Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-09-19
WHAT WILSON'S
TARIFF PLAN WILL DO.
CHAIRMAN OF REPUBLICAN Ma
TIoNAL ooMMITTEE. SOUNDS
WARNING. SOME; VIEWS
BY COL. ROOSEVELT.

BY COL. ROOSEVELT.
Chicago, Sept. 13.tCharles D.
Hilles, chairman of the Republican
national committee, points out the;
weakness and danger in Mr. Wilson'S
Democratic tariff plank. Mr.. Hilles'a
reference to Col. Roosevelt is not;
to secure the latter votes,;
as the Taft men are fghting Teddy:
at every turn of the track, but the
fact that Roosevelt is not in accord:
with the regular Republican position
on this great issue only lends addi-'
tional force to the statement Of
Chairman Hilles, which is as fol-
lows:
eff put into effect, the Democrat
ic tariff plank would plunge this
country into a period of financial dis,
aster such as we have not seen in
our lifetime" This, statement was
made by Theodore Roosevelt on the
fifth of this month when he was ad-
dressing an audience at st. Paul,
MINI. And Colonel Roosevelt is abb
solutely right. The tariff policy of
the Democratic party and of Govern
or Wilson, it's presidential candidate,
could mean nothing but financial dis
aster and a protracted period of de-
preston, which,, as Mr.. Roosevelt
has often pointed out regarding such
cataclysms in the industrial world,
would fall far heaviest on the man
least able to bear it, the poor man,
the man with little or no savings,
the man with a large family to sup
port, to whom even short period
of enforced idleness would mean un-
told suffering and distress.
The Democratic platform, it will
be recalled, declares it to be "a
principle of the Demo-
cratic party that the federal govern
ment, under the constitution, has
no, right, or power to impose or col
lect duties, except for the purpose Of
revenue, and we demand that the
collection of such taxes shall be lin
tied to the expenses of government
honestly and economically admins
tered"
Wilson No Sounder Than Platform.
Governor Wilson has given repeat
ed evidence In his speeches that he
is no sounder on the subject of the
tariff than his party platform. And
his party has shown over and over
again during the last two sessions Of
congress, when it has been in con-
troll of the house, that IT. is no more
to be entrusted with the all-impor-
tant and delicate task of tariff read
justment than it was when, in 1894,
it passed the Wilson law and plunged
the nation into period Of financial
depression.
Had the Democrats in congress
had power to write on the statutes
their wool and steel and cotton bills,
they would have destroyed the great
Industries, and even then would not
have secured in many respects the
relief asked for by the consumer,
and to which he is justly entitled.
And when the tariff board made
unanimous reports on these indus
tries, pointing out how the duties
could be lowered without destroy
ing the Industries, the Democrats.
actuateG by revenge because their
i'll conceived and badly worked out
measures were thereby made ridic-
ulous, destroyed the tariff board.
These are facts which are recogniz-
ed by all Republicans, whether they
belong to the third term faction or
are regular, and Mr. Roosevelt is as
severe in his condemnation Of Demo-
cratic methods Of dealing with the
tariff as is, President Taft.