The Arizona sentinel., 1907-09-11
REVISION OF THE TARIFF.

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 Should the tariff be revised, Ind if so, when? Probably there no question so hOtly debated
 or on which there is d greater
 Inference in the republican par y than this, and it is, moreover,
 h the opinion of some of the
 blest of the party leaders, the
 he proposition of which the op- position may be able to make
 ome party capital.
 That the tariff schedules should bot be touched by the approach ng congress. is very generally Eonceded, and the reasons ad
 Tanced for the postponement Of
 he important work are all suffi- tient. Were the coming con- EresS to make any changes from
 he Dingley schedules it's action would be distorted and misrepre- bented by the democratic press hnd by democratic stump speak ers, and before the people would #haye time to learn the falsity or Efallacy of such charges and argu- | ments they would be called upon to express at the polls their views in a national election. eMen who had been told that their Business would be seriously in |iured, if not ruined, would fear the worst, and probably vote |against the men whom they held irresponsible, only to learn too hate that they had been misled and deceived.
 The policy advocated by the president, by Secretary Taft and other leaders of the party, how ever, contemplates a special ses- sion of congress, called immedi ately after the new president shall have been inaugurated, and called solely for the purpose of examining the tariff schedules and altering such as may, by changed conditions, have become disproportionate. Practically four years will then elapse be- fore another national election, two years: before another con- gressiona4 election, and by that time people-will have learned for themselves the truth concerning 0 republican revision or read iustment.
 That the tariff requires some neadjustment Is asserted by the ablest students, of the subject, with the single exception of the representatives of those indus tries now enjoying unfair profits as a result of the existing sched ules. For instance the manufac- tnrers of almost every type of machinery insist that they can not benefit from the improved methods of manufacturing steel, and thus purchase their raw ma terial as reasonably as they should, until the tariff on steel is reduced. The only opponent of such reduction appears to be the steel trust. Other manufac- turers maintain that their busi- ness will be increased when some of the materials they are com pelled to buy are reduced by a decrease In the existing sched- ales. It is urged that it requires experts to determine what reduc- tions- may properly be made, but a republican congress can always consult such experts. It made the Dingley Law and proved it was able to frame tariff law that was both wise and just, and to assert that republican con gress cannot alter to meet changed conditions the tariff law which it has made, is practically to assert that the creature is greater than the creator. The advocates of no change appear to forget tbat those who urge re- vision are Aot advocating revis- ion by the democrats, who are always hostile to the protective system, but readjustmen$ by men who believe heartily in the pol icy Of protection and who would uo more sacrifice American in- duStries today, or two years from now, than they did when 4bov ro,,loro1 tho r;d;c,,lOnc