The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-08-11

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ONE YEAR. -. ....sl.50
SIX MONTHS. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. O.75
The TARIFF IS SETTLED.
After weeks of debate the tariff bill
has become law. To those who
wished q wholesale reduction of the
.aiuties it was great disappointment,
but these people were notin sympathy
with the republican idea of protection
and would not have been pleased with
anything short OF q free trade measure.
The people as q whole had expressed
their confidence in and their approval
Of the protective theory and it would
have been treachery to have given
! them anything less than q protective
q tariff.
Without doubt the bill is not en-
stirely satisfactory to large number
9Of republicans. The debate proved
Hthe wisdom of Hancock g saying that
4 the tariff is local issue, for nearly
all Of those who insisted on reductions,
failed to find lowered schedules attrac-
tive when they concerned the things
produced at their homes.
From party standpoint we wish
that many of the harsh things had
been left unsaid, but that the speakers
were not taken very seriously is
evidenced by the little disturbance
caused in the business of the country;
the least that has ever been known
when tariff law was under discus
sion.
President Taft sounds the key note
for republicans and we believe we can
wisely follow his lead. The President
admits that tue tariff is not perfect
but he thinks it an honest attempt at
revision downward and that without
impairing The protective protective system it will
4 s.-a to To- 5qualize prices and prevent ex-
tortion. We do not question the
sincerity of those republican members
who voted against the Payne bill, but
We doubt their wisdom. If the new
tariff law does not retard prosperity.
and We see no reason why it should, it
f. going to BIZ difficult to keep the peo-
ple in state Of agitation and to
preserve in them an ugly frame Of
mind towards the party that is able
to keep men busy and times good.
4 Unless the Payne bill is followed by
disaster and hard times, the attitude
nose who have placed tkamselvel
ilirect opposition to the republican
sority and to the republican Presi.
will become more difficult every
This is the first time in it's his
' when the Tenth District Of Iowa,
5anner republican district of thu
ed States, has voted with democ
ON any measure Of vital impor
- ANY republicans were with then
ID their opposition to . number Q
the schedules and wished their coun
had been needed to q greater de
but we think they went beyon
.ds when they set their judg
inst that Of the President an
ths of the republicans of bot
land joined hands with til
To in the final issue and vote
a great party measure. RI
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enough, but next year the great issu
will be either the support or the d.
nunciation of the present tariff.
the tariff is sufficiently unpopular
the democrats will win great vi,
Is tory. But the democrats will hay
no room for republican insurgents
as such. If the tariff justifes j
self and times remain good. the r.
publican supporters of the bill wi
win great victory and they wi
have just as little room for republ
can insurgents. 1t is our opinion tn,
the Iowa senators are in a cul de sac
and further. that the exigencies Of IL
case did not call for such heroic ma
tyrdom.
The Iowa Sc ators having. fougl
hard fight and urged the n
ductions they felt should be mad,
should have accepted the result
ing compromise with the good era,
and the good judgment that characte
lied the action of the Presid' Mt.
BENEFITS OF INlERURBAN ROA[
The Review has grown chary abol
urging others to make investment
1t ia for this reason that we are N
prepared to boost and boom, as pc
haps. we should. in the matter of Il
proposed interurban.
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