The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-09-26

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check the brilliant executive and s,l
jects him to the sober, conservativ
control of the people.
The people of the United State
stand at the parting of the ways
Shall We follow the footsteps of on
fathers along the paths of peace
prosperity and contentment, guidet
by the everything spirit of the con
stitution which they framed for us
or shall we go along other and un
tried paths, hitherto Stunned by all
following blindly new ideals, which
though appealing with brilliancy tC
/ the imagination and ambition, may
prove a viii O. the wisp, leading us
| into difficulties from which il may
be impossible to extricate ourselves
without lasting injury to our nation
al character and institutions.
The Tariff and Trusts.
Tariff reform is one of the cardina'
| principles of the Democratic faith.
| and the necessity for it was neve.'
greater than at the present time. 1t
| should be undertaken at once in the
interest of all our people.
The Dingley tariff is excessive in
many of it's rates, and, as to them
at least. unjustly and oppressively
burdens the people. 1t secures to
domestic manufacturers. singly or in
combination. the privilege OF exact
ing excessive prices at home and
prices far above the level of sales
made regularly by them abroad with
profit, thus giving a bounty to for
eigners at the expense of our own
people. 1t levies oppressive and un-
just taxes upon many articles form
ing, in whole or part, the So-called
raw material of many of our manufac
tured products, not only burdeninS
manufacturer the markets he needs
and seeks abroad Its unjust taxa
tion burdens the people generally
forcing them to pay excessive prices
for food. fuel, clothing and other nee.
essaries of life 1t levies duties On
many articles not normally imported
in any considerable amount, which
are made extensively at home. for
which the most extreme protectionisT
hur
and which in large amounts are ex
ported Such duties have been and
will continue to be a direct incentive
to the formation of huge industrial
combinations, which. secure from for
eign competition, are enabled to sti
fie domestic competition and practi-
cally control the home market.
1t contains many duties imposed
for the express purpose only, as was
openly avowed, of furnishing hasis
for reduction by means of reciprocal
trade treaties, which the Republican
administration, impliedly at least pro
missed to negotiate. Having, on this
promise, secured the increased du-
ties, the Republican party leaders
spurred on by protected interests, de-
feated the treaties negotiated by the
and now these same in,
erests cling to the benefit of these
duties which the people never intend
ed they should have, and to which
they have no moral right.
Even now the argument most fire.
Quently urged in behalf of the Ding
ley tariff, and against tariff reform
generally, is the necessity of caring
for our infant industries. Many OF
these industries, after a hundred
years of lusty growth, are looming
up as industrial giants. In their
case, at beast, the Dingley tariff in
vites combination and monopoly. and
gives justification to the expression
that the tariff is the mother of trusts.
For the aforementioned reasons.
among many others, the people de-
mand reform of these abuses. and
such reform demands and should re-
ceiye immediate attention.
The two leading parties have al
ways differed as to the principle of
customs taxation. Our party has al
ways advanced the theory that the
object is the raising of revenue for
support of the government whatever
other results may incidentally flow
therefrom. The Republican party, on
the other hand, contends that GUS
toms duties should be levied prima-
rily for protection, so-called. with
revenue as the subordinate purpose.
thus rising the power of taxation to
build up the business and property
of the few at the expense of TIE
many
This difference of principle .s'ilI
subsists. but our party appreciates
that the long-continued policy OF the
country, as manifested in its statutes