The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-27

confidence In the men who represent
the trusts. and the trusts write tho
tariff law and thus secure % them
selves tho right 10 levy trlbute,upon
the public. So accustomed have Re-
publican leaders become to allowing
tho protected interests to write the
tariff schedules that 80 eminent and
honorable a man rs Senator Hoar Of
Massachusetts said, In discussing tho
Mckinley bill, then before tho sen
ate:
Instead OF coming before your
subcommittee for n formal hearing
on our Massachusetts, industries. /
thought tho best way was TO care
fully prepare table Of all tho va
rious industries, perhaps some sixty
or seventy In all, and ask Brother
Aldrich to go over them with me and
ascertain what the people wanted in
each case, and II there were any
cases where the committee had not
already done exactly what tho petit
toners or had not infleXlbly passed
upon tho question, / could have
hearing before you, but find in ey-
erv instance the action of the COM
mittee, as Mr.. Aldrich thinks It likely
: to be, ia entirely satisfactory to the
interests / represent, with tho exc
cetplon Of ono or two, and tho pa
pers in regard to those cases 1 have
handed TO MIR. Aldrlch."
, Mr.. Miles, whom 1 have before
quoted, says, in American Industries
r OF April Of this year:
people asking a government rep
. resentative referred to New Eng
@ land manufacturer, the official
A agreeing to act in accordance with
r the protected manufacturer wishes.
[ said the manufacturer: 4 wrote that
l. schedule myself, l did not intend
that It should be interpreted as Sc
4 verely as It has been, but having
! been so interpreted, / will not con-
q sent to a modification of it, And
II this mans will remains tho law"
We would not expect a juryto cd.
Justice to the defendant ifgit was
composed entirely CT the relatIes of
u the plaintiff; neither can wa dapect
. congress to do justice to the mass
" ca il It is composed of men who are
in sympathy with, and obligated to,
y the corporations which have for a
generation been enjoying special
d. privileges. aa asgS3sS{
y, There is no prospect of relief from
~ a Republican president and congress.
g. The Democratic party, il entrusted
VI with power, can and will reduce the
:. tariff.
-, The Democratic platform not only
-, demands a reduction of tho tariff,
III but it plainly outlines the course to
u be pursued in securing the reduction.
~ 1t begins by proposing that articles
10 which come into competition with ar
sh ticles controlled by trust be placed
nv on the free list. What better place
ne to begin? Years ago Mr.. Havemey'
'eS err, the head OF the sugar trust, said
d" the tariff was the mother Of trusts
81 and her children are many. Sec
w rotary Taft in his notification speech
e. saws that an excessive tariff serves
.e' no useful purpose "but offers a
w. temptation to those who would mo
VI nopolize the production and the sale
~ OF such articles in this country, t
i'e' profit by the excessive rate
a. Now suppose the manufacturers
GU who have been favored by legisla
=, ton, do conspire against tho public
i"'l and enter into monopoly. Wha
leS penalty do the Republicans suggest
None whatever. These men are to b
the consulted about proposed changes
tee and If tho next Republican tariff
nst made like former Republican tariffs
nat nothing Will DO done without tn
VI unanimous consent of the beneticia
oW ries.
pc What would he tho effect of tn
iuc' remedy proposed by the Democrat
the platform? Simply this;-a law goe
ght into effect at some fixed date in tn
mat future, and II the Democrats pass
tar- law, putting upon the free list article
the coming into competition with thos
But controlled by trust. the trust wi
'up- have until that date to dissolye
oil the trust considers the law too ORA
on tic, it can avoid it by giving up 4
nou monopoly.
s"o Secretary Taft calls this romeo
'iso' utterly destructive" and in his an
Hs' iety to prevent it oyerlooks the ia
Az that the Democratic party has oth'
sS9 remedies for the trusts. &c we ca
"N'T succeed in dissolving existing trust
and In preventing the organlzati'
pun OF new ones, there will be no trus
lhey against which to use the remedy
CON which he complains. There Is now