The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-10-07
SHOULD BE NO TARIFF JOLT
Il the Dingley Law Is Good, Why
Should the Hand Of Re-
vision Touch Itp

| A curiously tuned ''bugle call" fol
tariff revision comes from that staunct
and stalwart organ Of republication
and protection, the Pittsburg Ga
zette. Lest II be imagined that the Ga.
zette has fallen from the faith and
embraced false doctrines, we quote fronl
lis editorial few sentences that have
the ring of truth:
There is no room to doubt that pro-
tectiye 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 OBJ
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 shock to
business there will never come a mo-
ment when business will be in better
condition to bear 1t.
This prosperity, practically contin-
uous, began with the enactment of the
Dingley law. That law was the founda-
ton on which 1t was built"
Why, then, asks the Rochester DEM
ocrat and Chronicle, with 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, "the common people, grown
rotund with fairness, have forgotten the
lean years and are demanding a 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. II is economical.
ly sound. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon is
a protectionist; Serene E. Payne, John
Dalzell Charles H. 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 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 to do it,
All of which. apparently means some
thing like this: That the everlasting
n nf 10 fro sro
protective system is making an impress
lion on 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 tie repub-
lican party should forestall any such
movement by revising the tariff after
It's own fashion and in line with the
popular sentiment may be appeased and
principles of the Dingley law, SO that
by the form of a revision
which shall effect change in schedules
tut not in the spirit and policy when
pervade the present tariff. Then. says
he Gazette, "let 1t alone for the next ten
years.
shrewd plan, honestly stated. but in
It's very nature wholly unsatisfactory 70
he most insistent agitators for revision
namely, those whose leading articles
II faith is that protection is robbery"
Che ten-year feature of the scheme |
'ould not be binding on them. or any
,ody else. If public sentiment should |
demand another revision in FIVE years.
The present t~eiff is not quite eight
ears old. Who can say how long q
ew one would last in view of the ''irre-
ressible conflict between free trade
md protection and of the waves of po-
ltical reaction which occasionally and
sweep over the country?