Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-03-18
JUDGE PARKER TELLS PEOPLE
TO BEWARE SCHEMES OF
REVISIONISTs
GIVES TAFT CREDIT FOR SINGER
ITY IN HIS TARIFF UT
TERANCES-BUT?
JUSTICE WILL NOT COME UNLESS
PEOPLE MAKE DEMAND
EMPHATIC.

Princeton, n. J., March IA
No one. Mr.. president, in the COM
mencement OF the protective policy,
ever supposed that it was to be per-
petual We hoped and believed that
temporary protection extended to our
inrant manufacturers would bring
them up aud enable them to withstand
competition with those Of Europe If
the protective policy were entirely to
cease in 1S4a DIT would have existed
twenty-six years from 1916, or eigh-
teen from 1924, quite as long as, at
either Of these periods, its friends
supposed might be necessary"
So said Judge Alton B. Parker at
Princeton university last night. He
then voiced the opinion that prevails
at the present time that the pro
tected trades are no longer in a state
of infancy.
AS this argument has at times
done great service, although now
quite threadbare," said Judge Parker,
Il dwell upon it a moment. mas
much as the law puts the tariff bene-
fits exclusively in the hands OF the
capitalists, and provides no means
for giving the wage worker his share,
the argument virtually is: Let the
government create rich men and they
will take care of the poor. 1t is a
short step then to say: Let the gov
eminent take care of everybody, a
doctrine abhOrred of all sOund-think-
ing men. But it is not true that the
unduly enlarged profits are automat-
ically divided among the workmen
helping to produce them. Advances
in wages have not been due, as a rule,
to desire on the part Of employers to
share profits with the workmen, but
rather to the organization of the
workmen."
For more than fOrty-fOur years that
have passed since the war, said the
speaker, people have not been able
to secure relief from tariff relaxation
Attempts have been made, but the end
is worse than the beginning. why
is this so?" he asked. Because the
protected interests, grown rich and
noworfuI during tho var entorod
politics, as it had been predicted that
thew wouId in order to hold fast tn
their special privilege to levy tribute.
Forty odd years of success have
crowned +bnir vioilont and inoossan+
Iabors"
Judga Parker nointad ont that q
plan for the revision Of the tariff was
made distinctive feature Of Prosi-
dent Arthur's administration. A com
mission was .aDp0inted in 1882 which
reported in 1888 nroDosed hill which
thew said wonId make an average re-
ductfon Of from On To d nor cent in
the rates Of duty. The protected in
terests hurried tn WASHINGTON and as
the result of tbeir efforts tho Hill was
killed In ite stead Hill framed in
conferences committee and never
oonsidorod IN detail in oithar boueo of
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