Arizona republican., 1912-08-12
MONDAY. AUG. F. 1912.
That Confession"

The Confession of Faith" in the light of statement in an interview with MT Roosevelt last Saturday may be called also a confession of guilt" It is at least a partial admis- sion of the truth of a charge by Will liam J Bryan that the colonel had stolen his clothes. MT. Roosevelt states somewhat boastfully that he has stolen the best of them; that he has taken what suited him,
 Referring to the Bryan movement of 1896 and the earlier populist move ment which he regards as sporadic" attempts at reform. MT. Roosevelt said: The good points in all have been gathered together in the pro gressive party's policies and for the first time there is biven to the coun- try these ideas without the accom- paniment of preposterous declarations which would make it impossible for a sane man to follow"
 How are we to know that after go- ing through the Bryan and populistic junk piles the best has been selected? Was anything left behind more pre- posterous' than the Roosevelt declara- ton for the recall of judicial deci- siOns2 In fact what of MT Bryan's policies have been left behind at all, except free silver and anti-imperial- ism. which for ten years have not beeen issues? The theft was com plete. It included everything except what Mir. Bryan himself had dis carded
 But we are more deeply and seri- ously interested in that part of Mr. Roosevelt's statement relating to the tariff policy of he new party which he thinks will be ''a source of great strength" The republican plan is described by him as a tariff for pri- vilege" The democratic plan is a tariff of destruction" but the pro- gressive plan is described as a tariff for labor This, we believe, is the first time in the history of tariff mak- ing that it has been proposed openly to enact tariff legislation for any par ticUlar class
 Mir. Roosevelt though he has never disclosed any settled views on the tariff question, must know, and every intelligent laborer does know. that there can be no such thing as d tariff for labor without tariff on the pro- ducts of labor. It has always been Contended by advocates of high pro- lection that the laborer is the chief beneficiary of d high tariff on man ufactured articles. But, generally, while he has derived part of the benefit of protection the greater part of the benefit has been retained by the employer. Is there any way on earth to compel the latter to re- linquish more of the benefit than he wants to to the employe,
 Most of our readers have not yet seen the complete platform of the new party. But here is a most preposter- Ous declaration in the tariff plank: We declare that no industry de- serves protection which is unfair to labor or which is operating in viola tion of federal laws" Now. what can this possibly mean except to catch the vote of the labOrer without giving him even an intelligible promise in exchange for it?
 It is not possible that an entire in dustry throughout this country should be unfair to labor or should be engag- ed in the violation of the federal laws. The Stanley report on the steel trust which is assiduou5ly supporting MT Roosevelt. states that that trust is un- fair to labor degrades labor and vio- lates the federal laws: but the steel trust Is not the whole industry Do the leaders of the new party expect us to believe that it would be possi- ble to frame a tariff law so that a part Of an industry would receive protection and part would not?
 Of all the ridiculous tariff pro- pOsaIs that have ever been made this is the most so. If it was proposed by intelligent men it was intended solely for presentation to men of low de- gree of intelligence If all this folly had been omitted and the tariff planl
 
 ton in favor of d scientific, non, partisan tariff commission" tn, ground would have been fairly wei