Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-10-14

: OidtcAg REVISE the laElu Is earnestly
approved.
How can ii truthfully be said that
the Wisconsin idea or tariff revision
has been stabbed to death? The min
ority plank called Cor no special SEES
sion of cor sress. 1t called for a tar.
if commission hut committees of ton,
gress are now engaged in that work.
II called for a removal of all tariff
on trust products but that does not
reach the monopoly evil as evidenced
by the fact that free trade in England
is plastered with trusts and mono.
lies. II limited the tariff to the diff
ference between the cost of material
and labor abroad and here making no
allowance for a reasonable profit to
the manufacturers based on business
and living conditions, difference i'm
money rates that manufacturers must
pay here for borrowed capital to con
duct their business and numerous 9th
er things that affect manufacturers
profit. If We desire to protect labor
we must protect its employers in Sc
curing a reasonable profit. Two per
cent. may be a reasonable profit on
money invested in some countries and
be absolutely inadequate here. Does
any one object to the manufacturers
making a reasonable profit? II SO,
then to be consistent he mus object
to the farmer, the merchant, the pro-
fessional man and the wage Garner
making a reasonable profit on the cap
ital invesIed-be it money or brains.
1.-The national tariff plank was
written by Taft and Roosevelt and
taken from their hands to Chicago
by Mr., Ellis, attorney general of Ohio,
a personal and political friend of Mr.,
Taft. who, report has it, will be the
next attorney general of the United
States. When physical orators, in
stead of conserving their natural re-
sources, squander them in loose, loud
and sensational utterances, for the
avowed purpose of home consumption,
charging that a new alignment be-
tween standpatters and progressives
in this state has taken place, by en-.
dorsing the national tariff plank, they
are so carried away and confused by
the sound of their own voices that
they forget that they ere accusing
Roosevelt and Taft OF being traitors
to the people and engaged in an I'M
holy alliance with the enemies of
government to plunder our citizens,
and that Senator La Toilette is aid.
ing and abetting the crime by urging
the election of Mr.. Taft.
81 think If Roosevelt and La Fol
lette can consistently urge the cleo
ton of a man standing on the nation
al platform that the rest of the repub.
licans can do so without any loss of
self respect. home prestige or princi'
pie"
Against Deposi, Guarantee.
MI Gilbert also discussed the dem.
ocratic proposal for insurance of bank
deposits, referred to the fact that only
1-26 of one per cent. of the deposits
in national banks are lost to deposit.
ors and that not {. dollar has been lost
by depositors in Wisconsin state
banks in the last four years, and de.
clared that the democratic proposal
was to tax honest and conservative
bankers to encourage dishonest and
wild bankers to be wilder and more dis.
honest.
Democratic Inconsistency.
The change of position by the dem
ocratic party on the various refo Al
measures enacted by the republicans
in Wisconsin was presented by Mr..
Gilbert and he showed how the OPP
position party is now applauding the
things it formerly denounced, the
change being evidence of frantic bid
for votes. He said that the democrat
ic change from opposition to favor OF
the primary election and anti-conven'
ton law was manifestly insincere,
proved by the holding of democratic
state conventions in direct violation
of the spirit of the primary election
law
The panic, tariff, protection, Mr..
Bryan. and labor interests were also
fully discussed.