New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-22

which will treat the navy as the DeiaSt
Gratis of the House treated II at Dublic
session Of Congress Is unworthy u
confidence - ,bo lsgis.
In the bill which provided Tor inc he
latiVe expenses OF the gONcIhulCh' .',rn
Democrats introduced q clause 10 ~"
every one out of the ClVll SfrNd(fe Teason
end Of five years. The alleged - ~
was that il was necessary TO set IIu fo 0
useless and supcrannuated ciei No m
whom no provision is now Hlduv; O. i've
do this they proposed al the emu me- O TO
wears. later modified TO seven yea. 90
throw every office IN the District o. III ~
lumbia. which would soon nave tA''ii,,r,'e,,
10 every office in the ciYil service VF0"
, to new appointments.
Taft Saved Civil Service
No such severe blow at good admins,
tration has been struck by any p1I "a
my time as that which was alttIhtti
By the Democrats OF the hoISS w, INC
clause. The country was saved ~ I'm 10
misfortune by me veto Of Pres dent I".I
Who nv that act alone deserves the graz
tude Of every man and woman III -
classified offices and the hearty, sup iii~',N
of every friend of a non-poHHCa' % ,..,i,r
\ ment service. You are 10 S%S ~ r,rty
votes whether YOU approve OF III fi,eH
which would thus wreck our Nah' - ot,,
! service or the President ana inc p'''
which preserved II. 49,. ,,.,,,, ,lso
The Democratic party OF me iou -, ",i
unGertook TO revise the tariff by separate
schedules You therefore are not IN the
/ dark as TO what they VIII DO win tIy
tariff IL they are placed III iull Co', ~ -
/ OF the government They VIII paSs ~
senate or by the Presidents veto, anu
place them as laws upon the statGle
books There is no state IN the Cl .i,.h
80 widely interested IN the plote.tI''
policy AZ the State OF Ohio. In my par
| ticuIar part Of the country We nave az
enormous interest, owing TO our great anu
varied manufactures, but We 90 not lalSc
sheep and We do not produce sugar I.'
states OF the far West nave rev Iia a-,,a
facturers but they produce sugar IN iarge
quantities and raise great heTds OF sheep
In ONO you have enormous manuIacluI-
ing Industries and YOU are also sheep-
raising and sugar-mahng state.
How did the Democratic House propose
In ircat sugar? They pat sugar on the
free list They threw away over S0"p',lJ
of revenue, raised by a form OF taNalloh
which Is scarcely felt, on an arlclc WIlCh
has not risen in price as all other dTuCIeS
OF necessity have risen, and ny this propo-
sition they would not only have destroyed
| louisiana cane but they would nave
closed every beet sugar factory IN the
country. ,
Free sugar would mean the closing or
every beet sugar factory in this country
within a year. for the surplus sugars OF
| Russia would be dumped into this mar
/ ket with that special end I'm view. WIN
I our beet sugar factories NlOStNs We |llNNiNA
/ bs at the mercy Of the great sugar re-
| timing companies Of the Atlantic coast
I and Of the European combination known
as the Brussels Convention, The con.
sumner would gain nothing and q vast ana
| profitable industry. which Is capable. II
! let alone. OF supplying all the sugar need
/ ed By the American people, would he
wired from the face OF tho earth.
! The iron industries are the greatest
! manufacturing industries I'm Ohio. and the
/ - "A metal
| which must he very interesting 20 those
/ industries That schedule, unlike the
/ woollen schedule. had been very heavily
| reduced In the revision or 1909. There was
( no possible excuse for making a fresh at
/ tack upon IT, Nevertheless, the Demo
l Gratis of the House went 10 work and cut
/ the rates down In all directions. Their
/ reductions were made In a perfectly nell
! ter-skeltcr way. without any system or
anv conference, without any plan that any
| body could discover. For example. they
! selected to go on the free list machine
! tools q most elaborate form OF manu-
| facture. In which this state is greatly in
! terested why machine tools We're picked
| out any more than any other protected
1 article OF manufacture no one can tell
I never heard any reason given for IT, but
IL was done Representatives OF this great
! industry came on from Ohio and appeared
before our committee In opposition. They
! were stunned when they found that the
Democrats proposed TO put on the free
faCture as machine tools. yet the bill got
through by Democratic votes and by the
Presidents veto alone was this vicious
| legislation stopped.
Democrats and Free Trade,
BE under no misapprehension. If you
elect Democratic President and u
Democratic House you will not only have
machine tools on the free list, but you
will have all the industries OF Ohio
Z 4aA in la
you want that done you know how to
bring IL about: II you want II stopped
you know how TO stop II. 1t is Tor you
10 say. Congress is the only mouthpieCe,
and If you elect q Democratic Congress
you will have no excuse for saying thdt
YOU did not know what you would get
The Republican party. IN woid, is INC
party OF protection. The Democratic party
is the party Of free trade, or OF tarlH ior
revenue only, which amounts to sub
stantially the same thing In It's economic
effects. The only difference is that II !
extremely unjust. because II gives Tree
/ trade 10 one man and protection 10 an
other Between these two principles, ar
fecting all the Industries OF the country
Il is for you 10 decide
These are some Of the questions OF To-
day Yet the tariff, farreaching ana I'M
portant as IL is. has been with us and
divided parties almost from the iOuhud-
ton Of the government. But during W.
last few years another question, or rdthei
&
far transcend all others. because they In
volve the fundamental principles upon
which our government ana our lnStltu-
tons rest. These questions nave DeeH
raised and violent constitutional chanses
have been agitated and advocated w incI
Of all parties. This agitation has dlVldeo
opinion in the two great parties. WhetheI
the division has been openly declared Oh
not. These questions are Tar 9raFeI than
any possible question of economics or al
/ rninistration. III the proposed cOnstitu-
tlonal changes should be carried into eI'
feet they would completely reVoiuuoniAe
our system and theory OF government d.
we have known It since the beginning oi
our history. our government uluer wv a,'
Constitution is a self-limited democracy
II Is proposed TO remove the limitations
TO give us instead OF what we have al
ways had-a government or inc peopie-
the unlimited. unrestricted rule OF ma
jority Of the voters appearing at an!
given moment.
AS | LOOK over the deld Of politics
see but one party which is really com
mitted TO the support OF the Cohsututlol
and Of the institutions h the country
and that party IL the R,publican party
70 say that such an att tude STANDS II
the way OF progress Is an tbsurdlty. Al
the progress that has been made IN tnls
country in fifty years has been made bS
the Republican party. To the kepuDlcar
party is due the financial credit OF Inc
country. for II is the Republican parts
which fought for the payment OF the debtt
I aud when sustained the gold STANDARD
| In recent years. with the new questions
that have arisen. TO what party 90 We
owe the Sherman act. the interstate Com
merce Commission, the law stopping re-
bates, the pure food law and every Other
measure which has marked an advance
/ In government and progress, In the pro
tecllon OF the rights Of the peoplef They
are all alike due TO the Republican party
tn RpBublicau Presidents and RepuD