Bisbee daily review., 1910-06-23

All men-to say nothing of women and children-who are not otherwise, engaged and have time for the div ersion, are entitled to speculate upon what MT. Roosevelt will do but the Press is unkind when it cuts out programme so recklessly valorous as this.
 The Press in a long editorial. prov es to its own satisfaction that theI tarif has absolutely nothing whatever to do with the price of anything. and winds up with the following para graph;
 The thing for the Republican newspaper and for other represena- tives of the Republican party to- do is not to declare or to imagine this is a question to be sidetracked or run full speed by campaign man  agers, as they deem expedient, but is one that will have to undergo the test of the ballot-box when ever a Congress district or the Nation SO desires. And. as we have said. the easiest way to answer the unprovable aguments of the agitators is to submit to the public the specific facts about tariff rates and commodity prices. If. after they have these facts clearly presented for their understanding. the voters. nevertheless. want to elect members of Congress who will greatly modify, or even wipe out, the tariff. nobody can stop them; nobody can ward off the consequences until the voters themselves. suffering from their mistakes. hasten. as they have done before. to correct it."
 Just what misfortune could result from the wiping out of a tariff law that does not effect prices is not apparent It is not contended even in Republican platforms and cam pangn speeches. that ours is merely revenue tarif. It is called protee- tive. It guarantees reasonable profit" to the class it protects. Yet we have it from the Press. an enthus- iastic and fearless standpatter. that it does not enable anyone to sell anything for more than the same thing would command in a free trade country. All of the profits go to the purveyor or "middleman" who is the orgre of the economic equation. Ii it is true that the that is supposed to be protected and guaranteed a reasonable profit is not in fact protected at all, it cannot be argued that to remove this theoretic and wholly fareical protection would ir any way effect the prosperity oi those who are now prosperous. Sub tracing nothing from a given quan fly does not reduce the origina quantity. There would be exactly tn, same profit remaining to American manufacturers if We should rage tn, tarif wall to it's foundations provid ed the rPess is right.
 The difficulty that suggests itsel as an obstacle to the republican speak CTS. in the event that the suggestion of the Press should be carried ou is that there would be nothing to sa. to the workingman about the bentht of the existing system. He ha been told that it provide the employe with means to pay high wages. Ho,
 so, if is does not provide 6 mean
 of selling at high prices? whene arises the reasonable profit tha I the wage-earner is supposed to share
 There used to be a gospel. C
 high prices" that the protectionisi
 like to preach. Leslie NJ. Shaw, on
 of the leading ministers of that go
 pei. said in a speech in 1906:
 T wish all the world well, but
 any one has to be out of emplo,
 ment, then VIII use my best efforf
 that it comes not nigh my countr If to accomplish this. it sha
 be necessary that pay more for r clothes. more for my shoes, mol T. for my sewing machine. more for n 'i typewriter, more for the barbed vii
 used on my Iowa farm, than is pa ,s for the same articles in Europe. tn, ,d will not object.
 ln T will consent to pay a lit le more than would otherwise be nece h. sary to the end of that Americ, 'e labor shall be put on foreign ma