The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-22

day of next October and allow the reiative advantage of protection to the wsnsi, wwsnsisctnrsr, the farmer and the eontrisations Received fron, each 0 slassS ssS Why is t that the manufacturers are | expected to furnish So large a propor- ton of the money to run the campaign. VI. as the Republicans claim, the farm | CTS and the 1aborers enjoy so large a | proportion in the benefits of the sys- temI Is it not significant fact that the farmers and wase-earners who are always put In the foreground when | the blessings of high tariff are being | enumerated are Tn the background when the collections are being made7 fscturers i9c9ns xsn scrn'.h .naa .h the ,nd dmanr so little advertised as benehciaries? Ia it not significant also that the wage earners. instead of the manufacturers, rect eeneficiaries of the protective sys-
 But let us suppose, for the sake of arsumsnt that the Republican party ginning tarif reform. repudiates it's obligations to the contributing nanu- faicltSssrs nislep wpa. SPa honestly begins -rs says:
 principle of protection is best main
 
 as will equal the difference between abroad tosethsSfp WiRh rsasonsSis noms aas | profit to American Industries.s
 | Mr. Taft endorses this rule and says l that Fin a number of schedules the | tarin now exceeds this difference, and that the excess offers a temptation to duction@ @ ana % saIs Y"0RI1 of such articles th I in this country" He adds. however. that there are some few articles on which the tariff is not suficiently high 10 give them the measure of protec- 1 fion they should rseeive."
 Will he explain upon what rule the present tartm was framed7 When have ton than enough to cover the differ snSs ron 'Gss qSe gsSSSSsisn pTS aSsf to American industries" Is an addition as an excuse for raising the tarifS. And. by the way, to what other busi- ness does the Government guarantee "reesonable proft" To the farmer, none of these. If in revising the tar- if the Republican party is to work upon exactly the same plan (or q plan hope have we that the nne new 's tsrir wTni wili be lower than the present one? Are the present leaders more honest than the ones who framed the existing men who are responsible for tarift ex- tortion during the last decadeY If this newborn zeal for revision were nn,,an,aa an nundred a times sfesssr sas than his chance would the Republican candi- date have of securing any real tarim reform at the hands of such Repubii- the Senate ana House. the very men NatHionSf convsdntionY " speaker Can. ,S,,,., non, who l., iss has supPgTSsssed tarift 2 dominating factor In the oonyen- control of the House. will be the ffs prominence afford tarir rsforners any assurance of reduction of the tariff In the interest of the consufners7 In eass of a Rspublicang, victory. Con. presiding oficer of the senate. He has been the confidential companion of Speaker Cannon. and in the convention t was Speaker cannon who vouched for him. But as matter of fact. MT. Shermans standpatism needed is0 en- ! dorsement; his record is a guaranty that no benenctary of special privileges ! will be distributed. It was Congress man sherman who in 6 speech in the House on the 18th of last April, boast l fully declared, We recognize the fact that we have Republican majority in the Senate, that we have a Republican majority in this House. that is ready to resort to every legal, every prope@ constitutional right to enact such leg slation as 1t deems for the best in- people, and which is willing and ready to accept full responsibility for all those measures which are introduced here and which are not enacted into
 The Republican platform suggests that there should be a maximum tar- IF and a minimum, the maximum to be ueed in retaliation and the mini. mum in ordinary cases. This ls merely adding deiusion to procrastination and pnSSfiEsalntyi pnSiessanln y,boy,s We hays grominsnt Re- and Senator, Hanna. to prove that in the present law the rates were know lngly made higher than necessary with the understanding that reductions would be made to secure foreign trade. MT Doiliver. said in the Senate on Jan. IF 1908: Tt is true that in the bill from the Committee on ways and express me qd put ut dStiss Sp for the down Mir. Deliver insisted that the reciprocity provision in the DingIey act was as distinctly a part of the tariff plained that "not one line of the wisdom of James c. Blaine remained on the statute books" and that mot step had been taken to fuinli the President Mckinley And vet t6e 6e prevailed in nearly all districts.
 very men who present this new plan prevented the carrying out of the old
 The schemes resorted to by the men who have grown rich by laying tariff burdens upon the country are more numerous than novel. Tarife measures which embody the principles of protec- ton are not drawn by legislators, ai- though as a matter of courtesy they generally bear the names of iegisla- tors; they are really drawn by the rep |