The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-08-24

~ junior United States senator
from Ohio, has jumped to the
center of the stage and right
into the imelight. No doubt the stand
pntters pulled the strings which caused
the general-senator tomake the leap. He
boldly says: Here am with remedy
for the deficit! Restore the internal rev.
enue tax system in vogue during the
Spanish-American war and all will be
wellw So far as / am concerned from
political standpoint, nothing would
please me better than to see a Repub-
lican congress adopt General-Senator
Dicks plan, for If it does adopt it the
next house of representatives ut Wash
ington will surely be Democratic.
Likewise the president and house elect
cd in 1905
The Washington Post, Independent,
but a consistent protection advocate,
has sense enough to scent danger. 1t
doesn't like Dicks plan little bit. In
an editorial entitled "War Taxes In n
Time Of Peace" it says:
Senator Dick OF Ohio has remedy for
the treasury deficit, and a very efrectual
one. He would reimpose the Spanish war
taxes on numerous articles. There is no
difficulty In understanding the senator $
position. 1t is perfectly clear. The pres
ent extortionate tariff rates are to be
maintained. and to preserve them the peo-
pie are to be oppressed with war taxes in
Of ha ha
Senator Dick has been studying English
history and Is fascinated with Went
| worth's policy of Thorough"
Senator Elkins foresaw the dilemma that
his party is confronted with when the
war taxes were repealed, and he pleaded
| with his colleagues to retain some of
| them. Had his advice been taken there
would have been no deficit but war
| taxes would have been heavy load for
| the G.. o. p. to tote and as embarrassing
in a political sense as the deficit is in a
| financial sense.
No doubt every stand patter would be
| glad to settle the question on the Dick
| plan. Would the president stand 1t? We
| know that some thousands of Massachu-
setts business men would raise II row over
| It, We know that Governor Cummins
would become very active. We know that
| Mr.. Tawney would seriously object to it,
! Senator Dick and those who think as he
| does, and that includes all the stand pat
tcrs. will not allow the present tariff to be
| touched. and the war taxes he would re-
| impose are all internal. This blessed tar
| iff that is become so holy enables our
| manufacturers to monopolize the home
| market. which takes at extortiOnate prices
| SO per cent of their goods. The other
| per cent is dumped into neutral markets
| and sold for what the wares will fetch.
And yet the public patience has beer
abused and the public conscience outraged
by tales of what tremendous things oul
| manufacturers were going to do in for
| eign markets. We we're to drive England
| and Germany out OF business. The dooi
| of China was to be held open while oui
manufacturers poured our goods through
| 1t.
How long will It take us to put Eng
land and Germany out of business at thu
| gait we have been going? 1t is all hum
bug. The foreign market gives our manu-
facturers no concern. The home marke
is what they are interested In.
Senator Dick will make some politics II
congress when he fetches his war taxel
on the floor.