The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1913-08-02
The American Protective

Tariff League, OF New York city,
has issued a circular letter to all
| editors of the country, asking
| that they publish the bill intro
duced by Senator Gallinger
(standpatter) which askes that
further consideration Of the tariff
bill be postponed to December
1914, and that meanwhile the
proposed Underwood tariff bill
be submitted to a referendum
vote of the people of the United
States. The League suggests
that the editor might also publish
his views on the proposition. i
The Examiners views" on
the question are that the honor
able senator from New Hampl;
shire better look up the files of
the nations newspapers for
about four years or more, and
learn several things which in his
long sleep he seems not to have
learned.
The tariff question has been
submitted to the people THREE
times in less than five years, and
the verdict has been the same
each time-only stronger each
succeeding time. The people,
have shown by their votes
THREE times that they want a
tariff revision downward. Do
they get it? Not if Gallinger and
the Tariff League can help it.
1t is joyous to contemplate the
nerve some senators show in
their support of private interests,
but senility can only account for
the proposed standpat plan to
make the people vote a FOURTH
time to see if they really want
what they want.
While a few Of the old guard of
the past-age politicians are be-
wailing the coming lowering of
the tariff, it might be we'll for
them to review the statements of
Sam Blythe, who is recognized as
one of the best political writer's
of the country. He says:
"The republican party killed
itself. There was no need for it
to die. It started right. 1t had
good record. But when the
tariff possibilities opened before
its leaders they placed their own
aggrandizement above the good
of the public, and were led into
excesses of control that could end
in no other way. The tariff, as
manipulated and maintained by
these men, made the trusts pos
sible; and the trusts are at the
bottom of the great discomfort in
this country. The demand for
readjustment was universal. 1t
was insistent. These men could
not hear it. Accustomed to old
methods; living in the past;
actuated by no higher motives
than their own perpetuation and
the perpetuation of their own or
CARNATIONS; censorious of any
movement for rule by the people,
and calling reform socialism or
anarchy; disregarding the signs
of the times; maintaining as long
as possible the old system of rep
resentation; using patronage and
pap and power to get results that
should have been attained by the
free expression of the people;
playing skillfully on the rally-to-
the-old-fag sentimentality of the
privates in the ranks they were
blind to every demonstration,
deaf to every complaint, needless
of every protest; and they have
themselves to thank for the cat
astrophe.
''The tariff had it's tentacles on
every portion of the republican
party-not because it was pro-
tective tariff, but because the
protective feature of it was used
for political purposes. Every evil
that came to that party from its
triumphant return to power in
1896 to it's disaster in 1912-can
be traced to tariff manipulation.
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