New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1912-04-27
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| llCC W lhC "iACAN
to favor any one section or any
lone section Of amy one Interest
at the expense of another. The
people of the whole country have
confidence in him because of the
fact that he never has been ldentl-
fed with any special private IN
terests and because he has reso-
lutely declined to incur pecunlary
obligations to any special inter-
ests. He is in a position to serve
public interests, for THE reason
that he is not under any obllga-
ton to private interests which are
inconsistent with public interests
and all people know it--and that
is the great source of his strength
today.
Tariff for Revenue.
"But our people should be with
him for another reason. lie
stands for our view oA the tariff
| question, and that will be the
real issue DIN the coming campaign
between the Republican and
Democratic parties.
"He stands for a tariff for rev.
enue as distinguished from u
tariff for protect on-for the levy
ing of tariff taxes to support the
government Of the whole people,
and not for the purpose OF en-
riching favored classes of the
people.
"He is in favor of taking the
tariff out of politics and nc
stands for the only plan by which
IT ever can be taken out of poll
tics-namely, the laying OF the
duties for revenue. TO quote his
own language lin the great speech
which he delivered upon the tariff
before the National Democratic
Club of New York:
"'We are to discuss it (the
tariff question: with the purpose
of taking the tariff question out
of politics. The only way to set
tle it is for the good Of the coun-
try and not for the good OF amy
body in particular. Link it with
special interests, let special inter-
ests have the chief interest in it,
and you can not settle 1t and take
it out of politics. But once ap-
ply the rule Of general imersStsl
and You have taken ~ eat ct ls6I
tiles.
Farmers With Him.
"The people Of this State, at
any rate, will be with him on thai
proposition. And certainly the
farmers of Maryland will be with
him when he says, as he did in
that same speech-and said it to
a New York City audience
"Do you realize the extent
of the audacity of the men who
created the protective system?
They Eaid: 1--WE are going to
see to it that nothing is done for
the farmers, who at that time
were producing the wealth of the
nation, and that everything is
done for the men who have not
yet produced any wealth at all,
and by that process of favoritism
and subsidizing Of one end or
another, direct or indirect, we
have altered the natural plans of
life in this country"
"'How does it happen that
when immigrants come to this
country from agricultural regions
they do not go to the farms, but
are caught lin the meshes of our
cities9 1t is for the same reason
that the boys of the plow Of our
country have been turned away
from the farms and into the fac
tories. All the life-blood of the
country is being drained from the
farms into the factories. A great
many of the morbid conditions OF
our society are due to this same
excessive fostering of the side OF
national life at the expense of
the others. "
Almost A Miracle.