The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-12-04
Taft Means What ne
Says.

1t pleases us nightly to hear tina
Taft talks just the same since elec
ton as he talked before election
OF course we had no doubt tina
he would but there is an impression
prevalent that prediction promises
dent count after the votes are in.
And too often that is the case
Too many men are willing to make
any sort of promises that they think
will win votes and after election act
as if they had forgotten that they
ever made such promises. Taft said
before election that he was in favor
of real revision Of the tariff that
would remove any injustices SO far
asit is possible to remove them.
He SAID that he was in favor OF
tariff that would represent the act
nal difference In cost of production
between this country and foreign
Countries together with enough to
insure a reasonable profit to the
manufacturer in this country. He
believed, and so does vast majority
of the American people, that any
thing above that Is a most unjust
tribute levied on the industry of
this country for the benehI of few
In short, aside from the reYenue the
tariff ought to be levied with the
idea of protecting labor.
1t stands to reason that so long as
labor in other countries is paid on an
average less than half what it paid
in this conntry, that tariff for pro
lection is absolutely necessary. If
that protection is removed wages
must be cut down to the level OF
waaes in other countries. Therefor
a vast majority of the people OF this
country are in favor of reasonable
protective tariff, but they are not in
favsr of 4 tariff that is greater than
the difference in cost of production.
If, fer instance, the difference in the
cost of producing ton Of steel rails
in this country and Germany any
other country where steel rails are
produced is S. per :en, they are not
willing that there should be a tariff
of $Ie or SI2 per ton.
We are not informed as to what
the difference in cost of production
of steel rails In this and other coun-
tries is, nor do we have at hand the
table of tariff rates. We simply
speak of this by way of illustration.
The tariff on horseshoe males is n
cents per pound. Ifit can beshown
that the difference in cost of pro-
duction of horseshoe nails in this
country and in the foreign country
where they can be produced most
cheaply is only 1 centper pound then
there is no Justification for tariff
of 2 u cents per pound.
There ought also 10 be maximum
and minimum tariff, the minimum to
be put on in case foreign country is
willing to give us fair deal and the
maximum in case the other country
is shutting US out of its markets.
Now that in brief as we under
stand it, is the SORT of a tariff Taft {
Is in fayer Of. 1t was what he talk 4,
ed during The campaign and he is t
going 10 do his best to have his =
party make what he talked during r
the campaign. That is the sort of $
president we want. That is the /
kind of president the American
people want. If the members of
congress stand up for what Taft
wants the people will stand by them; q
otherwise they will take a fall out d
Of them the first time they get a
chance, which, considering the way t
time flies, Won't be SO very long. n
Mail and Breeze.