Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-28
BURNING QUESTION.


 tauqua meeting in that state, in quot ing and commenting on Secretary Taft's recent speech, is reported as having told also of his requests to Taft that he give the people a bill of particulars as to his views on tariff revision, declaring the Columbus speech not sufficiently luminous on that point He called on the secre- tary to say what, in his opinion, the chief executive should do about the defiant nuliification of the war amend ments to the constitution involved in such statutes as that passed in Geor- gia only few days ago. And would also know what the views of an aspir- ant to the presidency may be ab3at the new rebellion that mas broken notably North Carolina and Alabama in the form of open defiance of the authority of the United States courts.
 'Is this spirit to be checked and | restrained or is it to be allowed to feed upon itself and grow strong to 1 the point of menacing our institu- tions?"
 The latter questions relative to so- called nullification cut no figure in the coming campaign, being legal ques- tions which must be eventually decid- ed by legal tribunals; but the tariff question is wholly one of right or wrong, empirically tested by the peo- pie at large and found wanting.
 Any man seeking the presidency must tell the people where he stands l on this Important issue, and Senator :, Foraker is clearly within his rights to demand such a bill. But the senator knows the secretary Will not, because he cannot, give such a bill of particu- lars, till the "stand-patters' prepare it for him, and when they have fin- ished with 1t, it will De so unlike the impression the secretary would now create on that head that it will be a grieyous burden to him
 Tariff revision as the people want it to be will cut out hundred million surplus in the first place, and in so doing afford something like a 1S per cent horizontal reduction on all inn ports. It will then seek out all high ly protected articles that make it possible to stifle competition and squarely free them.
 This would put steel. iron, coal, lumber, wool, sugar and other trusts to the test of competitive markets, and the people would reap a huge benefit In the lower and reasonable prices, while the trusts formed for their handling could not exist Tariff revision would carefully scan the long list and protect all manufac- ures and all raw material necessary to use in our weaker industries. and with the standing tar1rs on liquors, wines. tobaccos. etc, frame law that would give tariff returns enough to meet the government expenses and no more.
 The existing extreme protection system has resulted in all the nnan- eial ills we have as D people, and its revision would he an instantaneous panacea- The people. regardless of party, demand it, and the administra- ton knows it to be right. but it's mem bers dare not speak out for the reas- on that the machine" in control of Ithe stand pattersv controls them and makes them to be clouds without rain.g the advocates of an impossible faith which is indeed the substance of things hoped for" but never real iued-
 In these preliminary deliverances of possible candidates. inspired by party feeling, the people may find an earn est of what is later to come; and if the leaders of the republican party are now ciamoring Tor enlightenment on the petition of their prospective