Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-07-13

or unlawful combiHa&
Of interstate trade, existing
ton of Law. We believe that one Of
the best methods Of procuring economy
and honesty in the public service is to
have public officials, from the occupant
OF the White House down to the low
est Of them, return, as nearly as may
be, to Jeffersonian simplicity Of liv.
ing.
"3. We favor the nomination and
election of a President trained in the
ways of the constitution, who shall
set his face sternly against executive
usurpation of legislative and judicial
functions, whether that usurpation be
construction Of existing laws, Or
whether it take refuge in the. tyrant's
pleas of necessity or superior wisdom.
TARIFF PERVERsIONS.
"4 The Democratic party has been,
and will continue to be, the consistent
opponent of that class Of tariff legis-
lstion by which certain interests have
been permitted, through congressional
favor, to draw heavy tribute from
the American people. The monstrous
perversion Of those equal opportunities
which our political institutions were
established to secure, has caused what
may once have been infant industries
to become tie greatest combinations
of capital that the world has ever
known.
4These publicly favored enterprises
fbrouOh ofhndc hooI,
converted into monopolies, thus bring.
ing to an end domestic competition,
which was the only check upon the
extravagant profits made possible by
the protective system. These indus
tria, combinations, by the financial as
sistanco they can give, now control the
policy of the Republican party.
1--WE favor wise, conservative and
business.like revision and gradual
reduction Of the tariff by the friends
Of the masses and for the common
veal, and not by the friends of its
abuses, its extortions and its discrim-
nations, keeping in view the ultimate
end Of equality of burdens and equal
ity Of opportunities, and the constitu-
tional purpose Of raising revenue by
taxation; to wit, the support of the
Federal government in all it's integrity
and virility, but III simplicity; and
keeping also in view. as nien of COM
mon sense should, existing conditions,
however wrongfully, mistakenly or un.
justly brought about, and the danger
to the cause Of tariff reform itself of
abrupt and revolutionary reversal of
policy.
"We should bear in mind, in short,
these two thipge:
First, The general principle that the
sole derivation of the power OF taxa
tion is the support of the Federal gov
ernment economically, effectively and
constitutionally administered, and, sec
ond, the equal truth that in the asser-
tion Of any general principle and in
reaching any ultimate end. however
sacred and logically unavoidable. due
regard, but only due regard must and
should be paid to actually existing con-
ditions.
TARIFF ON TRUST PRODUCTS.
"5. We favor the reduction Of tariff
taxation upon trust-produced articles
TO the point where foreign competition
may enter the American marked when
ever trusts and combines, seeking mo-
nopoly, raise their prices to the Ameri-
can consumer above reasonable and
Just prcit, by such reduction depriving
trusts and monopolies of the power TO
extort from the American people un-
der shelter of American law, prices
higher than those charged foreigners
for identical articles,