The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-27
NAN SPEAKS ON
TARIFF QUESTION
GrCommoner In Address Before Vast Iowa
Audience Discusses Paramount Issue
Of Presidential Campaign

ldllll 10y Np'NNdl N'NNl'N VI ''"n'' '' !
Immediately following the ianugura-
ton Of the next president and com
mcnds the steps already taken 10 this
end In the work assigned to the APP
Ipropnatc committees Of congress.
which are now investigating the op-
Grafton and effect OF existing SEIZED
ules. In all tariff legislation the
true principle OF protection is best
maintained by the imposition Of such
duties as will equal tho difference be-
tween the cost Of production at homo
and abroad, together with a reason
able profit to American industries.
"Wo favor the establishment OF
maximum and minimum rates to be
administered by the president under
Limitations fixed in the law, the max
imum TO be available TO meet dis
examinations by foreign countries
against american goods entering
their markets and the minimum 10
represent the normal measure Of pro
lection at home; the aim and pur-
pose OF the Republican policy being
not only To preserve, without excess
siye duties, that security against for
eign competition to which American
manufacturers, farmers and produc-
erg are entitled, but also to maintain
the high standard of living Of the
wage earners OF this country, who
are the most direct beneficiaries of
tho protective system,
Between the United states and
the Philippines, We believe In free
; interchange of products, with such
limitations as to sugar and tobacco
as will afford adequate protection tc
domestic interests"
4, + Secretary TAFT refers TO this sub
iect briefly in his notification speech
, only briefy-but as l shall quot
: such passages from his speech as ar,
, pertinent to this discussion, 1t Is no
necessary to read his remarks in fun
s II will be noticed that the Re
= publican party has abandoned thI
Z earlier arguments advanced in sup
q port of a high tariff. We hear M
l. more of the Infant Industries tina
j. must he tenderly cared for unit
l. they can stand upon their feet
3 here is no suggestion that the FOR
Il eIgner nay the tariff" and nothin
n about the home market" Thes
+ catch phrases have had their day
they are worn out and cast aside
The Republican leaders are no longe
je arrogant and insolent; they canine
o longer defy tariff reform. Thei
l. plan now rs to seem to yield withol
4 really yielding
1; submit that the Democratic pla
st form accurately described the RI
X publican position when it refers
l. Tho belated promise" made by th
r Republican leaders as "a tardy n
'e cognition of the righteousness of II
ct Democratic position on this que
T. ton" The Democratic party in /
IN platforms and through its represel
h, tatiyes in congress has for veal
he pointed ont that the tariff schedule
~ are excessively high and ought to
as reduced, but the Republicans hay
m until recently failed to admit thel
at was any necessity for reduction. The
n, now confess, through their pIatior
en- and through their presidential ca
Dr. didate, that the need for revision
If so great as so justify the party
declaring "unequiyocally for re,
on sion of the tariff" and the need
m so urgent that the work is to be u
Ito dertaken at "a special session of co
ed gress Immediately following the
he auguration Of the next president
I'D Tho use OF the word "unequivocall
le- indicates that those who wrote
ar platform recognize that they are u
an der suspicion. They want to dist
ad guish this promise from the unkt
nd promises of the past by adding
in emphatic an adjective as could
&C. found in dictionary. If former Repu
We lican promises had been conscien
ously fulfilled, it might not have be
he necessary to thus strengthen
be- promise made this year. The l
M of the words Immediately after
llp Inauguration" is evidence that
ION Republican leaders are consci'
that the patience OF the public
re- been strained to the point Of bre
int ing, and it is almost pathetic to n
and the solicitude which they now I
ION about doing thing which, but
wilful neglect, might have been d.
at any time during the last ten yea
res Are We not justified in saying t
the 1.-The people cannot safely entr