Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-19

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policies of a protective tariff anc
sound finance.
Service of this kind is not spectacu
lar. 1t receives little public attention
and little credit until the public mint
is turned to a careful study of tht
subject. but 1t is of the highest i'm.
p~ortance.
Great constructive national policies
are not established by simple decla,
ration or mere legislation, or in 6
single day OIL in a single year. They
always change cohditions In order tc
better them. They encounter invet-
crate abuses. They are opposed and
evaded In practise, They require tc
be applied and enforced by a strong
hand an a firm will. They require tc
be perfected by administration and
supplemental legislation.
Under Republican administration
there has been one %unbroken, con.
tinuous course of consistent policy
and effective performance in dealing
with the evils which have beer
naturally incident to the amazing in
dustrial changes of our generation
the vast creation of new wealth, the
increase of u population and the
expansion of our commerce.
1t rests with the American electo-
rate to say whether they will permit
those minor dissatisfactions which
are i~nseparable from all human per-
Torrance and the desire for change
by which all men are sometimes af-
fected, to obscure in their judgments
the wisdom of continuing the execu-
ton of these policies and the evil OF
chartering another and untried party
experiment.
Republican Tariff Policy.
The Republican party stands now,
as Mckinley stood, for a protective
stands against the principle of pro-
lection and for a tariff for revenue
only. We stand not for the abuses OF
the tariff, but for the beneficent uses
No tariff can be devised SO moder-
ate, so reasonable, that 1t will not
be rejected by the Democratic party,
provided it's duties be adjusted with
reference to labor cost 50 as to pto-
tect American products against being
driven u of the market by foreign
underselling, made possible through
the lower rate of wages in ,ther coun-
tries. The American foreign mer-
chant service has been driven off the
face of the waters because with
American sailors wages and the
American standard of living 1t could
not compete with foreign shipping.
The Democratic party proposes to
put American mills and factories and
mines in the same position, and the
American people have o to say
whether they wish that to be done. ]
have said that we do not stand for
the abuses of the tariff. The chief
cause of abuse has been that we
have outgrown our old method of
tariff making. Our productive indus
tries have become too vast and COM
plicated; our commercial relations toe
extensive for any committee of Con-
gress of itself to get at the facts to
which the principle of protection ma
be properly applied.
To Remedy Defects.
The Republican party proposes to
remedy this defective method through
having the facts ascertained by ar
impartial commission through thor
ough scientific investigation. so that
the President and Congress shall have
the basis for the just application OF
the principle of protection. The Re-
publican Congress included in The
Payne-Aldrich bill q clause under
which the President had authority to
appoint such a board to make nucn
Investigations and report the results
to him. The President appointed the
board. It's members are drawn from
both political parties. Their COM
potency, integrity and fairness are
unquestioned. They have reported
upon the wooden schedule; they have
reported on the cotton schedule. The
President has transmitted their find
ings to Congress. The Democratic
House of Representatives ignores an6
repudiates them,
I'm January, 1911, the last Republic
can House of Representatives passed
a bill to create a tariff commission:
with much broader and more effective
powers for compelling the attendance
of witnesses and securing information
charged to report It's findings to tn
Congress. The bill passed the Senatl
with some amendment, but it vas de
layed there by an avowed Demo
cratic hlibuster until it reached tn
House so late in the session that
vote upon it was prevented by an
| other Democratic filibuster in tn
House.
Now the House is Democratic ant
the tariff commission bill is dead
The Democratic party does not wan
the facts upon which a just protec
tive measure a be framed. becaus'
they mean that there shall be no pro
lection for American industries. II
the last session and in the presen
session of Congress the Democratic
House has framed and passed a serie
of tariff bills for revenue only, witt
complete indifference to the absolut,
destruction that their enactmen
would bring upon great American in
dustries.
Some of them have fallen by tn,
wayside in the Senate, and some O.
them have gone to the President t.
meet his wise and courageous veto
The American people have now t
pass not upon the abuses of tn,
tariff, but on the fundamental ques
ton between the two systems of tariff
making.
Work for Currency Reform.
"The national currency, which tn,
election of Mckinley rescued from
disaster at the hands of a free silver
Democracy, still rests upon the Civil
War basis of government bonds, anC
is no longer adapted to our changed
conditions. 1t is inelastic; it's volum,
does not expand aud contract ac
cording TO legitimate demands O