Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-27

been Il chenge in the business conditions
of the country making IL wise and Just
TO revise the schedules OF the existing
tariff. The sentiment In favor of a re-
vision of the tariff is growing in the re-
he o members = Of the party will doubtless
be able to agree on reasonable plan.
But the work of the present session,
which was pressing In It's urgency, could
never have been accomplished II there
had been introduced into congress and
the councils of the party the heated dis
cussions certain to arise over the qucs-
tions OF the revision of the tariff"
An Ohio View.
A little later, Ex-Governor Myron Her
rick. who after McKinleys death was
closer to Mark Hanna than any other
man, in speaking to the republican state
convention Of Ohio. said:
Tariff reform should not be involved
In the heated emotions of "A political cam
paign Economic necessity rather than
sentiment or political consideration,
should govern. The merchant. the manu-
facturer, the workman the great public
sell are entitled to a more rational and
intelligent method OF dealing with this
question 1t is a business question, and
should be considered from that stand
point Politics, however have entered
into it-rather began with it--and that Is
a phase with which We must deal until
congress shall create a disinterested tariff
commission, capable and empowered to
dispose of schedules without agitating
the country and filling the minds of the
people with apprehension
IF II be for the benefit or the people
to change some Of the schedules. as II
undoubtedly is where they are too high
or where they are too low, then the
changes should be made.
IF, perchance, some of our tariffs are
no longer needed IL. perchance, they
cannot be employed to extend or pro-
mote our markets abroad, then should we
retain them
that we have not the ability or courage
to correct abuses or injustices because
Of our fear OF being ioggled?
'"rhe responsibility Is ours to assume.
Let us meet II squarcly and honestly
as we have always met such questions
In the past and promptly mako such
changes as are essential. III "a surgical
operation is necessary. then let us apply
the knife while the patient lis still In
robust health. Then we may enter the
contest of 1908 fearlessly with a tariff
law which every republican can conscien-
tiously defend, one that every democrat
IN active business. and who knows the
dlherence between substance and
shadow, dare not vote against.
THE faith of the people In the bust
ness ability OF q republican administrs-
ton to deal with this question is such
that confidence would at once take the
place Of growing apprehension that the
enemies of the protective tariff may
again lay hands on our industrial sys-
tenn"
I mention these things. not for the
purpose of arguing here for a change In
the tariff schedules, because | do not
believe that question TO be pertinent In
contest between republicans and demo-
Gratis j have mentioned them only TO
show that one may believe I'm and stand
for notifications OF the schedules, and
still be n good republican.
The Governors Position.
Let the people of the state remember
that my contention has always been
that the revision of the schedules must
be I'm harmony with and based upon the
protective policy; that the duties that
are too high should be lowered but not
so as to impair their efficiency as pro-
high enough to give the domestic pro-
Queer his home market, with a reason
able profit, but they should never be
high enough to enable the domestic pro-
Queer to exact an unfair profit from the
domestic consumer. The modification
have worked for and shall continue TO
work for is therefore a republican modi-
my way OF thinking, that certain Excess
sive duties have compelled American
buyers To pay unjust prices they have
not wrought a 1.-THE OF the injury that
would be inflicted by a revision or re-
ductlon at the hands OF the democratic
party upon platform OF tariff for rev
enue only.
II matters not whether the change
from duties for protection to duties for
revenue alone is made gradually or abb
ruptly. the result would be overwhelm-
ingly disastrous j can imagine no de-
struction so complete and fatal 70 our
business and commerce as would follow
the mere announcement that the country
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