The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-04-22
O QUITE PROVED
PRESIDENTS ASSERTIONS SOME
WHAT FAR-FETcHED.
People Will Hardly Be Likely to See
Things Through the SpectacIes
of the Chief Executive-Some
Gases in Point.

In the banquet room at Providence.
R. l., with Senator Aldrich himself
seated on his left, President Taft de-
clared that the practical operation
during seven months of the Aldrich
tariff had proved" seven propositions.
That's one a month, you see.
One was to the effect that free
trade with the Philippines is a meas
restrictions on imports of Philippine
rice, sugar and tobacco, but the sub
stantial truth of the proposition must
be admitted. Another was that the
creation of the new customs court has
provided a mean for the speedy and
just determination of tariff law. The
court hasn't yet been organized, so it's
creation cannot yet have proved"
anything, but the truth of this, too,
must be admitted, prospectively. No
doubt the court will fulfil expectation.
The value of his new tariff board is
problematical. His idea of such a
board is quite different from the board
for which congress has made provi-
sion.
With his other five propositions
there must be radical and perpetual
dissent, in the sense in which he lays
them down; that is, as propositions
establishing the merit of the new tar
if. For instance, he says that it is
tffhn hacf y0ftAr xyA nror haI ~
This may be true, though a revival
of business after months of depression
has caused abnormal conditions that
make a seven months test not alto
gether conclusive as to it's ultimate
operation.
One of the chief grounds of com
plant against the law is that it is too
altogether good as a revenue producer.
1t takes too much money from the
pockets of the people. 1t lays too
heavy a tax on the articles of con-
sumption of the plain people. 1t
bears too heavy a load of responsible
ity for an obnoxious period of high
prices.
Mr.. Taft exclaims triumphantly that
the new law has "the largest free
list" 1t does put works of art, 20
years old, on the free list, for which
we may be thankful, and sundry ar
ticles of art manufacture, excepting
stained glass windows. Radium,
whose existence was unknown when
the Dingley bill was framed, is added
to the free list.
But is Mr.. Taft measuring by the
bushel or by the yard when he says
it's free list is the "largest?" The
value of a free list consists in the
not in the number, of the
articles it contains.
What an inestimable privilege it
must be to the people to have kindling
wood admitted free and the lumber of
which their dwellings are constructed
and the paper on which their reading
is printed taxed exorbitantly |
under a minimum schedule and taxed
under a maximum sched- |
ule!
1uOSC WnOu tAC CAdClIOu6 VI Xix
schedules are causing to take
anxious thought as to wherewith they
shall be clothed should be content.
How irrational, when joss sticks are
admitted free; also balm of Gilead
and stuffed birds not suitable for use
on millinery, and blue clay-shouldn't
our blue clay be protected against the
blue clay of Europe?-and
cuitlefish bone and ipecac and lots of
To sum up, Mr.. Taft's proved" ma
terial reduction Is a minimum In |
crease of I'll per cent, and the pdr-
chasing agent of the family gets an
Idea these days that it is an increase
Of many times III per cent.
How characteristic that MIR. Roose-
ovprocciopc IN EOvp< should |