Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-07-02
That TAFT PLANK.

The new Taft Republican platform
declares unequivocally for a revision
Of the tariff. If the party that has as
it's house leaders Payne, Dalzsll and
Cannon is 80 hungry for revision why
has it delayed it throughout the IL long
the utmost ext~nt7
Just at prssen it 10 telling the peo-
pie that the way to get rid of the Ding
ley shelter of monopolies is to elect
Taft and a Republican House, for, so
it's leaders say, a Democratic House
and q Republican Senate would not re-
wise the tariff. AS matter of fact q
Democratic House would render any
revision of Dingley rates easy and
feasible. It would promote revision
and it would cast the responsibility on
the Senate, which IL what the Rspub-
Iicans dread. Their argument proves
tso much.
In order that the reader may see
what kind Of revision the Republicans
favor we give below their platform
pIAus ~ IO1IOWb.
I'm all tariff legislation the true
pfinciple of protection is best maia-
taintd l,y the imposition Of such duties
~ will equal the difference between
ne cost Of production at hons and
abroad, together with o BILE
profit TO American industries and the
,enehts tina follow are best secured
by the establishment OF maximum and
minimum rates to be administered by
he President under limitations fixed
in the law, the maximum to Do avail
able to neetdiscriminations by foreign
Countries against American goods en-
terin3 their market. and the minimum
to represent the norma measures OF
protection at home; the aim and pur-
pose of the Republican policy being
NOT only to preserve without exces-
sivs duties that security against foreign
com pstitlon to W hieh American manu-
facturers,% farmers and producers are en-
titled, but also to maintain the high
standard of living Of the wage earnerG
of this country. who are The most di-
rect beneficiaries of b protective
system. Betw cen the United States
and the Philippines we believe in a
free Interchange of products with such
Limitations as to sugar and tebacso As
will avoid injury to domestic inter
ests."
If the rule proocsed were faithfully
and honestly applied there weuld be
few duties left. For example, take an
article the costs TO produce 81 abroad
and St.2O at home. Allow 20 per cent
as a fair profit to the American manu-
fa cturer, and parity in cost would be
established at once,and no duty would
he imposed under the terms of the
Republican platform But only the ma
rines will believe that the republican
plank would be applied as it reads, for
it was written to catch votes only.
The proposed observation-disclosures
mum rates plan would be confusing,
md it would keep manufacturers in q
state of uncertainty, but still it is bet.
ter-anything is better-than Dingley
monopoly rates.
Even the last clause OF the plank il
objectionable. Ii offers the Fillipinos
husks only, for sugar and tobacco are
among their large Hemp il
an export, but the Fff1ipinos have
monopoly in the production of tha
article, and tho tariff cuts no figure il
II the one way or the other. The onl,
relief to them that is possible consist
In free trade Ill sugar aud tobacco, AM
the best sugar growers of Michigan
and Colorado, ana the tobacco grower
from kentucky to Connecticut object
The Philippine offer Is, ,lik
ali the rest OF the plank-deceptive,i in
sincere and unLIusLW orIny.