The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-12
FOR A BUSINESS PRESIDENT


making of late Governor Johnson OF
Minnesota has just declared at
Detroit that the tariff is the one
principal issue on which this year S
presidential contest is to be waged.
He is no free-trader, he says, but he
wants to see the tariff schedules re-
vised as quick as possible along
sensible lines" The trust issue,
he goes on to explain, is so inter-
twined with the tariff question that
the issues are as one. He doesn
believe In monopolies, but is firm
believer in encouraging industries; ;
there should be restraint of
monopoly, but not of intelligent CO.
operation among manufactures for
the purpose of lessening the cost of
production and distribution. 1T has
been the tariff system, he concludes,
that has allowed these great
monoplies TO grow up unchecked and
it is the root of the evils that |
would strike. Furthermore, this
ayowed aspirant for the nomination
that Bryan assumes to have mort
gage on would permit Federal con-
troll of commerce and industry only
where the relation is strictly inter
state, but would hold the states to
account for most of the regulation
that is necessary.
Good. sound, common sense
doctrines all-neither Republican
nor Democratic. principals that any
voter NAV consistently tie to. Adjust
the tariff schedules properly and
nromptlv. and there will be no
trust issue at all, And If only the
states exercise to their limit their
sovereignty under the constitution.
there will he no more demand for
strengthening and stretching the
federal arm,
About the same time that Governor
Johnson was thus recording hispoliti-
cal opinions the PENNSYLVANIA Re-
uublicans in state convention at
Harrisburg were instructing its ma
tional convention delegates for Phil
ander Chase Knox and putting into
its platform a tariff plank that had
been previously approved by the ma
tional party leaders with the idea of
having PENNSYLVANIA sound the key
note for the Chicago convention.
This plank records the party's con-
tablished policy of the nation, but al
the same time admits that the Re-
publican party of PENNSYLVANIA
..recognizes the general demand for
a review by the incoming congress of
tariff legislation now in force, to the
end that such notifications may
be made therein as will adapt 1t to
the necessities and equitable de-
mands of the present time and in
such manner as will hest subserye
the real welfare of the American
people" That is. tariff revision to
begin 10 months from now, no matter
whether or not the Dingley schedules
shall meantime be strengthening and
extending the power of the trusts"
With Knox and Johnson. the two
presidential nominees. there would
be a square, stand-up-and fight that
would have some meaning in It,
Things were happening concurrent
ly in st. Louis, too The Traffic club
was dining and being talked TO by
business men of high intelligence. re-
putation and influence-and trend
of their outgivings was a demand on
the law makers and the politicians to
Let us alone," Among them Chair
man Yoakum of the executive COM
mitteee of the San Francisco Rock
Island lines urged amid applause
that the merchants and the manu-
facturers of the country should unite
in common national movement and
demand If both the great political
parties that they must cease to fur
Their menance the country's business