Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-09-15
SQUARE DEAL
FOR TARIFF.
Roosevelt at Sioux Falls SAYS
Present Result Good.
NEED EXPERT COMMISSION.
Es-Presisens Agrees That Entire Sat.
isfae.ien Has No. Been Given BY the
Payne Aldrich Effer.-shoud Be a
Material Issue and Ne. q Moral
Issue.

Sioux Falls. Sept. 3.-Nhenever meu
just like ourselve>-rrobably not much
better and certainly no worsAcon-
t;Duaily fail to give Us the results
we have right TO expect from their
efforts We may just as well make
our minds that the fault lies not in
their personality. but in the conditions
under which they work. and profit
comes not from denouncing them. but
in seeing that the conditions are
changed
This Is especially true Of lar'a max
ing II has been conclusively shown
by experiments repeated again and
again that the methods Of tariff max
Ing rs congress which have now OBJ.
tanned for SO many years cannot from
the Very nature Of the case bring real
ly satisfactory results.
] think that the present tariff is bet
ter than the last and considerably bet.
ter than the one before the last. but ii.
has certainly failed to give general
satisfaction. believe this country Is
fuily committed to the principle of
protection, but 1t is to protection as &
principle. to protection primarily in
the interest of the standard of living
OF the American workingman.
| believe that when protection be-
comes not principle, but a privilege
and preference-or, rather, a tumble
of privileges and preferences-thent the
American people disapprove of it.
Now, to correct the trouble it is neces-
sary i'll the first place TO get in mind
Clearly what we want and in the next
place to get in mind clearly the meth
cd by which we hope to obtain what
we want.
What we want is square deal in
the tariff as in everything elsa
square deal for the wage Garner a
square deal for the employer and
square deal for the general public.
To obtain it we must have thorough
" efficient and well equipped tariff
commission.
The tariff ought to bea material issue
antl,not a moral issue But IL instead
of assluare deal we get crooked deal
then Nit becomes very emphatically
moral issue. What we desire in a
tarinfis such measure of protection as
will cqualize the cost of production
here and abroad. and as the cost OF
production is mainly labor cost this
means primarily Il tariff sufficient to
make up for the difference In labor
cost here aud abroad.
Tho American public wants the
American laborins man put on an
equality With other citizens, so that he
Shall have the ability TO achieve the
American standard OF living and the
capacity TO enjoy it, and to do this we
must see that his wages are not lower
cd by improper competition With in
ferior wageworkers abroad with
wageworkcrs who are paid poorly and
who live as no Americans are willin.
to live. But the American public does
not wish to see the tariff SO arranged
as to benefit primarily a few wealthy
men
Commission of Experts.
AS means toward the attainment
Of its end in view we have as vet de-
vised nothing in amy way as effective
ASA tariff commission. There should
beta commission of we'll paid experts.
men who should not represent any in
dustrv, who should be masters of their
subjects. OF the very highest charac
ter and who should approach the mat
ter with absolute disregard of every
outside consideration
These men should take up in success
sion each subject with which the tariff |
deals and investigate the conditions of
here and abroad They
should find out the facts and pot mere