The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-01
REVISION Of
THE TARIFF.
ChanIer Points Out The
Crooked Paths Policy
of Past Has Led To.
WANTS CONFERENCE CALLED
Would Have NOn.Partisan Commits.
sion Show Congress Way TO
Correct Evils Now Extant.

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 31.-Louis
Stuyvesant Chanler, lieutenant gov
ernor of New York, spoke at the state
fair here today before large crowd.
He dwelt almost entirely on the tariff
and the general subject I, prosperity.
Mr. Chanler said in part: Il have
not come to cry calamity, chaos and
corruption Our country was never
greater than today, our past history
never more appreciated, our present
power never better understood and
our future prosperity never more GER
tain. The evils that alarm us are
the evils that belong to and are a
part of great and sudden develop
ment.
I'VE started with a clean bill o.
health, Equal rights and no privi-
leges.' AS we grew from seaboard
colonies into a nation, we needed
revenue For revenue we adopted
a tariff At first, the tariff acred as
a tonic; but, like all tOnics. larger
and larger doses became imperative.
| believe that our present protective
system is a disease from which has
sprung every really great evl, that
threatens our national life. A tariff.
a bounty or a rebate is special
privilege and is opposed to equal
tights.
1--WE began with the tariff. We
found that railroads were necess ary
and we gave to them bounties in the
form of eminent domain. There is,
however, a wide difference between 2
temporary expedient and pcrma-
nent habit. Our manufacturers and
our railroad directors soon learned
that by going into politics they could
increase and perpetuate their power;
they saw that by small, indirect and
almost invisible taxation of the peo-
pie they could supply a political fund
to insure the success of the party that
would perpetuate their power and
increase their wealth.
"But, inasmuch as railroads and
other corporations have become rec
ognized part of our national and com
mercial life, in which, under the gov
ernment's protection and guarantee,
the masses have invested their hard
earned savings, their property inter
ests must be safeguarded. If corpo-
ration officials have defied and violat-
ed the law, let them be punished by
personal Imprisonment, without re-
gard to their positions either social
or financial Away with class eX-
emption in felony.
Conceded that the evil threaten
ing protective tariff is special priv
ilege, let us seek the remedy in a
common sense and intelligent treat
ment of the tariff evil. Take the tar
iff out of politics, Divorce it from
every suggestion of political manipu-
lation. Make the raising of revenue
a national, not a partisan, responsi.
bility. The army and navy are not
fettered by politics, or made use OF
for private gain. The tariff should
stand upon the same high plane, moi
to be made use of as a private privi-
lege, but regulated and respected as
a national necessity, reduced to the
lowest terms commensurate with oul
commercial growth and national i'm
portance.
"Let us insist upon rigid and intel
ligent investigation. Let commits.
sion be appointed of senators and
representatives of both parties. Ado
the most learned eXponents of politi
cal economy. Add men who repre-
sent the importer and exporter; man
ufacturer and consumer; call in au
thorized representatives of organized
labor and of the Farmers grange
and. after all sides have been heard
such tariff conference will have en-
lightened the people of this country
as to the best remedies. Then con
gress can act.