Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-09-09

| say remedy Being our policies we
will not willingly subject them 10
their enemies for slow starvation on
the one hand or to sudden destruction
on the other.
Since the Republican party was
restored to power, in 1897, under the
lead of Mckinley, our country has
prospered in production and in com
merce as 1t has never prospered be-
fore. In wealth we stand first among
all the nations"
Not less plain and positive on the
subject OF vital importance OF the
protective tariff as an issue was Pres
ident Roosevelt In reply. He did not
hesitate to declare himself in har-
mony with the proposition that pro-
lection is and must continue to be the
settled, permanent policy Of the Re
publican party when he said:
I'VE have enacted a tariff law I'M
der which, during the past few years.
the country has attained a height OF
material well being never before
reached. Wages are higher than ever
before. That whenever the need arises
there should be readjustment of the
tariff schedules is undoubted; but
such changes can with safety be made
only by those whose devotion to the
principle of a protective tariff is be-
yond question; for otherwise the
changes would amount not to read
justment. but to repeal The read
justment when made must maintain
and not destroy the protective prin-
ciple. To the farmer, the merchant, |
the manufactures. this is vital: but |
perhaps no other man Is so much In !
terested as tho wage worker in the |
maintenance OF our present economic |
system, both as regards the finances !
OF our wage workers is higher than
that OF any other country, and 1t can I
not so remain unless we have a pro-
tective tariff which shall always keep
as minimum rate of duty sufh-
cient to cover the difference between
the labor cost here and abroad. Those
who, like our opponents, 'denounce
protection as a robbery thereby ex-
plicitly commit themselves to the
that If they were to re-
wise the tariff no heed would be paid
TO the necessity of meeting this diff
terence between the standards of liv-
ng for wage workers here and in
other countries; and therefore on this
point their antagonism to our position
8 fundamental.
Here again we ask that their
promises and ours be judged by what
has been done in the immediate past.
We ask that sober and sensible men
compare the workings of the present
ariff law, and the conditions which
,btain under 1t, with the workings of
he preceding tariff law of 1894 and
he conditions which that tariff Of
1874 helped to bring about"
The fundamental difference in the
ttitudes of the two parties on the
ubject of protection is herein stated
With great force The Republican par
y stands committed to the doctrine
hat only through the operation of the
policy is it possible to
the American standard of
wing, while the Democratic party,
hiiHb hOthiuS lOi the AntllCdu ,
tandard of living. but intent. now as
ways, upon cheapening and degrad-
lg American labor, brazenly antago-
ICES protection both as to principle
nd policy by denouncing 1t as rob
cry" of the. many for the benefit of
lie few. No matter If protection does
aintain high wages and a high q
andard of living. Being robbery" a
course. protection must go. That is d
lie Democratic attitude. :,
Upon the general subject of reel !,
'ocity President Roosevelt said: n
I'VE believe in reciprocity with for n
resident McKinley's last speech, T,
hich urged the extension of our for .,
gn markets by reciprocal agree =,
ents whenever they could be made A
lthout injury to American industry =,
Id labor" y
BY this rule there can be no reel. a,
ocity In products which compete .,
It'll American industry and labor 1t ~
safe rule. 1t is the only Repub- >,
AN rule as laid down by the ma a,
,nal Republican convention of 1904. :,
was what President Mckinley -
cant at Buffalo in 1901. 1t is what n,
esident Roosevelt means now. 1t is -,
so what the Republican party means y,
the time. =,
.