Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-16
THE DUAL TARIFF PLAN
Olive Branch the Reformers Offer Stand Patters.
TEE CONCESSION IS WORTHLESS

THE CONCESSION IS WORTHLESS. German and other Prohibitive Du- ties Make u Rad Outlook For Amer lean Producers Until Voters Are Ready to Elect Real Tariff Reform
 CTS High Prices VIII Continue.
 The Republicans who met at Chicago for the purpose of deciding upon a plan to reform the tariff evidently are not yet prepared to seriously break with the stand patters. The decision to demand "a dual, or maximum and minimum, tariff from congress is a useless concession to the protection 1sts if anything is expected to be ac- .ccmplished. It is merely a threat of reprisal against Germany and other countries which have raised their tariff wall against our products and will hardly induce them to lower it. The only way to invite trade Is to wipe out. at least. some of the restrictions that the present tariff law imposes on the countries that would like to sell us their products and buy ours. The Trotectionists' idea of a maximum and minimum tariff is to make the present exorbitant tariff rates the minimum and add 9 or 50 per cent to those rates for the maximum. That Is what Secretary Shaw is reported to advo- cate. and Speaker Cannon, the Home Market club and the Protective Tariff rnrnha laiEf agree with him. But as Secretary Blaine told Mckinley when the tariff bill known by his name was incubat- ing and proposing to increase the rates of duty. Not a dollar of in creased trade will be fostered by it." Neither would there be by this pro posed dual tariff unless rates are re duced.
 Every voter who detests the exelu- sion theory of the protectiOnists which has fostered the trusts and their high prices will of course rejoice that the protective tariff is attacked by friends of protection who have hitherto been silent participators in the wrongs com mitted Governor Cummins and those other representative Republicans, as the great majority of the Chicago con vention were, by their protest will greatly help the cause of tariff reform in drawing the attention of the people to the breakdown of the protection theo- ry. They have recorded the fact that the American farmer and American indus tries can no longer depend exclusively upon the home market; that if our ex ports are not encouraged both our agri- culturists and our workmen will soon be unable to find a market for their surplus products except what England can buy, and as all countries are dumping their surplus products on the English markets the price there is the lowest anywhere
 The Republican majority in congress may stand pat and refuse to revise the tariff because the protected mOnop- olies and trusts so liberally divide with the politicians and party managers a share of the plunder ito keep the boys in line" but when the protection shoe pinches a bit harder and farm products decline in price and wages decline, as they surely will, then the voters will arise to the occasion and there will be another revolt, as there was in 1884 and 1892
 The protectionists would gladly con cede a dual tariff as long as they have the power to make the rates, but they have no intention of surrendering d particle of their private gain by the tax they levy on about all the people consume, There is only one thing that will ever move them and that is the adverse votes of an outraged and plum dered people. And until the reformers are prepared to elect tariff reformers to congress how is 1t possible to expect relief? Governor Cummins himself doubtless voted for John A. T. Hull who represents the Des Moines district and who is an ardent stand batter, and until he is ready to defeat Hr. Hull with some good, honest tariff reformer his work Is useless. You cannot re form the Republican party on the tariff issue as long as it gets part of the graft that the tariff supplies.