Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1909 — Page 3

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Congressman Crumpacker and The Payne Tariff Measure.

, Congressman Crumpacker of this district has figured extensively in the framing of the schedules in the Payne tariff bill now being discussed in the house of representatives. Mr. Crumpacker has been in favor of a reduction of the tariff to meet the demands of the consumers and he worked diligently at all the meetings of the Ways and Means committee to secure reductions in the tariff schedules. He was instrumental in securing several reductions, but in majiy instances he was voted down. JCongressman Crumpacker .put ppa great fight and when it was all over he was determined to stick by the measure, even though it did not meet his idea as an Ideal tariff measure. Thursday he made a speech in support of the bill and it was one of the most masterful addresses he ever made in the house and for sound argument is the best speech made by any member of congress within, a year.

When Congressman Crumpacker spoke in Rensselaer last fall he was greeted by a crowded house and his speech was the most able he had ever delivered here and our people found new Interest in the congressman that had represented them for the past twelve years. His argument was clear, logical, business like, and he demonstrated that his years of activity as a national law maker had given him a thorough knowledge of the affairs of the country. He said in his speech that the people were clamoring for tariff reductions and that as their representative he would if returned to congress do all in his power to secure what they were demanding and what the republican platform pledged. And he has fulfilled this promise better than any other member of congress.

A part of the speech of Congressman Crumpacker follows: Vermillion county, Indiana, Frebuary “Notwithstanding this increased" disadvantage, our foreign shoe trade amounts to upward of $10,000,000 a year. It has shown a substantial increase even under the hide tariff. Our total export trade in leather and manufactures of leather amounts to $45,000,000 a year. “If our manufacturers of leather were put on an equal footing with their foreign competitors in respect to material they could pay the high rate of wages prevailing in the United States and excel all foreign competitors in the open markets of the world. “Instead of selling $10,000,000 worth of boots and shoes abroad a year with proper conditions they could sell $100,000,000. Instead of exporting leather and its products to the amount of $45,000,000 a year they could easily expand the trade to $200,000,000 and thereby greatly advance the Interests of all the people. “The manufacture of leather and its products is one of the lines in which, with proper conditions, we can dominate the markets of the civilized world. The stupendous volume of production, the large use of machinery and other advantages enables the American manufacturer to pay high wages and still make his product at a cheaper labor cost than his foreign competitor. “Our manufacturers of leather now are ieing threatened by the imposition of foreign tariffs. They are fettered by duties unnecessary and illogical upon the raw material at home. “Their condition is that of one who enters a foot race with a ball and chain about his ankle, in so far as the export trade Is concerned. Give the industry a chance to grow and develop. Let it show to the world what it can do if it is on an equal footing with other countries. It can overcome the difference in wages, but it can not overcome that and other obstacles like the duty on hides and all of the tanning extracts and other materials affecting the cost of production.” On the maximum and minimum features of the bill he said: “The bill establishes a dual system of duties. It is the policy of the bill to accord the minimum rates to every country that gives the products of the United States as great advantages as are given the products of any other country. If any country should discriminate, either directly or indirectly, against our products the maximum rates will be enforced against the products of that country entering our ports. It is a wise provision and its main virtue is in the retaliatory power |t contains to compel foreign countries to accord our exports the same treatment they give to those of other countries, g 1 ;/'.'. • p.""’'*"' "Our foreign commercial and industrial policy ought to be that of the open door. We only ask equal eonto " ’ , i ' is’* *.

sideration at the hands of foreign countries and that we should insist upon. “I have little respect for reciprocity in its narrow sense—in the sense that it is a system of Internal dickers under which one line of products may secure special advantages in foreign markets in consideration of a grant of special advantages to a particular line of products in return. It is illogical and unscientific and savors of graft, which it frequently is. The broad reciprocity of treating all competitors and all producers exactly alike is the principle that this country ought to encourage as the permanent commercial policy of the civilized world.”

"Mr. Chairman, the bill pending for consideration is not a perfect measure. There never has been an absolutely perfect tariff law in this or any other country. Bills of this character are peculiarly the result of compromises,. lam sure there is not a single member of the committee that prepared the bill who would not make a number of changes in it if he could have his' own way about it.

“After a laborious investigation running four months the Ways and Means Committee agreed upon the measure which it has submitted to the House for consideration, and I have no doubt it will receive the support of every Republican member of that committee.

“If every member of this body should refuse to support any measure that‘did not conform to his views in every particular there would be very little legislation of general importance. “Therefore, at the outset of my remarks, I ask each member of the House to carefully analyze the bill and determine for himself whether it is a substantial Improvement over the existing law; whether it has a substantial preponderance of merit, taken as a whole. If it has, I feel justified in expecting its cordial support. In my judgment it is a great improve"ment over the present law. “The Republican party, of course, believes in the policy of protection to American industries, and it has no compunction in maintaining that Congress has the constitutional right in levying import duties to discriminate with a view to industrial development.

“But the policy of protection should be a rational one and it should be so directed as to bring about the greatest increase of opportunities for the employment of capital and labor. An indiscriminate imposition of duties on all articles that are or might be produced in the United States without regard to their effect upon the industrial policy of the country as a whole is not only unscientific, but is a positive menace to real progress. “The object of protection 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. “Customs duties that are not levied in harmony with this principle are not logical protective duties. If there was no protection to American labor, the level of Mages In this country would gravitate to the level of wages In foreign countries.

