Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22

borers enjoy SO large proportion of
the benefits of the SYSTEM Is II not
a significant fact that the farmers aud
Wnge-earncrs who are always put In
the foreground when the blessings of
a high tarim are being enumerated
are in the background when the collec-
TONS are being nader is 1t not slgni-
tcant that the manufacturers. who fur
nish the FUNDS, are go little advertised
as bcnetiCi0rics2 IL u not significant
also that the wage eerncrs Instead OF
the manufacturers. are always de-
scfibcd as "the most direct benchCiavics
OF the protective sNstcm?'
But let us suppose FOR the sake ur
argument. that the Rcpubrcan parry
sincerely repentS of It's delay iu be-
ginning tariff reform, repudiotes its
obligations to The contributing manu-
tacturers and honestly begins a "roVi-
sion What rulc Is to govern the re-
Vision2 The Republican platform says.
in all tariff legislation the true
principle of protection is best main
tanned by the imposition ut such du-
ties as viii equal the difference be
tween the cost OF production at home
aud abroad, together with a reason
able profit to American industries"
Mr. Taft indorScs this rule and says
that lin a number of schedules the
Nbllll ibN fNt'NuN tillN bllltltNtt, ana
that the excess offers a temptation to
those who would monopolize the pro-
ductiou sale of such articles i'm
this country" He adds, however. that
there are some few articles on which
the tariff Is moi sufficiently high to
give them the measure of protection
they should receive
REASONABLE PROFIT" RULES
VIII he explain upon what rule the
present tariff was framed? When
have the Republicans claimed more
protection than enough TO cover the
difference in the cost of production
here and abroad? The reasonable
profit TO American industries is an
addition to the rule. ana is likely to
be used as an excuse for raising the
tariff. And, by the way. 10 what other
business does the government guar
nntee reasonable profit p" 10 the
farmer. ar the merchant or the lab
orer? To none of these NJ I'm revis-
ing the tariff the Republican party is
10 work upon exactly the same plan
Cor plan contemplating higher
rHte) what hope have we that the new
tariff win be lower than the present
dne2 Are the present leaders more
honest than the ones who framed the
existing tariff? Are they not i'm fact
the same men who are responsible for
tariff eXtortipn during the last de
cade? 1t this newborn zeal for re
vision We're 100 times greater than
his notification speech indicates, what
chance would the Republican candi-
date have OF securing any real tariff
reform at the hands of such Republic
cans as now represent that party in
the senate and house, the very men
who represented il in the recent ma
tiOnal convention? Speaker Cannon,
who has suppressed tariff legislation
in the present Congress, was a domin-
ating factor In the convention and.
if the Republicans retain control of
the house will be the speaker Of the
next Congress. Does his prominence
afford tariff reformers any assurance
of a reduction of the tariff in the in
tercst of the consumers? In case of "A
| Republican victory, Congressman
sherman will become the presiding
| officer of the senate, lie has been
| the confidential companion of Speaker
| Cannon. and in the convention 1t was
| Speaker Cannon who vouched for him.
| But as matter of fact. Mr.. Sher-
| mans standing needed no endorsement,
| his record is a guaranty that no bene-
| ticiary of special privileges will be dis
| turbed. 1t was Congressman Sherman
| who, in a speech in the house on the
| 18th of last April boastfully declared
I'VE recognize the fact that We have
| a Republican majority in the senate
| that we have a Republican majority in
| this house, that Is ready to resort Ia
| every legal every proper constitutional
right to enact such legislation as II
| deems for the best interest for the
greatest number of our people, and
which is willing and ready To accept
| full responsibility for all those meas
! ures which are introduced here and
which are not enacted into law"
MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM
The Republican platform suggests
| that there should be maximum
| tariff and a minimum. and the mini
| mum to be used in retaliation and the
| minimum in ordinary cases. This Is
| merely adding delusion to procrastin-
| alton and uncertainty. We have
| prominent Republican authority, Sen
ator Deliver and Senator Hanna, Ia
| prove that in the present law the
| rates We're knowingly made higher
than necessary with the understanding
| that reductions would be made To
secure foreign trade. Mr.. Dolliver
said in the senate on ian. l3, 1908:
| TT is true that in the bill which he
| (Mr. Dingley) reported from the COM
| mittee on ways and means he did put
| duties up for the express purpose of
having them traded down" Mr.. Dol
| liver insisted lilstl lile IftlIibtnN pro-
| vision in the Dngley act was AS dis
tinctly part OF the tariff policy as
| the coal schedule, and complained
| that mot one line of the wisdom OF
| James G. Blaine remained on the
| statute books" and that mot a step
had been taken to fulhl the purpose
| Of the last Buffalo address Of Presi-
dent Mckinley" And yet the very
men who present this new plan pre-
vented the carrying out of the old
plan
TARIFF BBNEFICIARIEs.
The schemes resortcd to by the men
who have grown rich by laying tariff
burdens upon the country are more
numerous than novel Tariff meas
ures which embody the principles of
protection are not drawn by legis-
lators. although AS a matter of cour-
tesy they generally bear the names of
legislators. they are really drawn by
the representatives of the interests
which demand protection. These rep
resentatVes claim TO be the guardians
of the laborinG men, and yet they
carefully avoid writing into the law
anything that will require the guar
dams to execute the trust. 1t IS
strange that so many voters have
been so long deceived ms to the OBJ
iect and the operation Of the laws
u,l,i,b ara ogtpuplblV designed for the