The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
SENATOR BEVERIDGE.
Made Great Speech at Valley City,
North Dakota


he great political meeting held thi.
evening. He pleaded with his audi
ence to make the party their ser
want instead of becoming the servant
of the party. Bryan was scored d;
being an unsafe man to be placed
at the helm of the ship of state
while Taft was lauded as a safe per.
son upon whom could be placed trust
TO pilot the ship through dangerous
waters. Upon the tariff the senator
said:
America, the most modern of ma.
lions, should stand for the most mon,
ern methods and the most moders
men. With a great revenue to be
raised because we are great nation
VITA the greatest domestic trade TO-
IaN and the greatest foreign trade
tomorrow; with factories and farms
ready to capture the markets of the
world, we can not tolerate ancient
tariff systems which all progressive
people have abandoned.
The free-trader is obsolete, the
stand-patter out of date Both cling
to wornout theories; both declare
that the world does not move Hos
pitality to ideas is the method Of pro-
Sress; and neither stand-patters nor
tree-traiers invite to their intellect,
nal iiresides single modern though,
upon the tariff or listen to the voice
of single present-day fact.
Yet ii we are not to yield the
oceans Of trade to rival nations; il
We are to win and increase that pros.
perity which the sale OF our surplus
abroad alone can bring, we mus
adopt the best tariff methods which
the experience of the world affords
The old time tariff teachings on botl
sides, compared with up-to-date
theory and practice, are as the oil.
time handsickle compared with the
sell-binding harvester of today.
In the new tariff which we viii
make Immediately after Presiden
Taft's Inauguration we republican!
propose to reject alike the long since
gray and toothless theory of tar
iff-for-revenue-only and the now hal
and crippled theory of a single pro
tective tariff, and adopt instead O
either a revenue system that vii
protect American industry and la
Dor, and at the same time win new
markets all over the world for every
thing that American industry am
la Dor produce.
1t is true that republican Bourbon
fought against any improvement .
the protective tariff methods of TWEEN
ty years ago; just as Democrat
bourbons fought and still fight to
the revenue tariff methous of sew
enty years ago. The stralght-out pro
tective theorists OF our own part.
said, Let us stay where we a.
now" the straight-out reve:lu
theorists of the opposition sall
Let us go back two generations ant
stay where we were then But gu
~ in the republican party has thel
been any forward movement towa.,
modern tariff or the slightest stud
OF twentieth century revenue conui
lions.
Three years ago some of us begal
this movement which deals with tn
.acts OF today instead OF the theorie
Vi yesterday; ana one OF the pioneer
ot this movement for an up-to-dat
aud Dusiness-like tariff is the mai
"nom TINS Duslness-like and up-to
.aLe people viii make their mex
.. esldent--William II. Taft.
Six months from now we repuDli
cans will build this new and mouerl
tariff accuruins to the requirement
or today. 1t Will not be tariff 70
Maine alone, or for California alone
4 lur uotn in combination. 1t vii
be a tariff for the whole America
people considered as one vast famil
OF industry and trade dealing no
among themselves alone, but deal
ing also with all mankind.
1t will not be log-roller's tart.
grading votes Tor this interest o
.uaL, nor fanatics tariff on tn
.ther nand, sacrificing all interes.
20 an aDsurd theory. 1t will be
Dusiness-like tariff builded on com
mon sense and justice and Duilue
4or the welfare OF the American PED
pie alone. Such tariff can be Meth
Ell stralgnt-out revenue tariff no
Il stlalsAt-out protective tariff.
A tariff for revenue only meal
a tax on imports chat will bring tn
most revenue. But these are article
like coffee, tea, chocolate, tropica
fruits ana many olher Things whic
all OF our people consume and non
of our people produce. Most Amer.
cans drink coffee; but coffee is no
raised in the United States. w
| must have it, but we must impul
it, therefore a tariff on coffee Woul
| bring a greater revenue than %
nearly any ether article. So tarl
for revenue only means tariff u
tcoffee-a tax on the breakfast tabl,
The opposition proposes revenut
only tariff. Do tney therefore pr
pose tariff on coffee, which Woul
produce more revenue than any otl
ar article? Ii not, tie whole tarlf
tor-revenue-only logic S Surrendered
VIII Mr.. Bryan, GUvernur JoAnsu
or any other member OF the oppos
ION explain this tangie in their re-
soning? And what is true of CO
ve is true OF tea, chocolate, tropic'
fruits and scores of other necessal
articles like them.
That a tariff for revenue onJ
means tariff upon articles whic
all Of us consume and none of I