The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-06

can prosperity Is 20 change the method
OF building our tariffs. The tarin must
ne taken out OF politics and treated as
"A business question instead 81 as a
I Official question Heretofore we have
Just done the other thing That IL why
American business is upset every few
years by unnecessary tariff upheavais
and Is weakened by certainty; hut the
only thing certain about oar tarin Is
uncertainty.
What then. shall we do 10 make our
tarin changes strengthen business in
stead OF weakening business? Rival
protective tariff nations have answered
that on astion. Common sense has an
swered g. Next TO our need 90 nuke
the sherman law modern, understand
able and Just. our greatest fiscal need
Is genuine. permanent. non-partisan
tariff commission.
Five years ago, when the fight for
this great business measure was begun
Ia the senate the bosses OF both par
ties were against H. So. when the LAST
revision OF the tarin was on ana a
tarin commission might have been
written into the tariff law. the admin
istratlon would not aid this reform.
When two years later the admlnistra-
tion supported II weakly. the bi-parti-
san boss system killed IT, There has
not been and Will not be any sincere
and honest effort by the old parties 10
get a tariff commission. There has not
been and Will not be any sincere ana
honest purpose by those parties TO take
lHf ldIlu oul W pOilNitH+
For the tariff In politics is the excuse
for those sham political battles which
give the spoilers their opportunity. The
tariff I'm politics is one OF the Invisible
governments methods Of wrlnging
tribute from the people. Through the
tariff I'm politics the benetlciaries ~
tariff eXcesses are cared for. no matter
which party Is revising"
Who has forgotten the tariff scan
Gals that made President Cleveland de-
nounce the Wilson German bill as "a
.perfidy and diShonorT Who ever can
forget the hraZen robberies forced into
the Payne Aldrlch bill which Mr.. TAFT
defended as "thc best ever made" II
everyone else forgets these things the
interests that profted by them never
Will forget them, The bosses ana lob
byists that grew rich by putting them
through never Will forget them That
agents want 10 keep the old method OF
tariff building For, though such tarin
''revislons" may make lean wears ror
the people. they make fat years for tho
powers OF pillage and their agents
So neither or the old parties can
honestly carry out any tarin policies
which they pledge the people TO carry
out But even IL they could and even
platforms are In error on tariff policy.
The Democratic platform declares for
free trade; but free trade Is wrong and
ruinous The Republican platform per
mits eStortion, but tarin eXtortion Is
robbery By law. The Progressive party
is FOR honest projections aud honcN 1
protection Is right and a condition or
American prosperity.
A tariff high enough 10 give Ameri.
can producers the American market
when they make honest goods and sell
them at honest prices but low enough
that when they sell dishonest goods at
I'll dishonest prices. foreign competition
can correct both evils a tariff high
enough To enable American producers
to pay our workingmen Americas
wages ana SO arranged that the work =
lngmen VIII get such wages: a husi-
ness tariff whose changes VIII be so
maM as 20 rcassurc business instead
OF disturbing it-this is the tariff and
the method OF its making in which
the Progressive party believes, for
which II does battle and which II pro
poses To write into the laws OF the
land.
The PAYNE Aldrich tarin laws must
be revised Immediately I'm accordance
to these principles, At the same time
genuine. permanent. non partisan
tar,N commission must he fixed In the
law as firmly as the Interstate COM
merce commission Neither Of the old
parties can do tnis work For neither
Of the old parties believes In such a
tarln: and what Is more serious sp"
cial privilege Is too thoroughly woven
into the FIBER OF both old parties To
allow them 10 make such tarlf, The
Progressive party only Is free from
these influences. The ProgrcssN = part y
only believes in the sincere enactment
OF Il sound tariff policy The Progress
sivc party only can change the tariff
az Il must he changed
These are samples OF the reforms in
the laws Of business that we intend
to put on the nations statute books.
But there are other questions as i'm
rortant and pressing that we mean TO
answer by sound and humane laws.
child labor In factories mills, mines
on - h. al
throughout the republic. such labor ~
a crime against childhood because II
prevents the growth OF normal man
hood and womanhood II is a crime
the growth OF a most OF children into
strong, patriotic and Intelligent citl-
Zens.
only the nation can stop this I'M
trial vice. The states can not stop
The states never stopped any national
wrong-and child labor Is a national
wrong.
The Progressive party asserts anew
the vitality OF the Constitution. We
believe I'm the true doctrine OF states
rights which forbids the nation from
interfering with states affairs, ana
also forbids the states from Interior
ing with national affairs. The COM
bined intelligence and composite con.
science OF the American people Is as
irresistible as II is righteous; and the
constitution does not prevent that
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welfare
From certain sources we hear
preachments about the danger OF our
reforms 10 American institutions. What
Is the purpose OF American institu-
tlons2 Why was this republic estah =
lished? What does the flag stand for?
What do these things mean?
They mean that the people shall be
free to correct human abuses
They mean that men, women and
children shall not be denied the appor-
tunlty TO grow stronger and nobler.
They mean that the people shall have
the power to make our land each day
better place to live In.
They mean the realities OF liberty
and not the academies OF theory
They mean the actual progress Of
the race I'm tangible items of daily Nv
ing and not the theoretics OF barren
disputation.
II they do not mean these things
they are as a sounding brass and tank
ling cymbal
Knowing the price we must pay the
sacrifice we must make. the burdens
we must carry. the assaults We must
endure--knowing full well the cost
yet We enlist and we enlist for the
war. For we know the Justice OF our
cause, and we know, too. it's certain
triumph
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