The Detroit times., 1908-08-22

usprt Wases per ddy tuan arr. paid
elsewhere hut. that does upt nuy' s,ar be-.
ala mean mat thr dNtuetl labor roak ot
An aluele\ls higher Mere than abroad
ON the contrary. tile rule - that ASH
ptiDVd tahur produces "A cheaper article
than low-priCcd labor Manufacture
nt hardware viii tell You that they can
export haldWAfa- whht CONTAINS
great deal of labor and small amount
90 raw material hut that they cannot
export hardware In which the raw ma
tctthl constitutes a large proportion o.
thc Nalur We Arr scnding uanLlav-
lures 90 steel all over the world. TIE
Ftram pDgin'. Tor Instance o. 1nhd" ~
skilled labor. and ~ "" San schd IL
electrical machinery is madc 10 skilled
labor. ANA Vet We have no Tear OF Tort
"tgu competition. Even in the foreign
markets. oar agricultural machinery
is made hN skilled labor. and Vet we
export "a Go all countries btgl sewing
machines are manufactured py skilled
labor, bat the American traveller nnds
our sewing machines everywhere, and
the list could ho extended indefinitely
The Higher Wages" Nars.
For Is years The American working
man has been told that he receives
higher wages than the English work
our wage earnors now know that this
cannot be hue 10 protection, because
the English workman receives lgner
wages than the GcrmHn workman. al
thoagh the German tariff Is higher than
the tarln OF Great Britain.
Protection does not make good
wages. Our better WAGES are due "a
the greater Intelligence and skin oI
our Norkmsn. to the greater hope
which free institutions give them. TO
Improved machinery. q" the better con
organizations which have been formed
among the wage earners.
\ revenue tarin viii not bring a
panic II WITH not inauguratc Industrial
L lie A Il = = NaNfl NM -
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mess and give more employment. ana
larger demand Tor labor Will be a
guaranty against the reduction OF
wages. \ reduction OF the tarin VIII
reduce the VNtortion that Is now prac-
tlCt.d oVrause of the high schedules
people 20 buy. and Tins larger demand
cor the goods will pat more nrople
ts,',i -..-.-i - alihsT a. IL
dlstri"s.. \ lower price WI greatly
stimulate expectation, and manufac.
turers who are now crippled by y tarin
-.s.s--s-;;;s --ts .
We cannot hope 10 invade foreign
markets t9 IN; extent W. should u1tl.
handicap that protection places upon
them In the purchase OF materials
they have 10 use Neither can We
hope 20 continually Increase oul eN-
ports without iucrrasing our imports
Trade must he mutual II II l. 10 hc
permanent i'ff nftl"tl Nc hliiltA rec
ogn,Eed tins aud IA the last speech
that lie made hc pointed out that We
must buy from other nations II We cN-
pect TO sell 90 other nations
TIE peUocratiC plan does not con
l. mplatc an Immediate change from
one system 10 the other. IL expressly
lie, laEes that the change shall be
gradual, and a gradual change Is only
pOsslbi. where the country Is satisfied
with the results 81 each step taken.
We elect Il congress- every two Years
"a t|t. sT a
the people can soon stop any policy
II the results ~ ttat policy are not
Hui we believe that the
q Nprrience the people have had with
'prott Ctiop for projections sake" has
led Them 20 favor a rvstoratluu 81 the
tariff hy gradual steus 60 revenue
dd MANAGES follow INK each step VIII
be sn pronounced und thAt the benefits
4'----+t- 't''N'-f sally nJotsd that
there Viii bt no cessation la the pro-
Eress toward system under which
{ Ia. tariff Viii b.. l.ss t@d foF tie purpose
of revepue and limited 70 the needs
Of lSiG did not produce panic. on the
contrary, ~ was SO satisfactory that
when the Republican party wrote rs
iust platform Ken years afterward the
protective principles was not endorsed.
Taft Es,ors Income TnA. Too.
The pemoC ratio party T7aS 7T7Tr7TrF7t
for an incoac tag a. a. part Of the rev
enue system. and for a constitutional
NliFlfllllfllt rs d HtrhNS or securing TINS
Tax. secretary TAFT announces ia It's
notification speech that he J. I'm favor
OF An income tan whenever the rev
enues dre so low as to require IT, ana
Expresses his orlief that lt H. possible
40 secure such taN without con
StltAIlnAAL nendnen1 IL III IL moss hl Z.
- frame a. law whtg Wll avoid the
ob ltctions raised 20 the income tax law
nt 1894. we'll and good. hut that is un
certain. u an Income tax Is desirable
surely Secretary TAFT cannot Consig-
tently oppose the adoption ~ consti-
tutIoual amendment RI the princl-