Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-09-18

be raised from that source alone. The
government need not be skimped, with.
wealth brought within easy and pre-
ferred reach of the taxgatherer.
The protection contention is that a
tariff for revenue only, consistently
laid, will injure both capital and labor.
Lower the bars to foreign goods pro-
duced at a cost much below the nee
cssary cost of production in this coun-
try, and the American manufacturer
will lose his profits and the American
laborer his scale of wages. AS the
new law will have a years trial be-
fore the voters are called to pass upon
it at the polls, the verdict of Novem-
Der, 1914, will be one of unusual sig
nificance.-Washington Star.
Keeping the Faith.
Not before in nearly seventy years
has a tariff-reform bill been steered
through the Senate with so slender a
party majority behind it. Not before
in this time has so slender a majority
50 firmly resisted all temptation TO
break the party's pledges and faith.
Whether the Underwood bill has
been greatly improved by the Senate's
amendments is a debatable question.
Some of these amendments, such as
he one taxing cotton futures, seem to
Lave no legitimate place in a measure
OF this kind and ought to be eliminated
in conference. The increased duty on
modern art we regard as i~ndefensible.
None the less, the Democratic major
ity in the Senate deserves a vote of
confidence and congratulation from
the American people.
1t a lone. what the party set out
to do. 1t has helped the House revise
the tariff downward. With only one
vote to spare after the Sugar Demo-
Gratis had taken their proper place
with the Republicans, the Democratic
Democrats held together regardless of
ali external pressure from sections
that demanded special. privileges and
from interests that demanded special
privileges. There is no German Smith
scandal to blast the reputation of the
party and give the lie to the verdict at
the polls. There is no tariff bill that
a Democratic President is compelled
TO denounce as party perfidity and
Cishonor."
Senator Simmons has done, in
N@~ NAAA 7" AAClN u CAOO "OOuE HAS |
in the House, and both of them
have effectually disposed Of the ny III.
that a Democratic congress is incaDa-
bic of keeping it's promises or of leg
intelligently. 1t is no injus-
tjce to either of them to say, however.
that this work could not have been
accomplished without the leadership
Of President Wilson. He has wealth
cred the decisive test of a President
can lay before the country the
conclusive proof that he has a united
working party back of him. This is
something that Mr.. Cleveland could
ever do. 1t is something that no
President since Jackson
has been able to do. And Mr.. Wilson
has done it without threats or intim-
or buster and without brides
D. patronage. His victory is the vic
-CIy of an unwavering appeal to prin-
pie, fortified by honesty and sin
Lerity.
On the other hand, it is no Injustice
20 the President to say that he could
lot have accomplished what has been
accomplished except for the intelli-
sence and patriotism of House and
Democrats who were determin-
eG that their party should wipe out the
stain of the Gorman-Smith tariff.
1t is a great party victory that has
won, but it is infinitely more than
/ great victory. 1t is a great public
lctory. 1t is a great victory for re-
'ponsible, representative government,
it ought to g We the American peo-
'le new faith in the integrity of their
nstitutions.-New York World.