The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-02
THE WHY OF 1T WITH CARNEGIE

Mr. Carnegie has evidently grown
tired of doing out organs to impecu
NOUS churches and libraries to COM
munities that arr willing to tax them
selves to maintain these evidences of
his muchIy advertised generosites.
He has doubtless sickened of the Ia
Dor of distributing other peoples
money and concluded that henCeforth
he Will rest from these labOrS. For af-
ter all, the money he has given to
the public was taken from the people
and h Wakens up at this late day 10
discover that no ding his hands under
the hopper of the tariff mills brings
more duties and more trials than the
mere Juggling away the l0Ot that runs
into them.
Through the operations of pro
tectlNe tariff h has grown rich be
yond the dreams Of avarice. It's con-
tinuation is the continuation and in
crease of MS immense fortune and
now when the question of how to
care for, CT what to do with. this gr5 at
wealth confronts him he sensibly
aWakens to the fact that American
manufacturers have no further need
for protection and that revision Of
the tariff should be made as quickly
as possible that will reduce it to
revenue basis alone. In his argument
Of reduction of duties he states ex-
plicttly that with conditions as they
are now are in this country our manu-
facturers can profitahly compete in
any line with the productions of any
country or the GLOBE and consequent
~ to continue tariff taxation for the
purpose Of protection is simply taxing
the consumers Of the country to swell
thu profits OF the favored few
Others have seen and known this
simple youth for years 1t is a knowl-
edge of this that has given the i'm
petus and strength to the demand for
tariff reduction which has taken such
hold upon the entire country. II is
the recongnition OF this truth on the
part of thinning republicans that has
split that party and threatens to con-
tInue that split until it is beyond the
hore Of future harmony.
What effect Mr.. Carnegie's action
and advice may have upon the law
makers of his party would be difficult
TO forecast but. why that gentleman.
after the many years he, has been an
advocate and beneficiary of the nro-
lection that he now declares unneces-
sary and consequently wrong. has
taken the trouble to publicly demand
its reduction might be easier to guess
Ii Is not that Mr. Carnegie's con-
science troubles him for he, gives no
intimation that even a cent of the
peoples money that protection has
taken from them and given to him
VIII be returned. 1t is not that he
hnds fault with the policy of the party
that he defends and will continue its
protective system. for his contribution
OF $4,000 TO its recent campaign fund
Is evidence of that. nor is it because
of the wrongs and fallacies of the
principle. for he finds nothing to con-
denim therein
What then can be the cause of hi,
sudden and surprising awakening tc
the needlessness OF protection othe,
than that he $ surfeited with the inn
mense wealth it has brought him
weighed down with the loads O.
money he can neither use nor enjoy
and that he seeks relief from the ac-
cumulating trobles that the distribu-
ton of his vast and continuously in
creasing fortune imposes.
And what commentary is this. hi.
condition, upon a governmental polic7
that has made such thing possible
What an illustration of the wrongs an,
the robbery of the protective system