The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-02


( Iey o1ld Feaee
( -tlsIf 1.FF q living and list tie 4Egl
result Of the change IN our taril POI
icy would Be felt BY the men who toll
ana their families While there may
lbe abuseS1 8. the protective taFlR sys-
item, he declares they can be correct
lea with time; there Is no use TO de-
tstroy the whole splendid economic
structure
earners-Iaborfng men every
tWhere-need not be told to knit their
bTows in serious meditation over
what Mr.. Hearst says about the tariff,
They. regard him as their friend
tried. true and proved-no matter how
lOthers may look at him. This ex-
Ieerpt, from an article BY him. pub
Elished several days ago. is printed
especially that the workingmen and
their families who reside within the
sound of the voice OF the Telegram
may read and reflect. The great edi-
tor and owner Of so many newspapers
and magazines writes In the Amer
ican:"
I do not approve of Mr. wIlson's
policy of a tariff for revenue only,
nor do I think that he improves his
position when he decalresr in support
OF gradual reduction OF the tariff. A
gradual reduction OF e-tarih means
a continual reduction OF the tariff and
a continual disturbance Of the tariff
means a continual disturbance Of
business. rsSft.u ~
] There are some abuses in the tariff
which need correction. but for nay
part, I-beIieve in, proper tariff for
protection land; I believe that the
kroEeth of the anexampIed prosperity
BE america has. been largely stimu4
lated by the principle OF protection
In spite of certain abuses in the sys-.
tenn.
'Mr. Wilson also disapproves Of
American business men and considers
them ignorant and provincial am
almost disposed irritably to contra
dict this statement-of Mr.. Wilson
American business men are the
greatest business men in the world
and have made America the greatest
business nation in the world. They
are accommodating in America the
wealth Of the world and they are en-
ploying their wealth IN way which
incites the admiration of-the world
'1Mr. Wilson's dogmatic and didac~
tic declarations have all the positive
ness OF the pedagogue9 who has theor-
les on everything and experience in
nothing. His is the customary atti-
-tude of the college professor who
knows everything, having read it ia
books, where it was written down by
college professors with equally tn=,
faIIibIe knowledge based on equally
universal inexpcrience. 10. >rr Er
: ut is an interesting thing to see a
college professor Iecturing practical
business men on the practical prob
lens of business from the mus9
roms OF one. OF the colleges. which
the practical success. of these business
men have enabled them to endow.
1T must also be an interesting
thing to Englishmen to note that
America is considering the advisable
ity of embarking on a free trade pol
icy which England is considering the
advisability Of abandoning
This paradoxical situation is due
to the fact that England has had to
her sorrow some experience with
free trade policy while American
statesmen are educated in the books
of theoretical English economists
which were written before the free
trade theory had opportunity Of prac-
teal experienmt and refutatien.
ct do not wonder that Ensiishmen
are interested in this phase Of Amer
lean politics. but I think. that the
sound sense OF American citizens VIII
preve1t4apy, foreign country from be-
ing unduiy benefited at our expense
by the hasty application of the undi-
gested theories of some Of our we'll
meaning. but. ,inezperienced states
men,"