The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-04-25
IS ALL DECEPTION
AMP, 0:i;TY THE NOTE OF THE
OHIO PLATFORM:
Policy Ct Attempting to Deceive the
People IS Plainly to ne Seen
Republican Leaders at
Their Old Tricks.

AS the platform adopted by the late
Republican convention of Ohio wa
approved by President Roosevelt and
Secretary Taft, the tariff plank OF
that platform, therefore, may be re
garded as the prototype Of the tariff
plank of the coming national conven
ton, if the same Republican faction
control 1t as controlled the Ohio con.
ventiOn.
AS many people believe that what
Mr.. Roosevelt declares, must be thu
gospel truth, and that similar avOwals
from Secretary Taft are of the me
too variety, it becomes of impOr
lance to investigate just what was
promised on the tariff issue in that
Ohio platform which said:
"A revision of >he tariff by a special
session of the next CONGRESS, insurin2
the maintenance of the true principle
of protection by imposing such Gus.
toms duties as will equal the differ
cnce between the cost of production
at home and abroad, together with 4
reasonable profit, to the end thai
without excessive duties, American
manufacturers, farmera producers and
wage-earners may have adequate pro
lection"
The only promise in that plank that
can be understood is that the next
congress shall be called in special SEES
sion for tariff revision. What kind of
revision, whether to revise the tariff
higher or revise it lower, is not stated.
1t promises the trusts they will still
be protected by duties that will equal
the difference between [ cost OF
production at home and abroad, and
on top of that protection "a reasona-
BILE profit"
Fancy the Republican standpatters
Of the mex congress, if they have a
majority, considering the cost OF
production How will they find out
and from whom will they inquire what
is the difference of the cost of prOduc-
ton of trust products here and OF
similar products abroad? Judging
from the PAST the trusts alone Will
furnish them such inside information.
The managers of those corporations
that control the steel, the cotton. the
wooden, the pottery. the glass and The
other products of the trusts protected
by the tariff will nus again fix the
tariff schedules. Under such a revi-
sion of the tariff there would be ne
same disgraceful spectacle as Oc-
Cured at the Arlington hotel in Wash
ington in 1897 vixen the Republican
members Of the ways and means com
mittee were receiving the trust man
ayers and attorneys with their pre-
pared schedules that were adopted by
the committee, in many cases almost
nopolists demanded.
There is good evidence that the Re
publican leaders, whatever their prom
Uses may be, intend to revise the tariff
higher, by adding schedules of maxi
mum rates some 20 or 80 per cent.
more than the present high rates,
which are 20 be called the minimum
tariff rates. The leading members Of
the present ways and a commit
tee Of the house of representatives
have so stated and no Republican lead
err has gainsaid them.
The Republican plan Of CT lfuSing
and d~eceiving the voters Of the coun-
try by an ambiguous tariff plank is an
old trick; it has been worked in Iowa
to defeat the Iowa idea" it was used
in Massachusetts to blind the eyes Of
Republican p%artisans. Hon. William
l.. Douglas, who was elected governor
described it when he said:
The Republican party of Massa-
chusetts has retreated under the shell
ter of an ambiguous phrase from the
high ground which it occupied last
wear. Either the leaders Of the party
were insincere last year., or they are
~lnsincere this year What does pres
ent action mean? Does it mean free
hides, free coal, free iron, free wood
pulp, free lumber? Does it NEAR re-
c~iprocity with Canada? Does it mean
anything that the people of Massa-
chusetts, irrespective of party afhlia-
tions, are so generally demanding?
Those leaders who talk SO vaguely of
present action are in reality oppCs-
ing tariff reform. Their action con-
sists in adopting ambiguous phrases
to deceive the people; in standing
pat on the Dingley schedule, and in
ringing the alarm bells Of the trusts"
The ambiguity of the Ohio platform
plainly shows that it is the intention
to again deceive the people.