Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-06-03
COUNTRY FACES
GREAT CRISIS
Senator Burton Declared at
Opening of Ohio Repubi.
can Convention
SPOKE ON HIGH COST OFL|v|NG
Other Causes Than Payne.Ald.
rich Law Is Held Responsible
For Increase.
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Columbus, Ohio, June Especial
, Trains and traction cars early today be-
gan pouring delegates and politicians
, INTO Columbus while delegates and Of
Meals already on the ground were
BUSY making the final preparations for
the opening OF the Republican state
convention at o'clock this afternoon
at Memorial hall Numerous conferen-
ces We're in progress during the morn
ing between the Taft and Roosevelt
managers and the various delegations.
Facing Greatest Crisis.
United States Senator Theodore
Burton of Ohio, delivering the key
note speech before the Republican,
state convention, declared the country
was confronted with a crisis far sur
passing any through which it has pass
ed IN the memory of the present gen
GRAFTON. He deplored the absence from
the polls OF great percentage of vot-
ers in recent state primaries.
Tariff Law Not Held Responsible.
He foreshadowed many of the ten
cts that will be laid down in the plat
form to be adopted at the coming
national Republican convention and re-
viewed the high cost of living which
he traced TO various causes and de-
clared they were not attributable to
the present tariff law. Senator Burton
i ideplored the spectacle of a vote bare
~ one-half that of the total electorate
in recent primaries in Ohio and other
states. The absence of voluntary in
terest in the ballot box he character
lied as alarming. The primary, he
said, seems an ideal system, but equal
! ly good results could be obtained if
| the electors desired that representa-
tive men be chosen select the candi-
dates.
| Deplored Voters Apathy
Senator Burton predicted that no
radical changes looking toward civic
betterment would follow such reforms
as the primary, the initiative, the ref
erendum and certainly not the recall,
unless there be a widespread awaken
ing which shall arouse the citizen to
a new and abiding sense of his re-
sponsibility to the state and to the
community
Republican Party's Reward
! Passing by the record of the Repub.
Lean party's earlier achievements,
the days of its unsuccessful struggle
under Fremont. and its matchless rec
ord under Lincoln, and his successors"
Senator Burton traced the course OF
events up to the present campaign.
Party's UnequaIIed Record.
The last four years of Republican
control of the nation,'' he said, have
been marked with an unprecedented
amount of benefcent legislation. Our
party organization has taken the lead
for now these fifty years and we can
congratulate ourselves upon a record
unequalled by any political organiza-
ton, in the whole history of govern
ment"
Senator Burton urged monetary re.
forms, revision of the tariff, in re-
lance upon accurate information and
not under the pressure of local or per-
sonal interests"
/ Protection Idea Defended
! Tariff revision he said, will in
clude the lowering of some duties, but
should at the same time afford ade-
quate and permanent aid to American
industry. The Republican party has
been loyal to policy based upon d
magnificent conception, namely, that
this country should be, as far as posi-.
| Bile, self-sufficient, that with unlimited
resources in field, the forest. and the
mine, development shall be maintain.
ed, in which the prosperity and abund-
ance Of employment which comes from
the workshop and the factory, shall be
Joined to prosperity on the farm.
Tariff Charges Should Be Gradual.
! Even if existing tariff schedules
are high, we have adjusted ourselves
for many years to the present protec-
tive tariff system. Any immediate or
serious change will cause a wrench
which will involve our whole business
structure in widespread disaster. In
thlo CONNECTION let ME say tnat any
anticipation of material decrease in
prices to the consumer under tariff re-
ductions is sure to prove delusivp.
| Transfer of the seat of manufacturing
any product from our own country to
foreign countries would, in view of
the great extent of our markets, cause
material rise abroad as well as at
home.''
Abso'ves Payne-AIdrich Law
| Mr. Burton reviewed the present
high cost of living as cause of preva-
lent discomfort and exonerated the
Payne-Aldrich tariff law from respon-
sibility, 'the future he said, will
marvel at the inaccurate thinking or
demagogical appeals which have fos.
tered the idea that the present scale
of prices results from the tariff legis-
lation of this or any other administra-
tion. We are witnessing an upward
movement in prices which is world
wide.
Consumers Increasing.
People demand large abundance
of the conveniences of life and
greater share OF its luxuries. Farm.
! ing population has barely held its own.
while the cities of our own common.
wealth and throughout the country
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