Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-15
DEMOCRACY AND
THE TARIFF.

-HE TARIFF.
It is seldom that any party has ever
nut forth so clear ana lucid an enuncia- |
ion and declf cation OF principles as
I'D the matte Aal democracy in eonven-
ion Assem- Lea at Denver. While this ,
$ true coat the platform in all re i
'peets' n is perhaps truest in thel
stand watch has been taken on the
.ar' 4 question. undoubtedly the pri-
q cry and chiefest issue of the cam
faifgn.
For a quarter of century democra-
cy has been sounding the warning of
the dangers which were being created
TO beset the country in the mainte-
nance of protectiee tariff, by the
taxing of the many for the benefit of
the favored few, by the making possi-
BILE of combinations, monopolies and
trusts through its very favoritism Up.
| on this subject the platform speaks
plainly and fearlessly. An immediate
revision of the tariff along the lines
of revenue rather than of protection
is demanded and promised and where
trust produced goods are sold without
! the country cheaper than at home
such goods are to be placed upon the
free list. This is the one, true solu-
ton of the trust problem. Where a,
man is i'll the competent physician
| will first remove the cause of the i'll
ness and allow nature to proceed with
the cure, using as few medicines as
possible and this is just what democ-
! racy promises. The tariff has made
possible and has built up the trusts on
! the fallacious plea of protecting the
American working man. Democracy
would, therefore, strike at once at the
root of the evil and first eradicate
the cause
| The republican party also promises
an immediate tariff revision to remove
and adjust the inequalities, but al
ready that party has had eight years
to do so but preferred to stand pat.
The protectionists say the tariff
should be somewhat revised but that
any revision must be made by its
friends A fine remedy to promise
the people, forsooth. revision by
the friends of the system which has
built up the monopolies, by the
friends of the system which has fos-
ttered the combinations! Naturally the
protected industries would welcome
such a revision but of what benefit
would'it be TO the country at large, 10
the bearers Of the burden of the tariff
tax? Should the republicans again
succeed. they have nominated a stand
patter, a tool of the protected indus
tries, OF the great interests" who, if
elected, would preside over the desti-
MES of the senate. With such a pre-
siding officer in the upper house and
with Cannon or another of his ill1 as
speaker of the lower house it must be
manifest TO the most casual observer
that the chances for any real remedial
legislation on the tariff passing either
of those bodies would hardly be ros
cate Granted that tariff bill should
be passed by the republicans after
having been drafted bt the friends OF
the protective policy, what reason is
there to think that it would be at all
better than the present measure? More
= must be done than the mere removal
. of inequalities" which the republi
cans promise. The condition is ser
) ious and demands immediate and en-
= erget.c action. 1t must not be imag
ined for a moment that with all the
republican standpatters in bott
houses any such action would be TAX
en-, for nothing of the kind is contem
] plated 1t is to the democratic party
that the country must look for relief
It is the republican party which ha:
made possible conditions as they are
it is to the democratic party and no
TO the republican party, therefore, tina
the country must look for the remedy
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