The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-04-10

| 'N'ons aireduy are DeIng
} gwen and have been given in the
past, but these are not tenable.
from the democratic standpoint
The main reason is that free raw
wool would reduce the cost of
clothing to the consumer and that
r Tree raw sugar would reduce the
cost OF living on one of the neces-
sarles of life. This is true. but
mat is not sufficient reason
ior taxing other people or other
necessaries of life disproportion-
ately, In order that those partic-
uiar articles may be had more
cheaply. The tax lost on wool or
on sugar must be made UP by
other taxes-in this case largely
by the income tax-and while
those two commodities are among
the most important to be cheap
ened, they are no more so than
a great variety of other goods of
daily and general consumption.
The democratic party is against
protection in all Its forms, but
free raw articles is protection of
the most venomous sort, to the
other fellow. 1t relieves the for
elgn competitors of these indus
tries of the custom house tax
which the competitors Of all other
Industries must pay and furnishes
a discrimination which public pol
icy cannot Justify on any valid
ground, much less democratic pol
icy.
"The second reason urged for
free raw material in sugar, and
perhaps also in wool, is that the
trut control the entire American
industry and the simplest way to
break its power is to- open the
worlds markets to the buyers of
sugar. 1t is true the democratic
platform declares for removal of
the tariff on trust-controlled
goods, but it also declares for the
criminal prosecution of the trusts
and the putting of stripes on
their organizers and officials.
Sugar is not the only trust, by
a long ways, at least according
to all the democratic pronounce
ments on the subject, nor is it
usually regarded as the worst or
most offensive. On the contrary {
sugar is the one and only trust
controlled product whose price
has not been advanced enormous
ly of recent years. Just why
therefore, it should be singled out
for discrimination at the hands of /
the democratic administration is
that is not satisfactorily {
explained and apparently is not
capable of being so explained, S
else democratic senators would
not now be in antagonism to the {
as the news reports in
dictate they are.
That being so, we hope they !
will stand their ground and re-
fuse to be either inundated or |
blandished by administration pre-
JUDGE or partially and we believe
they will do so, unless the last
lingering trait of the democracy
is to become a mockery and de-
ception. The tariff is, to be sure,
the most vexed and unsettled OF
all our public controversies and
has angles, consequences and com
plications little dreamed of in
its superficial aspects, and gener-
ally wrecks the party responsible
for it's schedules, whether REVISED
upward or downward. The last
previous democratic wreckage oc-
Cured over this subject, when
the downward pledge was brazenly
violated and Grover Cleveland de-
nounced the bill as an act of per-
fidy and dishonor. 1t is hard to
see how a similar stigma can fail
to attach to the pending bill, for
excuses in the contrary direction,
unless the senate retains its ira
ditional independence and stands
guard over the nations political
honor and vital interests, as it
has seldom failed to do in the
final stress. Tribune (Dem)
State Senator Fields in his pa