Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-14
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TUESDAY, AUGUST IA, 1906.
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A good many years ago, during the
agitation for the determination of the
corn laws in England, fisherman
went to prominent advocate of free
trade" and complimented him on the
efforts he was making in behalf OF
cheaper bread and cheaper necessaries
of life generally, but insisted that her.
ring should remain on the protected
list" This is about the position taken
by young MIR. Morse, of Amigo, who is
now seeking the republican nomination
for congress in the Tenth district.
MIR. Morse promises much in the way
of tariff reform, while the bell-wethers
of his party, President Roosevelt
Speaker Cannon and Chairman Sher.
man, issue the ukase to the republican
cohorts to "stand pat and pass the hat. ;"
Mr.. Morse says, in his personal plat.
form, that "the lumber industry is one
of the important interests in this dis.
trict. The labor engaged in it and the
capital invested in it must be protect.
ed" while the Appleton Post and the
Waukesha Freeman, and scores OF
other republican papers, demand a
removal of the two dollars per thousand
feet on lumber. The Waukesha Free.
man says:
eve want revision especially of the
tariff on lumber-that Infant in
dustry' whose protection has become a
screaming farce. We want to be able
to buy board at reasonable price,
even if it comes from Canada. Our
lumbermen are generally multi million
aires, our state has been recklessly
denuded of trees, a kitchen floor has
become a luxury that few men can
afford. The protective tariff brought
about these conditions, of which we
have had plenty. We want a
change"
Mr.. Morse says, in the first line of his
personal platform that protection is a
fundamental principle of our party"
Mr.. Morse is politically and historically
wrong. The fundamental principle of
the republican party was abolition of
slavery. Protection was grated on to
it long after its organization, and pro-
lection then meant a tariff of from ten
to fifteen per cent, wherein have the
Dingley rates run from % to 300 per
cent. Then he says eve owe a large
part of our prosperity to a protective
tariff" The prosperity and develop
ment of this country are due to its won
derful resources and to the energy and
genius of the people and in spite of the
protective tariff.
When he says 1.-The tariff should be
left to a permanent commission COM
posed of experts" this government is
not a government of commissions nor a
government by commissioners. 1t is,
or ought to be, government by the
people. "The intricasies of our tariff
schedules cannot be mastered in two
years." Here Mr.. Morse is very wrong.
1t is, in the first place, dangerous to the
interests of the people that laws so in
tricate and difficult of Interpretation
should be put upon our statute books,
entail duties, all the maximum and
minimum duties and all the graft and
all the robbery and all the Ubiquitous
plundering of the Dingley laws could
be abolished and obliterated in one day,
if congress was to get the proper jolt
from an outraged and tax burdened
people. If they will send to Washing
ton body of congressman who are in
sympathy with the rights of the people
and against the beneticiaries of this in
tolerable and unbearable robbery and
exploitation mis-called protection"
We conclude that while Mr.. Morse may
be very estimable young man, he is
the very opposite of the kind of repre-
sentative needed at this time, more
than ever before, by the laboring man,
the farmer and the store keeper, all of
whom are fleeced, from the rising of
the sun until the going down thereof by
the trusts, which are the children of
protection" The young man, today,
who stands before an intelligent cleo
torate to expatiate and to explain the
beauties of the beast protection is in
deed entitled to the commiseration of
all intelligent minds.
MIR. Madden's platform is a set of
platitudes and glittering generalities
composed principally of those ingred-
tents which enter into the make up OF
Miss Winslow's soothing syrup. They
are lines thrown out for votes. If eth
er of these young men were elected to
congress and they took their platforms
down to Washington and submitted
them to Speaker Cannon he'd say,
"Skiddoo."