East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-07
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nave neither the point Of view nor
the knowledge. Our difficulty is not
that wicked and designing men have
rlotted aga nst us, but that our COM
mon affairs have been determined up
On too narrow view. and by too
private an initiative. Our task now
is to effect a great readjustment and
get the forces of the whole people
once more into play. We need no
revolution; we need no excited
of view and a new method ard spirit
of counsel.
The tariff question, as dealt with
in our time at any rate has not been
business. 1t has been politics. Tariff
schedules have been made up for the
purpose of keeping as large a num-
bcr as possible of the rich an1 in
fluential manufacturers Of the country
in a good humor with the republican
party, which desired their constant
financial support. The tariff has be-
come a system of favors, which the
phrgseology of the schedule was Of
ten deliberately contrived to conceal.
It becomes a matter of business, of
legitimate business, only when the
! partnership and understanding it
! represents is between the leaders Of
congress and the whole people of the
| United states. instead of between the
leaders of congress and small groups
of manufacturers demanding special
| recognition and consideration. That
( is why the general idea of represen-
! tative government becomes a neces-
sary part of the tariff question. Who,
when you come down to the hard
facts of the matter, have been repre-
sented in recent years when our tar
! iff schedules were being discussed and
| determined, not on the floor of con-
/ gress. for that is not wnere they have
/ been determined, but in the commit,
tee rooms and conferences? That is
! the heart of the whole affair. vii
/ YOU, can you, bring the whole peo'
pie into the partnership or not? Nc
one is discontented with representa-
tive government; it falls under ques'
lion only when it ceases to be repre-.
3 sentative. II II at bpNlOlll al putSllOi
of good faith and morals.
How does the present tariff look
( in the light of ii / say nothing fol
the moment about the policy of pro-
! lection conceived and carried out as
disinterested statesman might con-
ceive it. Our own clear convictions as
/ democrats is. that in the last analysis
| the only safe and legitimate object
Of tariff duties, as of taxes of every
other kind. is to raise revenue fuT
! the support of the government; but
/ that is not my present point. We &C.
/ nounce the Payne-Aldrich tariff act
/ as the most conspicuous example ever
afforded the country of the special
/ favors and monopolistic advantages
which the leaders of the republican
! party have so often shown themselves
willing to extend to those to whom
| they looked for campaign contribu-
| tions. Tariff duties. as they have en-
/ pioyed them. have not been means
of setting up an equitable system OF
! protection. They have been, on the
contrary, a method of fostering spe-
cial privilege. They have made i;
easy to establish monopoly in our do
mestic markets. Trusts have owed
their origin and their secure power
| to them. The economic freedom OF
| our people, our prosperity in trade,
our untrammeled energy in manufac-
/ ture depend upon their reconsidera-
/ ton from top to bottom in an entire
1 ly different spirit.
We do not ignore the fact that the
/ business of a country like ours is eX-