Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1905-10-11
SHOULD BE NO TARIFF JOLT
r the Dingley Law Is Good, Why
Should the Hand Of Re-
vision Touch TIP

- Su iousiS tuneu Dugle call Tor
tariff revision comes from that staunch
and stalwart organ of republicanism
and protection, the Pittsburg Ga
zette. Lest IL be imagined tsat the Ga
zette has fallen from the faith and
embraced false doctrines, We quote from
its editorial a few sentences tina. have
The ring of truth:
There Is no room to doubt that pro-
tectise tariff is the basis of national
prosperity. The student of history can
not avoid that conclusion If he follows
the lines with an open mind.
"Teeming prosperity greets the oh.
server on every hand. Mills and fac
tories are overwhelmed with orders, la
Dor is fully employed, the fecund earth
is yielding crops almost without parai-
lei in agricultural annals.
IF tariff adjustment Is a shock to
business there will never come a mo-
ment when business will be in better
condition to bear il.
This prosperity. practically contin.
uous, began with the enactment of the
Dirgley law. That law was the founda-
ton on which it was built"
Why, then, asks the Rochester Dem.
ocrat and Chronicle, with a tariff under
which Astounding prosperity has been
obtained and retained should the hand
of revision be laid upon an Instrument
so powerful in its promotion of the COM
mercial and industrial activities of the
country? Because, in the words of the
Gazette. 1.-The common people. grown
rotund with fairness, have forgotten the
lean years and are demanding change
in the tariff laws" Because IF the Fiji
ty-ninth congress does not do this, no
man may say who will be called to do it,"
Because the Fifty-ninth congress is a
republican congress. 1t is economical
ly sound. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon is
protectionist; Serene Il. Payne, John
Dalzell, Charles II. Grosvenor, ranking
members OF the committee on ways and
means: these are among the most ardent
protectionists in this country. With
these men to lead and a solid phalanx
OF republicans behind them. when the
tariff is taken up for revision Il will
be in the hands of its friends. 1t will
be revised right. No industry, no ma
terial interest will suffer There ought
not to be any fear about revising the
tariff while these men, good and true.
are there 10 do it,
All OF which. apparently. means some
thing like this: That the everlasting
clamor OF the free traders against the
protective system is making an impress
sion on q large mass of people who do
not know when they are well off. who
are liable to be led astray and who
may suddenly vote into power the anti
protection party. Therefore the repub-
iican party should forestall any such
movement by revising the tariff after
is own fashion and in line with the
popular sentiment may be appeased and
principles OF the Dingley law, so that
tranquilized by the form of a revision
which shall effect change in schedules
but not in the spirit and policy which
pervade the present tariff. Then. says
the Gazette. "let 1t alone for the next ten
years"
shrewd plan. honestly stated. but in
It's very nature wholly unsatisfactory TO
the most insistent agitators for revision
namely. those whose leading articles
OF faith is that protection is robbery"
The ten-year feature OF the scheme
could not be binding on them. or any
body else. If public sentiment should
demand another revision in five years.
The present tfIiff is rot quite eight
years old. Who can say how long a
new one would last In view OF the 'irre-
pressible conflict between free trade
and protection and Of the waves OF po-
litical reaction which occasionally and
spontaneously sweep over the country7