The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
RIDICULOUS
REPUBLICAN
NEWSPA PER
Omaha Bee Takes a SWipe at
Tariff Plank of Its Par
tvs Platform.
THINKS IT EXTRACT
FROM BRYAN SPEECH
MUCH AMUSEMENT At FAIR
WEW-MR. BRYAN TAKES AD-
VANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITY.

FalrVieW, Lincoln NED, OcI- d
There was much amusement at Fair
view on the receipt of the Omaha pa
pers today. In yesterdays Omaha Bee,
published by Victor Rosewater, men,
Der Of the Republican executive COM
mittee and head of the Republican pub
licity bureau, there was an editorial
criticising in vigorous lar Euage an eX-
tract from a supposed speech of Mr..
Bryan's In the tariff question. The
words complained of in the editorial
were:
I'm all tariff legislation the true prin-
ciple is best maintained by the impo-
sition of such duties as will equal the
difference between the cost of produc-
ton athome and abroad, together with
reasonable profit to American indus
tries
The Bees EDITORIAL
In regard to this. the Bee said ed
itOrially:
Nothing prettier in the catch-all line
has been offered in this campaign. The
most hidebound stand-patter in the
country can accept that as satisfactory,
and the rank free-trader can find de-
light in it. The declaration means sim
ply nothing An attempt to legislate
along that line would simply open the
way to interminable wranSling as to
what constitutes a reasonable profit
for hair-splitting on wages in one in
dustry, price of raw material in an
other rebates and drawbacks in a third
and so on through the list of thousands
of articles that are now on the tariff
> lists. Under such proposition an at
tempt at tariff revision, at Rryan's di-
rection. would serve only to halt indus
trial and commercial progress and keep
business unsettled during his term of
office"
Part of Republican Platform.
This mornings World Herald shows
that the words complained of arc not
a part of any speech of Mr.. Bryan's,
but a part of the tariff plank Of the
Republican platform, and chat the head
Of the Republican publicity bureau,
and member Of the executive commit
tee of the national committee had,
through the editorial columns of the
paper published by him, severely criti-
cised one of the planks of the platform
on which Mr.. Taft is running.
Mr.. Bryan Surprised.
When Mr.. Bryan's attention was
called to the Omaha World erald's
editorial reproducing the Omaha Bees
attack upon the Republican platform,
he said:
81 am very much surprised that Mr.
Rosewater, who is the editor of the
Bee, and also a member of the execu-
tive committee of the Republican ma
tionaI committee and the head Of the
Republican bureau of publicity, should
have attempted to misrepresent my pO-
sition. 4 good many unfair things have
been said. but nothing more unfair
than that said by Mr.. Rosewater. To
accuse me of using the language of the
Republican platform is an outrage. He
ought to apologize for this injustice,
and explain to his readers that the Ian
guage which he criticises was taken
from the Republican platform, and not
from any speech of mine.
Editorial Was Right.
Mr.. Rosewater is right. however. in
making fun of the language. He Is
right in saying that nothing prettier
in the catch-all line has been offered
in this campaign He is also right in
saying that the most hidebound stand
patter in the country can accept that
as satisfactory and the rank free
trader can find delight in it,
He is right again in saying that the
declaration means simply nothing
And he is right in saying AN attempt
to legislate along that line would sim
ply open the way to interminab BILE
wrangling as to what constitutes "a
reasonable profit for hair-splitting in
wages in one industry, price of raw
materials in another, rebates and
drawbacks in 4 third and so on through
the list of thousands of articles that
are nov on the tariff lists
Confession Unexpected.
But 1 hardly expected from him so
frank a confession as is contained in
the last sentence of his editorial. under
Oft
revision (he says at Bryans direction.
but would it not be true if done at
Taft's directionD would serve 10 halt
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