The sun., 1905-09-12
THE REPUBLICAN, DEMAND FOR
TARIFF. REVISION NOV.
Remarkable Utteranoe by staiwart Fro
tectionist Newspaper Of Fittsburs.

Remark able Utteranoe by . stalwart Fro
tectionist Newspaper Of Pittsburs.
From hs1pilssburo Gazette Of Septemtsrs'
In this broad country. with its Astounding
prosperity, there are unrnistsksble signs
OF unrest. The common people. grown
rotund with fatness, have forgotten the
lean yean and are demanding change IN
the tariff laws. There Ia no better time than
the present to undertake revision. Ihis
Forty ninth Congress Of the United stte'
IL peculiarly fitted for the task and ought
to perform the duty. Revise the tarih now
and then let II alone for the next ten years
In advocating present revision OF the
tariff schedules the Gasstte does not believe
the existing tariff to be injurious to many
interssts--it knows Of none that Is harmeu'
The 0azetts abates none Of its faith In the
protective principle. II stands, ~ It mas
always stood. for protection TO APerican
labor and American capital. There ~ no
room to doubt that q protective tarM ID
the basis OF national prosperity. Tho stu
don't Of history cannot avoid that oonclu-
sion II he follows tho lines with an open
mind. Revision OF the tariff at this time
must be ON sound protective linss and no
other.
The Fifty-nint Congress is a Repub-
iican Congress. It 10 economically sound.
Speaker Joseph @. Cannon Is q protection
ist; Serene Z. Payne, John Dalzell, Charles
H. Grosvenor. ranking members OF the
Committee on Ways and Means; these are
among the most ardent proteotionists In
this country. With these men TO lead and
a solid phalanx OF Republicans behind them,
when the tariff Is taken up for revision 1t
will be in tho hands Of It's friends. 1t will
be revised right. No industry, no material
interest will suffer. There ought not to be
any fear about revising the tariff while these
men, good and true, are there to do IT,
There ought not to be any delay to less
opportune time.
There are many schedules that may be
reduced without exposing American in
dustries to foreign competition Some OF
them might be cut in half. There are
few schedules that should be raised to give
better protection Never has there been
more favorable time to do this. Teeming
prosperity greets the observer on every
hand. Mills and factories are overwhelmed
with orders, labor is fully employed, the
feound earth is yielding crops almost with
out parallel in agricultural annals. II
tariff adjustment is . shock to business,
there will never come a moment when
business will be in better condition to bear
it. This prosperity, practically continu-
GUS, began with the enactment OF the Ding
ley law. That law was the foundation on
which it was built. The Fifty-ninth Con-
gress can be trusted to frame q new act
without abandonment Of the Dingley prin-
ciple; in the sixtieth Congress it may not
be 80.
Stand pat Grand advice from sturdy
statesman who has passed to the other
life. Stand pat always when there is no
reasonable chance to draw anything bet
ter. When the Hon. M. A. Hanna gave
to q poker term q national significance,
his party stood pat on hand that could
not have been improved. That hand has
been played for Ave Years Of unexampled
prosperity and there Is clamoring Tor a
new deal.
In decldAthe bitter lessons Of 1sos-oi-
o5-oo have been forgotten. The full stomach
feels no pang Of the past hunger. Safety
Is longing for a change. Shall 1t be a
new diet. or no food7 By all means a
new diet. Something nourishing and some
beans. II the Fifty-ninth Congress does
it's duty and readjusts the tariff on pro-
tective basis, with due regard to the pro-
lection OF all classes, the Republican party
can stand pat for another ten years.
Prosperity will abide in the land. II the
Fifty-ninth Congress does not do this, no
man may say who will be called to do it.
1t is foolish to pretend not to'hear the call
It has been given voice 70 often from the
West to New England senseless though
1t he, it is earnest There must he tariff
revision and It should be right revision, on
protection lines, made by the able Ways
and Means Committee Of the present and
indorsed by tho Congress that is soundly
Republican.
Was John Howard an Inndel9
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