The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-10-03
UP FOR
TARIFF PRINCIPLE
Secretary Shaw Expresses His
Opinion on the Subject
1T MAY BE FAULTY
IN SPOTS, HE SAYS BUT THE
PRINCIPLE is PERFECT AND
WILL NEVER BE AMENDED
BY REPUBLICANS

Richmond, Va, Oct Secretary
Shaw in speech at the Republican
mass meeting here tonight discussed
the tariff issues, and declared that all
the party claims for any tariff law
is that IT'S principle Is perfect, that
II will be amended In due time, but
that the principle will never be amend
ed under a Republican administration
Secretary Shaw arrived here early
this afternoon AT tonight's meeting
| Representative Yost made strong
appeal for purity Of elections and for
choice of Judge Lewis for governor
Secretary Shaw said in part
You must bear In mind there was
never a tariff law enacted that was
perfect or that anyone claimed was
perfect. No two congresses would
ever enact the same bill Every tar.
If law is an aggregation of compromis.
es. All the republican parry ever
claims for any tariff law S that the
principle is perfect The rate will be
| too high here and too low there. but
protection will be found In It's every
feature. The opposition party never
claim that their tariff measures are
| perfect. They only claim that the
principle CT free trade, on which they
profess to construct their tariff laws.
! Is the correct principle. They claim
to eliminate every element of protec.
| don from all their tariff laws. Eng
land provides tariif for the sole pur-
pose OF revenue. and the democratic
narty profess to do the same. They
have openly and repeatedly denounced
protection as robbery they strike at
thc principle.
\ While the Republican party never
glaimed for any tariff law thar IL was
perfect and never promise ID enact.
Il A perfect tarIff law. 1t does claim that
all Its tariff laws are builded on the
principle oil protection. II has never
sacrificed one industry for the sake
of building up another, and never will.
i NeHhes will it pfeind &C one To-
cal ty In the interest Of another. II
|
lt will protect the south as we'll as
the north, the east as well as the west
md the west as we'll as the east
! Secretary Shaw declared that the
republican tariff laws are SO coEstruc.
ted as 10 protect every man ana eyers
industry Further on he said
THE wool schedule of the DingIey
law may not be perfect 4 may be
too high or it may be too low. or the
different ais may have been incorrect
ly worked out II Is constructed on
the protection however, and under il
Virg MIA farmers sell their wool and
their sheep at far better prices than
during Mr.. Clevelands last admins
tration, when the duty was placed sc
low on both wool and sheep that this
Industry was ruined"
The secretary gave some figures
bearing on the wool schedule and con
tiuued:
Thus the schedule is arranged tc
give protection to the wool growers
and to every wool operator, skilled AM
unskilled Woolen cloth, for instance
worth over seventy Genus per pound
pays a specific duty OF forty-four cents
per pound and 55 per cent ad valoren
The duty ON velvet carpets is s'xt,
cents per square yard and forty pei
4 cent ad yalorcm ! repeat that Il |:
not an easy task TO construct a tra
III law and work out these differen
tlals. All that the republican parts
claims is that It constructs its tariff
laws on principle What would vol
! think of wool manufactures wht
7 would ella mt be a free trader AS sp
piled to wool, and protccJionist a;
r applied to wooden manufacturers.
2 II maize an informal talk the other
4 day before the Beard OF Trade 81
$ Jacksonville. Fla OF course | mad5
!, no reference to the tariff or any Other
i political subject Following me. an
. ex-governor of the state was calIet
upon, and before he closed ne ex
;. pressed the opinion that great ant
I wonderful prosperity would come tC
! this country ii We could once get rio
4 Of he Ubiquitous tariff as he callet
& It, When he sat down | arose ant
I, sail that while did not wish 10 dis
Q cuss political questions al non.pat
/ tisan meeting, nevertheless lf tht
/ Board Of Trade Of Jacksonville wouh
( ask il and the people of Californit
would join In the request. would dt
NY best to get the ubiquitous tariff
removed from citrous fruits Demo
rats as well as republicans cheered t
= he echo. They then called upon Z
nan. said to be the leading lawyer d
he state, democrat, who declar@
hat practically all the men prescn
were protectionists 70 this theirs
was no voice Of dissent He said they
we're prutectionists and sound none,
men, but that they all voted the demo
cratic ticket He then told hts asso
ciates that II they demanded protcc
Continued on Third rage.)