The Alaska citizen., 1913-09-01
THE TARIFF QUESTION HANDLED BY
 HON. ROBERT ?. HILL, OF ILLINOIS


 Your promises Were broken as fast as you could break them In the campaign of 1908 you and your lead er, MT. Taft, specifically promised tu give relief ny revising the tariff downward l. was revised not down ward but upward. and then pro claimed as the best tariff law ever enacted ny Congress. + is the law made following the campaign when your platform defined a protective tariff tu he one that equals the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to the American industries. IL was the finishing touch of fancy Republican legisla- fion. in utter Vi lat.on of their SO lemn pledge to the people. Again i'll the l4at campaign after a spectac- ular convention ill Chicago last June where many of your honest and cou- rageous men told you what not to do, and i'll the face of this warning. intoxicated with glory cf former de iusiens you put your O. K. upon what you had done for the past four years and former administrations and put your clumsy leader on the pike for see nd heat. Yes. your candidates and your reasonable pro fit'' theories came in in these former four elections by an overwhelming vGte, but went out at the last cleo ion by unanimous consent.
 If about 10.0o0 votes had been pro- 2erly placed II the puny States of t1ah and Vermont. ylu never would have been heard of at the roll call of electors when the vote for Presi- dent was taken.
 In the intamy of your false doe 1T nes hiftA WIS given 10 q new anG not third party, but q second party. IL is the Progressive Party, made up of men Who d not lear to do what they think is right. And under the ferms of their program or contract or platform with the people. as they may choose to call i they are pledg- ed to vote with uS on the tariff until they can secure scientific noHpartisan Iariff comm ssioH. Some RePuhlicans are inclined Y dislike Progressiyes because Republican downfall is attributed 10 them. They are not to he blamed They nor no other intelligent person could tell what you would do by what you said. II reminds me of the adage The truth itself is not believed from one Wh1 often has deceived. They did not know where you would go nor what you would do. It reminds me of an Irish sculptor who came I,;- work at his trade. In going to and from his work he was accustomed to pass graveyard One morning as he went to work he saw a newly erected monument m the graveyard and went over to see it. Upon view ing il he found fl to be the monu- ment of Patrick OBrien. of Kilkenny, Ireland. which was the h me of the sculptor. and being a fellow country man he took time 10 read the in- scriplion. which was
 As you are now, so once was |;
 As | am now. you, too, shall be; Prepare myself and follow me. All day ng the sculptor thought ovar the epitaph, and that Il eht IS he started home he took his chiscl and underneath the inscription chis- eled these words:
 To follow you is not my intent Until know which way you went. So il is. no ne was warranted, cx- cept the officeholders and fav0rel few. in following the Republican Party.
 In the last campaign it was an naunced from one end of ths coun- try to the other by the Republicans and Progressives that this country would be ruined if the Democratic party went into power. Misery want and starvation would be everywhere throughout our land and country. [ hardly believe they actually thought so. No one believes tha Rcpabli- cans and Progressiyes are not patri- otic. If they are patriotic, as all believe, and they actually thought that if the Democrats should come into power misery. want suffering, and starvation would 90 into every nook. corner. and recess of this tair land over which Old Glory proudly waves. ever and ever bespeak the land of the free and the home Ol tHt DldNt, tlltH they W ulu ud'S joined hands and gone to the ballot box on November , like true patriots md good samaritans to save this country and it's people
 Good patriotic people today every where throughout this land and country will lend their help and votes to pass the Underwood tariff bill and all measures that the people of ths country demanded by their votes, instead of singing swan songs of the dying and fatted favored few.
 Much has been said to the effect that Thomas Jefferson was a high protectionist None who knew his history and h;s teachings will ever become so blinded as to Ielieve it. As has been said here in this com mittee by my colleague from Hi nois (Mr. Stringer). Jefferson advo- cated nothing in all his career that would tax all the people for the benefit of the few. No Republican in former years ever considered any Of Jefferson's utterances as tending to- ward the protective CT reasonable profit" theory of the Republicans Of today It is a new discovery by the latterday saints of the shattered remnant.
 No one will dispute the fact that under the system of government handsomely rendered us by the Re publicans for the last 50 years. nine tenths of all the wealth of the coun- try has aggregated into the hands of about 10 persons. Now suppose we take glance at what was said by Lincoln, whose every heart throb