Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-09-05

ended the sale of poisoned food and
adulterated drugs: the irrigation
law, which is making fertile the arid
west and will build within our own
continental boundaries a new en-
Ipire of productive wealth.
| In these seven years we have
enacted more important laws for
the safety, comfort and welfare OF
labor than in any two. decades since
the government was founded. We
passed the Employers Liability Law.
which revokutionized the heartless
rule of the common law and gives
compensation for his injury or
death; the law forbidding railways
from requiring employees to work an
inhuman number of hours without
rest; the Safety Appliance Act,
which not only lessons the danger tc
life and limb OF employees, but which
increases the safety of the travelling
public. We passed the Chinese Ex-
clusion Act, which keeps coolie labor
Tout of the republic, and dlminishes
the number Of coolies already here.
We passed the Government Employ
es' Liability Law, by which every
man who works for the government
is certain of compensation for In
jury or his family for his death
while in the governments. employ.
The Tariff.
or the work that remains, the
first Is to revise the tariff. The
tariff we shall make will protect
American industries. and also open
foreign markets to American prod
ucts. A straight out revenue tariff
is ancient; single protective tariff
is out OF date-We Republicans pro-
pose to keep up with the times. AS
straight out revenue tarlff gives
everything away 10 foreign nations
and gets nothing In return, so a
straight out protective tariff gives
nothing away and gets nothing In re-
turn The modern tarltf is a max
imum and minimum tariff-a high
tariff 10 be applied TO any nation
that will not give us advantages In
its markets. The Republican idea
~ to meet other commercial nations
with their own weapons.
BY such tariff Germany, consid-
ering her comparative resources and
tsituation, in a dozen years has In
creased her foreign trade more
rapidly than any other nation. BY
I" this method France has kept hei
mills open, her shops active, hei
trade vigorous in spite OF causes that
worked against her commercial
progress. That man or nation has
begun 10 die who refuses 20 learn;
and Just as the French and Germans
and other commercial peoples
learned the wisdom of single pro-
tective tariff from us, so we must
learn the advantages OF double pro-
tectiye tariff from them.
New Markets Needed.
! Such a tariff will sell abroad many
head of live stock. barrels OF -four
. manufactured articles, where one
now Is sold. This increase In trade
means new employment for the la
borers, new markets for the farmer.
Prosperity depends on trade and
trade depends on markets.
A Tariff Commission.
Nor will we stop there. Republi-
canism means advance. Tens OF
thousands of American citizens are
demanding a tariff commission. The
great organized producing interests
manufacturer. farmers, stock
raisers-haye petitioned congress
for this common-sense method of
handling this intricate question, as
Germany. France. Japan and other
aggressive notwithstanding nations
are handling their tarlff question
Yet the only hope for a tariff com
mission Is In the Republican party.
When the tariff commission idea was
advanced, Mr.. Brayn opposed II In
formal printed debate. When a tar
In commission bill was introduced In
congress. every Democrat was hostile
TO Il. A tariff commission has not a
single friend among the Democratic
public men. Certain Republican
public men are against II. too; but
its only friends are Republicans A
Democratic vote is a. certain vote
against'a tarin commission. A Re
publican vote Is possible vote for
this business-like reform.
The Real Labor Question.
Every labor law We have passed
land will pass Is a part OF that web