Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-08-01
INsUFFERABLE EFFRoNTERY
Isl. Louis RenublIcl

Nc'' LOUIS hepuDuc.)
The republican line OF strategy in
tie coming campaign is already out
hned. The party viii stand Pat :"
Il VIII call the democrats Missionaries
and rainbow chasers. It will discourse
OF the great importance of not dis
turbing business-by which il means
Big Business. "You and | are practi-
cal men" wrote Theodore Roosevelt
on 2 since celebrated occasion to Ed
ward II. Hartman. Hartman is now
dead and Roosevelt has boIted, but
the republican party is as practical
Eow as IL was when these two great
practical geniuses were among its
bright and shining lights.
The esteemed GlObe-Democrat an
nounces that the campaign is TO be
an aggressive fight in the open" Il
leads the way by accusing the demo-
Gratis OF being doctrinaires and dream
crs of dreams. It fights first of all.
for the citadel OF plumber. privilege
and standpattism, the protective tor
if.
Now, no intelligent American need
have the least doubt as TO what the
democracy viii do with the tariff If
1t gets a chance. A line 10 his con
gresham will obtain the test of the
tariff acts passed last year and vetoed
by the president Let him study them
carefully, remembering that they COM
manded the support OF the eutire
progressive element in congress. re.
publicans as well as democrats. They
we're opposed, in fact, by none save
the representatives of the predatory
interests.
These hills speak for themselves.
If the citizen has forgotten what the
Payne-Aldrich law did to prices OF
gloves, stockings blankets, and the
ike. a visit 10 the nearest dry goods
store viii refresh his memory A
glance at the government trade re.
ports will show that this nation sold
in the marie OF the world more
than S2l5 coo. GEO worth of iron and
steel manufactures in the ten months
ending with April of the current year.
In view of these facts. let him ask
+ himself what the effect upon the pros
perity of the country would have been
had the tax laid by the millionaire
OWNERS OF these industries upon con
sumers been reduced by the amount
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PASSED by the house.
If he believes that the reduction
contemplated in the bills vetoed b.
President Taft would have destroyed
the legitimate profit OF MANUFACTURERS,
brought on a panic and resulted in a
general stoppage of the wheels of
American industry. he may very prop
erly vote for Taft.
But II he believes that the tariff.
as IL stands, Is iegalized robbery; il
he believes that the wooden trust does
not need tariT OF % cents a pound
on the cheapest blankets which cover
the bodies of the poor on winter
nights, imposed in addition to q tax
Of go per cent ad xalorem: IL he does
not believe that the sweatshop con
tractors need taTi ffon clothing of
~ per cent 2 pound and so per cent
I'D valorem; IL q tariff OF 1913 cents a
pair on working wcmen's gloves seems
trifle high to him, considering the
living costs by poor widows and de-
serted wives: If he considers the 40
per cent advance made In the tariff
tax on cheap stockings by the Payne
Aldrich law over the already excessive
dngiey law to be an infamy. then
let bin vote for Wilson and Marshall
In view OF the facts. the claims of
Special knowledge made by repubit
cans in discussion Of the tariff are the
most insufTerabie cfrontery.