The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-22
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BRYAN ON
THE TARIFF
Continued from p. 6, Tax sec.)

surance of a reduction of the tarin
in the interest of the consumers? In
case of a Republican victory, Con
gresham Sherman will become the
presiding officer of the senate. He
has been the confidential companion
of Speaker Cannon. and in the con-
~veltion it was Speaker Cannon who
fact, Mr.. Sherman's standpatism
needed no endorsement; his record
is a guaranty that no beneficiary OF
special privileges will be disturbed.
1t was Congressman Sherman who,
in a speech in the House on the 18th
of last April, boastfully declared,
I'VE recognize the fact that we have
a Republican majority in the Senate,
that we have a Republican majority
in this House, that is ready to resort
to every legal, every proper constitu-
tional right to enact such legislation
as it deems for the best interest for
the greatest number of our people,
and which is willing and ready to ae-
cept full responsibility for all those
measures which are introduced here
The Republican platform suggests
that there should be a maximum tar
If and a minimum, the maximum to
be used in retaliation and the mini
mum in ordinary cases. This is mere
ly adding delusion to representation
n ~l I,a@r+o;-t- yIy~ laro --O-;,o-t
authority, Senator Dolli-
yer and Senator Hanna, to prove that
in the present law the rates were
made higher than neces-
sary with the understanding that re-
auctions would be made to secure for
eign trade. Mr.. Dolliver said in the
Senate on January Is, 1908: 1T is
true that in the bill which he (Mr.
Dingley) reported from the committee
Oh ways and means he did put duties
up for the express purpose of having
them traded down" Mr.. Dolliver in
sisted that the reciprocity provision
in the Dingley act was as distinctly
part of the tariff policy as the coal
schedule and complained that mot
step had been taken to fulfill the
Of President Mckinley" And yet the
very men who present this new plan
prevented the carrying out of the old
plan.
The schemes resorted to by the
men who have grown rich by laying
tariff burdens upon the country are
more numerous than novel. Tariff
measures which embody the princi-
pies of. protection are not drawn by
legislators; they are really drawn by
representatives of the interests
which demand protection. These rep
resentatives claim to be the guardians
Of the laboring men, and yet they
carefully avoid writing into the law
anything hat will require the guard
lans to execute the trust. 1t is strange
long deceived as to the object and
operation of the laws which are
designed for the protection
Of h wage earners it can only be
for on the theory of pro-
lection or the facts that are relied
to support it.
In ordinary affairs there is no diff
betwee a tariff reformer
and a protectionist. They meet togeth
er In business, in society, in the lodge
and in the church. In their daily
life they apply the same rules and are
guided by the same business rules.
This similarity manifests itself thru
life and up to the very hour of death.
If a protectionist makes a will, he
makes it pom the same plan that the
proaches, he estimates the value OF
his property, leaves to his wife and
children what he wishes them to have
n then makes such requests as he
likes to public institutions and to
those outside of the family; and such
part as he leaves t. his wife and chill
dren, he carefully divides among
them, giving a. a definite share.
He Ices not give all his property to
one child and say he trusts the child
to deal fairly with the rest of the fam
lily. Why? Because he knows his chill
dren and would not put a child in a
position where selffishness might lead
him to do injustice to other members
OF the family. No, he would not
trust his own flesh and blood to deal
fairly with those reared at the same
ireside with him; and he is wise in
not placing this temptation before
one of his own family. But when a
protectionist comes to make a tariff
law, he acts on an entirely different
plan; he votes millions, yes, hundreds
of millions Of dollars to manufactur-