The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-06

reach the evils OF the trusts. is there
fore, as the president has said, by dir
tect legislation and executive action.
The reimbursement of tariff schedules
Is most difiicult matter. because they
so directly affect the welfare of many
localities. A proposition to change
them when carried to the point of ac-
tually formulating hill always
creates division In the party proposing
1t, as We saw In the passage Of the
Wilson German BILL In that instance,
the democratic party, protesting to be
for tariff for revenue only, adopted
such bill In the house, but encoun-
tered SO much democratic opposition
in the senate that the bill as passed
was hybrid aud only brought dis
aster to the country without even
giving the principle of tariff for y
revenue a trial..
Favor. nevlsfsn.
Speaking my individual opinion and
for no one else, l believe that since
the passage of the Dtngley bill, there
has been a change In the business con-
ditiOns Of the country making It wise
and just to revise the schedules of the
existing tariff. The sentiment In favor
of revision of the tariff Is growing
in the republican party, and in the
near future the members Of the party
will doubtless be able to agree on a
reasonable plan. But the work of the
present session, which was pressing in
dts urgency, could never have been
accomplished IL there had been intro
duced into congress and the councils
of the party the heated discussions
certain to arise over the questions of
the revision of the tariff. How soon
the feeling in favor of revision shall
crystalline into action cannot be fore
told, but 1t Is certain to come, and
with It those schedules of the tariff
which have inequalities and are ex-
cessive will be readjustei. The rea-
sonable prospect of a revision of the
tariff by the republican party on con-
sentative lines should certainly be
greatly preferred by those who favor
revision and yet believe in the pro-
tective system, to legislation which Is
always threatened by the incoming of
democratic congress and demo-
cratic administration under the bat
tie cry "A protective tariff is a rob-
berry of the many for the benefit of the
few, and to the disaster to general
business which inevitably follows.
The Philippine Tariff.
There Is one important measure
considered by the present congress to
which l must refer. 1t passed the
house. and is now pending in the SEN
ate. The bill provides that all goods
coming into the United States from the
Philippine Islands, which are the pro-
duct and manufacture of the Philippine
islands, shall come in free, except
sugar, tobacco and rice, and that these
articles shall pay a duty of Is per
cent. until 1909, when they shall come
in free, and that. thereafter all goods
and products of the United States
shall be introduced free into the Phil
ippine Islands. In other words, this is
bill to give to the people of the
Philippine Islands the benefit of the
markets of the United States, and the
people of the United States the benefit
of the free markets of the Philippines
1T is intended to build up the business
of the Philippine Islands to encourage
production and expectation by Offering
ito the producers of those islands a
market In which the profit of dealing
is likely to develop their resources.
The bill passed the house of repre-
sentatives by vote of $50 to II, and
received the support of large part
of both the republican and the demo-
cratic members. In the committee of
the senate having charge of the bill,