Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
TARIFF AND THE WEST
Revision Sentiment Is Not
Wholly Satisfied by Law.
MUCH HOSTILE COMMENT
Fayne-hldrich Bill Accepted by
Many as Good Compromise.
DIVERGENT PRESS VIEWS
Democratic Editors Denounce Meas
MUCH HOSTILE COMMENT
DIVERGENT PRESS VIEWS
Democratic Editors Denounce Meas
ure, While Independent Papers
Complain of Broken Pledges.
Indignation!
From the Denver Times.

Indignation!
From the Denver Times
The country will not be silenced. Fro
creSsive republicans everywhere are IN
dignaut that the sacred livery or protec-
ton should have been stolen to serve the
interests in Never before has there been
such exposure of the brazen methods by
which the people lose and the interests
win BAD as are some of the schedules.
republican Indignation is not so herceiy
aroused by their injustice as by the gen
era! shamelessness of method through
which they have been prepared and en-
forced For years it has been charged
and for years denied that the trusts
u-,ote their own rates; that the tariff had
caased Ia he a reasonable protection
against undue competition and had be-
como am unreasonable prohibition against
all ,ompetition: that American monopo-
lists. sheltered under the walls or tarin'
were penalizing the American people Tor
heinc Americans by selling TO them at
the worlds highest price Whlie seiins
tho same goods to foreigners at the
worlds lowest price. 1t has taken the
intelligence the Vigor, the loyalty OF tne
progressive republicans to demonstrate
that the charge is true and the uenlai
false.
1t Will Do.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel
IL is not a full and literal compliance
with the ideal tariff standards formu-
lated in the party platform. But, again.
such compliance was practically lmpos-
Sible Congress lacking the assistance of
a tariff commission and therefore the
statistical data necessary to determine
the labor cost differentials stated IN the
platform as the normals or measures OF
legitimately protective rates. But IL not
perfect land where in the works OF fal-
iible humanity do we find perfectionO. 1t
represents sincere effort on the part
of the republican party to comply with
platform promises. 1t represents a SIN
cere effort to carry out DOWNWARD re-.
vision in so far as such revision Is COM
patible with protection and with justice
to Industries the interests of whose in
vestors and wageworkers are interlocked
with the American protective system.
Taft's Apology.
From the Sioux City Tribune.
Fellow-republicans: Lend me your ears
and be silent. Break not into my speech
with groans. for my speech is a groan.
Listen and be patient while l show you
how we might have been fiimfiammed
far worse than we have been. Think
pray think what would have been had l
not thrown myself into the vortex and
made the plunderbund drop some of their
plumber. Be thankful. as l am. that they
did not get away with the whole swag.
True. my friends. bitterly true, it is that
YOU do not get what you expected, what
your convention led you to expect. what
! promised and intended you should get
confess with sorrow that it is not what
you would have got had my distinguished
predecessor been in my place, or if 1 had
not mistakenly thought that he had but
ted in too often and too far. causing
much unpleasantness in and out of Con-
gress, and decided to recline upon the
couch of presidential propriety while Mr.
Payne and Mr.. Aldrich were fixing up
the schedules. / see now. when 1t is too
late. that had / taken hand earlier the
outcome might have been more nearly
YOUR desires.
A COMPROMISE.
From the Colorado Springs Gazette.
OF course. nobody is entirely satisfied
II would be too much to expect that a
measure which represents nearly a year
of legislative Notwithstanding the work
OF the ways and means committee-would
please everybody. And when we remem-
Der that Mr.. Payne wanted one thing.
Senator Aldrich something slightly diff
ferent. the insurgents something radically
different and President Taft something
still different, il is not surprising that the
tariff law is a compromise through
out.
Political Opposition.
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The fact is that no tariff bill is or can
be perfect so long as the present method
or framing and enacting tariff legislation
is pursued. The present bill represents
concessions by high observation-disclosures
OF them gracefully proffered, some of
them snatched in scuffle-some of them
peremptorily demanded by President Taft
and reluctantly yielded at the last mo-
ment-but all of them tending TO lessen
the burden of the measure upon the
backs of the masses of the people The
opposition 10 the tariff now that it has
passed will be almost wholly political.
Business generally Will be so glad of the
fact that the controversy is settled that
concern as 10 whether it is settled this
WAY hat way sinks to second place.
TIE political onslaughts upon the bill will
be fierce for a month or more to come
and would have been fierce, no matter
IN what form the bill had passed That
Is inevitable when there is political agita-
ton.
Dissatisfaction.
I rom the Dayton News.
There doesn't seem TO be any question
as 10 the fate of the republican leaders
who have put through the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill. According 10 every source of
information. regardless of politics. the
people of this country are not going to
stand for il. 1t is an avalanche of adj
verse criticism that is going over the
country, and if any one has any doubt
about the rnurmurings he has but to pick
up the daily papers OF any city in the
mited States outside of the New Eng
land states.
Fairly Satisfactory.
From the Cincinnati rimes-Star.
OF course. the Payne bill-or the Payne
law as il should now be called-has been
freely criticised. All tariff bills are Free
traders are very much dissatisfied because
downward revision not carried far
enough 10 suit them. Standpatters are
dissatisfied because il was carried too far
Some genuine protectionists would have
liked the cut in tariff rates TO have gone
further. But the country as whole
seems TO be fairly well Sd tisiied with the
Payne law.
The New Accumulation.
From tb" SteubeuvilIc tOnio, Gazette.
The new tariff df denominations, intended
10 further clinch the spike of monopoly
and TO eternally wipe out the well-to-do
people OF the United States and pauperize
Weak Women
should heed such warnings as