Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-10-31

If there is one principle of the Re-
publican Party that is regarded as su-
premely vital by the overwhelming
majority of the people of Pennsylva-
MIA, it is the protective tariff. The
"Iowa idea" of tariff readjustment
cannot obtain foothold in this State,
save among few visionaries and mis-:
guided theorists who have no adequate
conception of the blessings conferred
upon the industries of the Common
wealth, and through them upon the
people, by the policy of protection to
labor.
Chairman w. R. Andrews, of the Re
publican State Committee, has, in no
uncertain tones, sounded the call to
duty for all the Republicans of the
Commonwealth. That duty is to rally
in their might at the polls on election
day-November Sand demonstrate
beyond all cavil, that the grand old
Keystone State is still loyal and un-
swerving in her tariff allegiance The
industrial interests of Pennsylvania
cannot contemplate with severity any
movement which has tariff changing
as its object, and the voters should ful-
lv realize that they must rally to the
support Of these interests and throw
the influence Of the State in the scale
against revenue revision.
The would be tariff tinkerers are en-
deavoring to promulgate their theory
throughout the Union, to the end that
they may control sufficient number
of delegates in the Republican Nation
al Convention next year, to have a
plank incorporated in the platform of
that body, pledging the party to reyis-
ion of the tariff Here in Pennsylvania
this should be stubbornly resisted.
The people of this State want no tariff
revision. The manufacturers, the.coal
and oil operators, and the textile
workers and the miners,I are united
against any changes in the tariff sche-
dulles, and this sentiment IS shared by
all classes of business and lprofessiona
men and capitalists as we'll .as by all
sorts and conditions of working men
and working women.
1t requires no marvellous intellectual
capacity, neither is the fgift of pro-
phecy necessary for Pennsylvan-
ian to foresee what would occur if the
whole subject of the tariff should be
thrown open for public discussion and
the various schedules subjected to the
reckless criticism of those whol call
themselves revisionists. Business de-
moralization would be the inevitable
result; trade stagnation couldsn be
avoided during the time consumed in
the discussion and Encouragement of
the schedules and the confusion that
would ensue would have a disastrous
and far-reachingl effect, which could
not fail to be felt long after settle
ment would have been reached by
Congress.
In Pennsylvania the unmistakable
sentiment is in favor of letting the tar.
iff alone. The people of this State are
''stand patters'' of the most strenuous
type and Chairman Andrews speaks
for them eloquently and well in enun-
ciating that wholesome and beneficial
policy. When the sixty-eight delegates
of Pennsylvania shall confront the
tariff tinkerers in the Republican Ma
tional Convention next year, they
should be in a position to vigorously
declare that the Keystone State has
spoken in absolute condemnation of
the revision idea. And the emphasis
of thir declaration, with the full au-
thority to pronounce it. should be
plainly manifest in a rousing majority
for the Republican candidate for State
Treasurer on Nov 5.
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