The Nevada County picayune., 1908-10-01
ROBBERY TO GO ON
HAVE NO IDEA OF
 REDUCING TARIFF RATES.
That Plank in Platform Was intended to Deceive Voters Is Proved by Exultation of the American
 Economist.

All that was needed to prove that the Republican tariff plank is a delu- sion and a snare, as far as the tariff retormers are concerned. was the com mendation of the American Economist the high tariff organ This it now has, He Economist is fairly jubilant over the victory wen in behalf of extreme protection The Republican party" if says in national convention assem-. bied. has declared anew for the policy of protection-proteciion that shall be adeqHate-and has rejected the de- mands of the tariff agitators for re, vision of the tariff dowuWards." Which, Of course. means that the party has declared. either in favor of leay- ins in. tariH as iJ is or of revising it upward We quote from the Econo- mis- which. be it remembered, is the uncompromising champion of Dingley- ism:
 The free traders and advocates of tarif revision downward will not find a word or syllable in this tariff plank that tends to furnish them the slight est crumb of comfort. There is no promise in the platform of tariff re- vision downward. After full consideration of the whole subject the Republican party in convention assem- bled did not declare for revision of the tariff downward. nor did it give the slightest intimation that the belief is entertained by the great body of Republicans throughout the land that the tariff rates of the Dingley law are tee high"
 Even the maximum and minimum tariff plan which is advocated contem- plates. according to the Economist, making the present rates-or other adequately protective rates minimum. and the imposition of still higher rates To force fair treatment from other nations. We do not often find ourselves ill agreement with the Economist. But il seems to Us that what it says about the amazine plank adopted at Chicago is true. Every one knows that there are hundreds of thousands of Republicans all over the country demanding tariff revision in the direction Of lower rates. When the convention met it knew just what this demand was. just what if meant. If knew that it could not be silent on the tarin question, knew that 1t could not refuse to pretend to promise real revision
 And yet this convention put itself on record as fayorng sufficient protee- tion to put our manufacturers abso mtely on a level with those of other lands. and then to give them "a req sonable profit besides. This can mean nothing else than what the Economist says it means It is no nromise of revision downward The proposition is not to equalize condi- lions here and abroad, not to make up to our manufacturers the excess of the wages they are supposed to pay over those abroad, not to help them ont in the matter of raw material, but after having done ali these things, after having removed every obstacle, and  taken off every handicap, we are to tax ourselves to give the manutactur- ers-such as the steel trust-"a req sonable profit" So it is great vic tory for the standpatters The Econo- mist is quite right, For once it is absolutely right. The party has thrown itself into the arms Of the standpatters. Taking this plank in connection with the refusal of the con vention to demand publicity for cam naign contributions and also in con nection with the great activity of the aqents og tke steel trust at Chicago, lt Ie hard to see how any tariff reformer can get much hope from the tarlH nIank of the Republican platform There is less comfort than ever to be got from il now that the American Economist. a besotted high tanh or gon has commended it with such touching enthusiasm.