The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-08-03
NO NEED OF HASTE
WHAT SECRETARY SHAW SAID
OF TARIFF REVISION.
and Happiness of the People
Require a Change.

The La Crosse Leader says: 1.-THE
Republicans Of the west agree with
Senator Shaw that the tariff should
he revised by it's friends. They are
also in favor of getting busy"
With the report from the bureau of
statistics of the department of COM
merce and labor showing the com.
MERGE of the United States, both as
to exports and imports, exceeding that
of any previous year in the history of
the country; with prosperity at flood
tide; with every industry working full
time or overtime and two jobs or
more for every man wanting a job,
the argument that any industry in
this country is suffering at the hands
of the Dingley tariff is pure rot. IN
der the protective tariff the country
has enjoyed a greater measure of
prosperity than at any previous Pc
Rod in its history; in a word, it owes
all the prosperity 1t ever derived from
the Republican policies. If on the day
of the enactment of the Dingley stat
ute some enthusiastic friend of pro-
lection had predicted on the floor of
congress or elsewhere that in less
tho1 a decade under the operation of
that law the United States would be-
come the greatest export nation in
the world, and that the total volume
of our imports and exports would ex-
coed $4,000, 000, 900 annually he would
have been regarded as a dreamer or
lunatic, and yet for the year ending
the present month the total foreign
commerce of this country will ap-
proximate three billions of dollars in
value, beating all records. The Ding
ley tariff isn't anything to injure the
country in the light of things visible.
The country has never been so rich
and prosperous as it Is to-day.
We have had one experience with
tariff revision. Grover Cleveland was
elected on a free trade or tariff re-
vision platform. The tariff was re-
vised, and it brought on the most dis
astrous financial and industrial de-
preston the world has ever wit.
messed, costing the people of the
United States more than twelve bill
lions of dollars, filling the country
with want and woe, with millions
idle and begging for work or bread,
| Has any one ever witnessed an army
of Industrious, honest and hungry men
marching to Washington to demand
work under a Republican administra.
ton? There are some people in this
country who know when they have
enough, and a whole lot of them don't
want any more experience with Dem
ocratic tariff panics.
There is no occasion, with the bust
ness and industries of the United
States at the high tide of activity and
prosperity, for tariff tinkering. II
would disturb existing conditions in,
evitably. The millions Of people who
are now contented and happy because
they are receiving liberal wages and
steady employment would not relish
a return to idleness and poverty.
The American people are better
clothed, better housed, have more OF
the comforts and Injuries of life
now than they ever before enjoyed.
They believe in letting well enough
alone.
1t will be time to revise the tariff
when conditions demand 1t and when
the comfort and happiness Of the PEG,
Pile are dependent upon 1t. And Sec
rotary Shaw. for his part, says the
time will not come until after the
next presidential election. That Is
all. He does not declare that it will
be necessary to revise the tariff then,
for he is not a prophet. and cannot
know what conditions will be at that
time. What Secretary Shaw does
BAY is that when the time to
revise the tariff all good Republicans
will be found In favor Of revision,
and the work will be done just as
faithfully and intelligently as the
party discharged its obligation to the
country In framing the Dingiey law