The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1904-09-16


| therefore OF our Business and industry,
! that they are pledged. When our Oppo-
nents last obtained power II was on
unconstitutional" and the effort to put
| this declaration into practice was one OF
t tne causes OF the general national pros
| protective tariff Is either 'unconstitu-
tional" or robbery" then II is just as
| unconstitutional, just as much robbery,
| to revise II down, still leaving ID protec-
tive. as 1t would be to enact It. In other
words our opponents have committed
| themselves to the destruction OF the pro-
| tective principle In the tariff, using words
| which IL honestly used forbid them from
permitting this principle to obtain In
even the smallest degree.
Every class of our people is benefited
| ey the protective tariff. During the last
few years the merchant has seen the
export trade OF this country grow faster
than ever in our previous history. The
manufacturer could not keep his factory
running II II were not for the protective
tarin. The wage-worker would do we'll
10 remember that IL protection Is rob
berry and Is to be punished accordingly,
ne VIII be the first TO pay the penalty;
Tor either he will be turned adrift entire.
| ~, or his wages will be cut down to the
starvation point. AS conclusively shown
by the bulletins of the bureau OF labor,
tne purchasing power of the average
wage received by the wage-worker has
grown raster than the cost of living and
e,is IN spite or the continual shortening
or working hours. The accumulated saw
lhgs OF the workingmen of the country
as shown by the deposits in the savings
ppanks, nave Increased by leaps and
pounds. At no time in the history of this
or any other country has there been an
era so productive of material benefft
LIKE diiEi 10 workingman and employer, as
passed. 'NS'
The farmer has benefited quite as much
as as the ne manutacturer, the merchant. and
Impressive fact established by the last
census Is the wide and even distribution
81 meaith , among al classes OF our coun-
trymen. me chief agencies in produc-
ing this distribution are shown by the
census to be the development of manu-
ventions 10 universal use
IN the forty years ending in 1900 the
tOai, value OF farm property increased
WE'VE and half billions of dollars; the
farmer gaining even more during this ne
Rod than the manufacturer Long ago
over-production would have checked the
marvellous development of our national
agriculture, but for the steadily increas-
ing demand OF American manufacturers
Tor Iarm products required as raw ma
teTiaIs Tor steadily expanding industries
Conditions change and the laws must
De modlhed from time to time to fit new
exigencies But the genuine underlying
principle OF protection. as il has been
embodied in all but one of the American
tariH laws for the last forty years has
WORKED out results so beneficent. so even
~ ana widely spread. so advantageous
alike TO farmers and capitalists and work.
ingmen. TO commerce and trade of every
KIND, that the American people, IL they
snow their usual practical business sense
VIII insist that when these laws are
modified they shall be modified with the
Utmost ~ care and conservatism. and by
the friends and not the enemies of the
protective system. They cannot afford
TO trust the modification to those who
treat protection and robbery as synony-
In closing what have to say about
the system OF promoting American indus.
Try let me add a word of cordial agree
nf In
GLIDING within its benefits by appropriate
legislation, the American merchant ma
1ine' ~ IS not creditable to us as n ma
non that our great export and import
trade should be well nigh exclusively
in the hands of foreigners
our opponents contend that the govern
ment IS now administered extravagantly
ana that whereas there was "a SURPLUS
OF SSO,OOO.OO0 I'm 1907 there is "a deficit of
has just closed
This deficit is imaginary. and is OBJ
tanned by including in the ordinary cur
rent expenses the sum of fiftv TniIIions
which was paid for the right of wav nj
the Panama canal out of the accumu-
iated surplus In the treasury. Compar-
g ag me me current .I or ordinary expenditures
LOT the TWO years. there was n surplus
OF nearly eighty millions for the wear
Ig9,;; ana OF only little more than eight
millions for the year that has lust
closed. But this diminution of the an.
nual surplus was brought about design
edly by the abolition OF the war taxes
The acts OF March 2, 1901 and April 10
1892. cut down the internal revenue taxes
10 an amount estimated at one hundred
and I'VE millions q year. In other words
the reduction of taxation has been con.
siderably greater than the reduction i'm
inc annual SURPLUS. Since the close OF
the war with Spain there has been no
substantial change in the rate of annual
expenditures. AS compared with the fis-
ca year ending in June. 1901. for exam
pie, the fiscal year that has Just closed
showed n relatively small increase in ex-
pendlture Excluding the canal payment
already referred tor, while the year pre-
Vlous showed relatively small decrease
The expenditures of the nation have
peen managed in n spirit of economy as
iar removed from waste as from niggard-
Illness; and in the future every effort will
be continued 10 secure an economy as
strict as is consistent with efficiency.
our opponents promise independence to
the philippine Islands. Here again we
are confronted by the fact that their ir-
reconcilable differences of opinion
among themselves. their proved inability
TO create n constructive policy when in
power, and their readiness. for the sake
OF momentary political expediency, to
abandon the principles upon which they
puzzle us as 10 whether they do or do
not intend in good faith to carry out
thus promise If they are given control of
If our opponents came into power and
ATTEMPTED to carry out their promises to
the Fflipinos by giving them independ-
enoe, and Withdrawing American control
from the Islands, the result would be
a frightful calamity to the Filipinos
themselves and I'm it's larger aspect would
amount to an international cline. An
archy would follow; and the most VIC
lent anarchic forces would be directed
partly against the civil government part
~ against all forms of religious and edu-
cational civilization. Bloody conflicts
woud inevitably ensue In the archipelago
and just as inevitably the islands would
become the prey of the first power which
IN It's own selfish interest took up the
task we had cravenly abandoned
During the last five years more has
been done for the material and moral
well-being of the Filipinos than ever
before since the islands first came within
the ken OF civilized man. We have OPEN
ed before them "A vista of orderly devel-
opment in their own interest, and not
policy of exploitation. Every effort is
being made to fit the islanders for self
government. and they have already in
large measure received IT, while for the
first time in their history their personal
rights and civil liberties have been guar
anteed. They are being educated; they