Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-29
WHERE DEMOCRACY WILL STAND ON PROTECTION

On one point at least in the territorial cam,
paign there should be no division OF opinion
among thinking men; the election of Demo
crat to Congress will put Hawaii i'm the Demo.
cratic camp so far as tariff revision is con
tqrned @. .s.@- ...:s .~.. .,..
RaucOus-yoiced stump speakers here have re
peatedly assailed this paper because the Star
Bulletin pointed out the above fact, and as ne
peatedly they have stated that the national Dem
pcratic policy is for protection of legitimate in
dustry from harmful tariff revision
McCandless, Democratic candidate a d :
mits that a serions cut Of the sugar tariff will
be disastrous to Hawaii His argument, how.
ever, has been that Democratic victory in the
national campaign will not impose upon the
party the necessity for radical tariff revision
Here is an answer to that argument, and
from one of McCandless's own party leaders.
Col. George Harvey. Col. Harvey saws in Han.
pers Weekly for October H.
The Charlotte IN c. Observer is nowadays
proectionist paper. Possibly we ought to add Dem
ocratic the Characterization. but the combination
OF Democratic and protectionist is something we
could never quite understand AS the protection
ISM here is instance from recent editorials
.'If IL is a fault of Simmons 1Senator Simmons OF
North Carolina candidate for re-eiectionl to have
helped his own people and to have stood for the
south when the tariff being made, then IL is
mighty good fault for southern senator to have,
Why should not the southern people have the
benefit OF the tariff which is TO be laid
We will not stop to inonre whether the southern
people are ell protected manufacturers and none Of
them consumers; we merely wish to point out what
will happen to the Democratic party even should II
carry the presidency and both houses of Congress.
II many of its continue to display the good
fault" Of Senator simmons. That was precisely the
ooad fan INF IL gentle
tys program under Cleveland. The Observer can be
sure that not single tfoteeted interest in the coun-
try wifi make the slightest complaint senators only
stand up for their sections as II wants Senator
simmons to stand ug for his That is all any pro-
tectionist wants and 1t is all the protected interests
need For It means, every time, that the resultant law
viii be amply and defisntly protectionist that the
consumers viii be neglected, that the robbery VIII
continue
Permit MS to recall and to reiterate prediction:
II the Democrats carry the country and neyerthe-
less come to grief they will come to grief precisely
an they did before-in the same place and IN the =
same way They will be undone in the senate, and
by q handful Of men whom they themselves will have
sent there.
tlt is very possible that MeCandless doesn't
know who Col Harvey is and We might explain
that he is the editor Of Harper's Weekly and q
man who stands as prominently in Democracy
ais Col Henry Watterson of Louisville.
And here is this great Democrat openly, bold
II. qnlphatically declaring that the Democratic
marty will wreck itself. Il elected in November
should it try to combine Democracy and protec
tionism!
Is that an answer to the Democratic stump
sneakers in Hawaii who are trying to make the
people believe their party on the mainland if
not making its campaign on tariff-revison ar
oumentsa .s~ ~ ..a