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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1910)
These efforts, especially the first one, is com mendable anti, reasoning from the wool growers viewpoint, the second one is no less so. But. to be fair about this matter, we must consider the well- far® of the consumer as well as that of the pro ducer. As there are. perhaps. 1000 consumer* of Politically Independent wool to each producer of the wool product, the interests of the many becomes overwhelmning. Entered at the postoffice at Scio, Oregon, as aeeond-claaa we should consider only the greatest good (or greatest number of people, than wool would mail matter. immediately, placed upon the free list. However consumers are w illing to l»e taxed moderately in order that the wool industry may thrive. Con PUBI 1SHED EVERY FRIDAY BY sumers are willing that the wool grower shad retp T. !.. DUGGER a good profit for his lalior, but not such exorbitant profits that the wool grower, in a few years, be comes a millionaire. » The greatest meanace ti the wool grower, how *|<||*TION HATFX: ever, is not fhe foreign competitor in the produc,- One year in advance ............. II 2i ion of wool, but the competition of the producer < f 1 SO One year, at end of year......... shoddy, both foreigh and domestic. If we h 1 •jf One year, at end of 2 years .. should make the duty on importation of ahoddv . 2 00 One year, at end of 3 years 7f. prohibitive and tax the domestic product so highly Six months in advance............. SO that its manufacturer would become unprofitable Three months in advance......... tjf. then our wool growers could get along nicely with Single copy in wrapper........... out arty protective tariff whatever. What is true of wool. is true of nearly every AIIVKHTIMIXCI KA'I'hX: other protected product. While th- enhanced price Car of thanks......... ............... . ?........................................ F* which protection enables the producer to exact, Special obituary notices, per line.............................................. tt- makes production of the products of the many Extended wedding comments, per line.......................................w protected industries most profitable, we should re Display ads. to be changed weekly if dasired, one column member that this profit is, chiefly, at the expend wide each insertion, per inch .................. If» of the American consumer. ItusincM locals per line first insertion ................................ .. U What would be just and equitable in tariff mat Each subsequent insertion per line ................................ . .Of Ixing time standing a»ts. contracts ma»le or application. ters. would be a medium tariff duty on all products, which would not In' oppressive upon the consumer, yet give the producer a reasonable degree of pro TARIFF KEVÌSIOX A MATTER tection from his foreign competitor, so that hii- business would return him a fair profit. OF JUSTICE The fact should ever I m * bourn in mind whet laying a tat iff. that whatever benefits, say one pro ducer, it is at the expense of 1000 consumers, NDICATIONS NOW POINT to a revision of the i A product, no matter in what field, should I« tariff hy the Sixty-second congress. That this worth the cost of production, a fair margin of rt vision will be downward, goes without Hay profit to the producer and the cost of placing th< ing. for a revision otherwise, or like the Payne- product in the hands of the consumer and no more. Aldrich tariff, would l»e the political death of any If by a trust, combine, protective tariff, or w hnt j congressman who dared to revise the tariff in this not. the price is boosted abnormally high, then th» consumer is being robbed of the amount the articl» manner. Revision then is sure to lie downward and in the is sold above its equitable value. As a rule, no article should be sold at a higher interests of the great body of consumers in pro portion to the degree of reduction. Tne question price than the cost of production, the cost of pla»- will be. What schedules can be reduce ! without ing it in the hands of the consumer and a reason bringing down the w rath of the beneficiaries of able profit upon the capital invested. Abnormal! such schedule or schedules upon the heads of the high prices, which makes the producer a millior - aire in a tew years, is at the expense and oftime revisionists? Nearly every industry which enjoys the benefits suffering of the thousands of consumers. Ar < of a protective tariff, has so intrenched itself with when this abnormal price is exacted throuvl a paid lobby at the national capitol, that to talk combination or trust, then the government should of taking away the rich benefit which that st p in an«l regulate the price upon a liasis of jus particular industry enjoys, is to arouse a storm of lice to both consumer and producer. Some |»ower opjMisition which seems almost overwhelmning to should be used to control the grew! of the producer ■ and alleviate the necessities of the consumer. Our congressmen. However, there are two sides to the protective excessively high tariff enables the producer to! tariff question. Of course, an abnormally high practically hold up the American consumer and price is most satisfactory to the producer but. to dememand near double what the price of his pro the consumer exactly the reverse is true.1 The pro duct would be with out the tariff duty. We know ducer cannot receive an excessively high price for this to be a fact, for these same product® are being his product, without bringing down a hardship up sold in foreign markets at a less cost to the for eigner than to our own people. When congress on the consumer. Next week the National Wool Growers conven undertakes tariff revision, all interested lobbyists tion will meet in Portland. The purpose of this should I m * barred from congressional committee convention, is to create a harmony of action for rooms and halls. Our national lawmakers should the purpose of benefiting the condition of the lie uninfluenced by either producer or consumer wool grower to show the advantages of raising when the matter is under consideration. Only high grade stock and to make such showing that the interests of the government they arc supposed congress will allow the present high duty on wool to serve, which means the whole people, should be upon their minds. to remain as it is, when revision is undertaken. things are tin* whole store is ihe Christmas foi the* kind of gifts men von will find I Bryift's Servict to Ike Party A Clock With a History Newton Crabtree is th«- powssor of a Rrvan's position at the present time clock which has quite a history. It is is unique. There is no doubt that in of the Seth Thomas variety nisi was the three campaigns he made for the purchased by his father in 1825. It presidency he succeeded in establishing regulated time for the family in the th«- democratic party in th»- minds ami "States” until 1S4’> when, with other hearts of the American people as the family treasures, it was brought across popular party, devoted to the interests the plains to Oregon. As long as of the common |»eople, as opposed to i Uncle Johnny Crabtree lived, it kept the interests of the plutocracy. It is 1 time for his family and, at h * death, true that all three elections were lost, | passed into the hands of his son New but the fruit of his splendid fighting is ton. for whom it has been doing duty seen in the democratic house just elect since. The old clock keens excellent ed. When Mr. Bryan twgan his leader lime al the present and is prised as a ship the party was very much in the wilderness on account of the Wilson family heirloom. tariff bill fiasco, which President The quicker a cold is gotten rid of Cleveland denounced as "party perfidy the leas the danger from pneumonia ami dishonor." Mr. Bryan was the and other serioua diseases. Mr. B. W. democratic Mosea, and in fourteen L. 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