The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-17

TO be as meaningless as in the New
York State platform; some wished to
bring forward the 1876 declaration
and there were other varying views.
not easy to reconcile. AS a result
of the deliberations the platform
rings clear upon the traditional Dem
ocratic faith that protection is a rob
berry of the many to enrich the few"
and allays the fears of the business.
world by properly promising a grad
| ual reduction" to the proper basis
The declaration reads as follows:
'"The Democratic party has been.
and will continue to be the consiStent
opponent of that class of tariff legjs-
!ation by which certain interests have
been permitted through Congressional;
favor, to draw a heavy tribute from,
| the American people. The monstrous
perversion of those equal opportuni-
| ties which our political institutions
were established to secure, has caused
what may once have been infant in
dustries to become the greatest COM
binations of capital that the WORLD,
| has ever known. These especial ia
vortes of the government have.
through trust methods. been convert
l
| an end domestic competition, which
was the only alleged check upon the.
extravagant profits made possible by
the protective system. These indus,
| trial combinations, by the financial
assistance they can give now control
| the policy of the Republican party
eve denounce protection as a rob-
berry of the many to enrich the few,
and we favor a tariff limited to the
needs of the government economically
administered, and so levied as not to-
discriminate against any industry,
class or section, to the end that tho
burdens of taxation shall be distri-
buted as equally as possible.
eve favor a revision and a grad,
ual reduction of the tariff by the
friends of the masses ana for the
commonwealth, and not bv the friends
of it's abuses, its extortionS and its
determinations, keeping in view the
ultimate ends of equality of burden .
| and equality of opportunities ana
the constitutional purpose of RAISING
a revenue by taxation, to-wit, the
support of the Federal government in
| all it's integrity and virility, but III
simplicity"
Upon this straightforward utterance
the Democrats deserve to win a
sweeping NiClCIy. NolIS WIN w i''"NN
| if the party campaigners will show
up the Dingley tariff in it's true
light, give object lessons of wherein
| it robs the many to enrich the few,
and clearly show how the cost of liv-
| ing has been unnecessarily increased,
| by tariff schedules. The object les
sons are on every hand and If they
are brought home to the people, they
will constitute a powerful indictment
of Republican tariff robbery of tho
many Asked what defeated the Re-
publicans in 1890, the late Thomas
b. Reed sententiously said Tho
women shoppers" He meant that. as
the women went to buy goods, they
found that the Mckinley bill had put
up rrices, and they resented the in
crease and placed the blame on tho
Republican high tariff law--where 1T
belonged Today men and women
both see that the cost of everything
they need to buy has been artifi-
cially increased by the Dingley tariff
law and the trusts enjoying subsidies
under the Dingley law, and the sam1
opportunity is presented for bravo
and manly preaching of true tariff
doctrine that brought success in 1S9L