Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-08

vi REVISION at an extraordinary session
Immediately following Inauguration, no
loyal Republican will take issue. Loyal
Republicans seldom take issue with
their party.
In my state for five years some Of
my political brethren have strenuously
contended for an immediate revision
of the tariff. have thought it unwisa
TO teach the people that they are be-
ing imposed upon by my party. In the
first place, | have not believed that
they are being imposed upon. | have
recognized that there are some ine-
qualities in the present tariff. law. II
could do it in night | would make
number of changes. But while |
have recognized that the Dingley tar
if law, like any other tariff law ever
made, and like every other tariff law
that ever will be made, is imperfect.
have recognized that it's operation
has brought employment to every man
who is willing to work and has secured
to every tOiler unprecedented compen-
sation. Wages will never be too high
to suit me; but when they are higher
than ever before, when there is no man
out of employment who seeks to be
busy, l am disposed to congratulate
rather than to commiserate. Recog-
nizing that the farmer has never sold
his products so high, and also that the
average labOring man has never been
able to buy so many of the necessi-
ties OF life with days work as now,
/ have not from the stump taught the
American people that they were being
imposed upon by the party to which
belong.
Readjustment viii Come.
Neither would l teach discomfort it
l believed it important that the tariff
be Immediately revised. l can ex-
press myself no better than to quote
the substance of speech l made in
my own state four years ago, when
said. II have never urged tariff revis.
ion, and l have never opposed tariff
revision. Why should 1? l am but u
nurse in great sanitarium majority
of the physicians in charge of which
practice the school of medicine of
which l am disciple. When these
doctors meet in council next December
(when congress convenes if you please)
if they invite ME l will tell them the
/ Mt ;oh 7 \
if deem it of sufficient Importance l
will knock at their door, but this thing
l will not do, l will not call the in
mates of this great institution together
and tell them that their health is being
undermined and their lives endanger-
ed by an overdose of the very medicine
which l believe should be administer.
ed l will not encourage insurrection
within an institution in the admins
tration of which have been assigned
an humble position
No political party within the last so
years has ever revised the tariff down.
ward and carried the next election.
The Republican party tried it in 1888,
and Cleveland was elected in 1884.
The Democratic house tried it in 1887,
and the Republican party elected their
president and their congress in 1888.
The Republican party attempted to
lower the tariff on October l, 1890, and
ity was elected 80 days thereafter.
The Democratic party again revised it
in August, 1894, and 20 days thereafter
a congress was elected Republican by
80 majority. l not believe the Repub
lican party will ever again undertake
a revision of the tariff on the eve ot
an election. l do believe, however
it will in the comparatively near flu
ture readjust some of the importan.
: schedules and smooth out some of the
: admitted inequalities. The only safe
) time to attempt process of this kline
( is at an extraordinary session of con
f gress, called Immediately upon the in
' auguration of a new administration
e Business will then have time to ad
/. just itself before the next COMPRESSION
|. al election, and there will be time Il
S justify the wisdom of the act before
v the next presidential election.
t A Note Of Warning.
e l desire to throw out a note of warn
8 ing to my friends in the agriculture
: states. Keep this in mind, that there
It are several times as MANY people de
e handing cheaper food as there are de
i handing reduction of the tariff OF
S any manufactured article. Let no mar
: hug to his soul the delusion that any
e one state can revise the tariff in thj
e interest of that state only. There are
g localities willing to sacrifice every sug
8 gestion of protection which the Ding
y ley law affords Dakota. in the opel
y and avowed hope that by so doin.
r additional markets may be obtained
n for their own products. 1t is forum
n ate, therefore, that no one state cal
n revise the tariff.
: When l was little boy l quarrel
S ed with one of my fellows over the
a relative merits of our respective fam
lilies. Our world was very small then
| will recall my surprise when, few
D years later, my father expressed tn,
I holiof that thoro woro other foupc i,