The daily sentinel., 1908-08-24

Beginning where The Sentinel left
off Saturday Mr.. Bryan's great
speech on the tariff which has at
tracted more attention than any
politlcal speech of the campaign fol-
lows:
THE Republican platform sug-
gests that there should be a maxi
mum tariff and a minimum, the max
imum TO be used in retaliation and
the minimum in ordinary cases. This
is merely adding delusion to procras-
tination and uncertainty. We have
prominent Republican authority,
Senator Dolliver and Senator Hanna,
to prove that in the present law the
rates were knowingly made higher
than necessary with the understand
ing that reductions would be made
to secure foreign trade. Mr.. Dolliver
said in the Senate ON January 13,
1908: 1t is true that in the bill which
he tMr. Dingley) reported from the
com mlttee on ways and means he did
put duties up for the express pur-
pose of having them traded down
~. Dolliver insisted that tie reci-
procity provision in the Dingley act
was as distinctly part of the tariff
policy as the coal schedule and COM
planned that not one line of the wis
dom OF James C. Blaine remained on
step had been taken to fulfill the
purpose of the last Buffalo address
of President Mckinley And yet the
very men who present this new plan
prevented the carrying out of the old
pan
''Fhe schemes resorted to by the
men who have grown rich by laying
tariff burdens upon the country are
more numerous than novel. Tariff
Ia.
pies of protection are not drawn by
Legislators although as II. matter of
courtesy they seneraniy ucar the
names of Legislators, they are really
drawn by the representatives of the
interests which demand protection.
These Representatives claim TO .e the
guardians of the laboring men, and
yet Icy carefully avoid writing into
the law anything that will require
me guardians to execute the trust.
II is strange that SO many voters have
been so long deceived as to the object
and the operation of the laws which
are ostensibIy designed for the pro-
tetsion or the facts that are relied
upon to support il.
IN ordinary affairs there no diff
florence between Il tariff reformcr
and II protectionist. They meet to-
gether in business, in society, in the
lodge room and i'm the church. In
their daily life they apply the same
rules and are guided by the same
business rules. This similarity niani-
tests itself AL through lie and up to
the very hour of death. III u protec-
ZIONIST makes IL will, he makes it upon
the same plan that the tariff. re-
former follows. As death approaches,
he estimates the value of his prop
erty. leaves to his wife and children
whaf he wishes them to have, and
then makes sucf, begucsts as he likes
to puDlic institutions and to those
outside of the family; and sue. part
as he leaves 20 his wife and children,
he carefully divides among them,
giving to each n definite snare. He
does not give all his property to one
child and say TINT he trusts the child
to deal fairly with the rest of the
family. Why? Because he knows
his children and would not put II
child i'm a position where selfishness
might lead him to do injustice to
other members of the family. No,
he would not trust his own flesh and
blood To deal fairly with those reared
at the saHie firesiuc with him: and
he is wise in not placing this tcInpta-
tion before one of his own family.
But when protcctionist comes to
make Il tariff law. he acts on an en-
tirely different plan: he votes mill |
ions. yes, hundreds of millions q. dol |
lars to manufacturers whom he has |
never seen. and trusts them to be just |
in the distribution of the trust fund |
among their employees. And what |
has been the result? just what NIGH; |
have been eNpected:--the nianufac-
turers have appropriated the trust
fund to their own use and have paid
their employees only such wages ae
trade conditions compelled.
THE Homestead strike occurred
after the Republican convention of
! 1892. but before ~ e Republican can
didate wrote his letter of acceptance
He couIu not ignore the strike, for 1t
presented an object lesson which
even a .-,gh-tariff Republican could
not fail to see. So Mr.. Harrison, the X,
referring to the strike
said
II regret that all employers of
labor are not just and considerate
and that capital sometimes takes too
aTge share of the profits,' Too
arge a share of the profits?' Yes;
more than that. The protected manu- I
acturers have secured. in many s
,ases. a tariff of more than twice the {
paid to worlSmen in {
wages. The net profits of the steel I
rust last year were just about equal I
o the entire amount paid in wages S