The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-22
The Robber Tariff.

MS item OF the account will not be
passed over without a reference to the
platform statement that protection
which guards and develops our indus
trles IS cardinal policy OF the Re
pubilcan party. Nor without notinc
me declaration of the candidate stand
ing on this platfOrm that the nrotect-
I've tariff policy ought no VITO be con-
| sideFed as definitely established The
question will be asked. which are the
American industries that at this time
are ID need OF the shelter Of such 4
{ tarlh As that now i'm force: and Is
there never to be a time when Ameri-
can enterprise. American ingenuity and
American opportunity viii free our in
dustIieS from their stage Of infaucr
ana permit American inspiration anu
American self-reliance 10 cast away the
leading strings of a definitely estab-
lished' protective policy? The peopIe
know that this policy has given rise TO
reckless greed and to a Worship or
gain menacipg patriotic sentiment and
our love for high standards Of national
greatness, and they know that at best
1t LAYS burdens on the consumers of
our land
Wrong Clearly Seen.
With these tendencies and these
burdens IN mind they win ask the
party processing its anxiety 10 restrain
or destroy harmful combinations why
protective tariff policy should be con-
siGered definitely established which. In
addition TO its other sins. contributes
TO situation that permits a combina-
ton or monopoly TO sell abroad articles
or our manufacture at lower prices
than are eXacted from our own citizens
a home. They will see the sheer
wrOngfuluess Of this condition so clear
y. and they will so firmly believe that
IN this way they are made TO bear tar
1T burdens in order that they NAV he
disseminated against in favor of for
elgn consumers that they will not be
satisfied with the assurance that the
tariff has nothing to do with trusts.
They will consign such an explanation
TO the limbo of negation. TO take its
place with the outworn deception thai
the foreign exporter pays our tariff
taxes. and with two other sadly weak
pretenses. one that the tariff should ne
reformed only by its friends. and the
other that the party which believes
that protective tariff policy ought TO
be considered as definitely established
loves reciprocity in trade.
What of the Philippinese
When the platform boast is made
that in the Philippines we have sup
pressed insurrection, established order
and given 10 life and property secur
ity never known there before the con-
fesslon will be extorted that the iBsur-
rection suppressed was no more than
the crushing out of resistance 10 the
army of the United States, while en-
gagged in the subjugation of q peonle
thousands OF miles from our shores.
when an incident OF war undertaken
by Us in aid OF those struggling for
liberty and independence In another
had put within our power.
and the people will ask under what
sanction was this subjugation entered
upon by a nation pledged 10 the doc
trine that all just powers of govern
ment are derived from the consent of
the governed. and they will deny thai
Imperialism and our forcible rule of
foreign peopleFhave any place amonS
Inc purposes Of our national life
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