Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-10
WILL BE NO REVISION
STRONG WORDS BY SENATOR
HALE OF MAINE.
There VIII Be No MeddIing With or
EmascuIation of the Present Tariff,
Whether Under the Guise of Reel
procity or Reform.

Senator Hale of Maine, one of the
most influential men on the RepubH-
can side of the Senate chamber.
says:
. Neither this winter nor the next,
nor the winter thereafter, unless Con-
gresS loses its head, will any revision
of the tariff be made. The results of
the Dingley tariff act have been so
generally happy that it is difficult to
understand the cry which is set up in
certain quarters, not by the people
generally, in favor of a revision.
THE Dingley act has given the peo-
PIE of the United States more rev
erue, more business, more trade AM
more prosperity than any bill ever en-
acted. The people understand this,
and the late election shows that, with
certain exceptions, entire content ex-
lists under present conditions. 1t would
be the height OF folly now to try to
disturb these conditions.
The free traders, including almost
all the Democratic leaders and the
uneasy, Weakened Republicans who
are bowling for revision and reciproc-
ity would do well to take notice of
what will happen provided they get
their way. 1t is absolutely safe to
SOY lAdI 10 ldIlA IONlSlOA CdA lame
place except at the end of a long ses-
sion, after a bitter and protracted
fight, which in itself will disturb near
Il all and destroy some of our indus
tries.
The outcome will be, if any new
Dill is passed, practically Democratic
tariff. The combination on important
schedules in the tariff between the
uneasy Republicans and the entire
Democratic force in Congress will in
sure not Republican measure, but
a Democratic one. Nor can any par
tial or limited revision be made with
out entering into the construction of
an entire bill, and, in fact, there can
never be any change in certain
articles without entering upon the
whole subject of tariff revision.
Besides this, if it were possible,
no concessions on single articles in
the tariff would for moment stop the
free trade and Democratic agitation
for entire revision. An eminent Demo
cratic leader has said that there will
be no rest until the infamous policy
OF protection is broken down and
destroyed.
Il am sure that what 1 say repre-
sents the general sentiment of the
lCpdDlICdh party lAIOuSuOuI luS
country. 1t is the fashion of certain
newspapers and few prominent Re
publicans to say that revision is need
ed, and that we will enter upon it in
the next Congress, but wherever the
issue has been made, whether in New
England or elsewhere, this PROPOSE
ton has gone to the wall. 1t was
tried in Massachusetts with failure a.
the result.
In the main, a cry for revision
means a new tariff, built on anti-Re
publican lines. Generally speaking, i
you scratch a reviser you find under
meath = free trader.
Unless the Republican party ha
lost heart and faith in its Fundamental
policies, there will be no meddlin,
with and no emasculation of the pres
ent tariff, whether under the guise O
reciprocity or reform. In the long fl
ture, if general revision is demand
ed, the Republican party will not b
afraid to undertake it."