Evening star., 1912-08-27
ATTACKS THE TARIFF
Gov. Marshall Characterizes
the Policy as Dishonest.
MAKES SPEECH IN MAINE
Aims Shaft at Roosevelt and Crit
cises Republican Party.
WEALTH UNEQUALLY DIVIDED
Duty of Congress to Remove From
People the Burden of
High Living.
WEALTH UNEQUALLY DIVIDED

| PORTLAND. Me-. August o7.-Gov.
Thomas r. Marshall of Indiana opened
his campaign in Maine last night with a
speech devoted in greater part to the
tariff. In summing up his conclusions
the speaker asked:
why must the consumer always be
the goat? I believe in vested rights, but
| do not believe in vested wrongs / do
not particularly censure the manufac-
turers for getting all they can, but 1
contend that the proof of the iniquity is
SO plain that the blame is the peoples"
In part Gov. Marshall said:
| 1T is idle for some men to make dec
iarations. Broken promises are ofttimes
| more eloquent than their words
WHO is going to believe the regular
republican organization when it declares
that it is opposed to special privilege? j?
| Who takes it seriously when it points
| with pride to its enactments to curtail
monopoly?
Aims Blow at Roosevelt.
Does any one doubt that for seven and
one-half years the leader of the pro-
sressive party was in power in this coun-
try? Can any one put his finger upon a
single effort made by him to curb the
monopolistic tendency which was then
rampant? Does any one believe that his
new platform, which stands both for
| socialism and for a system of licensing
and curbing, is anything more than a bid
| for votes?
ITO stand pat or progressive, every man
| opposed to special privilege may say as
Nathan said unto David: Thou art the
| man.. If there are laws to eliminate spe-
cial privilege the republicans did not en-
| force them: If there are no effective laws,
| they failed to eIact effective ones: if con-
ditions are sucn as to prevent proper con-
| troll they became SO under their re-
| sponsibility
1.-The sources of wealth are well known.
1t springs from the SOIL it is dug out of
the earth: it is cut from the forests; it is
| that which God gives with the labor of
the people added thereto. II it is unequal
| ly distributed, a free people has the
power to correct the evils which permit or
| cause unequal distribution: IL they do not
correct them they ought to cease growing
about them.
Opposed to Protective Tariff.
Il have lived long enough to follow the
changing reasons advanced for the high
protective tariff. l have found them all
to be shifty. uncertain and dishonora BILE.
First 1t was to pay off the war debt
by compelling the foreign manufacturers
i
ury; then 1t was to foster our infant in
dustries: then to protect American labor
against the pauper labor of Europe. and,
finally. in the last campaign to equalize
the cost of production at home and
abroad. At last the frank statement was
made that the government proposed to
take its manufactures into partnership
with 1t and that this partnership was
proposing to sell to the consumers of
| this country all the necessities of life
except those grown upon the farms, not
for. the benefit of the government, but
| for the benefit of the manufacturer.
Business of the Government.
Il, myself. have never been able to
determine what system of business or
ethics should induce a government to
| form a partnership with the man who
made the cloth that is in my coat, while
totally refusing to form a partnership
with me. who buys the coat and wears 1t.
1t is not the business of government to
! form a partnership with any one unless
| il forms partnership with all.
| ."The relentless cruelty to the consumer
! of the whole principle is revealed by the
1 fact that the products are sold at less
price to the people abroad than to the
| people at home. Surplus products, 1t is
| explained but it is not explained why
men go on from year to year making
products in vaster quantities than are
needed only to sell the surplus at g. loss.
/ / am in favor of a system of taxation
facturer to sell the surplus at home and
| the product abroad. This will for the
first time in history compel the foreigner
to pay the tax