The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-02
MILLER DECLARES
TARIFF PRINCIPLES
NIcCLEARY's OPPONENT ISSUES
STATEMENT TO VOTERS.
He Declares for Revision Down.
ward,' and Denounees the Demand
for ultra Protection as Menace
Opposes Lumber Tariff.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Luyerne, Mimi, Aug. 2.-Herbert
j. Miller, who will endeaVor to take
the congressional nomina ton away
from j. T. McCleary this fall, has an
nounced the platform on which he
laratfon Is made in an address given
out for publication today. It is as
follows:
To the Electors of the Second Congress
sional District of Minnesota:
l have filed as republican candidate
for congress in this district and will be
a candidate for this office at the next
primary election.
l deem it proper for one who seeks this
office to state for what he stands what
he faVors and what he opposes concern
ing the chief issue in this contest, SO that
those who vote may do so intelligentIy.
First stand squarey upon the plat
form adopted by the last republican ma
tional convention.
Second-I believe in the Roosevelt
IDEA, Incorporated in the tariff plank Of
our national platform, enunciated by MIN
IN Two messages to congress and reiter-
ated in his speech of April, 1908, in Min
neapolls, that the true measure of so.
lection is determined by 'ample retogni-
tion Of the difference ip the cost of bro.
duct1on, here and abroad Protection
suff1clent to give American industries an
equal show with foreign competitors on
the basis of sufficient profit to safeguard
investment and to give to all the factors
in production such means of living and
such opportunities for Improvement Is are
necessary to the development of people fit
to be American citizens must be main
tanned. Tariff in excess of that is ultra
protection and ultra-pretection is unjust
and unwise
Third hold that, while the princinla
lie
not infallible, and that these rates sho7,Id
pc changed as often as existing conditions
whether growing out of the formation
trusts or otherwise, render the further
continuance of the present duty on anv
aftlcle unnecessary or harmful or ncon
sistent with the true measure of protec-
ton as defined by President Roosevelt in
our platform. When such conditions arise
then such duties are outside the princ
pies on which the republican doctrine of
protection stands. Fidelity to and main
tenance OF existing schedules are not
necessarily part of republican doctrine.
Fourth-I believe that the time referred
TO III our national platform has come when
condltieHs have so changed that the public
interest demands the alteration of certain
rates of duty, not upward but downward
our present congressman has chosen de-
llberately to stand with those who would
make no reduction of tariff duties. and
declaring in
MS last tariff speech that the ..next re-
vision may need to be upward. not down
ward and that revision upward can al
ways be undertaken safely The ssua
mus formed l submit to the republican
voters of this district for their thoughtful
consideration and decision.
Fltth--The present tariff on lumber is
unnecessary and harmful and is incon-
slstent with the fundamental principle of
protection 1t serves only to strengthen q
combination which is today putting bur
den on the home builder, retarding de-
Velopment and Improvement and throwing
mechanics out Of employment, by exact
ing unr1ghteoUs profits on lumber, besides
in!Urmg and endangeriag~ our agricultural
interests by depicting our forests.
Sixth-It follows from these premises
that favor the entire removal of the
tariff on lumber and a reduction of the
duties on commodities such as machin-
cry, implements and other hardware,
which are now sold for export to foreign
markets for. less than they are at home.
Seventh believe in reciprocity as de-
hned and advocated by Blaine and Nc
k1nley. The declara ton of President Nc
klnley that the expansion of our trade
and commerce is the pressing problem
IS still true. Widened markets widen OPP
portun1ty to produce and production is the
only source of wealth.
Eighth-The national democratic plat
form denounces protection as a robbery
CT the many to enrich the few The only
grounds for argument which can be used
IN support of this declaration have been
furnished to the democratic party by those
who have abused the principle of protec
ton and by those who oppose all changes
IN tariff schedules except those of an up-
ward tendency The Edenaand for ultra
protection Is a menace the protective
system and the supremacy Of our party.
Needed revision can be made by a repub
1can congress without disturbance of
present conditions. Democratic revision
would be disastrous
N1nth-The present tariff law has stood
without revision for seven years. There is
no reasonable doubt that President Roese
welt Will recommend tariff revision to the
next congress, and for such safe and con
servative revision as he is known to IA
vor the republican party can honestly
stand. Such revision of tariff rates how
ever, should not be entrusted to those who
are opposed to all changes except by ..re-
vision upward" nor to those who constrne
the tariff plank In our platform as on
posing all reductions,
PleGging my loyalty to these princfnles
and to the protection OF public interests
under all circumstances. respectfully ask
1or your support. Herbert j. Miller.