“A protective tariff operates like a dam in a river. The water level above the dam is kept at a higher stage than the level below it, but take the dam away and the water will find a common level. The level below the dam will not rise to that above, but the level above will inevitably recede to that below. / , — ——-4“If the tariff policy that has been maintained in this country for so many years and which has so greatly blessed and benefited American labor, should be abolished, the rate of wages and the standard of living in this country would become the same as in European countries. I am unalterably opposed to any policy that will tend to reduce the high standard of wages and living that now prevail in the United States." In discussing the free hides schedule of the Payne bill. Judge Crumpacker said: “The average farmer will derive more direct benefit in the decreased cost of boots, shoes, harness and other leather products be is compelled to buy than he now derives • from the tariff on the cattle hides. It should be kept in mind that calf skins are duty free under the Dingley law. The large cattle feeders may receive some benefit from the tariff, but this at the expense of the millions of consumers of leather products. ; ... “The American farmers have uniformly stood against the protection

of special interests at the expense of the many. They favor a tariff policy that will build up industries and give employment to labor at good wages. “The duty on hides merely increases the cost of one of the necessaries of life. It does not build up or encourage a single industry or furnish employment to a single laboring man. It has no foundation in justice or public policy. “The duty on hides is indefensible from any standpoint It not only does no good but it dods a great amount of industrial harm. It is a penny-wise and pound-foolish policy. It has driven fi*dm our country a large amount of in the manufacture of leather that otherwise would have come here. “In addition to that it has increased the cost of leather to our manufacturers of shoes, harness and other products and has handicapped those manufacturers in the foreign markets. Its result has been to protect the foreign producer of shoes and other leather manufacturers against American competition. , r _

EXCURSION TO MICHIGAN.

The Pere Marquette railroad company will run home seekers* excursions to various Michigan points on the following dates; Tuesday, May 4 and 18. The rate from Chicago to Ludington, Manistee and various other points is only $6.00 for the round trip, good for 15 days. I am acquainted with the country, own land in Lake county and will be pleased to accompany parties there on this occasion, making preparations for the trip, providing all accommodations. Parties who care to investigate this great country which is especially adapted to the growing of potatoes, fruit, alfalfa, clover, timothy and blue grass, also a fine stock country with fine water and extremely healthful, can procure literature of me and arrange for the trip. Let me hear from you at once by mail. D. L. HALSTEAD, R. D. No. 3, Box 40. Rensselaer, Ind.

There was a tragedy the other day in W. S. Clay’s dove house and, had the actors been human beings, would have meant a case for the grand jury and aroused universal pity and indignation. A mother dove had been the target of the small boy with a 22 rifle. The bullet had passed through her breast, leaving her only strength enough to flutter homeward and reach the nest where a half-grown fledgling awaited her coming. Dying, she had snuggled up against her little one, her life blood pulsing out over her own white breast and against her babe. And there, with eyes staring wide, she breathed her last and' the fledgling starved, then froze, and they were found with their heads pressed together as in a last loving embrace. Mr. Clay brought them down town just as they rested in. the nest, and the sight and suffering it spoke was enough to melt the hardest heart. And the boy with the 22-rifle may cause a like tragedy again and many times.— Exchange. Running a newspaper is just like running a hotel, only different When a man goes into a hotel and finds something on the table which does not suit him, he does not raise hades with the landlord and tell him to stop his old hotel. Well, hardly. He sets that aside and wades into the dishes that suit him. It is different with some newspaper readers. They find an article occasionally that does not suit them exactly and, without stopping to think it may please hundreds of other readers, makes a grand stand play and tells the editor how a paper should be run and what should be put into it, but such people are becoming fewer every year, a The ladles of the M. E. chjirch will hold a market j in* eennection with a rug and apron sale on Saturday before Easter. The sale will be held in the room recently vacated by Fred Phillips' music store. Everything good to eat will be there—chickens, doughnuts, pies, salads, baked beans, cakes and everything suitable for a first-class Easter dinner. Don’t fall to call on us and we will surely satisfy your appetites.

Farm Loans.

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THE BRINK IS NEAR-

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FOB SALE. i *| Farms and Pasture Land. 40 acres eight miles from court house, gravel road, free mail, telephone, all cultivated, some tile, fair buildings, deep well, fine bearing orchard and in good neighborhood. Will sell on easy payments or accept live stock as first payment. Price $45. 40 acres on main road near station with stores, school and churches. No improvements. Will trade clear for live stock or town property or sell on easy payments. 80 acres, on main road, free mail, near church, 40 aeres cultivated, 40 acrs timber and pasture, six room house, large barn, good well and small orchard. This farm bias school fund loan on it of SBOO Will sell on terms of S3OO down or trade for live stock or other property. Price S3O. 280 acres, well located, gravel road, near school, mostly black level land that I will offer for a short time at $22.50 per acre. Terms SI,OOO down. This piece is fine for general farming and all good soiL 14 acres, on main road, near station, that I will trade clear for stock, vacant lots or other property. G. F. MEYERS.

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