The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1910-04-05

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fined sugar cents per 100 pounds
one-twentieth of cent pound
which was worse than no reduction
because it cannot possibly affect the
price and, therefore. lis a deception:
yet that is one OF the boasted reduc-
tions we hear of.
Above all. could not stand for the
slaughter by the conference commit
tee of the modest and moderate be-
ginning of tariff commission which
wrote into the bin that passed the
senate; but all save one Democrat
were the enemies of any tariff COM
mission then and are its enemies now.
These are examples Of increases.
now.
It is said that the law has made re-
ductions on articles entering into the
consumption of the people to the value
of five billion dollars; yet the bulk of
value of these articles is made up of
such things as lumber, agricultural
implements, meat and food products.
of all of which we are the greatest
exporters in the world; steel rails and
coal, which we export; barbed wire,
monopolized by the Steel Trust; nails,
tional tobacco monopoly; yarns and
threads, the raw material for textiles,
when finished for the peoples use,
the tariff was increased: sugar,
which was not reduced in fact but
only in pretense.
These are examples Of decreases.
From none of them do the people get
the slightest benefit.
Compromise on purely economic de-
tails often is wise: but compromise
with sheer injustice always is wrong.
help the people is not honest compro-
mise-it is spurious compromise; it
is not honest protection-it is per-
version of protection. If rate was
increased one thousand per cent. the
extortionist would claim that it was
protection and denounce as a free
trader the real protectionist
I was for law that would protect
the wages of every workingman in In
diana and yet enable the workingman
to get his clothing and creature COM
forts cheaper-and such a law could
have been written and it shall be
written.
was for a law that would have
given every manufacturer in Indiana
ample protection, and yet enable him
to get his raw materials cheaper-and
such law could have been written
and it shall be written.
I was for a law that would have
taken the tariff out of the way of busi-
ness for ten or dozen years-and
such law could have been written
and it shall be written. Business
needs tariff stability, and only a salts
fled people can give tariff stability.
The dictates of justice are better for
business than the dictates of bosses;
for the people obey justice and defy
bosses. ~ &~
Certain men believe that the rea.
sonable prosperity of all American
citizens depends upon the gigantic
, prosperity of the few dozen American
citizens. I believe that the reasonable
!. prosperity of the few dozen American
citizens should depend upon the com
mon prosperity of all American
J citizens. The Oil Trust and owners
, of vast fortunes could have more
!, healthfully builded by their genius
| courage and industry without the aid
of rebates. The enormous earnings
. of the Sugar Trust do not need to be
I swollen by misuse Of the protective
| principle, or the tremendous profits Of
, the Tobacco Trust aided by acts Of
. congress. The nation would be health
: Ter and the moral tone of the people
/ better il these great fortunes which
{ are now being disbursed as gifts hat
: been distributed through the Ions
: years in better wages to their owners
: men and smaller largess to their own
ers' lobbyists.
| Daniel Webster spoke, fought ant
{ voted against the tariff bill of 1924. IL
his speech on that bill-one of tn,
> greatest of his life. he said:
| What should hinder us from exer
r cising our own judgments upon thes'
: provisions, singular and several
l Who has the power to place us in
condition where we cannot give t,
;. every measure a separate and dis
J. tinct consideration? Whatever is ex
. travagant or unreasonable is not like
/ ly to endure; if no moderation i
e shown in laying on duties there ma,
t be little in taking them off.
1 There are some parts OF this bill
which highly approve, there are 9th
e ers in which I acauiesce; bu
r those to which I have now stated m
z objections appear to me SO destitut
b Of justice, so burdensome and so dar
) gerous that nothing can prevail upo
i me to give 1t my support"
i Many increases of duty that Wei
: ster spoke and voted against were o.
i articles made in Massachusetts, an
r New England; yet, although the in
+ terests of that day and their polit
s clans reviled Webster for that speec
e and vote, the people rallied to tn
+ moral standard he raised.
e The making OF tariff, so long a
d moderation and justice are followed
) is an economic question; but the mt
ment excess and injustice are pra,
e ticed, the making of a tariff become
d also moral question So the tarii
a fight last year was moral fight An
h who bore the battle? | want the ne,