Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-20
TAFT MAKES POLITICAL Confession
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ed in our business methods with res
spect to the evils which / have de-
scribed. Il. 25
Absudity of National Referendum.
The representative government
that has served us well for 130 years
has not, been for Mr.. Bryan suffi-
GENTLY expressive of the will of the
people. Election of senators by the
people is not enough for him. We
must call upon fourteen million cleo
tors to legislate directly. Could any
more burdensome or inefficient meth
cd be devised than this believe.
that referendum under certain con,
ditions and limitations in the subdi-
visions of a state on certain issues
may be healthful and useful, but as
applied to our national government
it is entirely impracticable. IT it is
difficult for the people to use proper
judgment in the concrete question
of the personality of the representa-
tives they are to select to carry on
their national government, as Mr..
Bryan's theory assumes, how much
more difficult for them to give suf-,
. fieient attention to the settlement of
the many questions of policy and
n q cfof yyf na
which the people have always been
willing to leave to the decision of
their representatives, skilled in the
science of legislation, whose general
views on the main political issues
of the day are well understood.
Think of the possibility of securing
a vote of fourteen millions of cleo
tors on the 1000 items of a tariff
bill, The opportunity to retire a
representative who fails to be truly
representative is all that the people
wish and need to enforce their will.
THE TARIFF. .&ta-. '~..... -
The Protective Tariff-lts Revision
It's Relation to Trusts.
come mom to the question of the
tariff, its revision and its relation to
the unlawful TRUSTS. The Dingley
tariff was adopted Immediately after
the election Of MIR. Mckinley. Since
that time we have passed through
the Spanish war and have had a de-
cade of prosperity and an increase
an expansion of trade unexampled in
the history of this or any other coun-
try. The republican principle of the
protective tariff is, as understand
it, that through the customs revenue
law tariff should be collected on
all imported products THAT compete
with American products, which will
at least equal a difference In the cost
of production in this country and
abroad, and that proper allowance
should be made in this difference
for the reasonable profits to the
American manufacturer. The Gle
of protectionists, and it. has been
abundantly justified in the past, is
that protection secures high rate
of wages and that the encouragement
it gives to the home industry op-
Grating under the influence of an en-
ergetic competition between Ameri-
can manufacturers, induces such i'm
provement in the methods of manu-:
facture and such economies as to re-
duce greatly the price for the bene.
| fit of the American public and makes
/ it possible to reduce the tariff with.
out depriving the manufacturer OF
needed protection and a good profit.
Business System Rests on Protective
Tariff-Free Trade Revision
Disastrous.
/ The present business system of the
] country rests ON the protective tariff
and any attempt to change it to a
/ free trade basis will certainly lead
only to disaster.
Duty of Republican Party to Prevent
4. Excessive Tariff Rates. n. Il. Il
4 1t is the duty of the republican
i party, however; to see to it that the
| tariff on imported articles does moi
/ exceed substantially the reasonably
| permanent differential between the
cost of production in the foreign
|; countries and that in the United
States, and therefore when changes
take place in the conditions of pro
duction likely to produce a yer.
large reduction in the cost of pro
: duction in the United States, it il
. time that schedules be re-examinet
, and If excessive that they be reduc
i ed SO as to bring them within til,
justification for the rule, by which
the amount Of tariff TO be impos
!, ed under the protective system i
properly determined.
Temptations to Monopoly in Rates Es
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