Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-03-21
DIVIDE AND CONQUER.

Piecemeal revision of the tariff is already
showing how dangerous it may be to the indus
tries of the country In the house of representa-
tyes when members from state find local
industry has been hit hard by some proposed
reduction, they say to the rest your time is
coming, and throw the weight of their iniu-
enee into hurting some other section of the coun-
try to even up the destruction Divide the
enemy and conquer was Napoleon plan in
battle. Some Napoleons trying it in Wash
ington
President Taft wishes congress to wait until
the tariff board has finished its work This is
the only sensible plan. If the quarreng in the
house keeps up the country viii have free
list that will make this country the cheapest
place on earth to live IN, but no one except the
rich will have money with which to buy anything.
The San Francisco Chronicle has taken up
some local tariff issues, and hints that if Califor-
MIA IS to be hurt through free sugar and a lower
duty on olive oil other parts of the country will
have to make similar sacrifices before the painful
operation of amputating local industries from that
body of domestic commerce is completed The
throncle puts the California ease in the follow
ing light
Every olive grower who has lost his pro
lection will vote to take ii from all the
others. SO will every farmer who raises
sugar beets and loses his protection In
that way every removal of duty on any
commodity makes democratic votes to get
even.
There Is no way to maintain protect
i've tariff except by the unification of all
who desire protection in the determination
TO protect each other Anything short of
that means free trade in competitive prod
nets. Wage-earners and salaried men some
times think that their incomes will 90 fur
Their when commodities are free What will
happen is that they will get less income and
many of them no income
If the lemon and orange growers of
California imagine that the result of the de-
sertlon by many of them of stawart
repubIcanism will not be the doom of their
industry. let them wait little while The
country IS full Of those once their friends
but whom they deserted by sending mush-
andmilk representatives to Washington
who are just aching TO get even with them
And they will do il There are great
many more steel producers than lemon pro-
ducers
The republicans Of California have lust
one chance and no more. If by their votes
TINS summer and autumn they show that
they are ashamed, repentant and repudiate
absolutely all forms Of insurgency and ev
cry candidate who bears any Of that faint
II may yet be well with rs. Otherwise il
will be mad for as Take your choice
II Is Just as well that someone has started
e make trouble early IN the election campaign
The tariff problem must be studied as a whole
tariff founded on determinations and attempts
10 10 the other fellow as much harm as posi-
he may be the result Of the plan the majority
y the house ct representatives is now following
I = hard to huild up industries. but IL would not
axe long 10 tear 10 pieces most IL what we have
: The tariff o. BE- revised hy the house On the
Ian ~ the fight between the Kilkenny eats