The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1912-10-19
WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED
" DEMOCRATIC TARIFF 9IlLs
HAD NOT BEEN VETOED
FACTORIES WOULD BE CLOSED
The Disaster Which Threatened One
County In Connecticut Would
Have Been Experienced In
Almost Every County In
tho United States.

resents Fairfield county, Connecticut
In congress, and he has recently pub
lished "a startling document ia which
ne shove the effect the Democratic
tariff bills passed during the recent
session of congress- and vetoed by
President Taft would have had upon
these industries II enacted into n law
| He lists the factories In alphabetical
order and shows in connection with
each one just the percentage of re.
duction In the duty upon the article
which II manufactures. The showing
nils four pages OF a newspaper and II
has not only awakened Connecticut to
a shuddering realization of the dan.
ger II has escaped, but IL has aroused
all New England to the menace OF a
Democratic victory.
Mr.. Hin shows beyond question that
II these Democratic bills had passed
practically every industry In his dis.
trict and In the entire state OF Con.
necticut world have been put upon
a FREQ trade basis and q very large
proportion OF them would have been
obliged to close their doors. Manu-.
facturers from all over the country
who have seen this exhibit are writ.
Ing to Mr.. Hill to thank him for ma
king II and to tell him that they had
no idea how near to extinction they
had been. They had not realized the
deadly menace to their industries
which was hidden In the Democratic
tariff bills and they had not realized
the immeasurable debt they owe TO
President Taft for vetoing IT, One
correspondent from Delaware writes
that Congressman IIill's disclosures
had set the state on fire." and that
is hardly too strong term 10 use TO
describe the intense interest aroused.
Another article which has recently
appeared and which has produced al.
most as startling an effect upon those
to whom II was Immediately address
ed as that Of Congressman Hill Is an
editorial In the american Sheep
Breeder" This editorial calls atten-
ton to the fact that neither Colonel
Roosevelt nor Professor Wilson made
any reply whatever when asked what
their attitude would be on the ques.
tion OF protection to the wool indus,
try. while President Taft answered by
wire. calling attention TO his veto OF
the wool bill and the expression Of
opinion which ne gave In that veto.
The editorial very properly draws
the Inference from the silence OF the
Bull Moose and Democratic candidates
hat Ia
for any consideration at their hands,
and II quotes the message OF President
Taft to show that he realizes the alb
solute necessity OF protection In order
that the Industry may prosper. and
that SO long as he is In the White
House no free wool bill can become u
law.
The American Sheep Breeder"
goes to many thousand men engaged
In the sheep industry and II IL not In
any sense political newspaper. II
Is devoted to the interests of the
sheep industry, however, and its ex.
preston of editorial opinion that
President Taft and tire Republican
party alone can be trusted 10 safe
guard that industry, can hardly fail
to concentrate upon the Republican
ticket the vote of all those vitally In
terested In that industry
The Democratic managers realize
the deep seated distrust toward their
party which exists on account OF It's
attitude on the tariff question and are
trying desperately to make II appear
that the tariff plank In their platform
does not really mean 80 very much
They plead that the Democratic pro-
gram would be to reduce the tariff
gradually 30 as not to disturb bust
ness, with the idea that ultimately
the country could reach free trade
basis by easy stages-which Is like
the old story about gradually reduc
Ing the feed which is given to your
horse until by dint OF habit he learns
10 do without any feed at all.
But the country will not be deceiv-
ed The country knows perfectly well
that Democratic victory would mean
long period of tariff agitation with
nothing certain except that In the end
bills would be passed under which
there would inevitably be enormous
importations OF foreign products with
corresponding contraction and stagna-
tion OF domestic trade and manufac-
ture. The country did not fail to take
note OF the tariff revision bills passed
by the present Democratic congress
under the boast that they did not con-
tain q line OF protection. The coun-
try knows that but for the courage
GUS vetoes OF President TeIt these
ruinous Democratic measures would
now be on the statute books and In
all probability the industries affected
by them would be languishing and
thousands of men out OF work.
II is the knowledge Of these facts
that is responsible for the strong and
steady drift toward Taft that II re-
| porteA from all sectiOna of the cOun-