Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-17
TAFT AGAIN URGES
 REAL TARIFF REVISION
Better BI|I Should Fail if Not on Right Basis, He Says.

New York. Dec 1I.-"Better no tar, if revision at all, better that the new bill should fail unless we have an honest and thorough revision on the basis laid down and the principle out. lined in the party platform
 This was the statement made by President Elect Taft in his address to the Ohio society before he left today for Augusta, Ga. He went on:
 Once the party has adopted it's platfo"u in convention and has successfully gone before the people on that platform it be- comes the sacred duty of the executive. a sacred duty of the leaders of the senate and of the house of representatives, sa- credly to carry out the policies thus de- clared. hence 1t is that in respect to the blanks in the Chicago platform the strongest obliga tions rest upon the many heads of the party as it soon will come into power, and they should respond and see to 1t that the mandate of the people is carried out
 The principal plank in the Chicago plat form was the one which declared for a revision of the tariff at an extra session of the congress to be called as soon as possible after the 4th of March next. In that plank the standard by which the re- vision could be made was plainly laid down. It was agreed that the revision should be made on the principles of pro- lection and that principle was defined further by the statement that the rates to be fixed should be a measure of the diff ference of cost of production here and abroad with a reasonable profit to the manufacturers
 1 am a protectionist but I am not one of those who believe that the policy of protection does not in large degree make trusts and monopolies easier of exist ence. But the way to stamp trusts and monopolies out is not by destroying the whole protective system. We should not have excessive tariff rates so as to tempt monopolies and give the trusts an oppor- tunity to take advantage of those ex- cesSive rates. There havo been those in our party who did not care how high the rates were fixed, but the Chicago pIs.- form showed by it's new definition of .. protective policy that the ajority of our party believe in a definite revision of the tariff as it now exists.
 If we do not fulfill the promise made in the Chicago platform and make only a surface revision We will be made account able by the intelligent American people
 
 and will suffer the consequences with which failure to keep promises usually Is visited by the American people
 It Is better to have no revision at all, better that the new tariff bill should die, unless We have revision of an honest and thorough sort on the basis explained by me and promised in the party platform. It is with the utmost pleasure that I state my sincere confidence that there is now going on in Washington and will go on m honest and thorough attempt to find the difference in cost of production here and abroad and to fix the tariff accord ingly. The task is merely one of evidence and judgment. We must honestly try to do our duty, and then we will receive the commendation of the American people.
 MT. Taft then took up the Sherman antitrust law and said it was one of the Roosevelt policies which the party had pledged itself to carry out