The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-11-19
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10, 1920


The Call aid that the retirement or
Speaker Henderson definitely settled
the future of tariff revision and estab-
lished it as a Republican policy. Cur
rent developments prove the correct
ness of our forecast. The West con-
trolls the next House. No Eastern
candidate for the Speakership is con-
sidered. That power will pass from
Iowa to Illinois with the election Of
Cannon, and a Western man, probably
Babcock of Wisconsin, will supplant
Payne of New York at the head Of the
Committee of Ways and Means.
Though contradictory reports are
given out, there is every reason to be-
lieve that the coming short session OF
Congress will be followed by an extra
session to comprehensively revise the
tariff. This is a bold policy on the
eve Of the Presidential election of 1901.
but the Republican party has never
been cowardly in it's course upon any
subject, and as it is now dominated b
revisionists that work will not be done
piecemeal, by amendment haphazard,
but by an entirely new bill that will
wipe the Dingley bill off the statutes
entirely. Secretary Shaw has contin-
ually said that the piecemeal plan is
open to such objections as to be i'm
practical, and that the only way to re-
wise the tariff is by making the work
comprehensive and all inclusive. Only
in this way can any judgment be form
ed of the effect of a new bill upon the
revenues and the industries of the
country. Such a method also enables
the treatment of protection as a prin-
ciple, and not a policy of expediency,
and all comprehensive revision must
of necessity be upon protective ines.
There is great political advantage in
getting the issue out of the way before
1904. The West having determined
that it shall be done, the policy will
be no longer in the air, to be taken ad-
vantage of by the free-traders. but the
new tariff will be in operation before
Il Presidential nominations are made.
and its effect will depend, upon the
wisdom and foresight of the reyisers.
D. That the West has forced revision Is
significant of the agricultural senti-
ment. The West originally accepted
protection in the Morrill, tariff as a
wal revenue measure, and grew but
slowly into the conviction that it is ad-
visable as a permanent policy. The
free trade fight made by Mr.. Cleveland
found growing support in the West, as
shown by the party changes in Indi-
ana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan,
Though public sentiment In all those
States is modified by the presence OF
large manufacturing Interests, still ag-
riculture, though u~nOrganized, dom
mates political sentiment and has been
widely impressed by the belief that at
some points a protective tariff Is a
shelter to trusts. Under the leader
ship OF Governor Cummins of Iowa
this belief was made the foremost dec
laration in the Iowa Republican plat
form. and that expression has now been
accepted as the standard Of Republican
faith. 1t is as well to admit that 1t
powerfully influenced the return to the
Republican fold of the States that were
the free silver strongholds, and there
Is nothing to be done but accept the
issue as made, as carried at the polls
and to be worked to a conclusion by
a Pepublican Congress. s
Other incidents OF the new Congress
lionel leadership of the party may be
expected. In the House 'the floor" will
be freer than it has been under the