Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-15

enacted when the first struggles for a business standing were being made; when the great accUmulations Of cap ital, now so common. were unknown. The great industries of other coun- tries were then in a position to over run and capture our home markets with manufactures, taking our raw materials in exchange. We needed to. nurse our own industries in order to use up our own raw material, and the. Dingley tarif and similar laws gave the opportunity and needed impetus.
 The time for seeking help for infant industries and for pleading lack of capital is past, says the Los Angeles Herald. Conditions are so much changed that many industries would be benefited if protection were en- tirely withdrawn from them. The in- tervening years since the enforcement of protective law began have wit messed the growth of great financial structure, its notifications touching the money centers of the world. The act of relief from pressing tarif bur. dens, so far as method is concerned, must be hedged about with greatest care or the work which is sought to be made constructive and helpful may easily be made destructive and harm ful.
 The chief point of needed attack is where the laws have permitted the growth of trade excrescences and the piling up by them of fabulous sums of meney. as, for instance the steel, lumber and oil trusts.
 Thinking men. without regard to party lines, see the threstening evil inherent in huge treasury surpluses. and know they are possible only as direct result of uneven and unjust taxation. whergShe proper applica- ton of sensible tarif law would strike would be just where conditions make 1t possible to roll up such sur plus.
 Leaving out the ethical views forced on the nation by the existence of hundred-million surplus 1t must appear to the business element of the peo- pie that something must be radically wrong where 1t exists. The favored few who benefit because of 1t are known to meet foreign manufactures in foreign markets and underseH them in goods made here and protected by the laws which made the surplus pos sibIe. It Is true that we need iarin revision regardless .of 4he fact that existing law makes a surplus possi- ble. but the fact of the surplus is an unanswerabIe argument against the in equalities of existing tariff laws.
 The one great error in prevailing conditions in the aFin controversy is the battle against the trusts. when the real fight should be directed against the jaws which make them possible. The sentiment for tariff revision is growing, and earnest men are groplng through the maze of an alleged prosperity so find some cer- tain fcothold. and Will soon reach the point where, regardless of party lines OF party whips. fhey viii see the cry iag need of immediate and drastic change, and once to see it is to bring il to be. Ii is no longer strict par ty question. and when the coming congress shall have played with the question and deferred action on It tn after the next presidential cleo lion las 1t Is almost certain to do. at tbe behest of the ~standpat" forces), fl wsIi be strictly up to" the people to take the matter home to them selves and rally round the democratic standard, under which they can find men and measures adapted to the task of fully and finally settling this vexed ana important problem. &