The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-06-26
TAFT FOR FREE TRADE
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY
FAV0RS FREE TRADE FOR PHILIPPINES

Mr.. Taft wants free exchange free trade, between
the Philippines and the United States says the Oregonan
eregnty of the United States Mr. Taft has repeatedly
declared for free admission of the products of the Philippine
Islands into American statesinto United States
of America But the platform adopted by the convention
that nominated Mr. Taft demands such limitations upon
free exchange will offer eectua protection against
the sugar and tobacco of the islands
Nothing could completely illustrate the narrow
ness and sel6shness of protection 1t is abomnabe
dea or doctrine its best because it implies the of
the authority and power OF government to give certain
of people advantages over others. Applied to the
distant possessions of the United States, becomes
unspeakable oppression because its victims voceles
and have help themselves We must give up
the Philippine Islands, allow them free trade with the
United States abandon them permit free entry Of their
products into the country that copels their allegiance
and enforecs their submission
The San Francisco Chronicle ardently yet mistakenly
devoted the protective principle nevertheless demands
Justice for these uepesented dependencies OF the United
States It commends the beraly Of Mr. Taft, who has
insisted staedy free admission of their products into
the United States and has condemned the robbery that
has the sanction of the Republican platform 1t says
rightly that when forced thes epeope to submit to
our authority I'VE obligated ourselves in the Of all
that IS decent and Just to govern them Tth eye single
to their interest" Further If we did not want the
islands those terms we committed national crime
against outce, honor and civilization itself to
take them And their interests imperatively demand that
shall give to them free access to our markets IN COM
pensation for the special markets OF which we deprived
ehtm. And we have never done It, We admit their
hemp free always did, because we want their henp
and produce it; but against sugar and tobacco
the other great products of the country continue to
maintain a prohbitive tariff and do at the behest
of two of the corrupt trusts which ntest and ids
grace this Nation.
All this is mighty right Yet the Chronicle declares
itself in this same article the most stawart OF pro-
tectonist papers 1t is position that will never hold
For wrong for two of trusts to rob the people
of the Philippines it is equally wrong for these and other
trusts under of protection to rob the consumers
of the United States What the object of protection
against the Phppines2 To hold up the prices of special
products in the United States for the benefit of the trusts
that control these products What the object OF pro-
lection in general? The very very samei-to secure
higher prices that is to compel consumers to pay more
for the goods they have, goods whose production
is controlled by vorious and combinations which,
having the power fix the prices Whether the trusts
are enabled by law rob the producers in the Philippines
or the consumers in the United States all one to the
trusts The whole scheme iniqutous from top to bottom
and then back again, from bottom to top.
The Philippine Islands belong to the United States
We compel their allegiance we should admit all their
products free This the first part Of the lesson The
second part is that when levy taxes not with
view to revenue but protect persons engaged IN par
cular industries by forcing consumers to pay higher
prices we commit injustice at home as we COM
NIT the same by the other process against our distant pos
sessions All the parts Of the scheme form stupendou
whole system of robbery Mother of trusts is tariff
for protection.
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