which the farmer sells amounts to $10, and the duty on $100 worth of manufactured articles which he buys also amounts to $10, then, so far as the farmer and the manufacturer are concerned, there is no unjust discrimination...

...It is a robber tariff that extorts from the consumer to enrich the profiteer...

...In the case of articles manufactured abroad, the effect of a tariff is to allow the home manufacturer to charge just below the cost of foreign manufacture plus the tariff...

...Those that are backing it know it, and that is just what is desired The next move will be to bring pressure to bear upon this Congress to cancel that foreign debt The United States Chamber of Commerce has been advocating just that thing...

...The tariff has not been laid on these for revenue nor for protection, but as political bunk to catch the votes of farmers...

...I believe in giving the farmer the same control over the price of the articles he produces that the manufacturer exercises over what he produces...

...the oil trust controls its market...

...So far as the cost of manufacture is increased by higher wages in this country, which are not offset by other elements, I favor a protective tariff...

...It leads the farmer to think he is being protected in his market, when in fact the tariff may not give him the slightest benefit...

...Take corn, for instance...

...It is said that the duty on farm products 1s higher in this law than in any previous one...

...This is the transparent scheme which big business has concocted in an effort to fool the farmer and to grease the ways for a tariff bill which it is estimated will tax the American people $3,000,000,000 a year in increased living costs...

...I believe in a tariff that will foster and build up infant industries...

...This does not take into account the mortgage foreclosures and small business failures in agricultural communities reaching into the thousands upon thousands...

...FINDING A YOKE OF OXEN "TIMES do change," is the unanimous verdict of officials of the American Electric Railway association who searched three months for a team of oxen to be usd in connection with the annual convention in Chicago...

...the Meat Trust is no longer an infant...

...At a time when America especially needs the foreign market, the tariff-makers have done their best to prevent trade with the outside world...

...But this law gives big business concerns the absolute power to fix prices on what they buy as well as on those they sell...

...Every time he fixed the price of an agricultural product, it was fixed below the market price...

...Then the conferees went back into conference and, for all practical purposes, placed an embargo on dye by raising the duty, and they have given the President power to place an absolute embargo on dyes, a power no man should have...

...also the woolen trust, the leather trust, the packing trust, the tanning trust, and every other trust...

...That debt must be paid chiefly in manufactured products...

...Rates Are Indefensible THE rates in this law are indefensible...

...Nor is this all...

...So I do not believe there is very much to the argument that this law will afford good wages...

...For-eign countries owe the United States about $11,000,000,000...

...The bill is not a protective tariff, but an iniquitous imposition of burdens upon the consuming American public, which includes all the people of our country...