Arizona republican., 1903-04-05

better educated, better fed, and better clothed workingmen, of a higher type. than are to be found in any foreign country. It has and 1t needs higher. more vigorous, and more prosperous
 type of tillers of the soil than is pos sessed by any other country. The bust ness men, the merchants and manufac-
 turers, and the managers of the trans
 portation interests show the same su- periority when compared with men of their type abroad. The events of the l last few years have shown how skill 1 fully the leaders of American industry 1 use in international business competi- tion the mighty industrial weapons forged for them by the resources of our country. the wisdom of our laws, and the skill. the inventive genius and the administrative capacity of our people,
 It is, of course, a mere truism to say that we want to use everything in our power to foster the welfare of our en- tire body polite. In other words, we need to treat the tariff as a business proposition, from the standpoint of the interests of the country as a whole, and not with reference to the tempo rary needs of any political party. It is almost as necessary that our policy should be stable as that it should be wise. A nation like ours could not long stand the ruinous policy of read Justing its business to radical changes in the tariff at short intervals, espe- cially when, as now, owing to the inn mense extent and variety of our prod ucts, the tariff schedules carry rates of md of Sweeping and violent changes in such a tariff. touching so vitally the interests of all of us, embracing agriculture. labor manufactures. and commerce, would be disastrous in any event. and they would be fatal to our present we1l- being if approached on the theory that the principle of the protective tariff was to be abandoned. The business world, that is, the entire American world, cannot afford. if it has any re- gard for it's own welfare, even to con- sider the advisability of abandoning the present system.
 NOT UNCHANGEABLE.
 Yet, on the other hand, where the in- dustrial conditions so frequently change, as with us must of necessity be
 
 portance that we should be able from time to time to adapt our economic pol | icy to the changed conditions. Our aim should be to preserve the policy of a protective tariff, in which the nation as a whole has ecquiesced, and yet where | ever and whenever necessary to change the duties In particular paragraphs or schedules as matters of legislative de- tail, if such change is demanded by the l interests of the nation as a whole.
 In making any readjustment there l are certain important considerations i which canot be disregarded. If a tariff l if business has prospered under it and i is prospering, it may be better to endure 1 some inconvenience and inequalities l for a time than by making changes to ] paralysis in the industries and business of the country. The fact that the change in a given rate of duty may be thought desirable does not settle the question whether 1t Is advisable to make the change immediately. Every tariff deals with duties on thousands of articles arranged in hundreds of paragraphs and in many schedules. | These duties affect vast number of interests which are often conflicting. + necessary for our welfare. then Of course congress must consider the