The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-09-02
CAMPAIGN IS OPENED
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
Spoke at Spokane.
Attitude of the Republican Party
Stated and Defended by Con-
vincing Argument.

| LeSlle M. SndW, secretary OF the treas
ury, who is campaigning in the west, SET
the political ball rolling in Spokane last
Saturday IN speech to an audience
that taxed the capacity of the Spokane
theater
Young man, don't get hooked up
wrong, was the keynote of Secretary
Shaw's address. At every climax of hie
speech, alter dilating upon the sins oi
omission and commission of the demo.
cratic party, he would reiterate the
phrase. Speaking on national issues
generally, he said in part:
Producer and Consumer.
Every active citizen is both a producer
and consumer. He may be a pro-
ducer of labor, and have nothing to sell
| but labor. de is nevertheless a pro-
| ducer. And the purchaser of his labor
will also be prOducer-a producer OF
farm products, or of mineral products,
| OF factory products, or OF transporta-
| ton, as the case may be. The humbleBt
tOller is therefore a producer, although
| he does not own the object upon which
his toll was expended, nor the resultant
OF that toll. And every citizen, active
or idle, is a consumer of food products,
| clothing and other necessaries of life.
| He may also be a consumer of large
| quantities OF building material, and OF
manufacturing material, and of pur-
chased labor.
The democratic party invariably and
always makes it's appeal to the voter
from the standpoint of the consumer.
1t never tells the laborer that it is all i'm
portant that he have good wages, but it
continually tells him that it is all i'm
| pOrtant that he have cheap living ex-
penses. 1t never tells the farmer that
the price of farm products is a matter of
Importance worthy of his consideration,
but it continually tells him that the
price OF nails and barbed wire and OF
window glass and of kerosene oil and of
window tacks is of great moment. The
democratic party has always and does
now insist that the consumer is imposed
upon whenever anything can be obtained
anywhere cheaper than in the market in
which he buys. On the contrary, the re-
publican party tells the producer that
his interests are being neglected when
ever it is possible to secure better
market for the things he has to sell than
the market in which he sells. The demo-
cratic party always insists that it is un-
important who produces that which we
consume, providing it is cheap.
The republican party insists that it is
relatively of no Importance what price
we pay providing the price when paid
passes into the hands of one who will in
turn be a consumer of our products.
The republican party believes in the
principle 80 aptly stated by Abraham
Lincoln: 'If | understand this" said
Mr.. Lincoln, when we buy a ton of steel
rails abroad, we get the rails and the
foreigner gets the money; but when we
buy ton Of steel rails produced at
home, we get both the rails and the
money" Applying this, the republican
party has always sought to protect the
American producer, while the demo-
cratic party is free trade party / do
free traders, but | speak of the party as
a party.
Republicans for Home Market
The republican party does not levy tariff
duties for the purpose of compelling
American citizens to pay more for
goods. 1t levies a protective tariff for
the purpose of inducing the production,
within the United States, of the articles
on which the duty is levied In some
instances it may have resulted in in
creased prices, but the purpose has never
been to increase the price. The purpose
is to build an industry and furnish EN-
ployment for labor. The purpose is to
make home market for the product OF
American labor.
The Dingley tariff, for instance, levies
10 per cent on cut diamonds, and ad-
mits uncut diamonds free. OF course,
the duty of 10 per cent on cut diamonds
increases their price. What is the result?
We have 1000 men in the United States
today cutting diamonds and making
from $40 to $50 per day These dia-
mond cutters spend their ten or fifteen
million dollars annual wages in one way
or another. | assume that they, like
everyone else, spend, in one way or an
other, most of their income. They may
spend 1t in the purchase of homes, of
furniture, or a horse and buggy, and
| they certainly spend some Of it for food
and clothes. In so doing they furnish
| employment for other toilers.
insist that the protective tariff on
cut diamonds has contributed to the
American market to the extent of ten or
| fifteen millions per annum. 1t was in
| part for the purpose of revenue, and in
| part for the purpose of building an in
OuSUTy, anu III uds DeeQ Succ6SSIuI IN
| both.
The republican party believes in a
home market. 1t believes in wages suf-
| ficiently high to enable our people to
eat three meals per day, sleep between
sheets and place roof, owned or rented
over the babies. In this it has ever
| been successful. In proof of this cite
the fact, well established by the records,
that the American people consume one
quarter of the cotton fiber of the world
One twentieth Of the people of the world
could not consume one quarter OF the
cotton fiber of the world if they were
compelled to patch and darn and mend,
and if they did not some times burn to
save laundry bills.
Foreign Market Not Neglected.
Our democratic friends insist that we
should seek the foreign market. They
are always urging that if we will take
off our protective tariff, foreign coun-
tries will emulate our magnanimity
While the republican party has not ne.
elected the foreign market, it has pro-
tected the home market. And with what
result? The last United States census
gave our internal commerce at $40, ,000,-
900, 900. The so principal commercial
countries OF the world EXPORT $10.000,.
100000 worth OF merchandise OF one