Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-26
THE TARIFF
QUESTION
Continued from yesterday

NO republican leader will now do
that reductions ought to bc made
=. VINO Is to make The reductions?
ne only answer given by the Re-
AFRICANS is that the tariff oueht IN
reformed by its friends: that
that thoSe who made the last
rim law shoull be entrusted with
making of the new tarifY law.
suppose the people adcpt mo
70 uDi.can idea and cute, the max
OF the tariff law to Republican
phgressmen: what will be the meth
OF procedure? Fortunately for
e voter Mr. Miles explains this also
the April 1908, number of Amer
fn Industries. Mr.. Miles says -the
fopie instruct and trust congress to
ant just. equitable and ample pro-
elton"
is not that just what the Repub-
can leaders claim to favor? They
ant you TO instruct and trust
to grant Just. equitable and
nipple protection" And what does
lat mean? Mr.. Miles SAYS that
'ngress trusts the ways and
cans committee" And a Republi-
Pm leader will tell you that this is
SO proper. Then what? Mr.. Miles
yys that this committee trusts
INCH persons as Mr.. Dalzell," and
hat "they-they trust the trusts"
lThe method of procedure is sim
pile. 1t is case OF confidence. The
voters have confidence inRepublican
leaders; the leaders have confidence
n Republican congress-; a Repub-
iican congress has conf lence in the
ways and means committee; the
ways and means committee has con-
dence in the men who represent
the trusts, and the trusts write the
Stariff law and thus secure to them
jselves the right to levy tribute upon
the public. So accustomed have Re-
publican leaders become to allowing
the protected interests to write the
(tariff schedules that so eminent AMI
honorable a man as Senator Hoar
or Massachusetts, said, in discussing
the Mckinley bill, then before the
senate:
Instead OF coming before your
sub committee for a formal hearing
on our Massachusetts industries. |
thought the best way was to careful
ly prepare table of all the various
industries, perhaps some sixty or
seventy in all. and ask Brother AL
1rich to go over them with me and
ascertain what the people wanted
(in each case. and If there were any
cases where the committee had not
infexibly passed upon the question,
l could have hearing before you,
but / find in every case the action of
the committee as Mr. Aldrich thinks
1t likely to be, is entirely satisfac-
tory to the interests / represent,
with the exception of one or two,
and the papers in regard to those
cases / have handed to Mr.. Aid
rich"
Mr.. Miles, whom 1 have before
quoted, says, in American Industries
OF April of this year:
People asking a government rep
resentative for relief on another
schedule were by that representa-.
tive referred to New England
manufacturer. the official agreeing
to act In accordance with the pro-
tected manufacturers wishes Said
the manufacturer: 81 wrote that
schedule myself. did not intend
that IL should be interpreted as So
verely as II has been. but having
been so interpreted. will not con
sent to a modification OF It." Ami
this mans will remains the law.
We would not expect a jury to
do justice to the defendant ~ It was
composed OF relatives OF the plain
tih: neither can we expect con-
gress to do justice to the masses
81 It is composed OF men who are
in sympathy with. and obligated to.
the corporations which have for a
generation been enjoying special
privileges.
There Is no prospect OF relief
from a Republican president and
&congress. The Democratic party, n
entrusted with power can AMI will
reduce the tariff.
The Democratic platform not only
demands a reduction OF the tariff
hut 1t plainly outlines the course 20
b, pursued in securing the r'duc-
tion with articles controlled by a
articles which come into competi-
ton with articles controlled by a
trust be placed on the free list
what better place 20 begin? Years
ago Mr.. Havemeyer. the heal OF
the sugar trust, said the tariff was
the mother Of trusts-and her chill
dren are many. Secretary Taft. in
his notification speech says that