Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1909 — GRUMPACKER ON NEW TARIFF MIL [ARTICLE]

GRUMPACKER ON NEW TARIFF MIL

Indiana Representative In Defense of Measure. ‘WILL HELP THINGS ALONG’ Says Legislation of This Character la Pacullarly the Result of Compromise—Declares Beet Feature Is the Placing of Raw Materiala Used For Manufacturing Purpoaea on the Free List—States Belief Bill is an Improvement Over the Dlngley Act. Washington, March 26.—Representative Crumpacker of the Tenth Indiana district, who, as a member of the ways and means committee, helped to frame the Payne tariff bill, addressed the house of representatives on the measure. He said at the outset that the bill is not perfect. “Bills of this character are peculiarly the result of compromises,” said he. Crumpacker said that the chief commendatory feature of the Payne tariff bill is the placing of certain crude, raw materials used In manufacture on the free list. He said that be had no d&ubt that the Payne bill is a great Improvement over the Dlngley act His Definition of Protection. “The object of protection,” said Crumpacker, “is to stimulate domestic Industries along natural lines, where the resources of the country are capable of supplying the entire domestic demand, thereby creating home competition and securing to the people the comforts and necessaries of life at stable and reasonable prices." Crumpacker said that the vital purpose of a protective tariff is to increase opportunities for the employment of capital opment of the naturahresources. Can Compete With World. Notwithstanding the high scale of wages in this country, he said, the United States can successfully compete with the entire civilized world In many lines of production, because it has the greatest market of any country, and because its 90,000,000 people have a consuming capacity equal to that of almost half the entire population of the globe. %