The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03


It maintains the standard Of wages and
living OF the American laboring man.
HE declares: that to destroy this poll
icy would reduce both wages and the
standard OF living, and that the first
result of the change in our tariff pol
icy would be felt by the men who toll
and their families. While there may
be abuses in the protective tariff sys-
TEN, he declares they can be correct
ed with time; there is no use to de-
stroy the whole splendid economic
structure.
Wage-eaners-lahoring men every
where-need not be told to knit their
brows in serious meditation over
what Mr.. Hearst says about the tariff
They regard him as their friend
tried. true and proved-no matter how
others may look at him. This OK
cerpt, from an article by him, pub
lished several days ago, is printed
especially that the workingmen and
their families who reside within the
sound of the voice OF the Telegram
may read and reflect The great edi-
tor and owner of so many newspapers
and magazines writes in the Amer
ican:"
4 do not approve Of Mr.. Wilson's
policy of a tariff for revenue only,
nor do l think that he improves his
position when he decalres in support
lof gradual reduction of the tariff. A
gradual reduction of the tariff means
a continual reduction of the tariff and
a continual disturbance of the tariff
means a continual disturbance cf
business.
There are some, abuses in the tariff
which need correction, but for bny
part l believe in a proper tariff Tor
projections and I believe that The
growth of the upexampled, PROSPERITY
OF America has been largely stithu.
lated by the principle 'of! protection
i, spite of certain abuses in the sys!
tenn
Mr.. Wilson also disapproves of
American business men and considers
them ignorant and provincial am
almost disposed irritably to contra
dict this statement of Mr.. Wilson.
American business men are the
greatest business men in the world
and have made America the greatest
business nation in the world. They
are accumulating in America the
wealth OF the world and they are en-
ploying, their wealth in way which
incites the admiration of the world.
'Mf. Wilson's dogmatic and didac4
tic declarations have all the positiye1
ness of the 'pedagogpatwho has theor-
lies on everything and Experience in
nothing. His is the cutsomary attl-
tude Of the college professor who
knows everything, having read it in
books, where it was written down by
college, professors with equally. in
falllble knowledge based on eqaaity.
universal inexperience. I
1T is an interesting thing to see 4
college professor. lecturing practical
business men on the practical prob
lens of business from the musty
rooms of one of the colleges which
the practical success of these business
men have enabled them to endow..
1T must also be an interesting
thing to Englishmen to note that
America is considering the advisable
ity Of embarking on free trade pol
icy which England is considering the
.advisability of abandoning.
This paradoxical situation is due
to the fact that England has had to
her sorrow some experience with a
free trade policy while American
statesmen IRE educated in the books
of theoretical English economists
which were written before the free
trade theory had opportunity of prac-
teal experiment and rcfutation.
u do not wonder that Englishmen
are interested in this phase of Amer
lean politics, but think that the
sound sense Of American citizens viii
prevent any foreign country from be-
ing unduly benefited at our expense
by the hasty application of the pndi-
gested theories of some of our we'll
meaning, but inexperienced states
men"
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