The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-09-20


Tariff reform and tariff repeal is
acceptable doctrine to them so long,
and just so long, as the particular
tax levied indirectly on their neigh
bors, the consumer, and which sup
plies the trickiing stream Of silver
that flows into their Golfers, is not
disturbed. Protection is wrong for
the other fellow, but right for them.
Senator Bailey, in answering Mr..
Bryan's arguments for a return TO
purely democratic doctrine, recogniz-
es the hold that protection has taken
on the few favored Interest,"" in
Texas and other southern states, and
whether or not he is sharer in the
spoils that result from this repub-
lican system, by his own arguments
! he admits that he is infected by the
! protection virus.
/ If Mr.. Bryan has declared for free
raw material what does Senator
Bailey offer as substitute? Leav-
! ing democracy out of the question we
would be inclined to agree with the
senator in the contention that if the
manufacturer is protected the pro-
Queer should be protected, but when
/ democracy calls our attention 10 the
consumer-and the consumer is one
of the wards of democracy can
|
/ position that if one tax on the con-
sumner is wrong a double tax cor
reefs that wrong? The manufacturer
makes his millions, the producer of
the manufacturer raw material may
make only his thousands, but in the
/ end it all comes out of the pocket
material may be the lesser of the
1 two evils, but if the repeal of that
duty gives relief even in a modified
form, are not the people entitled to
such relief? Now, mind you, we are
not discussing the effect of repeal
of the duty on raw material on the
fellow that is benefited by that du-
ty, but as to the pernicious doctrine
of protection as it effects the unpro-
tected consumer, who is represented
by more than four-fifths of the Am
defends the producer of the raw
material and according to surface
indications his heart bleeds for the
poor fellow who is taxed because of
the manufacturer protection on all
that he eats, drinks and wears, but
what do we find beneath the sur
face?
! In defending himself against the
/ charge of having disregarded and
violated the demands of the demo-
cratic platform of 1908 Senator Bal
ley declared himself statesman
iswayed by prejudices and selfishness
more than one influenced by the doe
trine of the party he is elected t.
represent. 1t sounds nice to advance
the contention that platform de-
mand which does not directly effect
the people of his state is not bind
sition democratic? Discussing the
demand for free lumber and Justify
ing his vote against the repeal or re-
ducton of the duty on that product
not raw material, mind you, but
a finished product Senator Bailey
said that such repeal or reduction
would not have cheapened the price
Of lumber in Texas. We can not, for
( the life of as, agree with any such
contention, but let us pass over that
and follow the senator in his further
findings. Were any of the people of
1.-THE United States-and Senator Bal
ley is a senator of the United States
to be benefited by this repeal or
reduction? Yes, the senator says that
/ in the states along the Canadian Dor
der lumber would have been cheap
ened to the consumer But they are
our ''step-cousins" and we do not
want to benefit them. When we take
his reasons for Opposing another
democratic demand, free wood pulp
and print paper, what do we find?
Senator Bailey, with his usual logic,
declared that he had traced the ben
eficiaries of this demand to a source
/ and found that while the country
newspapers would be beneficiaries in
"a small way. to the big newspapers
and magazines would go the greatest
| benefit, and that in the whole this
demand resolved itself into an effort
on the part of the democratic party
to bride the newspapers and mag
aznes. Print paper is not raw ma
terial, but the manufacturer finish
I ed product and because of the pro-
lection that republican system
gives to such manufacturers sys-
/ TEN that Senator Bailey, in this,
!another instance, has endorsed and
/ helped to perpetuate-the makers
Iof newspapers and magazines and