The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-11-03

justing tariff duties to changed con-
ditions. The friends of the policy
ought to be most anxious to do So
But in doing our work nothing is
more important than to preserve the
principle of protection. to give our
people the advantage of the difference
between the cost of production here
and elsewhere. II we should, In Grad
icating its abuses. destroy the whole
system there would be three million
work within six months. The mildew
Of stagnation would whiten the indus
trial life of the country and while
prices would be lower there would
be no consolation in that fact TO
the workmen who would have nothing
with which to buy. Let 1t be under
stood that those of us who favor the
making OF such changes as new con-
ditions demand, still believe in the |
great economic system which has
helped to make us rich and power
full nation, a doctrine now accepted by |
every great nation save one and 1t |
gives evidence that II Will accept 1t
before another decade.
agree entirely with those who |
think the last tariff bill was not al
together what 1t should have been and
that many duties were left too high.
/ have no doubt 1t was the best pos
sible bill to be had at that session
and that II was much better than the
tariff bill which 1t supplanted. Many
who voted for the bill did so because
il was a step in the right direction
and all that could be had. But little
can be gained now by reverting TO
that matter 1t is rather our duty to
get the facts which we did not at that
| time have and could not get and to,
as scientifically as we can, adjust the
| schedules in accordance with the facts
| and in accordance with the rules an
nounced in our platform
Government and Corporations.
| The most important question of this
| hour, the one upon which turns very
largely the future of the republic, Is
| the relation OF our government TO
| combined and centralized wealth.
those powerful and Indispensable
| agencies of industry created by the
| State--the corporations. 1t Is well to
understand in the beginning that this
problem can not be solved by denun-
citation. There Is no possible room
here for the demagogue the whole
business world is involved, the wages
of millions of workmen, the savings
Of tens of thousands of people OF or
binary means are involved. The far-
reaching results for good to be at
tanned through wise action and the
fearful results, the misery TO follow
from unwise action ought to sober all
men into a determination TO be ]'ist,
to be tolerant, to be above all things
| courageous, courageous not only TO
: do the right but courageous TO pre-
vent the wrong.
There seems to be a class of honest,
we'll meaning men who start all ois-
cussion upon this subject by denounc-
ing property and assailing property
} rights-by seeking to array what they
choose to call the rights OF men
against the rights of property. Tnere
: IL no such issue in this controversy
! There have been no rights or mer
l worthy of the name, no rights othel
than tormenting' decisions wnert
property has been unprotected ane
: property rights worthless. The gull
: iotine follows in quick succession th'
Q destruction of all title deeds. gov
q eminent which does not furnish pro
Q lection for the honest gatherings
n frugality and industry, which does no
s safeguard the Accommodations of homes
h toll would be a miserable delusion
: There can be no rights under such
Q government save the rights which res
n in superior physical strength, IN
: rights of a savage. The weak woui'
: be the miserable piaythngs OF .n
$ strong. There is no man in this Ian
7 so humble but is interested IN TN
r stability of our property rights JUS
y the same as the man who directs IN
y operations OF great railway system
! Remedy Is at Hand.
IS Equally misled are those Wn
think that II is first of all necessar
v "a change or ignore the fundaments
+ principles of our government anu .
J. our institutions. We DO not heeu
o change nearly so much as we nee
e fine faithful and intelligent use OF TN
1t mowers we have. The old charter
,r government is to me sacred inslru
1t ment. I would only touch II Tor
" change when necessity should abse
1t lutely command and when changed
l. would do 1t in the manner poln,e
" ont by the instrument itself. l Wou'
ir neither invoke unnatural construcuo
d, nor ignore its plain terms. inc III
re mortal washington said: =,
~ "If in the opinion of the people. u
liz distribution or modification OF u
OF constitutional powers De IN any pa
g. ticular wrong, let 1t be corrected
Is on amendment In the way in whit
" the constitution designates. But
RS there be no change by usurpation' 4
I'D though this in one instance may
st the instrument of good, 1t Is the Gu
DIS tomary weapon by which free COVER
T. ments are DESTROYED. the preceue
to must always greatly overpalance
permanent evil any partial or ira
sient benefit which the use at al
% time can yield"
IL That Is as sound piece of polite
es- philosophy as ever came from NUM-
I'm iips concerning free institutions.
an Is the gospel of orderly liberty. al
iff. willingly or unwittingly he Is the pc
Of pies foe who does not walk In
he light. $1,000 :,
to / believe II we could administer u
1t government in full faith. exercise
Eft the powers which are ours, doing
an things with a reverent respect for I
Ter greatest governmental instrument eN
to Conceived by the wit of man,
vas would be the happiest, the most PR
to perous. the best governed people
M the face of the earth, and we woa
i've have the most stable and be the M
re- powerful government known to ma
ace All discussions of these questio
hat therefore, should have beginning
hat a profound respect for those rights
ion property upon which rests this CIV
a cation Of ours; profound reverer
in for the great charter under which
aw have grown to greatness; a profou
ich reverence for those institutions c
cen ated by the genius of the fathers q
in a profound conviction that O
og- through legal and orderly meths
Ia ~ !. :, ,ar,a q nant good be accomplish