The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-01

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But ne has been sitting on the lid
all these years. why did he not keep |
prosperity In the box when he had II
there? Everybody knows 1t Is easier
TO hold on TO thing than II Ia to
catch It again. What help does he
expect, II elected, which he has not
had right along? Or does he claim
he will be stronger and abler than
the president at whose feet he sits?
Does he not advance as his chief
claim the fact that the president
picked him out and nominated him
for the succession, and that he In
tends faithfully to carry out existing
policies?
But why wait until after the elec.
tion? These men are still In full con.
troll OF every department Of the gov
ernment, SO why not turn on their
prosperity now? What are they wait
ing for?
So the last phase Of a desperate
situation is q conspiracy Of assertion,
led by Speaker Cannon. They have
already brought prosperity back
again! See all those mill men at
Youngstown marching at full pay
with new uniforms!
Taft and the Tariff.
After eleven years of clarifying the
tariff law as the unfailing breeder OF
prosperity, too sacred and delicate for
the slightest touch, 1t Is now confessed
that 1t must be changed. Not by hands
of the profane, who know 1t only
as law which taxes the people, in
part by public officials for the expense
of the government, but In greater part
by private persons for their own
profit by way of collecting higher
prices for their goods. No, the
changes must be entrusted only to
those. who made the tariff in the first
place, and they are the very men who
profit by 1t.
But what hold would Mr.. Taft's ad-
ministration have on them which Mr..
| Roosevelt's does not have? Mr.. Taft,
with the president behind him, could
not get the relief he asked for the
| Filipinos. How does he expect to
force q general reduction?. Some OF
/ Tie uutiCo "a e wv AoWp hS oeAySs-aaA AAS
will have no trouble in getting those
! raised, but the same solid opposition
would Withstand him II he should try
| to have a single item lowered.
The president and Mr.. Taft protest
| ed loudly when they found that 1t was
| proposed to charge them the same
prices for supplies for building the
| Panama canal which were charged
the people at large-prices higher
than the dealers sold the same artt
cles for abroad after the cost and risk
of shipment across the sea. They
threatened to buy what they needed
abroad. But they said nothing about
the same imposition which is prac-
ticed ON the people. And finally they
meekly submitted to the imposition
on the government.
When San Francisco had to be re-
built congress was induced to aid
the unfortunate Inhabitants by ex-
empting them from the tariff laws.
This was an, admission that those
laws simply impose burdens on the
people. Why then should not the
millions whose earnings are thus
levied ON by the greedy beneficiaries
Of the tariff be relieved also, at least
by reducing the charges?
Tariff Exceeds Difference In Wages
Great tenderness for the working
men is again professed. The pretense
was when the tariff law was passed
that it only made up the excess in
wages paid them. 1t Is now admitted
that the duties go far beyond this diff.
ference, in some cases enabling the
employers TO make raises in prices
which exceed their entire payrolls.
1t is said again that In revising
the tariff the excess in wages must
still be made good by the government
But If the duties when fixed were fol-
the benefit of the workmen, why were
they not allowed to take hand In
the figures as well as their employ
ers? Why was not their right to the
provision thus ostensibly made fol
them secured, instead Of leaving
them to. struggle, as they have always
had to do, for just share In the
product Of their labor?
make this proposition and am con
fident Mr. Bryan and every Democrat
will stand by 1t. Let Mr.. Taft and
the Republican leaders who contro
congress promise to secure verified
statements of the differences paid
American and foreign workmen ir
every protected" industry and to re
duce the tariff tax In each instance
to exactly that difference. The Dem
ocrats will agree to such revision
the tax to be increased or lowered
from time to time to meet changes
in wages. Now, friends of labor. lei
US hear from you?
Taft's Reasonable Profit" Fallaey.
But. ah! says Fr. Taft. reason
able profit, besides, must be provided
by the tariff. At last the cat is ou
Jf the bag, The pretense has always
been that our higher wages prevented
competition with foreign goods, am
that, with the difference in wages
made up by law, the people woult
get the benefit Of such competition
Foreign goods would still have thu
disadvantage of long transportation
and, II they could carry that load an1
still be brought over and sold at ;
profit (for II there were no pront the!
would not Gomez, surely theie, mus
be q still greater profit on American
l goods. Why then tax the people still
further to swell this profitf Simpl!
/ because every concern which gets thu