The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-09-02

\ PRE4CHLNG DANGEROUS DOCTRTNE
When this middle western section Of
our country RECEIVERS from its excite
ment over the failure of its represen-
tatives to secure all that it demanded
in the way of tariff reform-an excite
ment which is famed to fresh vigor
each day by the shrewdly written
and well-designed editorials of the
metropolitan press-then our people,
IN calmer frame of mind will begin
to study the real nature of this great
tariff struggle.
They will begin to realize that the
tariff is not a political but rather an
economical subject. They will better
understand the motives which impelled
the representatives from the various
sections OF this vast country to act
and vote as they did. They will
understand why southern democrats in
congress became high protectionists,
why eastern representatives struggled
to protect the New England manu-
facturers, why the far west wanted to
protect it's lumber and hides and whv
we OF the middle west-producers and
consumers wanted sweeping reduc-
tions in manufactured articles and
protection on our products. ....
Out of this tangle of a country's
conflicting interests it was absolutely
imperative that compromises should
be made. In this effort our section
may not have Jared as we'll as other
portions of the country, hence, the
seat of discomfort is. here. It was a.
war of business interests in the ma
TONS greatest forum, and from the
very nature of the opposing interests
an absolutely satisfactory adjustment
was impossible impossible because
the men charged with the adjustment
had constantly before their minds the
effect their action was going to have
on their political futures.
The work is now done and the result
is before the country. Fer the effects
| OF that measure has been made ap-
parent, but taking advantage of the
present discomfort the demagogue is
nourishing his ambitions and striving
to capitalize public dissatisfaction for
his own profit. The most glaring
example of this despicable and un-
patriotic effort is offered by our own
governor, whose strident, vain-glori-
Gus speech at Seattle urging the west
to throw off the shackles of the east
is being justly denounced through
out the country as a cloud appeal to
local pride.'' ..-
History has no lessons for Gov.
Johnson, else he ignores them in the
interest of his own ambition.
Pandering to what he thinks is
keen dissatisfaction he sets the
example of hostility by pulling off his
coat and showing his teeth. He calls
on the west-meaning the Mississippi
valley-to take up the cudgel against
the east, forgetting, as he is timely
reminded by Golfers, that the mis-
chief OF which he complains was
largely the work of western man
Joe Cannon-while an eastern man
Theodore Roosevelt-continu to be
the idol of the west
The preaching of sectional strife is
dangerous doctrine and should re-
ceive the condemnation of every
patriot. Johnson's attempt to find an
issue in that particular has miserably
failed as it should. Had the west
succeeded in it's contentious and
evolved a tariff measure in every
respect satisfactory to us it would
have been at the expense of other
interests and other sections of the
country, in which event the seat OF
discomfort would have been simply
transferred, not destroyed.
| The remedy is to take the tariff out
of politics.
! The subject is purely a national
business proposition requiring con.
slant REIMBURSEMENT of schedules to
conform to the natural changing con.