The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-12

of manufacture Tn so far as a tariff 's spccsssful. it Is virtually prohibttory. That the evils. of prohibitory tsriffs are so iit- k world in itself with untaxed trade shreuEhoui 2 district comprising nearly
 oss the .sS sss sgSgs sr s.s Of hs possible sometimes to corner . product or to moncroiize production. To this end the bs unfair to declare 1t to be the parent of aH trusts. It Is enough to recognize that It's general purpcse is the same. the deve,. and economic monopoly the enrichment of class or of . greup of classes at the es- pense of the citizen at large. This is thec. the principles of our republic in regard t'' exclusive privileges are right then the tho Hsy m .rs asd tss hs hs method of indirect tnxatian. diseuiseS hut d0ss s.sl not .,s justify Its iniqgtty. ...., :, dustries--of diversified economics We may not deny that at times there has been a taxing the farmer to build ur the manv- iacturer Is not politically right or Just te do this: but II t were. the policy ir practice assumes the form of a vested rtghs which becomes in time vested wrong Around these vested rights other conditions @ srem up , and ehanse of any my sort ,, ,vs,s works Justice becomes possible only by the per- petrstien of varied ferns of Injustice. IT. through the % financial f" world tnroushaut u tn" body polite. Tariff revision Is. therefore. . kind of effort which can be based on nc GUS choices of evils. The only way out Is to make taxation blind, like other efforts at justice. It's sole functien that of raiS-
 In another way the theory of the infant industry has proved failacious There are In in America today no infant industries They Our huge industrial combinations overshad. ow the world Just as in their alliance hsve tss %hip Hand oser some otssr sons If anything American can take care of it- self. it Is our infant industries. Yet they ence as insistently as they ever did. Tha iull in the seif-assertion just at present is due to the handwriting on the wall not to any iessenng desire to be fed at the public expense.
 The actual Injury to American prosper fly traceabie to the tariff may not be exaggerated. It lends itself to exaggeration II makes us angry when we think of t glass It's greatest % evil lies in the psryer- sion of our theories of government. the in. troduction of the idea of class enrichment
 Doubtless much of the prosperity of the United States is due to the protective tar- ff-the prosperity of some of us. Hut in like degree the non-prosperity of some Of us. some of the very same persons for that matter, is due to the same national med ding with individual rights. The apparent prosperity of any community could be great ly enhanced by taking property away from the others who know better how to use 1t. Thus behind all discussion of sources and means of prosperity. the fact remains that Democratic justice, that Fundamental squi' ty between man and man. can never be realized in America 90 long as any trace of the protective tariff remains on our statute books It is another illustration of tho truth that "they ensiaye their childrens children who make compromise with sin :" This law applies to economic lapses. t1 time-serving Legislation. as well as to moral sins.