The Nome daily nugget., 1914-03-12

end here we are with the much talked .f democratic low tarff and with the same old high prices that prevailed under the higher tariR of the repub- ! Iican party.
 1 Many people may not think about | this matter at all. Many people may no, care about it one way or another, and some p,ople are SD intensely re- publitr,n ur sp turtisanly democratic ! tr;., they cannot take an impartial, l r of the c;,sp und will go on be- lie. ing that the republican platform with It's high tariff is right or that the d, mocratic platform with It's iowl tariff is right regardless of the prices of imported or domestic articles That is nothing in the world but na rrow minded party prejudice and st me day the people of this country will become biz enough to disregard party lines and the party prayerbookI and think things out for themselves.
 When that time comes it will bel no disgrace for e man to change his party to meet his changed knowledgeI er the changed conditions. A man may be a republican al one election nd democrat at another without suffering under the stigma of al changeling when the day comes that the mnss of the people thinks for Itself and votes as 1t reasons without regard to hereditary party lines.
 But to go back to the tarifr and the apparent failure of the democratic bill to accomplish what 1t was de- signed to accomplish. reduction in tile cost of living. It must be ad- mitted that living has not been reduc- e.i, and by living Is meant the ability to purchase all articles required by the ordinary person in the course of lhe daily existence.
 That this is 90 Is already being ,is.,.,l against the democratic party and it will l,e used more and more as the time goes on towards another nn-
 
 tiunaI election. and yet. Is it the fault ,I the party theories or the failure of the party measures?
 The idea in reducing the tarifr "n imported articles was to get them on the market of this country at a lower cost to the consumer and to force tn" protected" Amercan products to come d,wn in price to meet the foreign competition. The idea was good and it should have worked out. But.
 Right there is the whole trouble. Hut" Hut the foreign manufacturersI did not play fair with the democratic tariff.
 Instead of shipping to America and sci'.ng at the reduced price made pos sibie w the lower tariff they shipped to Amt rIca as before and just because the, were wise little merchants they uld nm give the difference between tn. .li and the new tarir rates t"I th. .ln,vrie,,n people as the democratic .ariy m..I,lcti they should. but they very sens 'biy put 1t in their own pockets.
 Tie taIi:. k reduced. surely. That is all excellent thing. but 1t is only m excellent thing for the foreign |. arufacturrr. He takes the percen- tugc which formerly went in paying duty and his price remains the same tu the consumer.
 This happy solution of the difficulty also leaves the American manufac- trIcr just where he was and the Am .iic;,n purchaser just where he was.
 It is not the fault of the democrat ic party The theory was all right oi N 1t did not work out in practice. And that Is just where the party fell dcwn on the tariff the same as 1t may find itself falling down on other mat ters of equal importance if it does rot get away from theory and come down to cold facts.
 The tariff was all right if the for c:en manufacturers and shippers had not put their onr in and spoiled it all hy taking the profits themselves. and certain other theories of the ruling party may he all right just as long as s,,me foreign nation ar nations d" not ldt their oar in.