The Democratic advocate., 1908-08-28

described as the most direct benehclarles
of the protective system.
What Rule Is To Govern.
But let us suppose. for the sake of ar
gument, that the Republican party SIM
cerely repents of its delay in beglnnlhg
estIv begins a revision What rule is to
govern the revision? The Republican plat
9 In all tariff legislation the true prin-
ciple of protection is 0est maintained by
the imposition of such duties as Will equal
the difference between the cost OF produc-
tion at home and abroad, together with a
reasonable profit to American Industries.
MIR. Taft indorses this rule and says
now exceeds this difference, and that the
excess offers a temptation to those who
would monopolize the production and sale
however that there are some few articles ,
on which the tariff is not sufficiently high
to give them the measure OF protection
they y; shobld ba een1nin reGeTe unon what rue the
present tariff was framed? When have
the Republicans claimed more protection
than coe efopgn o 10 eGoef here @ and
The reasonable profit to American indus
tries is an addition to the rule. and is
likely % be used n2 as tha hn o rUf %ba othef
business does the Government guarantee
a reasonable prohtT To the farmer, or
the merchant or TIE ldDOTeT! IL NONE
of these II in revising the tariff the Re
publican party is to work upon e1actly
the same plan Tor plan contemplating
a higher rate2 what hope have have we We that the the
..Are the present leaders more honest
tha the Are ones hex who not fmea IN ac tine the
men who are responsible for tariff extor-
ton during the last decade? If this new
born zeal for revision were a hundred
tar his nnttnpafiOn Snapch
indicates what chance would the Repub-
lican candidate have Of securing any real
licans as now represent that party in the
Senate and House, the very men who rep
resented it in the recent national conven-
tiOn?
tariff legislation in the present Congress,
was dominating factor in the conven-
tion, and If the Republicans retain con-
of the next Congress Does his promi-
nence afford tariff reformers any assurance
of a reduction Of the tariff in the interest
I'm case of Republican victory. Con
gressman Sherman will become the pre-
siding officer of the Senate. He abs been
Cannon. and in the convention it was
Speaker Cannon who vouched for him.
But as a matter Of fact. Mf. Sherman.s
record is a guaranty that no beneficiary of
special privileges will be disturbed.
Merely Adding Delusion."
1.-The Republican platform suggests that
there should be maximum tariff and
minimum, the maximum to be used in re-
and the minimum in ordinary
cases. This is merely adding delusion to
prominent Republican authority, Senator
Dolliver and Senator hanna, to prove that
in the present law the rates were know
ingly made higher than necessary with
the understanding that reductions would
be made to secure foreign trade"
"Mr. Dolllyer said in the Senate on jan
uary 49, 1908:
Dingley) reported from the Committee
on Ways and Means he did put duties up
for the express purpose OF having them
"Mr. Dolliver insisted that the reciproc
ity provision in the Dingley act was as
part Of the tariff policy as the
one line Of the wisdom Of James G. Blaine
remained on the statute books and that
not a step had been taken to fulfill the
President Mckinney And yet the very
men who present this new plan prevented
the carrying out Of the Old plan.
The schemes resorted to by the men
who have grown rich by laying tariff bur-
dens upon the country are more numerous
than novel Tariff measures which embody
the principles Of protection are not drawn
by legislators. although as a matter of
courtesy they. generally bear the names Of
they are really drawn by the
of the interests which de-
claim to be the guardians of the laboring
men, and yet they carefully avoid writing
into the law anything that will require the
strange that so many voters have been
SO long deceived as to the object and the
operation Of the laws which are ostensibly
earners; it can only be accounted for on
the theory that the voters have not un-
derstood either the theory of protection
or the facts that are relied upon to support
it.
Same In Their Daily Life.
I'm ordinary affairs there is no differ
ence between a tariff reformer and pro-
tectionlst. They meet together in bust
ness. in society, in the lodgeroom and in
the church. In their daily life they apply
rules rules Ths ne ass
itself all through life and up to the very
hour of DEATH If prOtectiOnist makes a
will, he ,1 makes axe it upon the same plan that
proaches he estimates the value Of his
property. leaves to his wife and children
what he wishes them to have, and then
lie institutions and to those outside of the
family: and such part as he leaves to his
wife and children he carefully divides
HE does not give all his property to
one child and say that he trusts the child
Why2 Because he knows his children, and
would not put child in position where
selhshness might lead him to do injustice
deal fairly with those reared at the same
fireside with him; and he Is wise in not
placing this temptation before one of his
But when a protect1onist comes to make
a tariff law, he acts on an entirely differ
ent plan; he votes millions, yes hundreds
whom he has never seen. and trusts them
to be just in the distribution of the
trust fund among. their employees. And
might have been e1pected--the manufac:
turers have appropriated the trust fund
to their own use and have paid their en-
ployes only such wages as trade conditions
1.-The Homestead strike occurred after
the Republican convention Of 1892. but be-
the ne ioh6 wrote his
the strike for 1t presented an object les
son which even high-tariff Republican
CANDIDATE referring e to Il the E STRIFE. ' said: Tue
I regret that. all employers of labor
are not just and considerate and that
capital somtimes takes too large a share
of the profits!
Steel Trusts Great Profits.
Too large a share of the prof1ts?' Yes; /;
more than that. The protected manufac-
turers have secured. In many cases. tariff
to workmen in wages. The net profits of
the Steel Trust last year were just about
equal d ~, to the entire amount paid In wages
cent. OF the total value of the product
According to this statement, each working
man employed by the Steel Trust earned
to him, but 100 per cent. profit besides for
his employer. And. may. add, while