The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-23
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declare. and it always will. so long as
1--WE have this federal republic for tariff
duties to be put upon imports. There
! is one thing that is not at issue at
this time, and that is, whether or not
the tariff shall be revised in the near
, future. That question has been settled,
and there are no longer standpatters
and revisionists. The republican plat
form declares in language that cannot
be misunderstood in favor of that.
In all tariff legislation the true prin-
, ciple of protection is best maintained
by the imposition of such duties as will
equal the. difference between the, cost
of producing, it at home and abroad,
together with reasonable profit to
American industry: Now, that is the
that the republican party pledges it
SELF above all others to do, is to
revise the tariff, but to preserve the
protective principle; If the present
to measure protection, the rate will be
, raised. That is what Mr.. Taft says;
that is what l say; that is what the
platform says If the rate is too high,
laffordng more protection than is nee
essary, then the rate will be lowered.
Now, / trust, that nobody hereafter
will undertake to state in any way that
III have tried to evade this matter of
tariff revision.
The argument has been put up that
the duty should be removed from lum-
Der because the people of this district
are consumers of the lumber. To that
argument l have said no. because, if
the people of this district admit the
principle that the consumers of a pro-
duction have right to demand of their
congressman that that product be put
upon the free list, then the people have
laid the axe at the root of the tree of
trouble.
The Food Schedules.
Remember, that we are wealthy
community, that the prosperity depends
upon the farmers. If person We're un-
dertaking to attack that schedule he
could appeal to the feelings. For in
stance, he could picture a mother-and
every heart goes out in tenderness to
railroad train. struggling to get through
with her little ones. You fee like offer
ing the hand of helpfulness if need be,
and SO, a person undertaking to at
a mother who by reason of the duties
on food products, which have made
them higher than they otherwise would
be, has been going, without sufficient
lamount of food until her cheeks have
grown pale and thin and the child at
her breast is unable to secure the nour,,
thin. 1t is the hardest of all schedules
Ito defend upon it's own merits. There
is only one defense, and that is: that
the schedule. the protective tariff on
system. The great rule of life was
given us more than nineteen hundred
years ago by Him who was not only
the earth, but the example for ALL and
the summing up of all that He had to
tell us when here was in the passage:
do unto you, do We even so unto them y
Free Coal and Iron.
For the sake of conserving our ma
tural resources in accordance with the
IF recOQniZl1 President
Roosevelt, / am ready to say that such
things as coal and iron can be put
upon the free list and that I shall
flavor it, 1 can do that without ADAM
doning the principle. which l have al
ways preserved for the protection of the
people who have trusted me: Now
form in regard to the revision Of tariff.
L will read to you the democratic plat
form. Now. this is the democratic plat
form We favor immediate revision of $40,
port duties No qualifying word on
import duties. That is the principle
statement. Now, there are three sspeci-
ment. Articles entering, into competi:,,
tion with trust controlled goods Should
be placed upon the free list, That is
t teri N REDUCTION ed should be made in the
tariff upon the necessaries of life. A
gradual reduction should be made in
such other schedules as may be neces-
.
basis l.F.7.s,.,Ef r.
Mr. Mccleary maintained n t that taot the
of trusts. and showed the falsity of the
democratic claim that that party has
been instrumental in dealing with the
trusts as they should be dealt win;
There is not a piece of legislation
that has ever been taken up for the
control of the trusts that has not mad
the good will of the republican party
IF
party. The first move to fight the
trusts was in the platform adopted by
the republican party in 1883. Ihat
platform was made by b a man saan from sern
vice during the Civil war; he was
William Mckinley. John Sherman in
troduced a bill for the control and reg
ulation of the trusts. 1t was sup,
ported by the republicans and opposed
by the democrats. Then that law was
taken to the supreme court to deter
judges voted in favor and three against
lit All five of the supreme court JUS
tees who sustained the law We're re,
II publicans, and all three who declare .
i was republican president whose name
you all love, that has been making war
on the trusts. Whatever has been done
to destroy the trusts has been done by
Republicans against the opposition OF
democrats.
The only proposition remaining in
1.-THE democratic PLATFORM Is Tie iCuoS
ton which should be made in the
tariff upon the necessaries OF life NOW,
when my friend, Mr.. Hammond, gets up
here he will stand squarely on the
4 democratic platform and say, Il believe
in immediate tariff revision downward
When, he comes to illustrate what he
means, he will point to you manufac-
tured goods. That is the thing he will
impress upon you and he will tell you
they sold too hgh-perhaps they are.
If they are too high and we find it out,
we will revise them. He never refers,
at least he hasn't thus far to the pro-
duction of the farm, and yet he says
ne will be in favor of immediate revls-
ion downward as to all things.
Farmers and Protection.
He does not direct your attention at
any time to the fact that the farmers
have duties on their products for the
protection of their industries. Inc
farmer is interested in the protective
tariff He is interested in the American
Industries because if the work is done
in America, then he has the best mar
lket right here at home that can De
found anywhere. We are one-twentieth
part of all the earths people, and al.
!, though we have only one-twentieth or
the earth's population, we manufacture
one third of all the manufactured things
! in all the world. That is we manu-
Ifacture approximately, six times as
much as the rest of the world does
We live in such good houses we eat so
much good food, we have so much In
lour parlors that we consume at home
To- of oil hat here