The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-27
NO TARIFF REVISION

1t has been steadily charged Dy the
party through the medium
If it's orators and the democratic press
that there will be no tariff revision il
republican president and congress is
elected, despite the fact that the repub-
lican party has promised there shall be
tariff revision after the next election.
This promise il another Of the cheap
affairs of the republican
party in order to delude the voter and
cause him to believe that the 6. o. p.
really means business.
That there is demand for tariff re-
vision, no one, even the most radical re-
publican will deny. That there should
be tariff revision on downward scale
is settled fact, but no relief need be
looked for as long as the republican
party is in power for their mission is to
protect and foster tho trusts which are
Of the iniquitous tariff
system, now in vogue in these United
States.
When tariff wall was built around
the United States, it was while the
manufacturing interests of the country
were small and practically helpless.
This wall was then constructed that the
'infant industries" might prosper and
gain substantial footing in order that
they might compete with the goods
made by cheap labor in foreign coun-
tries and shipped here to find market,
but it was not the intention at that
time that these infant Industries be
protected after they had secured sta
bility enough to compete in the open
markets Of the world, which is the case
at present. The tariff was then fixed
at rate sufficient to allow the infant
industries to compete with the cheap
foreign labor and that they have done
so is self evident, for now no country
under the shining sun has as many able
bodied, vigorous and lusty trusts and
combinations, which are sapping the
life-blood of the people as free and
glorious America.
With the immense profits which ac-
crued to the "infant industries" through
the medium of this protective tariff,
they have waxed powerful and have
never lost sight of the fact that this
protection Afforded them has been the
means Of making them as rich and pow
erful as they are now. Naturally enough,
they were willing and are now support
ing the party which has made it posi-
BILE for them to grow SO immensely
wealthy, and the party in turn, has
given them every facility and every
opportunity for the robbery of the peo-
pie simply from the fact that when
campaigns come on, they are assured of
slush fund of such generous proper
tions that there cannot be hardly a
doubt of party success providing money
will bring about such result.
In the last few years the people have
had their eyes opened, and as a result
there is general clamor and demand
that there be a tariff revision-that
goods which are manufactured in this
country and can be sent across the
ocean and sold there at price Of from
third to one-half lower than they
are sold to the people OF the United
States, shall be sold at like rate to the
American people and that they shall
have the same treatment as is accorded
foreign nations in the matter of pur.
chase and sale of the product of Ameri.
can manufacturers. So strong has this
feeling grown, that the republican party
has become alarmed and after having
at the two last sessions deliberately re.
fused tariff revision, they have now
| discovered that unless something is
done the people will revolt, therefore
comes the specious promises made by
the republican leaders that the tariff
will be revised as soon as the elections
are over. OF course, no man with an
ounce of brains in his Uranium believes
that will be done, and understands that
it is only promise held out in order
that for four years more the trusts may
pursue their extortions, and republican
spellbinders and stump orators working
through the medium of the paid repub
lican campaign bureau and subsidized
republican press, will continue tt
preach this fulsome doctrine with the
hope that the election can again be
carried this fall and the trusts giver
four years more of prosperity.
So certain are some of the republican
party organs that Mr.. Taft will bt
elected. that already they have become
indiscreet and are talking in a bombas
tic and arrogant manner of what will
be done in the matter of tariff revision
after his election. Some of them are
even prone to say that the tariff will b.
revised upward-that there will be NJ
downward revision the only
change that there will be, will be tina
, some of the tariff rates will be raised
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good news to the farmer and consumer
A notable example of this is shown il
the following article from that exponen
of standpatism, the Springfield Repuh
lican, the leading republican daily Q
southwest Missouri, which absolutel
} admits there will be no tariff revisio
l downward. Read what it says in a
| editorial printed last week:
. "There has been studied and determ
| ined effort on the part of those clan
. orous for tariff revision of the fire
) trade order to make it appear that tn
: republican party has abandoned tn
traditional position and has pledge
itself to tariff reconstruction tina
means sweeping away of barriers whic
now stand between American industr
= and the foreign invasion of market
!, that would be most disastrous to Amer
:, lean capital and labor. The republica
' Marty has done nothing of the sort saw