Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-09-30
WILSON AND
THE TARIFF
His Speech Of Acceptance
Gives Out No Uncertain
Sound on Tariff
NORADICALD DISTURBANCE
Prices Climb Faster Than
We Can Push Our Earn
ings Up

The republican press and spellbind-
ers which are crying out that Wood
row Wilson is afraid to declare his
position on the tariff. should read
the speech of acceptance of the next
president of the United States, in
which they will find among others
the following tariff nuggets:
1--WE must speak, not to catch votes,
but to satisfy the thought and con-
science of a people deeply stirred by
the conviction that they have come
to critical turning point in their
moral and political development. We
stand in the presence of an awakened
nation, impatient of partisan make
believe.
There are two great things to do.
One is to set up the rule of justice
and of right in such matters as the
tariff, the regulation of the trusts
and the prevention of monopoly, the
adaptation of our banking and cur
our people must put them, the treat
ment of those who do the daily labor
in our factories and mines and
throughout all our great industrial
and commercial undertakings, and the
Philippines, for whom We hold gov
ernmental power in trust, for their
Aervice not our own. The other, the
additional duty, Is the great task of
pOrtecting our people and our re-
sources and of keeping open to the
whole people the doors of opportun.
ity through which they must. genera
tion by generation, pass if they are
A. 80 h4t~ 60
In health, in freedom, in peace, and
In contentment.
''N need no revolution; we need no
excited change; we need only new
point of view and new method and
spirit of counsel.
'"The tariff question, as dealt with
in our time at any rate, has not been
business. 1t has been politics. Tar
iff schedules have been made up for
the purpose of keeping as large a
number as possible of the rich and
inuential manufacturers of the coun-
try in good humor with the Re
publican party, which desired their
constant financial support
Eve denounce the Payne Aldrich tar
iff act as the most conspicuous eX-
ample ever afforded the country Of
the special favors and monopolistlc
advantages which the leaders of the
Republican party have so often shown
themselves willing to extend to those
to whom they looked for campaign
contributions.
1--WE do not ignore the fact that
the business of a country like ours
is exceedingly sensitive to changes in
legislation of this kind 1t has been
built up. however. ill-advisedly. upon
tariff schedules written in the way |
habe indicated and its foundations
must not be'too radically or too sud
denly disturbed When We act We
should act with caution and prudence;
like men who know what they are
about. and not like those in love with
theory. 1t is obvious that the
changes We make should be made
only AZ such a rate and III such a
way as will least Interfere with the
normal and healthtul course OF com
merce and manufacture. But We shall
not on that account act with timidity
as if We did not know our own minds,
for we are certain of our ground and
of our object There should be an
Immediate revision. and it should be
downward. unhestatingly and steadi-
Iy downward.
1T is not as easy fer us to live as
it used to be. Our money Will not
buy as much. High wages. even when
we can get them. yield us no great
comfort We used to be better OH
with less. because a dollar could buy
so much more The majority of us
have been disturbed to find ourselves
growing poorer even though our earn
ings were slowly increasing. Prices
climb faster than We can push our
earnings up