Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-04
HIS VIEW UNCHANGED
Dalzell as Firm a STAND
patter" as Ever.
WOULD IGNORE TARIFF
BELIEVES THE PEOPLE ARE OP-
POSED TO REVISION.
Claims That the Country Voted
Against Change in Policy-Wants
Present Conditions to Remain.

"Whoever heard of a man drawing when
| he has full hand?' asked Representative
| Dalzell of Pennsylvania, who is in the city,
| and who is as fully convinced as ever that
| the country does not want any change of
| the tariff in the coming winter, and will not
| have It.
II have been criticised said Mr.. Dali
| zell, when seen by Star reporter, 'for my
| assertion that 1 had been unable to find in
| this country any important sentiment in
| favor of tariff revision. But / really have
rot been able to discover such a senti-
ment. OF course, here and there are peo-
pie who want it, but the aggregate of such
sentiment cannot be deemed of any impor-
tance What did the people vote for in the
last election? They didn't vote for Roose-
welt nor for any particular policy, except
so far as they voted for policies involved
in their wish to let the country go on as it
was going. That was the issue-let things
alone. The country was overwhelmingly in
favor of letting alone the tariff and every
other policy on which the government was
being conducted. Then they had an op-
portunity to vote their sentiment and to
permit an accurate record of their senti-
ment to be made. Against that we should
not attempt to place the indefinite ideas
of what the people want, as voiced by men
whose wish is father to the thought, that
the tariff should be revised.
The Question Of Deficit.
'The deficit, 1 understand. is showing
tendency to disappear but it is strange
that any one should have suggested that
the deficit in the revenues of the govern
ment in any way warrants lowering the
tariff If there is a deficit there cannot
possibly be secured an increase in the
revenue by lowering the tariff except that
increase is based on the displacement of
American goods by the goods from foreign
countries. Of course protectionists will not
undertake to do that, and I take 1t pro-
tectionists are L. control of legislation, even
some of those who declare that they want
the tariff lowered claiming that they are
protectionists.
But the whole situation in respect to the
tariff is embraced in the idea that the
country wants to let conditions remain as
they are Whoever heard of man draw
ing when he has a full hand? No, 1 have
no idea that this country is going to go
over to any project for revising the tariff
and as I have said, do not believe there
is any considerable sentiment of that kind
abroad"
Tariff on Philippine Products.
But Mr.. Dalzell is in favor of eventually
having the tariff between this country and
the Philippines taken off. He said that as
this country in its treaty with Spain agreed
that Spain for ten years should have the
same trade advantages in the Philippines as
the United States 1t would not be desirable
to take the tariff off goods passing between
the Philippines and the United States and
in that way giving Spain free trade with
those islands. But in time he believes 1t
will be seen to be wise to take off the
tariff.
He does not believe tariff revision will
play much part in any of the state elections
in the next month, although he expects Mr..
John Sharpe Williams and other demo-
cratic leaders to talk about it to some ex-
tent in an attemnt to get votes