Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-09-22

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would be lrfr without their da,.
bread and meat ny any general o.
immediate overthrow s we think
shout the tariff. We DO not wa,
1" see process OF reudjustmer.
which would bring on q panic O.,
cause the closing OF mills and facto-
ries end mines The rsadlustr,'ei.
might come ell right in the cours,
/ OF "A year or two. hut II working
men were compelled to 90 without
work Tor year or two while ths sc
/ Justment WAS il progress and states
men ike Mr.. Thomas were working
out their ideas. q good many wo-
men and children might be going
hungry and naked and dying ofhun-
ger and exposure.
The Democratic party has not
IN years declared for free trade or
anything like it. We see no sense
IN party trying to line itself up
for something it cannot do and
would not do if it had the power.
No party would dare go before the
country with demand for immedi-
ate abolition of all protective tariffs
and of the entire principle Of pro-
lection. The most earnest free
traders, like the Roanoke Times.
would promptly oppose such a de-
mand as threatening destruction
and Disaster
We have quoted at great length from
the Times Of the 14th instant, even at
the hazard of making this article too
long. 1t shows that the Times and its
candidate, Mr.. Stuart, are more eager
to secure practical political results than
to stand by and for the principles and
policies of the party to which they claim
to belong.
The arguments of the Times on the
tariff are precisely those that would be
made to the people by an ultra protec-
zionist.
"Our present commercial and bust
ness life have been built up and estab-
lished with the protective tariff system
as one of its vital parts. Anv
sudden change inevitably would work
disaster and destruction. Violent
changes and disturbances injure every
BODY but two classes of people-those
so absolutely ruined that they have
nothing to lose ano those who are ex-
smPt from the necessity of earning
Their own livings by active business.
We believe that reformation of our
tariff system must come and should
come gradually, a stsp at time, with
1uii consideration for existing and es-
tabhshed interests. 1t sounds very
We'll and big to clamor for the whole
sale destruction of the trusts. but we
think about the thousands and tens of
thousands Of people employed by the
trusts who would be left without their
dsiIy bread and meat by any general or
/ immediate overthrow"
+ s., the Times boldly asserts that our
present commercial and business hfe
mas been built by a Republican protec-
tive tariff. That is what the Republi-
cans say. The Times says that tar
If reform should come gradually. The
Republicans say the same thing. and
have created a tariff commission of ex-
perts to accomplish this.
And the Times is opposed to the whole
sale destruction of the trusts. So are
the Republicans, for they recognize the
fact that there are good trusts as>%gell
as bad ones, and that the true policy is
to regulate the trusts and make them
do right.
The Times confesses that it is a theo-
retical free trader, but practical pro-
tectionist; and then it denies in the fol-
Lowing that the Democratic party is for
free trade:
The Democratic party has not in
years declared for free trade or any,
thing like it
We dispute this. The Democratic
platform Of 1908 declared for free trade.
1t was trust busting, free trade and
tariff for revenue platform; and the ed
itor-in-chief of the Roanoke Times gave
as excuse for supporting Mr.. BRYAN
that the tariff plank in the Denver plat
form was true Democratic doctrine.
Here is what was said in that platform;
Articles entering into competition
with trust controlled products should be
placed upon the free list; and material
reductions shall be made in tie tariff
upon the necesssries of life, especially
upon articles competing with American
manufactures as are sold abroad more
cheaply than at home, and graduated
reductions should be made in such other
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