Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-14
CAMPAIGN KEYNOTE.
SOUNDED BY THREE SPEECHES OF
MARKED SIGNIFICANCE.

Question of Tariff Revision Should
BE Kept Out of Platform.
DO YOU realize what has happened
during the first week of President
Rooseyelts trip into the west" asked
member of the cabinet. Well. just
combine these things and see what a
significant summary you have.
The president himself has made two
speeches against tariff revision. lie
went direct to the territory where tie
Iowa idea is supposed TO prevail. IN
both speeches he struck straight out
from the shoulder, and lie rang the bell
twice.
Secretary Root sounded the initial
note in Boston. His text was No Tariff
Revisiop. and he also rang the bell.
Secretary Shaw built Il speech on
fne same text. which he delivered. with
telling effect, in Peoria. III. The bell
was rung again.
Senator Allison of Iowa permitted
himself TO be interviewer III CulCdso'
He. too, said. no tariff revision.
Mr.. Bryan in speech in Des Moincs
welcomed Governor CumminS to the
ranks of Democracy and indorsed his
ideas as proper Democratic doctrine.
Now. that is the summary. The Root
speech and the Shaw speech were read
and approved by the president before
they were delivered. The president S
uttcrances have been Endorsed by the
members of his official family. The adj
ministration is working in absolute
harmony. and the programme outlined
in the Tribune Of March 80, in which
Secretary Roots Boston speech was
forecast. is bein" carried out with a
sVin~ which promises most Satsfac-
torily for the administration. 1t also
| promises. what is perhaps of even
greater Importance, the countrys gen
eral accordance Of the Roosevelt idea
| of no tariff revision and absolute as
sllrance of undisturbed business ac-
tivity. which at the present moment
as the president calls attention to. Is
the greatest in the history of the world.
Tile presidents unquestioned STAND
at this time on the tariff and his clear
and fearless enunciation Of this posi-
ton right in the territory whence came
the mutterings Of different desire, to-
cether with the unanimous backing up
| he is receiving from his cabinet and
the hearty approval Of his auditors,
constitute a development Of the first
week of his trip calculated to do much
toward settling conditions in the public
mind and assuring the continuance OF
that prosperity.
ut means that tariff reformers mas
ouerading under the guise of Repub-
licans will have to become CLASSIFIED
under another name or welcomed back
into the ranks of Democracy, as Gov
ernor Cummins has been by Bryan.
The Republican party, with Roosevelt
at its head, will stand for no tariff
| revision, at least until after the next
presidential election. This is the lesson
to be learned from the developments
of the last few weeks.
THAT tariff revision means business
decentralization there can be no doubt.
This is true Notwithstanding the fact
| that the tariff should be revised Ivy its
| friends when it is revised. AS an illus
| tration take, for instance, the pet
schedule fer attack, the tariff on iron
and steel. Suppose at the same time
that the Fifty-eighth congress is
| pledged to tariff revision, which it is
not, what would happen? Simply this:
Every man who contemplated erecting
q building in which structural iron was
to be a part would conclude without the
| least hesitation that he could wait just
as we'll as not until the tariff on iron
and steel had been reduced that he
might save the So q ton which il u
clared to.be the tariff tax on the Amer
lean consumer. BY postponing the cree
| ton of his building he not only puts al
end to the iron business. but also to the
| brick business. the lumber business and
also TO the prosperity of the men VINO
build buildings. the mechanics Of the
country. This same Illustration applies
| to every other schedule which the revl-
| SioniSts might think proper to take a
whack at. and even though this revi-
sion would be in the hands Of the
friends Of the tariff the same incen'
tive to await the result of the action OF
those friends would be there, and our
hustling prosperity would be gone.
in adopting this no revision policy
and boldly proclaiming the same to the
country President Roosevelt gives
splendid illustration Of his political
acumen: Not only will he do good to
| the business interests of the Country,
but he will avoid thereby the rock
which has caused disaster to the party
on at least two occasions in its history
If tariff revision means danger to the
business of the country, it means dou'
bly, more danger to the administration
| which undertakes that revision. Nc
administration has even withstood its