Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-15
5 INTELLIGENCE
AGAINST a PARTYS GREED.
a NATIONS

VI
the Republican party people do not believe
in and will stand for tariff which conrved for private
interests rather than for public ~
Drunk with the
organization deaf the peoples demand and false to It's own
pledges 1t last entrusted with the on specnc
promise that there should be downward revision VI h h
special session of called accomplish TINS enc p
only with the result that the tariff piled higher still on The
necessaries of life.
insult to injury party leaders who were rsp0ns
bic for this breach of faith actually undertook DEFENSE Oh
described the PayneTurlcn
the tariff ever and bandy argued that because d
duty had been reduced six hundred and hy-Ou % had
therefore been honestly downward 1t of scap
seemingly that the reduction had been on champagne anu '
increase on clothes and and farming implements ~
Such nsincery bound to meet rum " u The nast
thought and conscience into unusual ACTIVITY seriously
year two people than ever before nave - should
upon protective tariff means or what purposes IL M LII
and those should not serve and most and their daiy
they have considered its effect on their 5ouen anu m
interests Thus politics became instead Oh ee e. dJro
blind allegiance party practical concern OF the
citizen throughout the union. The tariff was no longer ~
trine was a of affairs. =.
To what this conviction swept is shown oy tne c'
that the revolution which overthrow Repubcanlsm was not COLI
fined section of the country nor 10 any one
n mt down system that was proving destructive of their COM
business and civic rights 1t was the nations n'ee
Fsnecav significant was the the eastern states
the country great manufacturing and industrial center as
cbuses Connecticut Jersey and New York states Whe
factories hickes and capital most concentratednese m
went Democratic for the state government ana
for the federal government; circumstance Whc %
the rank and file industrial interests well as the farmer ana
the worngman repudae the sort OF arh that mas Oeeh ~
What the people demand and they have commissioned
the Democratic party to produce is aE Jaw Jaw b end Tey
will tolerate system that gluts monopohes ana arve gen
era business that brings great fortunes for the lew and
for the many only legitimate need of tariff IN addition
to furnishing to equaze the cost Oh LABOR Oh
duced in this country and the articles produced
abroad This much order that the American work
ngmans standard of living may not be lowered CON-
petition with the so-called pauper labor OF europe
But the Republican tariff has leageus further than TINS
principle 1t provides only for and protection but
also for tribute to the wool trust the rubber trust
be trust and monopoes whose giant fists cnched
about necessities of millions OF American homes ac
is long the Republican party was IN power was tnes
verv monopos that the tariff and too was the tariff
that made them The Dover apy inquired in the
course of speech at the last session OF congress;
the United States intend that these
vS1 15sS S d Tth brutal tyranny by
fsS . %GaSR S ss' upoH Of
Under this Republican system of tariff making two specific
evils have sprung up exorbant advance in the cost Of living
and that of which harmful to honest business as
well as to popular government ...
There is no need figures to show the towering increase
in the neceares within the past two years. the period
covered bv the bill Every housewife man
struggling keep family in clothes and food knows the Facts
And while portion this increase doubtless due to natural
causes beyond control bulk of Internationally due to
artificial conditions maintained by excessive tarlh: .
Under the PayneAldrch bill silk is admitted to our
ports free On manufactured silk article an average duty OF
only three per cent is charged But on wooden CLONES val
ued at not forty cents pound yet needed for the
comfort of all the people the duty is liked at one hun
red hrve per cent Surely this is an arclal CONDITION
and the general system of which is but single example
responsible in large for the existence OF the
trust for without the protection OF tne ngn 'a wall SUCH nO
nopOlies would fall by natural competition; ,,.n,,.
evils like these tostered by the hepuOcan
that the country ebeed last Tuesday The people have
turned TO that stands for their rights
well in doctrine and because as the platform Oh the
Ohio Democrats expressed 1t:
m : s sa sa 92 2dou % f
the paryo o
This has the great opportunity has long
been the great of the Democratic parhe reduction
tariff basis of and reasonable protection And
when Democracy actually control Of the will
accomplish this tending business
but by steady readument OF tariff schedules TO the nations
needs.
Such policy will go far toward relieving the people of the
present of living and will further in
the legitimate control of giant monopoes 1t will mean greater
business large and also for the individual
American remedy economic evils not through meria
c Capitalization of Washington the New National
proposed by honest and practical application of the
old the abuses that have under Republican
rule